Knowledge Is a Crime

[Tags] Sci-Fi | Mystery | Urban Superpowers When Chen Mo woke, only one word remained in his mind: learn. He had lost all his memories, and an invisible command held his brain captive. Knowledge from the pages of books exploded directly in his mind. After a wave of intoxicating pleasure came a splitting pain that felt like his skull was tearing apart. He was the only survivor of the 2065 Super Scholar Project, an artificially created inspiration generator. An explosion at the base tore open a rift in time, casting a copy of his consciousness into 2055. The AI treated him as a probe, hoping to use him to reach the highest realm accessible only to humanity: the end of all methods. After three sleepless days of frenzied reading in the library, Chen Mo was on the verge of collapse when he met Shen Jianwei, a young woman haunted by strange nightmares for years. The girl possessed a special empathic nervous system. When the two touched, it triggered the searing pain of trauma across time. She could briefly suppress Chen Mo's suffering, but she could also inadvertently expose his whereabouts. Danger lurked in the shadows. Lu Chen, burdened by a blood feud, was determined to stop Chen Mo from reaching the end of all methods; Song Yuan, a mild-mannered history teacher, lay in wait to seize all of Chen Mo's powers of cognition. As Chen Mo unlocked one academic ability after another, his strength surged, but his humanity continued to fade. With the gateway to the universe's truth within reach and the chance to become a god before him, he chose to destroy his extraordinary powers with his own hands. “Everything can be calculated. But not ‘everything.’ Inspiration belongs to the warmth and bustle of everyday human life.”