In 2085, the light of controllable nuclear fusion did not illuminate all corners. When physicist Lin Zhe is calibrating his instruments in the morning light, he always thinks of the energy revolution that rewritten civilization half a century ago - but the strange mutation of Antarctic krill is tearing open the cracks in the technological myth.
When the anti-tech slogan of the "Root" organization appeared on the wall of the dust-free dispatch bureau, and when the AI misdiagnosis case dragged the whole people into the vortex of cloud trial, mankind suddenly found itself at a more dangerous crossroads: the confrontation between the Mars colony ship and the Earth Guardians ignited the starry sky, the addiction of "Chuangxu" was undercurrent in the laboratory, and even the core code of the Nuwa system that controlled the overall situation had been quietly tampered with.
During the 72 hours of the energy outage, Lin Zhe watched his daughter Xiaoman build a non-AI ecosystem with her hands, and suddenly understood the look in the delivery man's eyes before he died in the era of great scarcity. From the dim light of the Dunhuang star chain repairing the geomagnetism, to the unknown response from Proxima Centauri, from the ink of restricting AI in the "Human Charter", to the deep space drift cabin carrying the fire of civilization and setting sail, mankind has repeatedly asked in the cracks: When technology becomes a false god, how should we define "living"?
On the surface of the moon in the final chapter, Xiao Man carved the names of all the deceased. The starlight falls on every mark, as if telling: Civilization is never a replica of the stars, but the courage to move forward with flaws, and the warmth that every ordinary person leaves for each other at the dawn of time.
Intent: science fiction, future novels.