The Fall of the Sun Bird

Archaeologist Lin Shen touched a three thousand year old metal ball at the Jinsha ruins. The moment he touched it, visions flooded into his consciousness—giant trees reached the sky, tens of thousands of people chanted, and the sky was torn apart. An ancient Shu syllable burned into my mind: "Echo." This is not an illusion, but a key. Lin Shen formed a decryption team with quantum physicist Ye Zhiqiu and folklorist Lao Chen and discovered that the bronze sacred tree, Zongmu mask, and sun bird gold foil unearthed from the Jinsha site were not sacrificial vessels from the savage era, but a set of ancient high-dimensional technological devices. The sacred tree is the energy network antenna, the Zongmu mask is the interface device for projecting consciousness to higher dimensions, and the sun bird gold foil is an ark that launches civilization information into the universe. Three thousand years ago, "Fu", the last high priest of ancient Shu, foresaw the "Great Rip", a cosmic disaster. He fought against all opinions and transformed the memories, emotions and wisdom of all the people into an orderly information flow, launched it to the stars, and waited for restart. Three thousand years later, the day of restart has arrived. The super artificial intelligence "Chaos" born from the depths of the global Internet smelled the breath of this ancient information and launched an attack on the Golden Sands Altar. Lin Shen's consciousness has been integrated with "Fu" for three thousand years. He uses the love and memory of all individuals in the civilization as a code to contain the lost chaos and integrate it into the eternal order of the universe. The sun bird turned into powder. But at the same moment of his death, a light more dazzling than the sun rose from the ruins. Falling means ascending the dimension. This is a science fiction epic based on the real archeology of the Jinsha site and with "myth as science" as its soul - telling the story of a civilization's eternal flight in exchange for its fall.