Area 10: the Bottom Layer of the Silicon-Based Era

When AI turns everyone into waste, can two people being exploited join forces to build a different city in the blind spot of the system? Twenty years ago, an alien spacecraft crashed into Johannesburg. Twenty years later, only three glowing red data towers and 700,000 people who were judged as "useless" were left in the city. Ellie is a reporter for the Ether Group. Her father "committed suicide" three years ago. Before his death, he was investigating a project called "Leviathan" - a plan to replace all human labor with alien technology. She discovered that her father did not die of despair, but was "cleared" by the system. In the process of searching for the truth, she met Wikus. Wikus was once a common civil servant. Now, he is a being between humans and aliens - mutated after coming into contact with fragments of alien weapons three years ago, but still retaining human memories. He built a community beneath District 9 to take in abandoned people. He has a special ability: he can sense ethereal surveillance equipment from three hundred meters away. For three years, Prism has been scanning the city, waiting for them to reveal a flaw. But Wikus never gave it a chance. Their encounter was a calculated one: Wikus needed Ellie's internal access, and Ellie needed Wikus' underground network. Everyone has his own plans, everyone has his own plans. But in this world, exploitation and sincerity can coexist. When Prism finds their trail, and when seven hundred lives hang by a thread, Ellie must answer: He used me, but what he said about struggle, about "I'm still looking for who I am" - how much of it is true?