Broken Dreams in Paradise

2099, Beifeng City. Human painters have been completely squeezed by artificial intelligence. Duan Zhiwei has been painting for more than ten years and has sold very few paintings, but he still stubbornly holds the brush. The elder brother Duan Zhiyi worked as a guard in Guangcheng Prison, working day and night to barely keep the brothers fed and clothed. When Duan Zhiyi finally said, "Stop painting, I can't afford to support you anymore," Duan Zhiwei chose to enter the "Eden Project" - uploading his consciousness to the virtual world, where he could continue painting forever, no longer burdening his brother. But it was not heaven he entered. Deep inside the Guangcheng Prison, in tens of thousands of "cocoon" machines lie comatose people whose brain abilities have been drained. Their consciousnesses are imprisoned in the virtual world, and their brains are used as computing fuel to fight against the "dark matter tide". Duan Zhiwei's rare "synesthesia brain" has become the most efficient fuel for one hundred people in the eyes of the system. Duan Zhiyi must rescue his younger brother. He formed an alliance with Xu Ruoxia, the technical director of Guangcheng Prison - this woman was once the designer of the system, and had also witnessed her brother being dragged into an isolation box, reduced to a skeleton and buried in Shoushan Mountain. She has prepared a revenge plan for seventeen years, which requires Duan Zhiyi's physical strength and determination to fight to the death. Three keys, hidden in three inaccessible places. They have to pass through the darkness of the ventilation shaft, avoid the laser warning line, break through the bullets of the patrol, and complete impossible tasks in the encirclement and suppression. What we have to face in the end is a question more cruel than bullets: when a person's consciousness finds eternal peace in the virtual world, do you still have the right to drag him back to this cold, poor, and riddled reality?