When a USB drive unlocks a legacy, that legacy becomes a key, and beyond the boundaries of science lies a truth that has waited ten thousand years.
Scholar Lin Yi awakens from nothingness and gains the power to control minds, becoming a nexus that connects past and present. He awakens three companions, each bearing the wisdom of an ancient sage: an archaeologist who can decipher the origin of all things, an engineer who can reconstruct the laws of matter, and a tactical expert who can perceive every weakness.
Hunted by forces on all sides and pushed to the brink, they follow clues left behind in antiquity, embarking on a flight through time and space, from realms of non-Euclidean geometry to the limits of quantum entanglement. Lu Ban's craftsmanship aligns with materials science, Sima Qian's writing reveals the nature of information, and Guiguzi's strategies contain the wisdom of systems theory. They discover that the ancient East's "Dao" and "techniques," and the laws revealed by modern science, are simply different facets of the same truth.
As the cycle of civilization approaches its end, they will draw on five thousand years of Chinese wisdom, combining it with the latest scientific knowledge to find humanity's ultimate path to the sea of stars. This is not merely a race for survival, but the ultimate exploration of civilization's future: at the end of the cycle, will there be eternal silence, or the dawn of a new age among the stars?
