[Water of Death: The Epic of the Proton Age]
① The original era (the end of human civilization)
Hydronuclear Catastrophe: Humanity extracts the "primordial ocean" from the center of the earth to develop immortality technology, leading to the collapse of the earth's hydrological cycle
Project Ark: Upload the consciousness of elite scientists to water molecules and transform their bodies into ionic states to continue civilization
Shen Qi: Chief Fluid Physicist, volunteered to become an OH-carrier to stabilize the Alkaline Ark
Lin Wuhui: Quantum biologist, choosing to become an H+ carrier to maintain acidic balance
Price: Memory storage, ionic life only lasts for a thousand years
② Proton Age 1-300 (Rise of Ion Civilization)
Hydrolysis War: The remnants of humanity who have not obtained the right to transform attack the Ion Ark with acid rain missiles
Ark Divided:
Alkaline Ark rises into the ionosphere to form a "dome city"
The Acid Ark sinks into the Earth's mantle to create a "Molten City"
Era of civilization: The stone tablet of "Water Code" was destroyed, and the Ion people forgot the origin of mankind
③ Proton Age 901 (present day chapter)
Energy depletion: Ion Man suffers from charge degeneration due to long-term separation
The ultimate choice: If the mother body is awakened, the existing ion civilization will collapse; if the status quo is maintained, the earth will become electrically extinguished within a hundred years.
"When we accuse our ancestors of using technology to distort nature, aren't we kidnapping history with morality?"
——The last words of an unknown scientist carved on the wall of the Forbidden City of Molten Core
"We voluntarily put on the shackles of an inhuman body just so that those who come after us will still be qualified to ask 'what is a human being?'"
——Shen Qi, Lin Wuhui
"Our greatest invention was never the ark, it was the foolish courage to sail despite knowing it would sink."
——The last broadcast of the first-generation chief scientist before his consciousness dissipated
"I have Buffer blood in my veins, which means it's my life's mission to make all opposites safe in hating each other."
——The Autobiography of Queen Liusha of the Buffer Clan
Civilized Observer·Silicon Final Judgment:
"Conclusion of the 909th assessment of carbon-based civilization: It is recommended to preserve it. Note: Because it can still produce starlight-level errors in absolute darkness, this error is named "Hope"."
"We have come here across the gap between silicon and carbon, just to prove that true civilization never flourishes in the right, but blooms in the wrong."
— Lunar craters etched in silicon-based observers after their evacuation
Concept: The most moving form of civilization is the staggering toward death despite knowing that it is not perfect.
