When every deep-space telescope on Earth is hijacked by the same mysterious signal, Wi-Fi inexplicably begins chanting Sumerian epics, and a crack appears in the modern world built on science.
Astrophysicist Nan Xi, mythologist Gu Yuan, and engineer Wang Dachui are forced to form the Mythology Physics Bureau. They discover that ancient myths are not fantasies, but distorted records of the universe's ultimate physics. The gods' primordial vibration at the creation of the world was quantum fluctuation, while the Great Flood that swept across the globe was a gravitational ripple from higher-dimensional space.
But as they draw closer to the truth, a cold cosmic law emerges: any civilization that reaches godlike technology will trigger a periodic reset. Humanity's clock is about to run out.
Should they conceal themselves and survive in the dark forest? Or join forces with the scattered sparks of consciousness among the stars, confront the higher-dimensional Nullifiers, and wage an anti-entropy war for the fate of humanity and the universe?
Here, science is the key to decoding mythology, while mythology foretells the ultimate end of science.
