Novel Introduction:
The silver beacon in Sinus Iridum on the Moon changed the course of human civilization.
Under the Interstellar Contact Act, the alien civilization known as the Watchers’ Alliance gave Earth a ticket to the cosmic community: the technology of psionic perception, an ability that lets consciousness directly sense and influence the universe’s information field.
When six thousand people around the world successfully awakened, Shanghai programmer Wu Ming finally saw the neural star map in his mind, made up of 1,300 points of light. It took thirty-four failed attempts to get there. His talent rating was merely an unremarkable seventh grade of the C class, yet on his first try, he unexpectedly caught a response pulse from the lunar beacon.
That faint ripple not only prompted a star-observation system dormant for tens of thousands of years to create a separate file for him, but also quietly attracted the attention of other Watchers in the dark depths of space. Wu Ming soon discovers the cruel truth behind this gift from the stars: every awakening rating is an invisible shackle, and every increase in power draws him deeper into the fray.
When the lunar beacon’s awakening progress bar jumps from 0/10,000 to 1/10,000, Earth’s civilization has already embarked on a path of ascension from which there is no return
starting from the most ordinary C class.
