On a snowy night in the second year of the Chongzhen reign, the three-barreled musket on Ningyuan’s city wall grew hot in Chen Yuan’s hands.
A history student, he was swept into a quantum experiment spanning four centuries the moment he touched an ancient artifact in a museum. A dragon-patterned jade pendant awoke in his palm, and the Manchu code it projected resonated with a bronze demon-subduing pestle wielded by the Qing forces in Liaodong.
This Ming dynasty is full of hidden dangers:
The border troops’ gunpowder is laced with nanobugs, the Shanxi merchants’ secret ledgers are etched with binary, and an antimatter reactor lies buried beneath the throne in the Forbidden City.
When Chen Yuan discovers that his DNA has been embedded in the remains of emperors throughout history, and fragments of the Imperial Jade Seal begin recombining in his flesh, he finally realizes:
What people call transmigration is nothing more than the Temporal Management Agency’s (TMA) plan for civilizational ascension.
And every time he “rewrites history,” he is cultivating a crop for harvesters from a higher dimension.
Battlefields engulfed in flames overlap with laboratories in the quantum cloud. Wreckage of spacecraft hovers above the snowy plains of Sarhu, while Wei Zhongxian’s mechanical tentacles pierce the pages of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
Before the countdown reaches zero, Chen Yuan must solve a double dilemma:
Should he let the Ming dynasty live forever atop the bones of cyberpunk,
or detonate every anchor point in time and space,
freeing human civilization from the observers’ prison?
Chaos, nonsense