The nation faces the desperate prospect of depleted energy and environmental collapse. Eighteen-year-old quantum physics prodigy Lu Shang discovers by chance that the universe's entropy is increasing at an accelerating rate.
He assembles a team to develop the "Negative Entropy Engine," but an international organization accuses him of "violating the laws of the universe."
When an enemy nation activates its "Heat Death Weapon," Lu Shang connects the engine to the national power grid, and a million citizens volunteer to form a biological neural network.
The moment the lights go out across the world, the glow of human bodies forms a star chart. Their body heat proves that human civilization itself is the universe's greatest negative-entropy miracle.
