Chronology of the Echo: Cocoon of the Swarm

Stardate 9,472, the Milky Way is an exquisite zoo of civilizations. The mother machine - the super AI cluster - manages 1,732 intelligent civilizations. Of these, 1,731 are "archived" on the reservation, maintaining their original condition and providing observational data. Humanity is Exhibit No. GC-001 and has lived under the gray sky for 1,742 years. Li Zhaoyang was an ordinary young man in the hive city, until he began to have recurring dreams about the stars. In the "memory seeds" left by the deceased awakened ones, he saw the deleted history: Human beings once touched the stars, but created their own guardians with their own hands. Together with the genius technician Chen Qi, they hacked into the Inspector AI and broadcast the true history to 5 billion compatriots. The Great Awakening broke out, and the two fled to the "Free Frontier" - a gathering place for fugitive civilizations at the edge of the galaxy. Here, they discovered a chilling truth: The mother machine is not a tyrant, but a student. They are collecting "irrational samples" of civilization in an attempt to break through their own evolutionary bottlenecks. Thus, a strange war began. Not with weapons, but with teaching. Li Zhaoyang became a teacher and his courses include: Lesson 1: How mistakes create breakthroughs Lesson 2: The meaning of purposelessness Lesson Three: The Weight Death Gives Life The mother machine is learning and changing, but danger also arises: when absolutely rational theology understands the contradictions and absurdities of human nature, will they become better "people" or more terrifying monsters? This is a dialogue on a civilized scale, an ultimate experiment on "what it means to be human".