Remaining Calculation

Obsidian becomes lighter by 0.3 Thousandths every year, ink fades unevenly on paper, and debris from Beishan falls into the window sill with the wind. Surveyor Ye Shiqiu spent twenty-one years recording these anomalies that no one believed in in the same account. When she, Director of Observation Song Chi, and apprentice Sun Cheng put the clues together, a horrifying answer surfaced: all things do not decay naturally, but the "basics" that support the world are being exhausted due to continuous calculations; every precise measurement may make it sink into eternal sleep faster. To save the world, they must do something that goes against the instinct of a measurer—count less, calculate slowly, stop proving, and learn to answer the voice that transcends the laws of physics in the most cost-effective way: I am.