Memories of the Dead in a Secondhand Chip

In 2035, brain-neural memory chips have become commonplace. Students use them to download key concepts, memories, and problem-solving methods. Top tech company Suglo Technology secretly partners with prestigious high schools, extracting the talent memories, emotional memories, and thought processes of top students, packaging them into expensive "memory data packs" to sell to the rich. Three years ago, Gu Feifei, the school's top science student, discovered the truth and was placed under house arrest, her consciousness sealed away. Before she was silenced, she split fragments of her consciousness and hid them in countless secondhand chips salvaged from dismantled devices, waiting for someone destined to help clear her name. The protagonist, Lin Shen, comes from a poor family and cannot afford a new chip. Forced to buy a secondhand one for 3,000 yuan, he unexpectedly bonds with the remnants of Gu Feifei's consciousness and is drawn into a technological conspiracy and a quest to redeem lost memories, spanning the entire city, the whole internet, and the nation.