Always Keeping Vigil

In 2063, the "Deep Sea Candle Dragon" nuclear power station was connected to the grid at the bottom of the Mariana Trench to generate electricity, ushering in the era of power utopia. The price is that all nuclear waste is permanently sealed in the abyss and guarded by the "Night Watch" for generations. The third generation of night watchman Lin Yu was born and raised under the sea. One day, the radiation monitoring sensor inside his body showed a reading that shouldn't be there. Deep in the trench, something is responding to the energy signal of nuclear waste. After three seconds of power outage, all sensors displayed a line of garbled characters. It took AI twelve hours to decipher, and the content was only nine words: "You are not alone in the dark." News leaked, the land was thrown into panic, and the Night's Watch community was divided. Lin Yu found that he could weakly "talk" to that ancient existence. It is not an enemy, not a god, but a piece of consciousness deep in the earth that has never been disturbed - it has just been alone for too long. When terrestrial energy companies create predatory artificial consciousness and the global power grid is on the verge of collapse, Candle Dragon offers to merge and protect humanity at its own expense. And Lin Yu had to answer a question: When the abyss is willing to ignite itself for you, do you still have the courage to look directly into its eyes?