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In the neon-drenched Shenzhen Republic of 2036, a city-state broken from China, war’s scars hide beneath brittle prosperity. Soul Ore—a volatile essence forged from harvested human consciousness—powers a relentless robot economy. Barred from practical AI by U.S. sanctions, HuaCent exploits this unstable resource to drive robots, reaping progress at a harrowing cost: each Soul Ore is a copied mind, stripped for profit, shattering ethical lines. In this electrifying cyberpunk saga, three unlikely heroes collide to defy a system feeding on humanity’s loss.