A post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel about “remembering”
In 2147, on the thirtieth anniversary of the nationwide “Spirit Realm” brain-computer interface program, “Silent Syndrome” suddenly erupts. Millions are “replaced” in their sleep, becoming “replicants” who follow bizarre rules. The world falls overnight.
But the truth is far more terrifying than the apocalypse: this isn't the first outbreak. Every time human civilization reaches the technological singularity, “they,” the universe-spanning “Administrators,” appear and format human consciousness like clearing a cache. It has happened thirty-seven times before, without exception.
When the truth of the thirty-seven cycles is revealed, and the five keys, the time loopers, the backdoor, the Administrator Protocol, the First Era, and pure consciousness, come together at the underground source point, they discover that ending it all requires sacrificing their lives.
Everyone is gone.
Only Chen Mo and Lin Zhi remain.
Their final gamble, rewriting the protocol, brings the dawn of a new world.
Three years later, the memorial hall is completed. Before the stone wall engraved with the names of the fallen, a little girl who looks exactly like Xiao Qi comes running over. Her name is Xiao Xi. Carrying on Xiao Qi's dream, she becomes the hope of the new world.
“The first year of the rollback isn't the end, but the beginning. Every day is the first year. Everyone who remembers them is part of that first year.”
This is a sweeping post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel about sacrifice and redemption, memory and legacy. The despair of thirty-six cycles and a hundred thousand years of waiting ultimately come down to one sentence:
“As long as you remember me, I'm still here.”
