Return to Ruins at Sea: the Whale Song of Seventeen Hertz

A science fiction fable that combines ocean legends, space civilization and energy competition. An offshore oil platform suddenly encounters a 17.8 Hz sonar pulse, which attracts a bronze civilization calling itself the "Merman"; at the same time, the interstellar proctor code-named "Observer" uses a relay satellite to overlook the earth, compressing the century-old entanglement between humans, sharks and deep-sea energy into a standardized test question with the theme of "betrayal". Platform director Lao Zhao, intern Lin Xiaoou and mysterious instrument worker Lao Zhou were forced to hand in papers between Typhoon "Poseidon" and the Guixu Whirlpool: Choosing oil and gas is a betrayal of the ocean; choosing a shark is a betrayal of humanity; choosing a starry sky requires turning memory into a key and lighting the three hundred light-year test paper with gill fire. When the drill bit becomes an upside-down moon, when the smell of leek dumplings mixes with diesel and blood, "The lightest betrayal is forgetting that you once saved a dolphin" - this negative-score make-up exam is the reference answer for the next evolution of earth civilization.