Cage of Echoes

In the absolute cleanliness and order called "Home", young Kai spent seventeen years of his precisely designed life. He is the perfect student, the heir to the "great mission" and all he knows about the world. However, the striking resemblance to a dying scientist in the reflection on the water, the unfamiliar terms that occasionally flashed through his system, and the hot and aging eyes that penetrated his dreams every night began to tear apart fine cracks in his peaceful life. Kai gradually discovered that the truth of his existence was far from being as simple as "special cultivation". He is at the heart of a top-secret scheme called the Echo Protocol - a clone of legendary scientist Elias Thorne, a living "vessel" prepared to hold his dying consciousness. His seventeen years of life, all his learning and emotions, were just to calibrate his brain to the most suitable "new home" so that it would be completely overwritten and replaced by another soul when he reached adulthood. From "successor with a mission" to "a carrier waiting to be formatted", this cruel truth caused Kai's world to completely collapse. Facing an inescapable fate, Kai experienced a drastic change from angry resistance to desperate resignation, and finally ended up like an empty body, waiting for the surgery. However, a sudden attack unexpectedly wiped out the core of the agreement. When his "home" was reduced to ruins, Kai gained physical freedom, but was thrown into a completely strange and noisy real world.