It begins with a midnight experiment that breaks the laws of physics, and tells of the cognitive revolution humanity faces on a cosmic scale.
When the atomic clock at the Shanghai Institute of Quantum Physics stops at midnight, the boundaries of human understanding come crashing down. In an experiment that pushes beyond the Planck scale, physicist Lin Shen accidentally triggers an interdimensional resonance, revealing the universe's deepest secret: Earth is merely a mirror in a nine-layer nested universe, and human civilization has already repeated itself millions of times in the folds of time.
Archaeologist Su Yingxue discovers an abandoned memory hub left behind by the Entropy Spirits beneath Easter Island. Sealed within its ice-blue crystal clusters is the truth from 300,000 years ago: whenever a civilization breaks through the limits of its dimension, it faces an ultimate choice. Should it build a memory ark to preserve the spark of civilization, or launch a dimensional ascension plan to break free of the cosmic prison?
As this quantum crisis sweeps the globe, reality begins to fall apart. Ghostly fleets of Ming dynasty grain ships and futuristic starships drift along the Huangpu River, skyscrapers' glass facades reflect images of parallel universes, and the human brain is becoming a vessel for interdimensional information.
In this civilizational struggle spanning dimensions, everyone must face the ultimate choice: accept dimensional cleansing, or break free of the cosmic prison? Preserve the spark of civilization, or usher in a new era? When the final qubit collapses, what will become of human civilization?
