Age of Pressure: Origins

But here, this river rushes into a completely different abyss from its source. Rule 1: Light is scarcity. Survival begins with greedy plundering of all radiation. Rule 2: Silence is speech. Thoughts are transmitted through the tremors and harmonics of the earth. Rule 3: Oxygen is power and a curse. It builds a majestic body and also promises an end that will burn forever and purify all things. Rule 4: Survival is memory. The individual consciousness will eventually return to the long network of bacterial veins, and the network itself is gradually recalling a certain cold and ancient truth about "creation". In this world where the gravity is twice that of normal and the air pressure is like falling into the deep sea, a civilization has quietly stepped out of its cradle. They are not looking up at the stars, but listening to the whispers and echoes coming from deep within the earth's core, which seem to come from before the creation of the world. They try to answer an ultimate paradox: When the cornerstone of life is not carbon, but silicon; when the hotbed of thinking is not nerves, but crystal lattices and vibrations... What exactly is "us"? And is this suffocating yet nurturing darkness a mother body or a cage?