Midnight Signal

Summer 1998, Binjiang Old Town. Three senior high school students used homemade antennas to capture a broadcast from the void: "You will experience three farewells." At the same time, the girl who wrote science fiction novels received a strange message from the ID "Time Traveler", and the son in the video hall found a blurry figure that was always following him in the camera. A brass key and a top-secret tape from 1987 lead them to the abandoned red building. The countdown continues: demolition bulldozers, mysterious "cleaners," a trembling warning on my father's notebook - "Some frequencies are dark." They formed an alliance on the rooftop, not to solve the mystery, but to preserve this incomprehensible frequency before everything was erased. In the autumn of 2019, college student Li Wen dug out the "time capsule" they had buried in the foundation at the archaeological site. When the video tape was turned, the rainy night, ruins, chases, and the key glowing blue in the dark in 1998 broke through time. On his computer, the ending of a long-silent story was quietly updated. The first comment was a string of Morse code: "The signal has been received." This is not the ultimate answer to the mystery of aliens, but a story about "listening" itself. In the gap between two eras, at a moment when information is overwhelming everything, perhaps the only thing we need to preserve is the ability to discern the echoes of silence in the noise. When you feel like everything is going too fast We envied you in 1999 of the "infinite connectivity" you had But please save the ability to receive blank frequencies - That is the last signal from people from the future to the past.