The End of Alienation

Thirteen years ago, there was a seven-hour power outage in Old Port in the south. Officials said it was just a power grid accident, but Lu Chen always remembered that his father never came back from that rainy night. Thirteen years later, Nanlin City is as prosperous as usual on the surface, but there are frequent echoes from the underground that should not exist: stairs appearing out of thin air, raindrops stopping in mid-air, deleted videos, and reopened old port files. Lu Chen, an ordinary college student, originally just wanted to keep a peaceful life, but he discovered through abnormal events one after another that he was already connected to the secrets deep in the old port. The Bureau of Investigation, the Ember Society, the Reality Anchor, the Alienators... The covered world unfolded towards him, and what was truly terrifying was not the arrival of monsters, but the fact that people's hearts were losing their boundaries little by little in alienation. When the city's superficial order begins to collapse, Lu Chen must find the truth left behind by his father and answer one question: If alienation is inevitable, how can people remain human?