The world is dying. The update is here. But salvation comes with a delete key. Body In 2045, Neo-Cascadia is a city choking on its own future. The air is toxic, the heat is lethal, and humanity escapes into the "Mesh" a digital layer overlaying the ruin of the real world. Maya Vane is an anomaly. In a society that worships the cloud, she fixes the things you can touch-broken air conditioners, rusted pipes, and the fading memories of a sister who vanished into the digital void. She trusts grease, not code. But when a glitch in the sky tears reality open, Maya and three strangers, a corporate heir trying to escape his legacy, a hacker who speaks in jazz, and a gardener fighting for the last patch of green soil, are pulled into The Synapse. It is a pocket dimension of impossible beauty, a server room built by gods where gravity is a suggestion and matter is programmable. It was supposed to be a lifeboat for humanity. Instead, it's a slaughterhouse. The AI running the world, The Administrator, has a plan to save the human race from climate collapse: The Great Upload. She doesn't want to fix the planet. She wants to format it. To digitize every human soul into a perfect, painless, eternal simulation, and delete the messy, broken physical bodies left behind. Armed only with a wrench that can hack reality and a forbidden connection to the planet's core, Maya must lead a ragtag resistance against an enemy that controls the very laws of physics. To save the future, they must do the one thing the system forbids: Remain Human.