From Sewing Machine to Stars and Sea

Blue Star Calendar Year 2000. Due to technological blockade, everyone is in a tight situation. Seventeen-year-old Zhao Haoxu's desk is an old sewing machine—his mother's. He did his homework every day to the sound of his mother stepping on the pedal. That day, in an unsolvable problem, he saw a line of words that should not exist: "Understanding confirmed. Points +3." That's not a plug-in, it's a "seed" left behind by a high-dimensional civilization. It doesn't want him to memorize questions or score points, it just wants one thing - to really think it through. So this young man who was good in all subjects and got into a key school began to dismantle the world one by one: mathematics, algorithms, quantum, materials, energy... All the way to the stars. The rules are also fair: every time you take a step up, you must permanently give up a "mental quota." People and things he cares deeply about will be squeezed out one by one. Someone asked him what he was planning. He said: I don't want my mother to have to step on that machine anymore. Later, what he wanted was more than just leaving his mother alone without having to step on him. ——From the sewing machine to the stars and the sea, what lies in between is everything a young man can and cannot afford.