Chip expert Chen Mo was found dead in his locked study. His internal organs looked as if they had been simmered over a low flame, yet his skin and flesh were completely unharmed.
His friend Ding Yuan took over the investigation, only to find a talisman circuit diagram among Chen Mo's drafts...
It wasn't a talisman. It was a nanoscale circuit diagram.
Following the clues north, Ding Yuan joined forces with his wife, Bai Heng, who had a photographic memory, and the reclusive Daoist physician Lao Jin, whose skills could reach the heavens. Together, the three formed an investigation team.
Deep inside the Suolong Well, they discovered that talismans were programs, formations were algorithms, and dragon veins were high-dimensional trunk lines made of room-temperature superconductors.
The immortality program Chen Mo had kept muttering about before his death was restarting.
It was waiting for someone to connect to it, but whoever did would no longer be human.
The occult can be measured, talismans can be recreated, and dragon veins can carry electricity.
Only after modern instruments verified the ancient system one part at a time did they realize:
This wasn't mysticism. It was high-dimensional engineering buried for thousands of years.
Faced with an immortality program coming online,
would you choose to connect, or remain an ordinary mortal?
Theme: What we call mythology is a manual we have yet to understand.
