Chen Sanqi, a scavenger in the Rust Sea.
Life motto: Don't look up.
His biggest dream is to drink a bowl of hot porridge every day - made from moldy rice, it has a strong sour taste but is warm.
Then the Empire came. The leader was the son of the Imperial Marshal, known as the "Imperial Blade" - a name that sounded like hemorrhoids. Later, Chen Sanqi kept calling him that imperial hemorrhoid.
He was lifted out of the hole by a miner, with a mouse lying on his pants, both of them trembling.
"They come to kill people who can read."
Chen Sanqi touched the broken terminal in his arms. There is an old man above saying: E=mc².
He couldn't understand. But he remembered.
Later he picked up a glowing chip in the ruins. The miner said this was the key that could open the library that had been locked for three hundred years. The library holds things they least want you to know about.
Later, the imperial hemorrhoid squatted in front of a wall, his fingers stained with dust. There is a crooked writing on the wall:
Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is the right to choose.
Chen Sanqi handed over the chip: "It's useless if I keep it."
"You can't understand it, but you remember it."
"Yes."
Later, a hole was poked in the sky. Light shone in from the hole and shone on the black coal in his hands.
That's evidence he remembers.
Concept: Knowledge is not power, knowledge is the right to choose.