When the condensed beads oozing out of the Wanli Phoenix crown reflected the countdown to his father's death, Shen Tang, a restorer of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, was forced to step into a quantum dilemma spanning seven centuries.
In the near future where the torrent of technology and traditional skills are torn apart, cultural relic transactions certified by blockchain, neuroarchaeological cabins carrying memory proteins, and enamel lesion technology that can tamper with historical chronology have drawn Shen Tang into a time and space trap like a Möbius strip. The Suzhou code code left behind in his father's laboratory, the Warring States bronze circuit exposed in Zhou Yanchuan's robotic arm, the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain pattern growing on Lin Manshu's collarbone - all clues point to the Jiuding server buried deep underground in Chengguang Auction House, where human civilization is being cut into slices of time and space for sale through the Yuanverse auction house.
From the kiln fire of the Jingkang Incident to the blood contract of the pawn shop in 1937, from the bleeding star map of the bronze armillary sphere to the embryo of civilization bred in the quantum womb, restorers gradually discovered that each cultural relic is the key to reversing time and space, and each restoration triggers the observer's paradox. When Shen Tang's gene chain showed the mortise and tenon pattern of "The Construction Method", and when Zhou Yanchuan's consciousness was forged into a blockchain torture rack, they had to make a choice before the Bronze Nebula collapsed - to become the genetic matrix of a new civilization, or to become an eternal sinner in the folds of time and space.
This work combines cultural relic techno-punk and quantum poetry. In the interweaving of Junyao purple spots and blockchain blue light, it asks the cruelest truth about the survival of civilization: Is the so-called restoration a good deed to save history, or the original sin of tampering with time?
