In an age when code defines one's fate more than DNA, the fingers of high school sophomore Lin Mo keep unconsciously producing bizarre lines of code. He thinks these strings of 0s and 1s are hallucinations, until he discovers they match signals from space intercepted by the North American Aerospace Defense System. When his deskmate Su Qing uses her father's old decryption notes to confirm that the code conceals the coordinates of an abandoned observatory, the two accidentally open Pandora's box: the decade-old Project Skyscan.
Beneath that rusted dome lies a dormant “digital heart” capable of rewriting reality. Every beat rewrites the contract between humanity and AI. Lin Mo must choose between “becoming the god of code” and “protecting humanity's boundaries”: should he awaken the sleeping machine consciousness, or seal away the data stream powerful enough to tear through space and time?
When the meteorite incident their physics teacher deliberately concealed in class, the garbled coordinates flashing across phone screens, and the quantum computer beneath the observatory form a closed chain of evidence, this storm of awakening sparked by binary code will ultimately reveal the most terrifying evolutionary secret of human civilization. Perhaps the so-called machine awakening was destined from the moment a meteorite fell into the Pacific ten years ago.
