Fractal Altar

When fractal geometry formulas emerge in the growth rings of Sanxingdui's Bronze Sacred Tree, and the hexagrams in a fragmentary copy of the Lianshan Classic resonate with quantum superposition, a consciousness experiment spanning three thousand years is quietly unfolding across a bronze network. Lin Shen, an archaeologist with synesthesia, accidentally activates the "quantum altar" left behind by the ancient Shu people when he touches the Bronze Sacred Tree, and is forced into a spacetime labyrinth woven from fractal mathematics and the Lianshan Classic. Meanwhile, Xuan Niao, a shaman from three thousand years ago, is using the bronze network to quantumize all of ancient Shu civilization, hoping to carve out countless parallel-universe echoes of civilization amid the cultural annihilation of the Shang dynasty. At the same time, Shen Yanbing, who appears to be an archaeologist but is actually a member of the secret organization "Eye of the Ba Snake," is secretly manipulating the bronze network with modern technology, hoping to awaken the higher-dimensional entity known as the "Ba Snake"... As the boundary between reality and virtuality crumbles amid the resonance of consciousness, Lin Shen must navigate the infinite recursion of the fractal altar and contend with Shen Yanbing, an ally as much as an enemy, to find the one and only "golden ratio point" that can ensure civilization's survival.