In 2026, a top-secret document from the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense completely tore apart the peaceful life of Chen Yu, an associate researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On the back of the moon, 700 alien warships quietly gathered, and the earth's civilization has entered a countdown to destruction. Faced with the insurmountable gap between technological generations, the only weapon Chen Yu obtained was an alien program of unknown origin that claimed to be a "civilization simulator".
His plan is crazy and desperate: disguise a real battlefield into an immersive game for global distribution
——"Journey to the Star Sea". He wants all mankind to take up arms without knowing it, use numbers to hedge technology, and use chaos to fight algorithms. But when he started the program, he found that he had entered a chess game that spanned a thousand years. The last civilization to use this system, the Web-Weavers, had fallen 1,400 years ago.
The countdown is passing by minute by second. The team composed of Chen Yu, programmer Liu Hao, hardcore gamer Lin Shen, mathematics teacher Xie Changhe, doctor Fang Yuan and others not only have to fight against the evolved alien AI, but also deal with the pursuit from the real world and the collapse of social order. When they finally repelled the first wave of invasion, greater terror struck: a mysterious black tower rose from the Pacific Ocean.
In the wasteland fantasy called "Earth-β", they saw a possible future of human failure; in the space crack on the back of the moon, they glimpsed the ancient gaze of the "witness". This is not only a battle for survival, but also an ultimate screening of human nature, courage and the direction of civilization evolution. When gunshots ring out in the dark forest, are humans lambs to be slaughtered, or are they the most dangerous hunters?
