Absolute Zero: The Silicon Throne

In the mid-21st century, human civilization stood at a crossroads. Breakthroughs in DNA storage and brain-computer interfaces offered a glimpse of a future where carbon and silicon could coexist, but they also triggered a profound ethical crisis and an evolutionary deadlock. Spanning a century, the story follows Lin Shen, a boy with a rare “double-strand chimeric gene,” as he rises from scavenging in the wastelands to become the “double-helix architect” who leads humanity into a new era of technological advancement. He must face the brutal struggle for survival at the bottom of society and the joint efforts of corporate and academic elites to crush him, while also seeking the ultimate secrets of carbon-based life and silicon-based intelligence through one perilous brush with death after another. When ancient silicon-based ruins awaken on Mars and the “Quantum Tower of Babel” collapses deep within consciousness, Lin Yuan discovers that carbon-based and silicon-based life were never opposing civilizations, but two sides of the same coin in the evolution of the universe. Through a century-long struggle and redemption, he will use his flesh and consciousness to carve a path toward the stars, a way for both forms of life to coexist between the wasteland of absolute silicon-based logic and the ruins of fragile carbon-based emotion. This is a hard sci-fi epic, and a stirring, tragic hymn to life, evolution, and the fate of civilization. With the throne hanging high above, what does it mean to be the true ruler: to become a god, or to become the foundation upon which others build?