Empty Mountain with No One

In the future city, an emotional algorithm system called "Heart Mirror" governs the entire city. Everyone wears a bracelet, and emotions are quantified into precise scores from 0 to 100, and deviant emotions are marked, channeled, and corrected. The city is stable and orderly, with no more extreme conflicts, but it has also slowly pruned away everyone's rights to lose control, be confused, and feel lost. A wanton laughter on the streets of Jiefangbei broke the absolute stability of the system. Liu Jianguo, the founder of the first-generation algorithm who had disappeared for fifteen years, suddenly appeared. With a set of unanalyzable emotional curves, he became the only A-level abnormal sample in the city. Cardiac engineer Zhang Heng was ordered to go into the mountain to hunt within a 72-hour time limit. He has been deeply involved in algorithms for many years and firmly believes in the optimal order. He stepped into the signal-isolated Wuling Kongshan Mountain and completely broke away from the disciplines of data and navigation. In an abandoned observation station, he glimpsed Liu Jianguo's thoughts of hiding from the world for fifteen years, and understood the "probabilistic violence" hidden in the algorithm: the system defines standard answers based on the normality of most people, and attributes all differences in human nature as faults. On one side is the delicate order that maintains the stability of tens of millions of people, which threatens the future of your lover and your own livelihood; on the other side is the real human nature that is free and lively and cannot be calculated. Faced with the dilemma, everyone made a choice one after another: the doctor removed the shackles of the system, the wild people stayed in the cracks, and Zhang Heng finally took off the bracelet that had been imprisoned for many years. He no longer works as a builder of cages, but instead opens an emotional teahouse in the downtown area to accept all imperfect emotions. The empty mountain is never in the mountains and wilderness, but in the human heart. True freedom is never about escaping from the world, but about being in order and maintaining a self that is not defined by data.