Echoes of the Deep, YU

When the land sinks to the bottom of the sea and human beings linger in the dome of the deep sea, memory becomes the most expensive luxury. Lin An is a "memory salvager" who lives on the edge of ruins and law, making a living by selling fragments of old times. He never inquired about the origin of the commission, until an anonymous instruction led him to the sunken Shanghai—a mysterious data numbered "E-15" buried there. It is said that it contains the truth about why mankind fell into the abyss. Sneaking into an underwater city occupied by mechanical guards and mutated creatures, passing through collapsed skyscrapers and submerged data centers, Lin An finally touched the core of E-15. However, there is no historical archive in the data, only an image from the future: ten years from now, I will stand on the sun-drenched land, holding up a blue crystal, like a fire for human rebirth. "We are not escaping from the deep sea," the future self whispered, "we are waiting for awakening." E-15 is not a memory, but the key to the "Restart Protocol". And the only person who can activate it is Lin An, who is standing on the edge of the abyss at this moment. This is a self-dialogue across time and a civilized counterattack against the deep sea. When the past and the future meet on the dark sea floor, Lin An must make a choice - continue to scavenge in the ruins, or become the first ray of fire to ignite a new era.