The Day After Tomorrow: the Crack

What will happen tomorrow? What about after tomorrow? For terminally ill old man Li Hongyan, his "tomorrow" is only a cold medical countdown. Until a piece of ancient jade that cannot be burned appears in front of the door, and an emergency call comes in from the back of the moon - his tomorrow is suddenly tied to the tomorrow of the entire civilization. Humanity is not alone. Immortal cultivators hide in the marketplace, and physical practitioners hide in the mortal world. They share this star with technological civilization, but have been isolated for three thousand years by an ancient contract. Li Hongyan's lung cancer is a sign that this barrier to maintaining peace is collapsing. Outside the barrier, the "reapers" who feed on civilization have received the signal. The doomsday clock has been moved forward. In exchange for a chance of survival, three ethnic groups that have been hostile to each other for thousands of years are forced to join forces. They discovered that the only way to repel the hunters was to make them believe that there was no more prey - they must use all science and myth, truth and lies to stage a flawless "suicide" for the civilization of the entire solar system. It starts with a critical illness notice and ends with a scam on an interstellar scale. This is a story about how we make choices for "the day after tomorrow" - when life itself becomes something that needs to be disguised, who should be the first victim?