Lotus List

Shen Hongbo, a voiceprint expert from the State Oceanic Administration, returned to his hometown, Lianhua Village on the banks of Mara Lake in Qianjiang, Chongqing, which was about to be submerged by a reservoir, due to an accidental underwater exploration mission. He captured a set of low-frequency signals with a seven-second rhythm accurate to milliseconds at the bottom of the lake. After the waveform was rotated, it actually appeared like a seven-petal lotus. As the investigation deepened, he opened three doors leading to the abyss: a rusty iron tower engraved with "Project 7292", a manuscript of the ancient song "Antianqu" sung by the local family Tima, and Chen Shouzhuo, a physicist who was the only survivor of the "top secret accident" in 1992. He discovered that the "reality anchor" planted here by the military thirty years ago was not a suppression device at all, but a cosmic translator that was misused; and the ancient songs passed down orally for two thousand years by the Tujia ancestors were the real acoustic protocols for dialogue with "cosmic life forms". Shen Hongbo must learn the third line of the ancient song - "Farewell Song". Once he sings it, he will lose his physical body and become an "acupuncture needle" on the cosmic neural network, permanently guarding the key "cosmic acupuncture point" of Mara Lake. This is a ceremony that requires him to sacrifice all his life. And his elderly father, the last old man who saw the "Lotus" with his own eyes, will calmly walk towards the eternal pulse at the bottom of the lake twenty years later... "Lotus List" is a contemporary science fiction masterpiece that combines hard-core quantum physics, southwestern China's minority witchcraft culture and grand cosmic philosophy. It asks whether humans should raise weapons or learn to listen when facing the unknown.