The Embers Are Not yet Cold, the Stars Will Shine

On the edge of the seventh star system "Xuanwu", Wangshu waste disposal station. Maintenance worker Lu Chen has been hearing "noise" in his head since he was four years old - like someone singing in the distance. Twenty-eight years later, the doctor diagnosed me with schizophrenia. I took pills again and again, but the noise never went away. Until that day, one by one, the colonies lost contact with the Starfleet. It's not destruction, it's not war, it's all life "disappearing" at the same time, leaving only clothes and still-functioning equipment. The disaster known as "annihilation" is spreading. Two million people accepted in silence, fifteen million resisted in the Ark, and the entire human civilization fell apart in a matter of days. And Lu Chen found that the noise in his head was becoming clearer. That's not an illusion. That's a song. It was the jump engine that had sent an invitation signal to the base of the universe for a thousand years and finally received a response. Humanity is not being attacked—humanity has summoned its own "gods." When everyone faces the same choice - to stay or to merge into the ocean beyond consciousness - Lu Shen becomes the only bridge between the two worlds. An ember is a fire that has not been completely extinguished. The galaxy is an endless universe. This is a story about choice.