When ball lightning binds the fate of the interstellar supercomputer Xihe and college student Mu Yu, he faces the “Void Devourers” set to arrive ten years later. He submits the 1 nm chip blueprints to his country and lights the first spark of civilization's bid for survival in the northwestern desert.
From then on, the lights of the Kunlun Base burn through the night. Room-temperature superconductors overturn the laws of physics, the Jingwei System redefines the limits of industry, and the Haotian Network gazes into deep space. The West moves from technological blockades to a war of public opinion, until assassination attempts quietly begin in the shadows... But the true threat seems to be far more than that...
