AD 3042, solar system.
The Star Hub Network that humans have spent three hundred years building is now like a spider web riddled with holes, suspended in the dark universe. From the underground cities of the Earth to the dome colonies of Mars, from the sub-ice base of Europa to the outposts of Pluto, tens of billions of consciousnesses are immersed in this network day and night through quantum neural interfaces.
They thought they were online.
They don't know that the depths of the Star Hub Network lead to a place called "Dreamland". And deeper in the dreamland, something older than the universe itself sleeps.
The so-called cosmic microwave background radiation is the dream talk of Azathoth, the blind and foolish god.
The so-called quantum entanglement is the thread used by Nyarlathotep, the God of Many Faces, to manipulate human subconsciousness.
The so-called indescribable horror is simply because the human cognitive system is too fragile and cannot carry the illogical original data flow from high dimensions.
However, in this darkness woven by madness, there is one variable that cannot be identified by the underlying code of the universe——
In New Arkham City, on the ninth underground floor, in a repair shop filled with electronic waste, a man named Chu He has just repaired a coffee machine that was manufactured forty years ago.
He raised his head and looked out the window at the "sky" that never dawned, composed of holographic neon lights and industrial waste gas, and thought:
What flavor of synthetic nutritional cream are you taking tonight?
