【An Epic Masterpiece on the Scale of the Dune Saga】
Amid the ruins left by nuclear war, gene hunter Ju Baosi Quanjia awakens Lin Nanxing, a genius scientist who should have died thirty years ago, from a cryogenic pod. But in doing so, he tears open humanity’s most despairing truth: the “Ark Project,” supposedly a symbol of salvation, is actually a genetic cage built by a higher civilization. Lin Nanxing’s womb nurtures a quantum-mechanical placenta, while Ju Baosi Quanjia’s artificial eye conceals a key to space and time. Hunted through radioactive clouds and blue roses, the two discover that a mechanical octopus among the ruins of Mars, a ghost submarine from the twenty-second century, and a doomsday monument from the thirtieth century have woven themselves into a three-hundred-year Möbius strip.
When the roots of the blue roses pierce the planet’s core and a hundred thousand clones reveal Ju Baosi Quanjia’s DNA beneath their mechanical skulls, the pair must choose between detonating the solar system and becoming weapons of another dimension. Meanwhile, the cries of a baby octopus beneath Europa’s ice and the cold glow of three million growth tanks beyond the Milky Way are dragging human civilization into a cosmic selection program. To keep the flame alive, must they personally sever every version of themselves across all timelines?
In this higher-dimensional war against the mechanical octopus civilization, every choice gives birth to a new apocalypse. As Lin Nanxing grips the Starfire Spear, capable of rewriting cause and effect, the flash of a nuclear explosion outside the window already reflects humanity’s final dawn: will they become nourishment for a higher civilization, or burn themselves away and become a light of negentropy that pierces the darkness?
