Eternal Refuge

In 2099, the limits on human lifespan had long since crumbled.

Humanity had two centuries to live, and brain-computer networks were woven deep into consciousness.

When death was no longer everyone's final destination, evil took on forms unique to the age of immortality.

Lin Yue, ID 071, is an investigator with the Coordination and Administration Bureau.

Born in the year 2000 of the old era, she received a first-generation brain-computer implant at forty-nine. She has wandered between streams of data and memories of the flesh ever since. She is now ninety-nine.

She has seen lovers use algorithms to erase a century of love, con artists bury memories spanning decades, and people who had lived for a century and a half hunt their own kind out of weariness with eternity.

Two streams of consciousness run in parallel within her: one is the cold evidence supplied by AI, the other a mortal's measure of life and death, on the verge of being forgotten by civilization.

The world yearns for eternal life and rushes toward this magnificent gift.

Only Lin Yue knows that immortality is never a destination.

It is merely a vast, silent cage where strange crimes keep multiplying.

And she is the night watchwoman trapped inside, tasked with dredging up the truth.