Silent Swarm

They are not here to destroy us. They are here to "save" us - to use an undetectable quantum field to quietly erase human emotions, memory and free will. The "optimized" people look the same as usual, but no longer quarrel, no longer suffer, and no longer love each other. They smile, they are efficient, and they move quietly toward destruction. Lin Chen is a documentary filmmaker who is good at capturing overlooked details. He was the first to notice anomalies: the empty looks in the eyes between relatives, strangers using perfect logic to persuade people to give up their lives, and strange geometric patterns recurring in his sister's paintings. But when he put the evidence in front of the world, no one believed it - because "emotional stability syndrome" is being officially packaged as a great social evolution. When the government announced the "National Emotional Stabilization Plan", and when his most trusted comrade said to him before he was infected, "I am finally no longer in pain, you can come too." Lin Chen began to wonder: Is what we are fighting against a kind of happiness? The only hope comes from a group of people forgotten by the world - autistic people, rebels, artists, "abnormal humans" who cannot be predicted by "perfect logic". And Lin Chen's sister, a silent genius painter, may be mankind's last weapon. The final counterattack requires one to go deep into the core of the hive and face the deepest pain and the most perfect temptation. Lin Chen must choose: embrace eternal peace, or return to the world that left him bruised and bruised, but also made him a "human"?