It tells the story of humans and machines rebuilding a symbiotic civilization on the ruins after the Great Meltdown.
Fourteen-year-old scavenger Atie discovered the surviving Intelligent Core 734 in the rusty mecha wreckage. This machine, which carries the memory of the civilization of the old era, and the young boy who is full of curiosity about the world, gradually move towards trust and integration from the initial vigilance and temptation. Together, they cracked the tombkeeper's code, explored the secrets of the seeding station, traveled through the deadly radiation zone, and uncovered the truth about the "Great Meltdown" - it was not a machine rebellion, but a sacrifice made by humans and intelligent cores to protect the planet.
In the story, Scarface and other scavenger team members put aside their hatred, the tomb-guarding robot regained its protective instinct, and a new life was born with the gene of human-machine fusion. From the annual rings of the mechanical forest to the unfinished map of the Earth Agreement, from the metal vines that can write poetry to the resonance of civilization under the starry sky, it shows the essence of the continuation of civilization: not conquest or destruction, but understanding and symbiosis across species.
When the alien probe "Ark" returns, what it witnesses is no longer the confrontation between humans and machines, but a new civilization that has learned to live gently with itself and the world.
