Topological Cage

In 2049, the topological field experiment led by ATSA went out of control, and a closed topological boundary with a radius of 600 kilometers appeared out of thin air, trapping core cities such as Hefei, Nanjing, and Shanghai into an isolated cage. The flow of time inside the cage is 8.3% Faster than that in the outside world. Every year that passes, only 11 months pass in the outside world, and all crises are accelerating. Within the cage, the continuous disturbance of the topological field gave rise to an unsolvable topological disease - the human body is assimilated by the spatial field and eventually completely dissipated in the dimensional folds. The only shielding agent, TQDSA, is in short supply. Food and energy can only last for less than two years. The lives of tens of millions of people hang in the balance. Chief scientist Lu Chen, together with under house arrest mathematician Li Bingzhe and topological medicine expert Su Wan, discovered the fatal loophole in the cage structure during ATSA's full monitoring and blockade: the topological charges at the seven boundary suture points could not be closed, forming a natural dual singular point inside the cage - Wuhu Node 0. This is the only mathematical backdoor that can realize quantum tunneling communication, with a success rate of only 1/257. There are three paths before them: wait for 47.3 Years to allow the natural fluctuation of the field to open a gap, activate the full-power phase change and perish in the cage, or bring a topological body and break into the singularity to gamble on the glimmer of hope. Amid the multiple sieges of technological blockade, internal rebellion, and ethical abyss, they must find a way for prisoners to break out between humanity and science, sacrifice and preservation.