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Drifting in the Eternal Night

(us) Lily Brooks-dalton

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As human civilization collapses, the entire earth falls silent. In the icy and snowy Arctic wilderness, Augustine, an astronomer who is over seventy years old, and Alice, a little girl with a mysterious life experience, depend on each other for life. All the companions had left, except Augustine who stubbornly stayed behind. The land was indifferent to him and he had nowhere to go. He hurt too many people when he was young, and now he is like a trapped animal in the cage of memory. In the vast universe, the spaceship "Aether", which has lost contact with the earth, is drifting in the vast darkness. Everyone on the ship is trapped in a secret past, and each compartment is like a secret chamber of memories. There is deathly silence in my hometown, and my return home is far away. The vast universe is desolate and ruthless, and the eternal loneliness is maddening. Astronaut Sully is persistently looking for any message from the earth. Finally one day, she caught an old voice in the weak radio waves: "Hello..."