Mechanical Proof of Mind

Mo Lan is a clock repairer on Iron Bone Street. His biggest ideal in life is to make every piece of iron he repairs have a heartbeat. Then Tiangong Pavilion came and said that this was a taboo and anyone who violated it would be killed. The shelling tore Iron Bone City into ruins, and his father was trapped in the Nine Abyss. Mo Lan single-handedly went to save others, but at the bottom of the abyss he ran into an ancient furnace heart that had been shattered for thousands of years - it chose him. A fragment the size of a fist crashed into his chest and began to beat in time with his heartbeat. Yanshi, the chief of Tiangong Pavilion who was ordered to hunt him down, dropped from the sky, but after seeing him asking the fragment "What do you want?", He put away the cannon that had been aimed at him. "You don't know anything. So you're not a criminal - you're a victim." From that day on, Mo Lan was no longer an unknown watch repairman on Iron Bone Street. His great-grandfather was the founder of telepathy who was exterminated by Tiangong Pavilion. The fragment beating in his chest was one of the nine furnace hearts left by the ancient craftsman god. The Lingqi family regards him as a taboo that must be eradicated. The Tiangongge hawks vow to destroy him. The fragment hunters are eyeing the power in his body. The arrogant family heir wants to take him apart alive for study, while the dove faction just wants to make him "obedient". The whole Dayu is telling him: your existence is a mistake. Mo Lan's answer was - he put his hand on his chest and felt the heartbeat of the heart that did not belong to him but was at the same frequency as his own. "Let the iron have a heartbeat. I will walk the road that my grandpa never finished."