When a meteorite designated C/2022-Ω tears through the night sky and crashes into an unnamed valley in the northwest, it brings more than celestial fire. It also brings a key capable of overturning the world's technological landscape: the Ω Element. During an inspection, special operations engineer Lu Boshu discovers this "living" metal, but his find also draws the attention of the transnational criminal organization RedAnt, which hunts him down. To protect a formula for a new alloy so advanced that rare earths pale beside it, Lu Boshu forges the alloy and designs the "Rod Cipher." He seals the core fragments and activation key inside a pair of tonfa, then fakes his death and disappears, leaving his young son Lu Tao to grow up alone in hatred and loneliness.
Ten years later, a long-delayed iron-gray letter forces college junior Lu Tao to flee and search for his father. A train derailed in the wilderness, a laboratory in the snowy mountains, an offshore boxing ring, World War II ruins... As natural disasters and human schemes collide, he must decipher the "Rod Cipher" his father left behind, a sixteen-form code of movements that uses a rod in place of a pen and dance as its key. When the once cold and reserved young man takes up the alloy tonfa, his isolation is set ablaze by passion and responsibility: save his father, expose the mole, destroy the giant cannon, and redeem the alloy, until at last the meteoric iron becomes a monument to peace.
The metallic roar of hardcore mecha, the burning tears of a father-and-son redemption, the absurd humor of a road adventure, and the ultimate question of how technology can serve the greater good come together in this science fiction novel spanning suspense, adventure, and coming of age.
Thoughts on the creation of "Father's Nunchaku": When I started writing this story, it actually stemmed from an unforgettable emotion deep in my heart. I have been practicing nunchaku since I was a child, and the sonorous and powerful beat has accompanied me through countless days and nights. But every time I hold the handle of the stick, I always think of my father, the figure who was absent during my adolescence. Now, I am also a father. In the busy life, sometimes I look up and see the back of my son playing alone, and suddenly realize that I am repeating the regrets of my father's generation. This kind of guilt and self-blame has become the biggest motivation for my creation. Thus, "Father's Nunchaku" was born. The science fiction setting in the story may be immature, and concepts such as the omega element and the star core are not yet mature enough. But please believe that behind these wild imaginations lies a son's longing for his father, a father's guilt for his son, and a man's cherishment of friendship. Lu Tao's process of searching for his father, isn't it my pursuit of the missing father's love in words? Is Lu Boxu's forbearance and sacrifice not the apology that I want to say to my son but can't? If there is anything worth sharing in this story, it must be the sincere emotions about family, friendship and growth. Under the cloak of science fiction, what I really want to talk about is how to learn to understand from regrets and to cherish from lack. Sorry, as a father who is new to writing, my writing skills are not strong enough to perfectly express these complex emotions. If you can feel some resonance while reading, and if you have ever had similar regrets and feelings, please feel free to share them. Let us warm each other in stories and understand each other in words. After all, the subject of love is worth learning and expressing throughout our lives. Thanks for the like! Your support is endless👍👍