Haunted Reflections of Shanghai

Shanghai Nightmare: An Overview

Amid the drizzle in Shanghai's old town, a civilization-wide resonance spanning time and space quietly begins. Shanghai Nightmare follows Hou Wenqi, Zhao Mingyuan, and Sun Xiaoru. From a mysterious order appearing in the Meituan delivery System and anomalies in the oracle bone data from Yinxu, to a strange signal detected on Mount Olympus Mons on Mars, the seemingly bizarre events all stem from a key to civilization buried in Tongshan Hall in 1946, now awakening.

Their grandparents did not rely on mysticism to “suppress evil.” Instead, they used early quantum technology and biological resonance chips to seal away the memories of civilizations around the world. As modern technology advances, these memories gradually awaken. From the neural synapse networks in Dunhuang murals to the quantum sound-wave encoding of the Ganges' sacred chants, from the fusion of the Mayan calendar wheel with the Chinese Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches calendar to the resonant symphony of galactic civilizations, the novel skillfully combines symbols from civilizations around the world, such as oracle bone script and Incan knotted cords, with cutting-edge technologies like quantum communication and biometric recognition. Together, they create a grand world built on “biological neural technology × global civilization.”

With special equipment such as inked string that has evolved into “civilization resonance strings” and a scale-patterned badge, the protagonists unravel crises and gradually uncover the truth about their grandparents' efforts to protect dialogue between civilizations. In the end, Earth's civilization achieves 100% resonance with civilizations across the Milky Way and even the Andromeda Galaxy, opening the “Realm of All Things in Symbiosis” and affirming the ultimate proposition that “civilizations know no boundaries, and symbiosis lasts forever.” Thus begins a symphony of civilizations spanning time and space.