Could humanity's pursuit of a long life bring about the destruction of the entire human world?
The setting sun was blood-red, and dusk had fallen. A middle-aged man who looked somewhat disheveled sat atop a concrete pipe in an abandoned sewer, pondering the question.
In his hand was a black meteorite the size of a fist. He turned it over and rubbed it like an antique. Its surface was covered with tiny holes that went all the way through to its interior.
What had humanity brought back from the stars this time: immortality or destruction?
At 9 p.m. on October 15, Beijing time, a satellite in orbit over the Great Xia Empire lost control for unknown reasons. Without authorization, it ignored all security restrictions and transmitted 5.37 billion GB of data to an unknown target in just one second.
In the Great Xia Empire's scientific development, satellites had nowhere near a maximum transmission speed of 5.37 billion GB per second. Data equivalent to the entire history of human civilization had been sent to some unknown database in a single second. Then the satellite in orbit came crashing down, burning like a meteor shower.
In that moment, the entire human world was like a naked girl standing in the darkness of space, trembling as she endured the gaze of something lurking in the blackness.
