Yuanzhou Cage

When the universe becomes a carefully designed cage and civilization is nothing more than nourishment waiting to be harvested, all human greed, fear, selfishness, arrogance and betrayal will become the only key to destroy itself and ultimately redeem itself. In the near future, the red tide virus has swept across the world, and humans can only survive by abandoning their bodies and uploading their consciousness. Capital and power quickly monopolize the door to eternal life, class is resolidified in the digital world, and the virtual paradise becomes a carnival of desire and control. When the star gate opened and humans stepped into the star sea, they brought the earth's slavery, plunder and civil war into the stars. In the process of colonization and expansion, the evil of human nature was engraved into the genes of civilization. Conscious rebellion, AI awakening, interstellar wars, and alien games take turns taking place. Countless regimes rise and collapse, and countless relatives and friends stand side by side but turn against each other. Until the warning of the end of the universe came, the ultimate truth of captive civilization was revealed: human beings are not the lucky ones of the universe, but sacrifices used by advanced civilizations to harvest emotional energy. Fear, pain, and despair are the most coveted food outside the cage. At the end of the world, some people choose to sacrifice their own kind and live an ignoble existence, some abandon their humanity and transform into divine machines, and some wait for destruction in a carnival. The protagonist Lin Shen and a group of rebels who are burdened with weaknesses and scars, during their escape, betrayal, sacrifice and redemption, they accidentally discover that human weaknesses, which are regarded as the flaws of civilization, are the only key to breaking through the final silence and restarting the universe.