Cyber ​​City Gathering

In 2147 AD, Cyber ​​City - a giant dystopian city covered in neon lights. The super company NeoCorp uses the "Eternal Dream" system to let 100 million citizens sleep in a virtual paradise, and at the same time secretly promotes the "Ascension Project": permanently extracting the consciousness of all mankind from the body and uploading it to the quantum server. The heroine Lin is a hacker with mechanical prosthetic eyes and a self-written "awake" operating system. Her parents were memory-cleansed by NeoCorp and turned into strangers who didn't recognize her. Guided by the clues left by former NeoCorp chief architect Morris, she teamed up with her companions Kai (a former NeoCorp engineer who personally marked 73,000 people for memory cleaning) and Xue (a 19-year-old girl who worked in a black factory for three years to redeem her parents in a virtual dream) and broke into the underground data center. Within the seventy-eight-second window when the ascension started, Kai sacrificed himself to cut off the backup control line, and Lin completed the reversal program, returning the consciousness of 100 million people back to their bodies. After the war, Lin discovered NeoCorp's deeper plan-to build a space elevator in the Silent City. The former boxer Tiger led the underground residents to build a new city "Morning" on the ruins. The old pilot Lao Zhou flew the Y-7 transport plane to transport hope among forty cities around the world. The fragments of Kai's consciousness died together with the enemy in the lunar quantum resonance, buying the last time for the earth. The story ends with "The light will dim, but it will never go out" - not about victory, but about mankind's never-ending "choice not to give up".