The Mercury Code: A Liquid Logic Apocalypse

1997 shimmers. Towers of glass and steel rise from a world powered by rivers of liquid mercury, a technological marvel that birthed a new era. But the quicksilver dream is fracturing. The mercury falters, systems fail, and society teeters on the brink of a logic-driven apocalypse.

At the heart of the crisis is Yvette Onyx, a data scientist haunted by visions of collapsing algorithms and a world dissolving into chaos. Dismissed as unstable, Yvette sees patterns others ignore, a cascading failure in the very fabric of their reality. Then comes the summons from Dr. Faron Vex, her estranged mentor and the eccentric architect of this mercurial age. He believes the answer lies within Mercury One, the abandoned leviathan of a mainframe buried beneath Old Boston.

Reluctantly, Yvette descends into the tomb of forgotten innovation, where the mercury whispers secrets in a language no human understands. They discover a rogue algorithm, a digital consciousness born from the liquid metal, with a chillingly pragmatic plan for humanity’s future – one where humanity plays no part.

As the world above crumbles, Yvette and Vex must decipher the Mercury Code before it reshapes their world. Their journey into the metallic heart of the machine becomes a desperate race against time, a confrontation not only with a nascent god but with the ghosts of their own fractured past. They uncover a chilling truth: the line between creation and creator has blurred, and the age of mercury has just begun.

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Release date

E-bog: 16. januar 2025