[When a corporate drone programmer gets a USB drive plugged into the back of his head, one hour on Earth equals one year on Blue Star,]
Lin Yuan thinks he’s hallucinating from working overtime, until he sees the sky above a neon mega-city split open and a giant hand woven from spiritual energy and fiber-optic cables reaching for him.
The zero-dimensional observation device left behind by his mother turns him into a “Dimension Walker” straddling two worlds:
• He lies flat on Earth, fixing bugs, while his consciousness cultivates a “Quantum Golden Core” on Blue Star;
• He uses convolutional neural networks to optimize spirit-gathering arrays and tops the global Foundation Establishment rankings;
• He treats the dark web as the underworld, and even after death his soul can farm data as a “digital underworld bailiff.”
But when the Martian Machine-Spirit race comes knocking with laser swords, and Jupiter’s Storm Titans unleash “causality missiles,” Lin Yuan finally realizes:
What’s called the revival of spiritual energy is merely a “cultivation beta test” run by a higher-dimensional civilization;
What’s called dimensional ascension is actually a survival game where enemies are compressed into two-dimensional comics.
“Warning: Your blockchain Dao Heart has lost 100,000 followers. Your magic power has plunged by 99%!”
“Notice: The consciousness of the Sun is sending rocket gifts in your livestream. Would you like to adopt it as a pet?”
At last, standing before the ten-dimensional gateway, he understands that the most ruthless form of ascension is to turn the entire old universe into a novel
And you, watching the screen, might just be the protagonist of the next era.
This book is a
cyberpunk-dimension-interstellar-ensemble-ascension story.
