Star Gaze

Under the rule of the Ring Federation, human civilization has not received any extraterrestrial signals for more than a hundred years. Chen Mo, a low-level listener with a synchronization rate of only 62%, searches in vain in the vast background noise of the universe day after day. Until that day, he captured a regular pulse as weak as a heartbeat in the K-17 star field marked as "absolute silence". This was not a turning point in his career, but the beginning of a desperate journey. When he successfully decoded the signal using the strange code left behind by his late mentor, what he attracted was not a reward, but a deadly pursuit by the "Scavengers", the federal internal security force. Hidden behind the signal is an "origin code" that is enough to subvert the foundation of the Federation - a set of geometric language that transcends existing technology and points to the origin of the universe. While on the run, Chen Mo was forced to form an alliance with Lin Wei, the rational-oriented chief scientist whose identity is a mystery, and Xiao Fei, a genius hacker in the old port area. They discovered that the top federal officials had long known about the existence of civilization outside the "Wall", but chose to isolate it with the "Iron Curtain" system and regarded all contact as a taboo that must be purified. What is even more frightening is that an unknown existence called the "Observer" is lurking deep in the data network, monitoring everything with cold eyes. This is a huge gamble on the survival of civilization, and it is also an arduous journey to find oneself and the truth in the double abyss of the starry sky and the human heart.