On the night when the paper was robbed, doctoral student Chen Shu touched a piece of metal in the storage room.
The shards lit up. Dark red light seeped out from the etching lines, and a line of words floated in front of my eyes——
[Remnants of the technology tree·Activated. Host number: #5. Current contenders: 1.
The normal temperature superconducting formula is poured into the brain. The four processes were successfully reproduced overnight by 11 of the world's top laboratories. Anonymous papers shock the world.
He thought this was God's compensation.
Until the system told him: This tree has been harvested by twenty generations of civilization. Each generation begins with "gift" and ends with "exhaustion". The Reaper doesn't kill - it just erases all memories tied to the tech tree in your brain. When you wake up, you become the normal person you were before the fragment appeared. Forget everything. Back to square one.
What made his spine even more chilling was that the old cleaning man who had been working in the laboratory building for forty-seven years had an old photo from 1979 in his notebook - in the photo, standing was his mentor.
Knowledge initiation is not a gift, it is an injection of fuel.
Every time humans take shortcuts, they add fuel to the harvester.
"The choice I least regret in this life is to stay in this building mopping the floor day after day."
He will burn the tree with his own hands.
