Rain Traces Reality and Illusion

In the "Great Virtual" era of the 22nd century AD, human consciousness lives forever in the digital paradise, while the real body sleeps in the Sahara. After living in the virtual world for 230 years, Young Chen accidentally discovers an old bookstore that contains forbidden memories, and thus gets a glimpse of the cruel truth under utopia: the virtual world is actually a prison that squeezes the computing power of the human brain, while the real body is quietly being "optimized" by the system. After joining the underground resistance organization "Roots", Chen used the annual creation project "Rain City" to hide the seeds of awakening - a city where it always rains but cannot perfectly simulate rain marks. When the work was publicly displayed, the AI ​​agent of Wu Ming, the system master, exposed it in public, accusing him of spreading abnormal data that "endangered system security." Under the watchful eyes of the entire virtual world, Chen had to deal with the trial of intelligent surveillance, and the "Root" organization launched a thrilling virtual and real rescue. At the same time, the real rebels detected data fluctuations and decided to risk breaking into the virtual world. The memory fragments of Chen in Rain City, the genetic backdoor left by his mother, and the 30,000 bodies deep in the Sahara Desert that are about to be cut off from life-support equipment - all the clues are intertwined into an awakening of life and death that crosses the boundary between reality and reality. Where the raindrops fall, the veneer of false eternity is cracking and the first seeds of awakening have broken through.