Star Core Code: Zero Awakening

Neo-Shanghai, 2147. Lin Ye scrapes by as a code scavenger in the digital underbelly—until a routine power grid hack unlocks something impossible. A data fragment. An alien consciousness. A civilization that vanished three millennia ago, now stirring in the machine. With corporate hunters closing in and reality itself beginning to fracture, Lin Ye must decode the Star Core's secrets before humanity's next evolution becomes its extinction.