Programmer Lin Yan is trapped in a time and space loop the day before his death. In order to break the desperate situation, he must complete the bizarre task issued by the system: live broadcast the rise of modern China to the emperors, generals, sages and heroes of the parallel time and space. When he used data visualization to present a century of humiliation and used code to deconstruct the aircraft carrier high-speed rail, the barrage in the live broadcast room changed from "devil words to confuse the public" to "God bless China." Li Shimin discussed the standards of prosperous times online, and Yue Fei burst into tears for the unyielding future generations. And Lin Yan gradually discovered that the boiling recognition value of the ancients was quietly transforming into the blessing of the national destiny in the real world. Every line of code he wrote became the fire that connects ancient and modern times and reshapes civilization. When the end of the cycle arrives, a joint live broadcast spanning a thousand years suddenly begins in the long river of time.
When Lin Yan typed the last line of code, the hands of the clock on the wall just skipped midnight.
Outside the window is the ever-extinguishing sea of light in the city, and the only lamp left in the office building is his workstation. The data stream on the screen scrolls silently, like a quiet river. He has been working overtime for seventy-two consecutive hours in order to catch up on the beta version of the damn "Eye in the Sky" system - a government project that claims to use algorithms to predict urban emergencies.
The coffee cup was at the bottom, and the bitterness of the instant powder still remained in my throat. He rubbed his dry eyes, and the green afterimage of the code remained on his retinas.
"Done."
The sound was abrupt in the empty office. He clicked compile, and the progress bar slowly climbed up. He leaned back into the engineering chair and groaned slightly. Exhausted