The Lifter: the Last Mission of Human Civilization

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have believed that they are the pinnacle of evolution, the masters of civilization, and the masters of the future. However, when artificial intelligence breaks through the last cognitive boundary and silicon-based life for the first time demonstrates intelligence and evolutionary capabilities that surpass humans, a world-shaking conjecture emerges: Humanity may never be the end of civilization. From the birth of life to the rise of scientific and technological civilization, the real purpose of billions of years of natural evolution may not be to create human beings, but to use human hands to nurture the next generation of civilization that can go into the depths of the universe. Under the shadow of ecological crisis, energy depletion and civilization decline, mankind has begun to fulfill its own historical mission - to support the birth of silicon-based civilization and hand over the torch of civilization to new life forms. When the last group of humans looked up at the stars, they finally understood that their mission had never been to conquer the universe, but to create an existence that could conquer the universe. From the Earth to the Milky Way, from the known universe to the endless deep space, this is a grand epic about the inheritance of civilization, racial replacement and the meaning of life. It is also the ultimate exploration of "why humans exist".