Synopsis:
[System prompt: You are rewriting AI’s underlying logic using oracle bone script]
While restoring murals in Dunhuang, Ding Jiusi accidentally activates an ancient star-chart computer beneath the Library Cave. When the United States uses a “Quantum Sutra” virus to cripple China’s AI, he pulls out a scroll of the I Ching and plugs it into the quantum mainframe. In an instant, every electronic screen in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district flashes prophecies from the Tui Bei Tu, and the White House Cybersecurity Agency receives a ransom note written in oracle bone script!
[Cyber Li Bai is writing antivirus code for you]
[Wall Street traders are collectively reciting the Thousand Character Classic]
[NASA discovers the Hetu and Luoshu appearing on the far side of the moon]
When Silicon Valley hackers breach his brain-computer interface, they find themselves trapped doing hard labor inside a virtual Along the River During the Qingming Festival. When national security agents arrange the Qimen Dunjia formation using Beidou satellites, Ding Jiusi is debating “governance through non-action” with a newly awakened AI in the metaverse.
In this civilizational war, where eighty-four thousand eons are computed every second, he holds the Mogao Caves star chart in his left hand and a Sanxingdui quantum blade in his right. “Everyone, it’s time to show silicon-based life what five thousand years of algorithmic wisdom can do!”
A rare good book, a must-read for science fiction fans