During Antarctica’s endless night, as deep ice drilling at Kunlun Station breaks through ten thousand meters of ice, the drill bit belonging to the “Tracing Origins” project team suddenly vanishes. Black slime seeps from the ice-core samples, and fractal geometric patterns begin growing across the laboratory walls. Fang Zhe, the world’s first gene-brain-computer interface hybrid, sees a gigantic, beating heart beneath the ice in his recursive dreams.
When quantum folds tear open the base’s corridors, Russian physicist Vorontsova discovers that the drilling has triggered a mathematical structure describing a primordial gate. Pakistani algorithm expert Hassan deciphers, at the cost of his life, that the heartbeat beneath the ice matches the baseline parameters of the universe’s chaos equation. As imaginary-number spores erode reality, the scientists realize that the Antarctic ice dome has become an interface through which higher-dimensional chaos is devouring the three-dimensional world.
Fractal cancerous matter spreads according to the golden ratio, and Commander Chen Yan’s special forces are wiped out in a topological shift. The ancient code in Fang Zhe’s genes resonates with the ice. In his retinas, he sees a truth that threatens to shatter his mind: the deep ice drilling is nothing more than a “gate-opening ritual” awaited for 460 million years by beings from antiquity.
