Before the Ark

In 2155, human civilization on Gem Star came to an end. In the last underground shelter, mankind launched its only hope-the "Quantum Shuttle Project." Ten subjects were thrown into the unknown past. Lin Yi is number seven. When he woke up again, it was already ten years in the Great Moon Lion Calendar. Otsuki's last powerful reform is about to collapse. Undercurrents surged above the court, and the price of rice in the county soared, but Lin Yi was just a sick, poor, and indebted scholar from a humble family. He had no army, no power, and no miracles from heaven. There are only seven copper coins, a dying oil lamp, a memory from the end of the world, and an unknown quantum fragment that traveled with him through time. He started making money from crude soap, started improving tools from a pair of scissors, started recording hunger from an account book, and started from a "small accounting room", allowing those who should have been crushed by the times to have a visible name for the first time. But Lin Yi soon discovered that what was truly terrifying was not the decay of the dynasty, nor the backwardness of technology. But no matter in the past or in the future, human beings will always push themselves into the abyss again and again because of greed, ignorance and selfishness. Can he rewrite the fate of the entire human civilization?