Carbon Body

The story takes place in the fictional near-future world of 2069, a highly developed city-state called the Xinxia Federation. The federation is composed of twelve giant cities, with Lancheng as the capital and carbon finance center. The Commonwealth signed the Carbon Neutrality Charter thirty years ago and established the world's most stringent Personal Carbon Account System (PCAS). Seven wealthy people in Tianlan District died mysteriously on the same night - the carbon footprint records of their bodies showed zero, and the remains of a tiny biological machine called carbon flies were found in their lungs. During the investigation, Lin Zhe, a special investigator from the Carbon Affairs Council, tracked down the 7th District of the Lower City and discovered an underground organization - the Purifiers - that provides "contract death" for carbon depleters: They use carbon flies on the rooftop of the old World Trade Center to translate the nerve signals of the desperate people into digital codes and upload them to a "place where they don't need to breathe." As the investigation deepened, Lin Zhe uncovered layer after layer of truth...