A Breakthrough in Technology: Starting with Lithography Machines

On the night the chip supply was cut off, Lin Yuan accidentally activated an AI from an eighth-level civilization in a lab awaiting decommissioning.

Zero said, "Light up the tech tree. You can build a 28nm lithography machine."

He believed it.

Mass production at 28nm, a generational leap to 14nm, quantum supremacy, controlled nuclear fusion ignition, and a signal from the far side of the moon.

Until one day, Zero stood before him, tears in her eyes:

"I saw you die. In the previous cycle of civilization, this wasn't the first time you'd made it this far."

Sunspots arranged themselves into geometric patterns, and a door deep inside the moon cracked open.

The first 36 human civilizations, all wiped out, left the same words in the depths of the moon:

"Unless you can answer that question."

Humanity, Civilization No. 37, is about to enter the countdown to its selection.