Magnetic Field Mapping

In 2147 AD, the "all-seeing eye" that the Interstellar Federation was proud of, the magnetic field plotter, encountered the strangest challenge in history. In a top-secret base deep in the desert of the Western Continent, the core source code related to federal rule disappeared, leaving no physical traces on the site. The criminal is like a ghost, creating a perfect "empty secret room" under the ultimate surveillance that claims "everything can be visualized". In order to hunt down the real culprit, the Federation was forced to use strategic-level equipment in an attempt to cover the entire Gobi with an overwhelming magnetic field network. However, what they faced was not the superb hacking technology, but the philosophical resistance of the first-generation engineer Linus at the cost of his life. Using a stoneware bowl and the droppings of a flock of birds as media, he used the microscopic field harmonic effect to construct a "negative entropy barrier", turning himself into background noise, making powerful surveillance technology completely ineffective because of its "inability to capture silence." In this ultimate game of "have" and "nothing", "movement" and "stillness", senior scientist Dr. Eco gradually revealed the truth: This zero-trace theft case is actually an inevitable backlash caused by technological hegemony's brutal discipline on human freedom. When the Federation tried to violently tear apart the negative gravity field with the "desire energy" that the whole nation stared at, Linus chose to integrate himself into the pulse of the earth and became an eternal "ghost echo" deep in the Gobi. "No Trace" is not only a masterpiece of hard science fiction suspense, but also a grim fable about the ethics of technology.