Deep Space Echo Project

In the mid-22nd century, humanity unexpectedly receives a patterned signal in Jupiter's orbit, originating from the edge of the Milky Way. It is not a greeting, but a complete technical blueprint for a "civilization escape pod," accompanied by a chilling interstellar message: "A gift for those about to drown." The protagonist, Su Lin, is an astrophysicist sidelined for his overly radical theories. He is unexpectedly recruited into the globally established Deep Space Echoes Project. When he cracks the signal's first layer of encryption, he finds not a friendly alien civilization, but a cosmic funeral that has lasted a million years, and a cold question directed at the solar system: "Are you ready to become the next 'Echoes'?" From then on, an epic journey begins, one that will determine whether humanity reaches for the stars or becomes a tombstone in the cosmos. Its curtain slowly rises in the narrow gap between concealment and truth, hope and despair.