Sync Line

2027, Jakarta. Thirty-seven-year-old hotel manager Zheng Chengshan discovered that his life was "skipping frames" - time was missing, actions took precedence, and memory was misplaced. When the "line" that defaulted to synchronization with the world quietly broke, he received an invitation from 1,200 light-years away: Go to Orenda, illuminated by the orange dwarf star Kerila, to participate in a long-term verification of human adaptability. Wormhole jumps, stellar AI, virtual stones... These are not the most fatal impacts. What really subverted his cognition was that the earth left behind a "mirror body" that was exactly the same as him - it took over his position, accompanied his wife and children, completed his unfinished commitments, and was even more stable and perfect than him. During his three years at Orenda, Zheng Chengshan witnessed a civilization based on the life span of a star of 35 billion years: no country, no division between good and evil, and no anxiety of "too late". When time no longer forces choices, morality loses its urgency; when the body is no longer fragile, sacrifice no longer needs to be praised. However, absolute stability also means another kind of dissolution - if everything can be replaced, what is the meaning of "being physically present"? When he returned to the earth in 2030, faced with the love letter left by the mirror body and the truth that his wife already knew, Zheng Chengshan finally understood: There is a better solution, but it does not mean that he must choose it. This is not a spectacular journey about alien civilization, but an extreme torture of "self" itself - between the known and the unknown, on the premise that it can be replaced, are you still willing to bear this version of your life?