Introduction to Interstellar Maze
At the edge of the solar system, a crystal graveyard tears the universe apart like a giant kaleidoscope. Hidden in its seven-colored rays is an ancient civilization’s “New Gods’ Wager”, and Earth turns out to be a field waiting to be harvested.
Clutching a fragment of the star map left behind before his father vanished, Lin Xia charges into the abyss aboard the Longyuan with mecha prodigy Lu Chen. Su Mian, who can decode dark matter, can “hear” the civilization’s anguished cries inside the crystals. Mecha engineer A Jie, whose designs bear Sanxingdui patterns, awakens ancient bronze spirits when he activates them. A Sha, a geneticist from Yunnan’s Worm Valley, discovers an “alien inheritance” in the rift that matches human DNA. And intelligence officer Old K has encrypted data streams from the far side of the moon hidden in his pupils...
Stardust grass seeping from the crystals infects the crew’s bodies. Flowers of the universe bloom from some people’s fingertips, while others find their bones entwined with the gears of galaxies. When Lin Xia’s genes overlap with the runes on the fragment, and the bronze patterns on Lu Chen’s mecha resonate with the star map, they realize the truth: the ten years since Lin Xia’s father disappeared are a “death image” looping inside the crystal. The so-called “New Gods’ Selection” is nothing but a ploy by an ancient civilization to harvest “civilization genes”!
As an interstellar storm tears through the hull, Lin Xia must choose: use the “power of creation” to rewrite Earth’s fate, or join Lu Chen in detonating the bronze core and go down with the wager? And deep within the crystal, what the father’s shadow touches is the previous ending in which Earth’s civilization was annihilated...
