A deep-space exploration fleet encounters gravitational collapse, and physicist Lu Sinian, callsign Steve, crash-lands on an unknown barren planet.
When he wakes, the world before him convinces him that his brain has been tampered with. There are no rounded curves, no organic mountains. As far as the eye can see, the soil, boulders, and even towering ancient trees are all assembled from absolute cubic units measuring exactly 1m x 1m x 1m, forming a horrifying matrix.
There is no magic here, only physical laws twisted beyond recognition. Chop down a tree trunk, and its crown will remain suspended by quantum field energy. Whenever the star sets in the west, the planet's underlying "self-purification defense protocol" goes berserk, driving bones infested by nanofungi and unstable redstone annihilators to launch an endless purge against outsiders.
The only thing that survives is the terminal fused into his flesh and bones: the [Quantum Matter Recombiner].
To survive, Lu Sinian must start from scratch: use resonance to strip away the first wood fiber, then use a powerful magnetic field to assemble his first tool. He will descend ten thousand meters underground and build a fully automated industrial defense line of his own among the room-temperature superconducting redstone veins. He will tear through spatial barriers and cross a black-hole collapse zone seething with magma. At last, he will venture into the lifeless void without gravity to face the interstellar dragon known as the "Central Defense Network."
"...It's reading our thoughts."
"...That's all right. It thinks we're just part of the protocol."
Theme: Using Minecraft, a pixelated block game, to build an alien civilization's ruins where the laws of physics have been severely altered, steeped in cold mysteries and immense solitude.
