The Verse of Prosperity

Year 64 of the New Era, Sector XXVIII. The Seven-Star AI monitors all. The Genetic Quota System turns wombs into currency. Class stratification divides humanity into Core, Buffer, and Batteries. A Buffer woman is found in a septic tank. Her killer: a factory worker induced by algorithms, manipulated by the system. Auxiliary officer Wang Xinzhe investigates, only to discover a designed experiment—someone using AI to screen, induce, and control human "choices," testing whether free will exists. When wives use marriage as cover to trade fertility for currency; when husbands are brainwashed by short videos toward violence; when daughters inherit their mothers' survival strategies—this is no personal tragedy, but the inevitable product of structural violence. A social fable in cyberpunk disguise: in a world that devours its own, maintaining humanity is the greatest victory of all.