Expanding the World

In 2042, deep-crust composite crystal ores were mined on a massive scale. Global energy conglomerates monopolized predatory technology, relentlessly extracting elements from the strata and geomagnetic potential energy. The result was a global climate collapse and persistent instability in the Earth's crust. In an underground laboratory in the Hengduan Mountains, scientist Chen Yan encoded his complete soul and his life's work on balanced ternary theory into a stream of spirit-code data just before the rock strata collapsed. He injected it into an unfinished ternary carbon-silicon hybrid body. That body became Lin Mo. A carbon-silicon hybrid that doesn't need to breathe, he can absorb stray energy from light, heat, electromagnetic fields, and lightning to keep running. He can touch ore to mend cracks in his body. He knows nothing of human society, and the binary system can't identify him. To the conglomerates' field operatives and mechanical pursuit units, he's an experimental subject that must be recovered. Yet sealed inside him is Chen Yan's sole legacy: an underlying logic utterly opposed to predatory binary systems. It can accommodate all forms of energy, repair itself, and restore balance. Hunted, he slips into the mining district and absorbs raw single crystals in underground lava caves to remedy his innate flaws, then changes his appearance and blends into a small town. Later, as carbon-silicon symbiosis interfaces become widespread across the globe and spirit-code repositories are established, ordinary people have one final conversation with the spirit codes of their departed loved ones. If you've ever wondered what would happen if we used Laozi's idea of the Wuji giving birth to the Taiji, and the division of carbon and silicon into yin and yang, to reconsider the direction of civilization; if you've ever thought that immortality isn't the destination, but balance is; if you've ever imagined standing at the edge of the starry sea and looking back to see Earth slowly healing itself, then this book might be for you.