Stardust Legacy

In 2149, mankind has mastered quantum resonance technology, which can capture the "memory waves" of all materials in the universe - stones, dust, and nebulae, and can play back sounds from hundreds of millions of years ago. The resources of the solar system are depleted and civil wars occur frequently. Human beings are trying to reproduce the technology of ancient civilizations in order to survive. Ma Zhiyuan, an analyst at Shouxingtai, suffers from "cosmic empathy" and can sense the emotions in stardust signals. He captured a set of abnormal resonances in routine observations, originating from interstellar dust 12 million years ago. In the signal, he saw the burning starry sky and heard the last words of an extinct civilization: The civilization called Lothien was as addicted to listening to the memory of the universe as humans, and finally awakened the "scavenger" of the underlying rules of the universe - a quantum life form that feeds on civilization's consciousness. Overnight, Lothian was wiped out. Every time humans analyze a signal, they send positioning coordinates to the scavenger. In seventy-two hours, the solar system will be locked. In order to seize alien technology, the military tampered with the signal into an "energy code", forcing Ma Zhiyuan to continue analyzing it. Chen Mo, the founder of Star Watch Platform, confessed: He received the same warning twenty years ago, but chose to remain silent due to human greed. He has been dormant to this day just waiting for someone who can understand Stardust. Ma Zhiyuan made a decision: use resonance technology to reversely broadcast the "memory of goodwill" of human civilization to prove to the scavengers that humans are not predators. The scavenger came, and the waves passed over the earth but did not destroy mankind. There was only one response left: "Memory is not food, but the tombstone of civilization." Humanity has lost the technology to peer into the universe, but it has preserved civilization.