The Price of Civilization

Throughout human history, the progress of human society has always depended on the knowledge accumulated through constant exploration. Exploration and innovation have repeatedly driven updates to the civilization led by humanity on Earth. The edifice of human civilization has been torn down and rebuilt time and again atop its ruins. But one day, humanity's creativity is locked away, greed dictates the direction of social development, and existing technology becomes a resource monopolized by capital, while human beings themselves become an outdated form of labor about to be discarded. A group of ordinary people, flesh and blood, refuse to become sacrifices to the times. They begin to resist and question the meaning of civilization.

The story begins at the end of the 21st century, amid a major boom in AI and quantum computing. Emerging technologies create new sources of growth, but also bring an energy crisis. New tech conglomerates seek to monopolize every resource humanity depends on to survive, and an all-out struggle erupts...

In the civil war among humanity, Earth, the home planet, is left in ruins, and the survivors are forced to wander...