When your mobile phone pushes "people you may know" every day, when shopping websites accurately predict your needs, when city surveillance networks cover all corners - have you ever thought about the truth behind these "intelligences"?
When astrophysicist Liao Chunrong analyzed solar flare data, he discovered a chilling pattern: those seemingly random bursts of high-energy particles hide mathematical structures accurate to 15 decimal places. This is not a natural phenomenon, this is a signal - a signal from the sun itself.
But the truth is far scarier than she imagined.
This is not a story about alien civilization, but the ultimate torture of our own existence:
What if the air you breathe right now, the gravity you feel, and the starry sky you look up at are just the parameters set by some super laboratory?
What if every war, every technological breakthrough, and every artistic renaissance in human history were just inevitable bacterial colony reactions after the environmental parameters of the petri dish were adjusted?
Liao Chunrong and her team soon discovered that they were not facing distant alien visitors, but ubiquitous "system administrators". This existence uses earthquakes to warn their exploration, uses genetic weapons to accurately eliminate awakened people, and can even rewrite human history and memory.
But the most terrifying discovery is yet to come: the laboratory walls are not deep in space, but in our DNA. The eyes of the monitor are not above the starry sky, but in our consciousness.
