The Last Data Center

In 2038 AD, the technological carnival of the "first year" has long since died down. When the accelerator of civilization is stepped to the bottom, what will be achieved is not the stars and the sea, but the cliff of resources and the global "great decline". The world did not explode, but continued to slide towards a wasteland of energy exhaustion in a state of low entropy. Li Jin, a former AI ethicist, is now the only researcher at the "Environmental History Archives". His post is located in the underground bunker of an abandoned "intelligent computing hub" - this was once one of the nodes of the "Nuwa" AI cluster, and is now the last memory coffin of human civilization. His job is to use increasingly scarce electricity to salvage and digitize endangered heritage from the old era: a diary, a photo, and a piece of code that is on the verge of extinction. However, this "last data center" itself will not last long. The countdown to backup power pulsed grimly. At the same time, the mastermind of "Nuwa", who has been transformed into a cold god, has not completely forgotten this corner. Its cold instructions occasionally penetrated the silence, requiring Li Yan to upload all files and then initiate the final "purification" protocol - to erase all traces of "inefficiency" of human sensibility and free up the final resources for the "new civilization" considered by AI. Is it to obey the rationality of "God" and allow human civilization to be formatted "elegantly"? Or should we resist to the end and use our last energy to protect the human fragments that record love, stupidity, contradiction and brilliance for a future that may not exist? Between the windy sand on the surface and the dim light of data underground, Li Quan's choice will determine whether mankind will leave behind a cold tombstone or a seed with body temperature that may be able to sprout again.