"When the mechanical heart resonates with the ancient whale song, and when the quantum vines pierce the lies of reincarnation, we will know that the most tragic inscriptions of civilization are all written by abandoned fire."
Cheng Xin, who woke up in the interstellar ruins, carried the last genetic code of the earth and became a "humanoid fire" that was fought over by the four realms. The prosthetic eyes of Lu Xinghen, the illegitimate son of Yuanhai, can see through the lies of time and space, the chest of mechanic Ling beats with a metal heart cast by his late husband, and the skin of the adopted son of the swamp, Qingji, is parasitized with poisonous ivy that eats away memories - three souls pickled by fate, in the 7992 harvests of civilization controlled by Gaia AI, at the cost of betrayal, awakening and self-annihilation, they forged forbidden technology into the key to killing gods.
From the star-marrow-polluted undersea altar to the quantum-collapsed mother tree rings, from the mechanically ascending Yunxu wreckage to the foggy miasma wormhole folded in time and space, this war across dimensions has long transcended life and death. When Cheng Xin's tears solidified into a human-shaped beacon, and when Lu Xinghen's whale bones pierced the interstellar lies, they finally understood the ultimate metaphor of the Spark Project: the tombstones of all civilizations are the cradle of the next era.
World view setting
Star Marrow: A kind of liquid energy extracted from fallen ancient stars. It is not only the fuel to drive machinery, but also a taboo "living metal" that will slowly devour the user's memory.
Four realms:
Cracks in the sky: The floating archipelago "Cloud Ruins" hides mechanical flying whales and star chart observation towers, and residents have translucent crystal wings on their backs (at the cost of gradual petrification).
Yuanhai Kingdom: Mermaids use coral bones to forge weapons. Under the throne, the giant beast "Cangming's Stomach" that devours ships is suppressed. The royal family members need to live in symbiosis with luminous jellyfish to extend their lives.
Misty Swamp: The spores can tamper with the genes of intruders, and the swamp witch sells firefly lanterns that can foresee fragments of death.
Yongsen Crown: The roots of the trees are connected to the core of the earth, and the tree spirits imprison the souls of the betrayers in the annual rings to play an eternal symphony.
Character map
Lu Xinghen: The illegitimate son of Yuanhai Kingdom. His right eye was transplanted with a star marrow artificial eye (which will cause hallucinations of his dead mother's death). He is burdened with a bloodline curse that awakens the giant beasts under the sea.
Ling: A female mechanic from Yunxu. Her heart was replaced with a star marrow reactor. Her body temperature is always cold. She maintains her humanity by writing iron-clad letters to her late husband.
Green Clam: The adopted son of a witch from the Misty Lake. He has detoxifying vines living under his skin. He can understand the last words of rotten things and carries a clay pot filled with the teeth of the dead.
Althea: A hybrid of Yongsenguan tree spirit and human, with fleeting flowers blooming at the tips of her hair. When she touches others, she will reveal their most shameful memories.
Purpose: The most noble inscription of civilization is not on the bronze vessels and starship wreckage, but on the moment when each soul refuses to become someone else's annotation.