Astraphobia: an abnormal fear of celestial bodies such as the starry sky, the sun, and the moon.
When you gaze up at the stars, have you ever wondered why humans feel this fear? What could lie among the enormous celestial bodies in the depths of space?
Ye Shaoqing, an astrophysics student, woke up one day tens of thousands of years in the future. The planet had changed, and so had civilization: annihilation weapons, higher-dimensional fragments, and an explosion of technological advances; oaths of faith and spell-sealing marks, with magic so astounding it left people dumbfounded. Cybernetic androids and creations of myth, alchemical organisms and digital life all coexisted across the world in this era!
But what he found utterly baffling was that a civilization with such a twisted yet advanced tech tree was still firmly bound to its home planet. Even ten thousand years later, humanity had yet to reach the stars! No one in this era looked up at the night sky anymore. It was enough to make an old ancestor like him feel ashamed!
Then came the first night of the new civilization.
Ye Shaoqing, an astrophysics graduate, looked up at the stars ten thousand years in the future and developed an extremely severe case of astraphobia.
People often say there's a giant eye on Jupiter. It's a figure of speech, referring to a huge storm on Jupiter.
But can someone tell him why there really is a giant eye on this satellite, the "moon"??!!
Ye Shaoqing never looked up at night again. Not even once. Until one day.
The giant eye on the moon winked at him.
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In the new era, people were bound to the ground by the forces of the supernatural. Generation after generation, their longing for the stars was washed away, until no one wanted to sail into space or seek "transcendence" anymore. There was only one astronomical research institute on the entire planet.
One day, a strange young man named Ye Shaoqing applied to the astronomical research institute and turned in the most perfect theoretical exam paper in history. He then became the strangest researcher at the institute. He was willing to take on any task, with just one condition: he must not be asked to directly observe celestial bodies with the naked eye.
Ye Shaoqing diligently went about his new career as an astrophysics graduate, but one of his colleagues kept getting closer and closer, as though determined to disrupt his work. Every day, the colleague whispered softly in his ear:
"Look at the stars, come on. Look at the stars..."
After Ye Shaoqing fell asleep, his colleague embraced him in an extremely twisted posture. Their voice gradually became an enormous, incomprehensible vibration, and the moon outside the window seemed to resonate with the deafening sound:
"Look... at... the... stars..." the celestial body said. "I've... always, always... been watching you."
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It took Ye Shaoqing a long time to learn that his astraphobia was in his eyes, while the astraphobia of the people of the new era ten thousand years later was in their hearts.
The story of a man with astraphobia who ultimately leads an entire civilization into the boundless sea of stars!
An astrophobia-stricken researcher, timid yet brave, who gazes at the stars, gong x an overly familiar, flirtatious colleague / an indescribable outer god, shou
One-on-one, both faithful, feel-good story, with a touch of cosmic horror
Theme: Follow this arduous journey all the way to the stars!
