Fire and Water Are Not Enough

When time becomes a crime scene, every reader becomes the superposition of detective, murderer and victim. Using the fourteen hexagrams of the "Book of Changes" as the skeleton and the "knot" as the overarching image, we weave a network of meanings about trauma, forgetfulness and redemption in three eras. Physicist Yin Qiming was resurrected from the quantum foam for the seventh time at the low-Earth orbit space station "Guixu Station". He lost the memory of the previous six times, the mathematical formulas on the wall that were 300 years in advance, and the recurring constant: 14:33:03. The fragments of psychologist Lin Baiyu's consciousness have re-condensed in the quantum bubble and can enter the dreamland of trillions of dormant consciousnesses - the nuclear winter of African women, the ruins of Hiroshima of Japanese old men, and the luminous butterflies of Brazilian teenagers. All the dreams are repeating the same scene: in the delivery room in 2085, two babies were born, and the nurse called the wrong name....