On the Kunlun Glacier, I was just an ordinary graduate student, until my advisor was murdered over a mysterious black jade slip.
With his dying breath, he said, “This isn't an antique… It's a key.”
From that day on, my world was turned upside down.
The facades of skyscrapers peeled away, revealing bronze cities that suppressed the earth's ley lines. The shadows of prehistoric beasts roared through the streets. The sky split open, exposing the cold eye of a nebula.
A government agency came to me, saying that the “reality-stabilizing anchors” had failed and the world was falling apart.
The jade slip in my hands was the only hope of finding the nodes and saving everything.
We ventured into the bronze city beneath Sanxingdui, explored the Starry Sky Palace in Tibet, and infiltrated the Guixu in the South China Sea… only to discover that Earth was a “prison of exile” abandoned by ancient gods!
Dinosaurs once ruled the world, only to be wiped out by heavenly fire. Giants once held up the sky, only to be crushed by the rules.
And we humans were merely the third batch of test subjects.
After overcoming countless dangers, we activated the final starship, “Buzhou Mountain,” only to make a catastrophic mistake:
We broadcast Earth's coordinates to the entire universe.
At that moment, a cold construct the size of a planet quietly appeared near Jupiter's orbit.
It was a “civilization selector.”
When it began flattening moons from three dimensions into two, every weapon became a joke.
In the face of utter despair, I proposed one last insane plan…
