Entropy Debt: the Civilization Reckoning of the Universe

The second law of thermodynamics dictates that chaos is the normal state of the universe, and entropy increase is the destiny of all things. All man-made order is counter-entropy that goes against nature, and will eventually incur entropy debts that need to be paid. I don't know when a strange reckoning swept the world. There are no earthquakes, natural disasters, or alien invasions, and the mountains and rivers are naturally safe and sound. Only humankind's high-level industrial civilization continues to disintegrate. High-tech curtain walls turned into flying dust, precision chips disintegrated independently, and high-end laboratory heat energy dissipated out of thin air, approaching absolute zero. The rules of liquidation of the universe are cruel and straightforward: the more sophisticated and advanced the artificial order is, the more rapid and complete its collapse will be. Everyone blamed geological and geomagnetic anomalies, but only theoretical physics researcher Lin Chen glimpsed the truth: Human beings have been purifying creation, building cities, and developing industries for thousands of years. They have continued to locally reverse entropy, continue to pile up disorder into the universe, and have accumulated a huge entropy debt for hundreds of years. Now the universe has officially recovered its principal and interest. Shutting down industries, escaping to the interstellar space, retreating to farming, all self-rescue methods are in vain, and the existing entropy debt has already been bound to the entire human civilization. The world has announced the ultimate warning: There are only 118 days left in the countdown to the red line of civilization's entropy debt. The scientific community is divided and in conflict, high-end urban areas continue to disappear, and modern civilization is collapsing step by step. In a desperate situation, Lin Chen found the only way to break the situation: to give up meaningless confrontation, use controllable artificial entropy increase, take the initiative to repay the entropy debt of the universe, and redeem human civilization.