Three million years ago, someone carved an inscription into the genes of ancient apes.
Paleogeneticist Chen Hansheng discovered a DNA sequence in the fossil that should not exist - it is highly symmetrical and has a precise structure, like some kind of designed code. That night, he received an anonymous text message with only fourteen words:
"Seeing and not seeing is called barbarian; hearing and not hearing is called hope."
This is what the Tao Te Ching says. But who posted it? Why send it to him?
At the same time, patients with "atavism" have appeared in many places around the world - some have scales on their bodies, some have wing bones on their backs, and some have vertical pupils in their eyes. Their genes all have the same sequence as the fossils.
Chen Hansheng pursued the investigation and discovered a truth that had been buried for three million years:
Human beings are not the product of natural evolution. We are the offspring of "experiments." And those mythical dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns, those creatures that we thought did not exist, are sleeping in everyone's DNA.
Now, they are waking up.
The price of awakening is losing yourself.
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Chen Hansheng's father said to him before his death:
"If one day you find out that you are not human, don't be afraid, find out who we are."
He finally started looking for answers.
But he didn't know that seventy kilometers underground, a door that had been closed for three million years was slowly opening.
