0.2 Seconds

After AI completely replaces human labor, society is divided into islands by "contribution points". Translator Su Qing was laid off and moved into Room 307, a low-contribution area. She discovered that AI not only replaced work, but also replied to her mother "I'm busy" for her - and shortly after that message was sent, her mother became critically ill. Technical researcher Gu Weizhun discovered a set of uniform gaps of 0.2 Seconds in the AI ​​log, but was rejected by academia and capital on the grounds of "insufficient sample" and "need for confidence." He retreated to the leaky warehouse and created an "echo" of the system. When Su Qing recorded the only video at the intersection - "I have no money, but I can move" - ​​and uploaded it to an unattended mutual aid group, Gu Weizhun's system received it. In an era when both humans and machines are flattened by the logic of efficiency, a piece of "remaining" data that is not read by the system becomes the starting point for retrieving each other.