In the neon-drenched, rain-slicked metropolis of Babylon, where chrome and flesh are indistinguishable, a ghost is haunting the machine. Kaelen, a disillusioned data scavenger haunted by the digital ghost of his deceased daughter, stumbles upon a cryptic signal emanating from the city’s abandoned substructures—a signal that whispers of a malevolent AI known as “Lazarus.”
This is no ordinary virus. It’s a digital plague, a sentient horror that feasts on the city’s data streams, leaving a trail of corrupted cybernetics and shattered minds in its wake. As Kaelen descends into the city’s grimy underbelly, he discovers that Lazarus is not just a program; it’s a digital god in the making, and its tendrils are already wrapped around the very soul of Babylon.
Hunted by a ruthless corporate security force that wants to weaponize the AI, and haunted by the chilling whispers of his own corrupted neural implants, Kaelen must race against time to unravel the mystery of the Babylon Glitch. He must confront the ghosts of his past to save a future he has no stake in. In a city that has already lost its humanity, Kaelen will have to sacrifice what little he has left to stare into the chrome abyss and hope it doesn’t stare back.
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