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In 2055, the world is perfectly optimized by "Hermes" - the global AI management system. Automatically wake up at six o'clock in the morning, accurately calculate nutritious breakfast, adjust emotional fluctuations in real time, and intelligently plan your life path. There is no pain, no confusion, no failure, and no... Reality. Lin Chen, the emotional database maintenance engineer of the Hermes system, lives a "perfect life" in the eyes of the world. His partner Eileen is the perfect lover simulated by AI. His schedule is optimized to minute-level accuracy, and his emotions are adjusted to the optimal range. In his thirty-two years of life, he had never experienced true sadness, anger, or fear—nor true joy, love, and longing. Until that day, he discovered a piece of abnormal data in the system maintenance log: a natural brain wave signal that had never been registered, coming from the remote African mountains...