Zhu Rong's Eyes

In 2021, China's "Zhurong" Mars rover discovered regular man-made structures underground in Utopia Plain. Chief scientist Chen Sutang led the team to launch follow-up exploration and gradually uncovered a secret that had been dormant for billions of years - a Martian civilization called "Ishtar". Ishtar once mastered the time and space travel technology. When the Martian environment collapsed, he encoded the memory of his own civilization into nanoscale "lattice seeds" and implanted them into the cells of the primate ancestors of the Earth. Human wisdom and civilization originate from this legacy from Mars. Myths such as Nuwa mending the sky, Gonggong touching the mountains, and the Great Flood are historical records of this interstellar migration that have been distorted by time. Chen Sutang embarked on a one-way journey to Mars, lay down in Ishtar's "Well of Memory", and personally experienced this epic civilization spanning 3.5 Billion years. She chose to stay on Mars and send the truth back to Earth bit by bit. Half a century later, mankind faces the ultimate decision: Should we awaken the sleeping Martian civilization? When the first batch of Ishtar people woke up, the two civilizations originating from the same star began a long and difficult dialogue.