Echoes in the World

This is an original novel that focuses on the collision between modern scientific innovation and local reality. It uses four parallel narrative lines in the rural areas of northern Anhui, Shanghai's financial circle, Shenzhen's Internet industry, and Yunnan Plateau Observatory to outline the confusion, perseverance, and rebirth of contemporary ordinary people in the wave of the times. Zhao Mingyuan, a young man from northern Anhui Province, gave up the city and returned to his hometown. He founded an agricultural machinery cooperative despite the pressure of family and reality, trying to use mechanization to protect the increasingly deserted land; Shenzhen algorithm engineer He Yuanshan was tired of the involution code work and used his spare time to develop the agricultural Internet of Things system FarmOS to find the true value of technology in the digital world and rural fields. Value; Lin Rui, an executive of Shanghai Investment Bank, was in a high position but fell into spiritual emptiness. Lost in the layoff storm and family ties, he went to the Yunnan Observatory to re-examine fame, wealth and the meaning of life in the starry sky with his old friend Chen Ken's philosophy; while Chen Ken, who stuck to the observatory, looked up at the starry sky with purity, reflecting the inner journey of those who run around in the world. Scientific and technological innovation, persistence in rural areas, capital logic and life questioning are intertwined. The older generation of farmers' obsession with the land, the new generation of young people's pursuit of ideals, and the urbanites' self-salvation are slowly unfolding. In the end, the novel brings together agricultural machinery, algorithms, the starry sky and wheat fields. In the balance between dreams and reality, the simplest answer is revealed: everyone is stardust. Only by being down-to-earth and loving, can we hear the echoes of the world that belong to ourselves and this land in the noisy era.