The Extraterrestrial Observer

In ancient times, a massive spaceship hovered above the land of China. Du Yu, an archaeology student, accidentally activated his family's bronze compass at the Mogao Caves, awakening a blue mark on his chest and drawing him into a dimensional crisis spanning three thousand years. The compass was actually a navigational component of an ancient alien spacecraft called the Star Raft, while the Chinese art of feng shui, with its “dragon-seeking and acupoint-finding,” was really a series of energy anchors planted in Earth's ley lines by the Star Raft's engine.

After an old lama and Professor Wang reveal the truth, Du Yu discovers that his grandfather, Peng Jiamu, and generations of “observers” before them were all Hosts of the Star Raft. Their destiny is to gather three core items, the compass, the token, and the prism, beneath the winter solstice stars, then activate the “Cocoon of the End” to stitch together the dimensional membrane being eroded by the spirit realm. From the wreckage of a spaceship beneath Crescent Moon Spring to the remains of a mother ship atop Mount Kunlun, Du Yu deciphers Star Raft technology in the feng shui patterns of Dunhuang murals and imperial tombs. The “riding dragons through the skies” described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas refers to a spaceship's beam-powered takeoff and landing; the central axis of the Ming Tombs' Sacred Way matches the course of a quantum tunnel; and the Nine Palaces of the Luo Shu and the Bagua directions form the engine's energy matrix.

When black fog from the spirit realm tears open the dimensional membrane, Du Yu's consciousness merges with the causality engine, and he “sees” that Yu the Great's division of the land into nine provinces and his grandfather's nuclear detonation at Lop Nur were both anchors in a closed time loop. Humanity's feng shui wisdom was always the Star Raft civilization's survival code, carved into Earth's ley lines. In the end, he becomes the “cosmic divination text” of the cocoon, protecting civilization through the resonance of the Big Dipper and Earth's ley lines, while the next observer in the Dunhuang murals awaits the awakening of the compass's blue light.

A “dance between heaven and humanity” spanning time and space, a suspenseful science-fiction story that transforms The Book of Burial and the Book of Changes into cosmic engineering.