When the universe becomes a carefully designed prison and civilizations are nothing but feed for the harvest, humanity’s greed, fear, selfishness, arrogance, and betrayal will become the only keys to both its destruction and, ultimately, its salvation.
In the near future, the Red Tide virus sweeps across the globe. To survive, humanity has no choice but to abandon the flesh and upload its consciousness. Capital and power quickly monopolize the gateway to immortality, and class divisions take root once more in the digital world. Virtual heaven becomes a carnival of desire and control. When the star gates open, humanity ventures into the sea of stars, carrying Earth’s oppression, plunder, and civil wars with it. Through colonization and expansion, the evils of human nature are carved into the very genes of civilization.
Consciousness rebellions, awakened AI, interstellar wars, and clashes with alien powers unfold in turn. Countless regimes rise and fall; countless friends and family members fight side by side, only to turn against one another. Then, as a warning of the universe’s final silence arrives, the ultimate truth behind the civilization farm is revealed: humanity is no lucky child of the cosmos, but a sacrifice raised by a higher civilization to harvest emotional energy. Fear, pain, and despair are the most coveted sustenance beyond the prison.
With doomsday at hand, some choose to sacrifice their own kind to survive a little longer; some abandon their humanity and transform into godlike machines; others wait for destruction amid the revelry. Amid flight, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption, the protagonist Lin Shen and a band of rebels burdened by weaknesses and scars make an unexpected discovery: the flaws of human nature, dismissed as defects of civilization, are precisely the only key to breaking through the universe’s final silence and restarting the cosmos.
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