Straw Gas Universe

A fantasy novel anchored by carbon neutrality. The story begins with a real low-carbon technology: wheat straw is pressed into straw boards, bamboo pins are driven into the holes, and a piece of micro furniture sequesters 2.5 Kilograms of carbon dioxide. Heye and his daughter built a wheat straw whale at the Carbon Expo, accidentally awakening the guardian spirit that had been sleeping for thousands of years, and also alarmed the chaos that feeds on carbon emissions. Hexagonal bamboo stars, carbon monitoring data, and carbon futures markets—these real carbon-neutral elements are woven into a contract system that spans thousands of years. Ten thousand years ago, the Guardians signed a carbon-based contract to seal Chaos, but could not accept that Chaos was the other half of the cycle. She peeled off the purest core of consciousness - Mao Ling'er - from her soul and sent it into the gap in time, allowing her to listen to all things and wait for the person who could accommodate both light and darkness. Waiting is more powerful than sealing. Listening is closer to the truth than speaking. This is not a story of annihilation of darkness, but one of allowing both destruction and repair to be embraced.