When quantum physicist Chen Mo activates a mysterious bracelet in his lab, humanity's coordinates are marked in the cosmic trade network for the first time. It's a cross-dimensional arena where technology is traded for technology. Earth's Douyin algorithms can rescue silicon-based life from an information desert, while a gravity-anchoring device from an anti-gravity civilization can raise a human base on the far side of the moon. At the heart of every trade lies the challenge of deciphering the “Cosmic Scales,” a device capable of weighing the value of civilizations.
This is a wild symphony of technology and civilization, exploring a question far greater than interstellar trade through the clash of Douyin algorithms and anti-gravity devices: When the universe becomes a marketplace, how can civilizations find a way to coexist despite their differing values? And how will the former Earth-based doctor use humanity's most basic wisdom of connection to reshape the scales of civilization across the universe?
