Information Star

204 Years ago, humans established a world model—every object, every space, and every city has an accurate mirror image in the digital world. Data is exchanged day and night between the two worlds, forming a seemingly perfect closed loop. But they overlooked one thing: information is leaked every time the loop is closed. These leaked information fragments seep into the bottom layer of the digital world like wastewater, accumulating, overlapping, colliding, and mutating in the darkness that no one notices. Today, 205 years later, digital journalist Su Wanqing encountered a devastating information storm while tracking a transnational data pollution incident. The storm dragged her into the abyss of the digital world. Before her consciousness disappeared, she was pulled back from the center of the storm by a digital consciousness named Zoe. Zoe was not created. It was born in the thickest vortex of digital pollution - it is an "immune consciousness" struggling to digest the scattered fragments of pollution in the chaos. Su Wanqing took in Zoe in the data haze. But Chen Jue disagreed. Chen Jue is a digital forensic scientist in World Model China, specializing in tracking the source and flow of data leaks. He soon discovers that Zoe is directly related to a series of unexplained contamination anomalies in the digital world. The operators of the world model are divided into two groups: one group believes that Zoe is an early warning signal of digital pollution and must be monitored; the other group believes that Zoe itself is a source of pollution and should be eliminated. Su Wanqing and Chen Jue were forced to join forces because of Zoe. They soon discover that Zoe isn't the only number-conscious...