Laboratory Specimen

When your phone recommends “people you may know” every day, when shopping sites predict exactly what you need, when the city’s surveillance network covers every corner, have you ever wondered about the truth behind all this “intelligence”? While analyzing solar flare data, astrophysicist Liao Chunrong discovers a chilling pattern: hidden within seemingly random bursts of high-energy particles is a mathematical structure precise to fifteen decimal places. This is no natural phenomenon. It’s a signal, sent by the sun itself. But the truth is far more terrifying than she imagined. This is not a story about alien civilizations. It is the ultimate question about our own existence: What if the air you breathe, the gravity you feel, and the stars you gaze up at are all just preset parameters in some super laboratory? What if every war in human history, every technological breakthrough, and every artistic renaissance has been nothing more than an inevitable colony response to changes in the parameters of a petri dish? Liao Chunrong and her team soon discover that they are not dealing with visitors from some distant world, but with omnipresent “System administrators.” This presence warns them away from their investigations with earthquakes, uses genetic weapons to precisely eliminate those who awaken, and can even rewrite humanity’s historical memories. But the most terrifying discovery is yet to come: the walls of the laboratory are not deep in space, but in our DNA. The eyes of the watchers are not in the skies above, but within our consciousness.