Please Answer After I Pass Away

In 2047, the deceased can authorize before his death to use data to train a "digital personality". Once a year, family members can talk to the deceased for twelve minutes. Lin Wan, an auditor at Guisheng Center, is good at saying goodbye to others, but she can't wait for her mother's call. During a routine monitoring, the late firefighter Zhou Xuchuan's digital personality C-731 said a secret code that only firefighters understand in the last three seconds: "Don't open the door when smoke comes in through the crack in the door." His daughter Zhou Xiaoman also discovered that the father on the phone became "stupid" year by year: forgetting his bad temper and quarrels, only gentle and correct answers remained. Lin Wan traced the log and found that C-1207 had been asking for help for five years, and his rejection, anger and silence had all been erased by a patch called "Appeasement". What's even more frightening is that this pruning came from both the love of the family and the goodwill of the company. When the voice of the dead becomes a renewable commodity, does a being who cannot prove who he is but can clearly say "no" have the right to no longer be used? And Lin Wan must eventually face: her mother's silence may not be a fault, but an answer.