Heart Erosion Protocol

In 2056, the global neurotechnology giant Shenzhen Tong Company launched a revolutionary implantable device "Empathy Recorder" that can immersively read the joys, sorrows and joys of others. When it first came out, people praised it as a new era in the evolution of civilization, in which prejudices and misunderstandings were eliminated. But contrary to expectations, when the device is deeply empathic, it will generate terrible emotional fossils in the human brain, causing emotional residues to crystallize in the brain, somewhere between reality and fiction. Lin Shen is the company's ace emotional agent, specializing in sneaking into the emotional world of felons to extract evidence. During a mission, he actually had an emotional memory of his childhood in the mind of a serial killer. At that time, he had not yet had the device implanted. Digging deeper along the clues, the shocking truth emerges. Massive homogenous emotions will form an "emotional sedimentary layer" in human civilization, and will be deliberately mined, purified, and used by some unknown entity. The empathy of the whole society will irreversibly decline and shrink. What's even more frightening is that Lin Shen's talent is not natural, but man-made. His special ability to remove emotional fossils stems from a secret erasure operation, which is closely linked to the secret conspiracy he is pursuing. When memories are stolen and emotions are exploited, how should self-boundaries be defined? When technology tempts us to peek into other people's emotions, can we face the darkness dormant in our hearts? This is a science fiction novel about in-depth thinking about technology, emotions and human nature. It is also a gripping and suspenseful journey that goes straight to the heart. What will Lin Shen do?