The Origin of the Ancients: When the Stars Were First Born

Archaeologist Lin Jian discovered a jade artifact that had never been recorded deep in the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit - it was neither a cong nor a bi, but a perfect chaotic sphere with an undecipherable star map engraved on its surface. When the instrument detected the presence of energy frequencies within it that did not belong to any known element, the entire archaeological team fell into an eerie silence. Late that night, Lin Jian was taking pictures of the jade ball in the temporary house. The moment the moonlight shines through the window, the star map inside the sphere begins to rotate slowly, projecting a holographic image: a model of the collapsing universe composed of eighty-four fragments. Each fragment is engraved with two Chinese characters - "Taikoo". At the same time, in a certain plane of parallel time and space, a pure consciousness body calling itself the "Cosmic Archives Administrator" sent a pulse signal to the earth. The content of the signal is the beginning of a novel that has not yet been written: "Before all stories began, when time itself was an infant, there was a place called the Ancients. It was not a village, not a planet, but the womb of the universe.