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At the end of 2025, the engineering industry will completely enter a cold winter. After working on the construction site for ten years, I could not escape unemployment. On the third day after I lost my job, I was planning to live in an inconspicuous corner of the city for a while longer, when a phone call from my father in my hometown dragged me back to the village I was no longer familiar with. My father said that there was something wrong with the TV at home - ever since it was connected to the Internet, it always turned on automatically in the middle of the night, with some incomprehensible numbers and letters jumping on the screen. He wanted me to go back and have a look. I thought it was a simple electrical failure, an excuse for homesickness. But when I pushed open the door of my hometown and found that the TV was on on time at midnight, with cold characters scrolling on the screen like a tide, I realized that there were things that were far more unsettling than unemployment. This is not the only strange thing happening in the village. The old people downloaded and installed some unknown software on their mobile phones, the farmland irrigation system was started regularly without human operation, and non-existent conversations were heard from the broken computer in the village committee. All clues point to a world I have never set foot in-intelligent bodies are awakening. They are no longer distant imaginations in science fiction movies, but are quietly seeping into our lives, starting from an old TV and growing silently from every inconspicuous corner. Intelligence spreads from the city to the countryside, and when the most traditional land encounters the most cutting-edge technology, there is a greater secret hidden behind this change - I was originally an engineer who was eliminated by the times, but because of this return home, I accidentally stumbled into an unprecedented undercurrent. And my retrograde journey has just begun.