Radiation blankets the land at the end of the world. Green Source Group monopolizes vital energy, driving the survivors to the brink. Lin Ye's family protected the core of the "Star Ear Plan" and left him an ancestral farming incantation and half a handbook on agriculture before they departed. Since then, their whereabouts have been unknown.
Ten years later, Lin Ye teams up with Zhang Lan, Lao Ding, and Xiao Tie from Rust Nail Camp. They sneak into Green Source's secret vault to seize Core 03, but accidentally trigger the vital energy channels his mother left behind. It turns out the incantation is not only the key to awakening the core, but also "eyes" that let him sense the land's breathing.
As the core activates, Green Source executive Chen Mo sends a mechanical legion to hunt them down, unleashing electromagnetic bombs and earth-burrowing machines. The betrayal of a Federation verifier leaves them under attack from both sides. Lin Ye gradually discovers that his mother's "Star Ear Plan" was never about making weapons. It was meant to plant the first Star Ear Grass in the ruins of East Valley, using vital energy to cleanse the radiation and restore life to the land.
The four carry the core through a deadly forest, break through the robots' encirclement, fight off vital energy backlash, and decipher the secret keys to channeling energy left by their ancestors. Every step brings them to the brink of life and death. When Lin Ye sees his grandfather's hologram in the East Valley seed vault, he finally understands the true meaning of "a farmer must guard his heart." The apocalypse is not the end of the world, but the beginning of humanity learning to respect the land again.
This sci-fi short story touches people's hearts with its chilling details: in the contrast between the pale gold street lamps and the rusty smell of the nuclear blast zone, Lin Ye, with the old scars of his combat uniform, an empty grass seed bag and an off-track compass, fights against the utopian rules of "algorithm-determined life". They refused the arrangements of the border posts and made a desperate bid to clear the nuclear explosion zone. The fuel trucks with welded patches became a symbol of resistance. The mother's grass seed characters and the father's compressed biscuits make personal struggle reveal hot obsession in the cold order, and the ending roars into the fog, full of strength. Give yourself a five-star review for the first page of the novel! Not too much?