Meme Dome

In 2142, deep in the starry sky, humans discovered the terrifying truth that enveloped the entire solar system - the memetic dome. It is not a barrier built of steel and energy, but a space-time barrier woven of pure information, trapping human civilization in a precisely calculated simulated universe. We are just observation samples of the "city builders" of external civilizations. We use the cognitive data of the entire civilization to extend the life of the other party's real universe that is on the verge of heat death. The weirdness of quantum observations, the fluctuation of physical constants, and the secrets of historical reincarnation are all the underlying rules of the dome: collective cognition is the law, and national consensus shapes reality. When an idea reaches absolute unity and triggers memetic collapse, civilization will be ruthlessly reset by the system. The traces of the destruction of three civilizations are buried deep in history. The few "dissociators" who have glimpsed the truth vow to break the dome and break away from the fate of being imprisoned. The protagonist, who lives an ordinary life, unexpectedly captures a slight loophole in the laws of physics, glimpses the underlying code that runs the world, and discovers that he is the only system node under the dome that can tamper with the rules and hot-reload reality. A line of ancient annotations spanning time and space, and a string of abnormal data pointing to the truth, draw him into the ultimate game across dimensions. Should we obey the established rules and live peacefully in a false universe; or should we tear apart the boundaries of cognition and lead mankind to face the real starry sky? When consciousness can rewrite physics, when thought can reshape the universe, all human beings will face the final choice - is the truth we firmly believe in the essence of the world, or the lie of the dome.