In 2147 AD, astrolinguist Lin Jing discovered that there are regular pulses hidden in the starlight of the universe - these are the "tombstones of consciousness" injected into the vacuum before the collective self-destruction of advanced civilizations billions of years ago. Every time a star is decoded, humans are forced to listen to the deathbed confession of a race: some annihilate the parent star due to abuse of dimension folding, and some start a genetic self-erosion program to prevent the awakening of AI... When Lin Jing deciphered the last message, "Observation is infection," all satellites in geosynchronous orbit suddenly turned their lenses, actively exposing evidence of the existence of human civilization into deep space. Only then did she understand that these last words were not a confession, but deadly bait to trap a new civilization.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
