Living Beneath the Stars

In 2147, Earth's resources were depleted, and humanity established its first permanent colony on Mars. Lin Xingchen was an ordinary maintenance worker in the colony, spending every day repairing the air-recycling system. Then one day, she found a sealed metal box in an abandoned warehouse. Inside was a seed from Earth, along with a message from a hundred years ago. The message said that Earth was not entirely dead: somewhere, an ecosystem could still be restored. Lin Xingchen decided to secretly organize an expedition back to Earth to search for this “last oasis.” But she had no idea that the colony's leadership already knew the secret and was plotting something even more astonishing... Tags: Sci-fi apocalypse, interstellar exploration, moral choices