After Becoming a Mechanical Girl, I Became a Dystopian Legend

How could something as supernatural as ghosts be connected to cyberpunk and a dystopian world?

When Bai Lanli was young, he never understood. He was obviously living in a science-fiction world ruled by megacorporations, with cybernetic modifications and machines coexisting with flesh and blood.

Only later did he learn that the so-called ghosts were actually abnormal digital consciousnesses: human minds uploaded to the cloud, then shattered by cognitive collapse. They were electronic ghosts.

Billions of people uploaded their minds, and billions became electronic ghosts wandering the digital world. They seized control of humanity's physical infrastructure and attacked everything in sight. The world eventually fell to pieces, and fewer than a hundred million people struggled to survive in seven cities under the rule of the megacorporations.

Even now, billions of ghosts still haunt the old human networks and infrastructure beyond the Seven Cities.

As for the root cause of the catastrophe, mind-uploading technology was also proven to have a flaw that could never be overcome. That flaw caused cloud-based lifeforms to suffer cognitive collapse, creating billions of electronic ghosts.

From then on, mind-uploading technology was banned forever.

And Bai Lanli would never have imagined that this technology, banned once and for all, would happen to him.