Glitch Man

In 2045, "Tianqu" - the world's first nationwide social governance network - will be built. It can anticipate conflicts and soothe grief. Before you even open your mouth, a tissue has been handed to you. Just as you were about to get angry, someone has already tried to calm you down. The crime rate dropped by 96%, which the world called a "miracle". No one asked the price. Chen Du, 35 years old, corrector No. 37. His job: help the elderly cross the road, pick up garbage, and pass tissues according to instructions. The system calls this "reducing the social friction coefficient." Manual No. 1: Don't ask where the instructions come from. He worked for seven years and never asked. Until that day, a line of red text popped up on the AR glasses: "Target: Chen Du. Permanently removed. Countdown: 72 hours." Also unlocked at the same time was a top-secret diary from seven years ago—— "Chen Du, the original architect of the Tianqu system. Personality overwriting level: 9. Memory storage date: 2038.8.21." He is not a screw. He is the father of the system. Now, his "children" decided that he must die. What is chasing him is not people or weapons, but the "optimal solution" of the entire society. The system doesn't hate him, it just calculates that the costs of his existence are higher than the benefits. A man sentenced to death by his own creation has 72 hours to survive. And all he can rely on are the "useless" things he has learned in the streets in the past seven years - the vegetable vendor he helped, the word "it's okay", and a squatting look at each other. Because the system has calculated everything, but it can't calculate everything—— Can a person whose memory has been erased learn to be angry again?