If there had never been any need for “me” to exist, then who, exactly, is the “me” here and now?
In 2026, theoretical physicist Lin Shen published a paper titled “The Hypothesis of Consciousness as a Fifth Fundamental Interaction,” and the entire scientific community dismissed him as a madman.
His paper claimed that consciousness was the fifth force of the universe. The brain was a receiver, not a generator.
Not long after the paper was published, he suffered a bizarre, devastating injury: his consciousness field overloaded, leaving him in a vegetative state. When he awoke, he had lost some of his memories, but had unexpectedly gained an ability: he could hear the high-frequency shrieks of despair within the consciousness fields of animals.
The strange stranding of a dolphin drew him into an underground live-animal trafficking operation called “Array.” As his investigation deepened, more disturbing cases came to light: sea lions stripped of their fur, and crows with metal contact plates implanted in their skulls.
Every clue pointed to an abandoned marine research station. It concealed not only a vast industry that transformed living creatures into “antennas,” but also a passage to a parallel universe.
And among the group heading for the island was an eight-year-old child prodigy, Lu Yao. In an unnervingly calm voice, she told him, “Uncle, it’s so noisy inside your head.”
At the end of consciousness, there is no matter, no time, only “meaning” imposed by force.
Have the dead from the past truly vanished forever? And who is the shadow left by the door?
When our consciousness crosses dimensions, when the “me” is forcibly erased, who is the true source of all power in your fate?
