The Age of Reverse Entropy: A Fog of Misperception

"In 2035, humanity's technology was 99% locked down, and I became the only one who could break through the barrier." Su Mingyuan picked up a strange, warm stone at a junkyard. That night, the world's top laboratories all sounded the alarm. Room-temperature superconductors, a path to nuclear fusion, the key to AI awakening... a flood of forbidden knowledge poured into his mind! Transnational assassins broke down his door before dawn, state agents approached him with guns, and an alien probe on the far side of the moon suddenly changed course! When he ignited the first fusion reactor, a giant eye appeared in the night sky: [Civilization assessment countdown: 365 days] If humanity couldn't break the speed of light, crack the genetic lock, and build black hole weapons... then the "cosmic gardeners" would weed humanity out like a patch of weeds! "Then I'll tear up this assessment!" He smashed through the ceiling of technological progress, leading mad scientists, turncoat engineers, and the AI god in an anti-entropy charge into the sea of stars. With the spark of humanity, they would burn through this cursed firmament!