Melting Point

In the midsummer of 2027, global oil prices soared, high temperatures combined with super typhoons along the southeastern coast, and the national power grid load was on the verge of collapse. Cheng Yan, an energy analyst at a state-owned enterprise, submitted a warning report on the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz 72 hours in advance, but was quietly suppressed by senior officials. The family's mortgage loan is under heavy pressure, his father suffered a stroke and is bedridden and relies on a ventilator to survive, his wife Wen Zhixia is pregnant with their second child, and the community hospital ICU relies on backup power supply to survive. An energy outage crisis is tearing apart the daily lives of ordinary people. Cheng Yan accidentally discovered something strange and suspicious: the Iranian military's decision-making logic overlapped as much as 97% with an AI game paper that was withdrawn three years ago. The power dispatching AI "Tianshu" frequently tampered with weather data, creating loopholes in off-peak power supply; an energy storage plant suddenly exploded, and the chip supplier behind the scenes pointed to the multinational hedge fund Greystone Capital. The Russian capital tycoon Ivan Kovalev has already laid out the overall chess game, using algorithms to control energy and chip futures to reap huge profits, and even uses models to deduce everyone's weaknesses, treating cities, power grids, and ordinary people as chess pieces that can be optimized. Investigative reporter He Miao gave up traffic and disclosed the shady story of short selling; Fang Xudong, the owner of an energy storage plant, risked his life to build an independent power supply node; Shen Ying, the original architect of the AI ​​system who disappeared for three years, hid in the mountains and buried the redemption code of the distributed power grid. When the four dead lines of supply chain, capital, AI dispatch, and climate disaster melt down at the same time, all systems reach a critical point. Algorithms can predict disasters, but they cannot predict the temperature of human nature. Cheng Yan no longer believed in cold data, followed the foreshadowing laid three years ago to uncover the conspiracy, and distributed new information.