Hot Rain

He comes from a time when people could tell lies. People in the future have forgotten how to lie. In 2026, the "world model" trained by AI researcher Wen Ming's team discovered a mathematical paradox at the last second of its convergence. Subsequently, the laboratory lost power and Wen Ming lost contact. He wakes up beneath a city hanging upside down. The rain hit my face - it was hot and had the smell of iron. People here have overly large pupils, speak as accurately as algorithms, and never lie. The traffic here slides vertically against the building exterior walls, medical treatment can reverse time and cure terminal illnesses, and emotions are hard currency that can be cast. Everything is perfect here, except there is no wind, no rain, and no "accidents". They told him: You are the seventeenth "barbarian" we have found. The first sixteen were crazy. Wen Ming soon discovered that in this perfect world, his only superpower was something that everyone in the 21st century has - lying. When everyone lives in absolute truth and transparency, a person who lies is a contagious virus. And he was already contagious. But what he didn't know was that his arrival itself was a designed experiment. Under the hot rain, there are no lies. Until he came.