In 2024, quantum physicist Lin Xiuyuan tears the veil of spacetime during an experiment and watches his assistant Cheng Nuo cycle through scenes of multiple deaths. At the same time, geneticist Su Yingxue discovers a hidden triple-helix code in embryonic stem cells, which becomes quantum-entangled with the Dunhuang Secret Scroll of the Kalachakra. When an antimatter astrolabe beneath the Antarctic ice starts a countdown to doomsday, the two are forced to join forces against the multinational corporation Ouroboros. Its CEO, Situ Jing, has a mechanical eye capable of devouring timelines, while an ancient gene sleeping in human DNA turns out to be an escape key left behind by a higher civilization.
They traverse a quantum maze of Shang and Zhou dynasty jades and decode the overlapping prophecies of the Mayan calendar and the Tui Bei Tu. At the site of a nuclear blast in Lop Nur, they find the gears of a bronze calendar, only to discover that the fetus in Su Yingxue's womb is the "living key" to breaking the closed loop of spacetime. As the Eye of Dark Matter on the far side of the moon awakens, the battle between the triple-helix gene lock and the Mechanical Buddha will decide the fate of civilization: restart the cycle and become memory data, or tear open a wormhole in search of the dawn of the fifth dimension?
In this decoding game that spans ten thousand years, the answer lies in the Chernobyl rose-shaped marks on the back of everyone's neck. They are brands placed on the rebels by the tyrant of time, and the final bargaining chip in deciphering fate.
