In 2077, the earth fell into a crisis of "material amnesia": rubber trees turned into glass, subway tracks randomly liquefied, and "holes" appeared in Antarctica that could tamper with memories. All this stems from anomalies in the "cognitive ether" at the base of the universe - this medium that carries emotions, memory and cause and effect is being robbed of "joyful entropy" by high-bandwidth crystal civilization.
Humanity's understanding of ether is still limited to instrumental applications, barely maintaining stability through the "global emotional entropy quota system", but Lin Ye has long noticed that crystal civilization is using forgotten fragments as a medium to steal emotional energy through children, with the ultimate goal of activating the "anti-memory bomb" of the lunar vortex and turning the earth into an absolute forgotten area.
When An An drew accurate ether density maps and recited the mathematical protocols of the crystal civilization, Lin Ye discovered the shocking truth in the memory fragments of the Mayan civilization: This was not an invasion, but a desperate escape of a high-bandwidth civilization driven away by the black hole of its parent star. And humans are just low-bandwidth pawns about to be crushed in this cosmic memory game.
In the choice between "erasing his daughter's memory" and "perish together through painful entropy", Lin Ye must tear open the boundaries of cognition and face the cruelest rule of the ether - memory will dissipate, but the emotion that connects memory may be the only anchor for the survival of civilization...
