False Prophecy: Two-Way Cause and Effect

In the year 712 of the Spiritual Calculation Era, Lu Ye, a low-level programmer, discovered that his existence was being erased step by step by the "virtual realm" - his colleagues could not see him, the system had canceled his permissions, and his face in the mirror began to become transparent. In the psychological consultation room in 2013, another Lu Ye was lying on the visitor's sofa, listening to the consultant read a prophecy from a thousand years ago: "On the day of retirement, all things will be unified." The future and the past are folded in the same consciousness. Lu Ye must answer a question: If "unification" can eliminate all pain in the world, is the "self" still worth retaining?