In 2100 AD, controllable nuclear fusion and hibernation technology allowed humans to gain immortality, and virtual reality became a paradise for everyone. When hundreds of millions of souls are intoxicated with digital bliss, only human beings refuse to be virtual. He stole the abandoned spaceship, awakened the AI "Wei" written by himself, and physically broke into the real universe forgotten by mankind.
This is a lonely pilgrimage. Across the decaying lunar base, the Venus transformation project abandoned by the VR era... They drifted at one-tenth the speed of light, witnessed the corpses of stars, the dance of black holes, the roar of magnetars, and searched for the glimmer of life in the silence of billions of light years.
His biggest enemy is the laws of physics, and his only partner is the AI that calls him "teacher". From the desperate desolation of Proxima Centauri to the thousand-year fireworks of the Crab Nebula, from the violent delivery room of the Orion Nebula to the dark monarch at the core of the Milky Way - they use their infinite lifespan to measure the infinite void.
This is a cosmic road movie for hard-core romantics, an ultimate expedition about reality, loneliness and resistance to oblivion.
"Finally, I only leave you with a cosmic epitaph: Life is so precious because it can always find the most unexpected way to die - from stupidity or wisdom; from misfortune or luck. May you be lucky enough."
Reader comments
As a star player and an idealist, this book made me heartbroken.
As a star player and an idealist, this book made me heartbroken.