Yuqing Yin

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"We are shaped by our tools, then imprisoned by them." — Marshall McLuhan

In a neon-corroded cybercity, a socially anxious protagonist dons his VR headset day after day, escaping into the storybook ""Oasis"" to adventure with an NPC companion — until data thorns pierce his mortal flesh. He becomes one of a million digitized souls harvested by a colossal brain-machine server, where every player who clicks ""STAY"" transforms into a mummified corpse branded with barcodes in server crypts. Drenched in glitch-ridden grotesquerie, this animation lacerates the digital facade of virtual warmth. As the NPC's pixelated iris shatters the fourth wall to ask ""Will you stay?"", the audience's clammy palms become the bloodiest offering in this technological Eden. "