Earthly Testament

Introduction to the work "Earthly Relics" In a polar experiment that was man-made and out of control, the silicon-based bacteria code-named XL-7 swept across the world with gray rain. Metal rusted, buildings collapsed, and communications were cut off. In 2034, modern civilization collapsed in the gray fog. Lin Yuan, the administrator of Jinglan City's Classics Library, picked up an old notebook at the beginning of the apocalypse and wrote the first line of troubled times, leaving behind the instruction "No matter what happens, keep writing." In the next twenty-one years, this dark blue canvas diary passed through the hands of twelve ordinary people: veterans who shed blood to protect the survivors, nurses who clung to life in the ruins, old people who scavenged for witnesses and witnessed the truth of the disaster, teenagers who struggled to survive in the camp, and people who walked alone. Hunters who seek relatives, chemistry teachers who decipher the origin of disasters, archivists who piece together dust-laden secrets, musicians who soothe troubled times with the sound of the piano, water conservancy engineers who rebuild mountains and rivers, teachers who teach and protect cultural heritage, and researchers of historical materials in the new era. They have different identities and different circumstances. They have witnessed the evil of human nature in robbery and betrayal, and they have also touched the best goodness in the world. They have traveled to rusty ruins, turbid rivers, hidden treasures in the mountains, and new settlements, and step by step pieced together the complete truth of the Gray Rain disaster. This catastrophe that engulfed civilization was never a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster caused by human beings prying into the unknown and wantonly. Silicon-based etching bodies use industrial creations as nutrients to disrupt the world order, but they cannot erase the ink and hope in human nature that refuse to be extinguished. From the darkest days shrouded in gray rain to the rebirth of civilization with clear skies, the diary has been lost, buried, and entrusted several times, carrying twenty-one years of suffering,