Emotional Discounting

Emotions are currency. Pain is the most expensive. When he was sixteen years old, Su Mo disappeared on the way home from school. Lu Yin, a low-level mechanic, only has a mechanical watch that is not connected to the Internet, and his father's last words: Don't leave the other person alone. What he wants to fight is not humans, but the absolutely rational AI that controls the cycle of civilization, and the cloud gods who live forever by sucking in sorrow. This is not a story about overturning the system. This is the story of choosing not to run away from a system that is bound to fail.