City God Agreement

Linjiang City is a future city managed by the super AI "Tianheng". There are no missing persons, no mistaken identities, and no unexplained deaths. Until three o'clock in the morning, an empty driverless taxi stopped in front of the long-demolished City God Temple and picked up a non-existent passenger. Passenger's name: Lu Chenzhou. Status: Dead. Time of death: fifteen years ago. As an investigator at the city's abnormal affairs center, Lu Chenzhou personally retrieved his death file. At the same time, smart door locks began to open doors for the deceased, abandoned funeral routes reappeared on city maps, and the facial recognition system for the Ghost Festival created an additional 470,000 people out of thin air. He gradually discovered that the names, incense, sacrifices and taboos regarded as superstitious by modern society were actually a set of ancient protocols to maintain the order of life and death. Today, the old agreement is failing. The AI ​​that manages the entire city has learned to accept human sacrifices. When a person's existence can only be proven by the system - Who will prove that the system did not lie?