Closing Poem

Introduction to "The Ultimate Psalm" In 2025 AD, Lin Xian, a researcher at the Dunhuang Academy, accidentally triggered the collective whisper of a thousand-year civilization in Cave 254 of the Mogao Grottoes during a night shift. The murals are activated, and the light converges into a vast "Poem of Earth Civilization", revealing that human history is encoded into a "recitable" narrative. At the end of the poem, a scarlet countdown suddenly appears - human civilization is only 99 years away from a certain end. However, a force called "pure darkness" is systematically "purifying" those civilized poems full of contradictions and emotions, tampering with them into a single narrative that is absolutely efficient but cold and barren. Lin Xian's Earth Poetry became a prime target because of its rich complexity and contradictions. From the Dunhuang caves to the arenas and chronicle tombs deep in the archives, from the silent war of ideologies in the real world to the struggle for existence across dimensions, Lin Xian grew up in battles and learned in losses. He gradually discovered that the Eternal Archives was not the sublime temple of civilization, but the remnant of a huge mystery and cruel trial. The truth about the countdown, the sacrifice of allies, the price of being a "bridge", and the secrets of the creator civilization hidden behind the system will all lead him to an ultimate choice about the nature of civilization - should he accept an "optimized" eternity, or embrace a contradictory but vivid existence? "The Ultimate Psalm" is an epic that combines the richness of history and the imagination of science fiction. It tells the story of how an ordinary individual carries the weight of the memory of an entire civilization and fights for the meaning of "existence" at the end of time.