Rooted in the neon-drenched grit of a fragmented China, this definitive Chinese Cyberpunk tale reimagines the "World's Factory" as a sovereign city-state where the "Chinese Dream" has been digitized and sold.
In a near-future, post-war Shenzhen, the line between humanity and technology has been commodified into a haunting new reality known as "Soul Ore". In this sovereign city-state, the tech giant HuaCent Group extracts human consciousness-stripping away memory and emotion-to create high-grade AI for its global robot exports.
The narrative weaves together three desperate lives caught in a web of corporate conspiracy:
Shenzhen Republic: Soul Ore is a gritty cyberpunk thriller that explores the ethical abyss of the digital age. It poses a chilling question: when the mind can be copied, edited, and sold, what truly remains of the human soul?