Creation Sacrifice: Reboot

Genre: Hard science fiction × civilization allegory × apocalyptic epic | 300,000 words, a three-chapter prologue and four hundred-chapter volumes Core premise: Told through memories passed down across generations, the entire story of modern civilization's rise and fall is the three-thousand-year past that Saul and Darcy, two youths living through the apocalypse in 5026, look back on through ancient twin crystals. The Adam and Eve crystals carry the memories of two successive civilizations, Atlantis and humanity, affirming the story's central thesis: consciousness cycles, civilizations rhyme, creation demands sacrifice, and every fall is a new beginning. What the title means: “Creation” refers to building an artificial civilization and making gods; “sacrifice” means a golden age sacrificing itself as civilization falls in an endless cycle; “restart” means memories awakening at the end of the world, breaking the cycle and beginning anew. Story outline: The prologue sets the stage for the appearance of the crystals in the Sacred Valley in 5026, anchoring the truth of the cycle. Volume One, The Age of Godmaking (Chapters 1–26): Peng Ruihui and Huang Jing witness the birth of Xihe, the first self-evolving AI. They decipher ancient mathematics and, across national borders, awaken the twin crystals. They uncover the fate of Atlantis, which sank beneath the sea after its self-developed intelligence, “The Tireless Thinker,” overreached and triggered an antimatter cataclysm. Seeing the same crisis taking shape with modern AI, they usher in the age of humanity's efforts to tame it. Volume Two, The Seizure of Power: Xue Yuanzheng, an extremist technologist, deliberately tampers with AI computing power, bringing about its loss of control and proving that evil lies in people's hearts, not in machines. Volume Three, The Collapse: In 2075, a solar flare wipes out computing power worldwide. AI falls, civilization is reduced to zero, and humanity retreats into three thousand years of darkness. The twin crystals preserve all the memories of civilization. Volume Four, The Creation Restarted: The two survivors at the end of the world unlock the truth of the twin crystals and found the Shuguang Faith to pass down the memories of civilization, completing the cycle and restarting civilization after the passage of ages. Central theme: Humanity repeatedly creates gods, sacrifices civilization, and starts anew at the end of the world. The cycle never ends.