The Key to Eternity

This novel is a science-fiction epic spanning human civilization. While authenticating a mysterious manuscript in Prague, the symbologist Ye Zhou is drawn into a series of bizarre murders and discovers that the manuscript is connected to Newton's unpublished "World Equation." After deciphering the astronomical clock cipher hidden in the manuscript, he activates a Tesla device and unexpectedly witnesses the destruction of the Maya civilization. He learns a staggering truth: human civilization has been destroyed through six cycles of iteration, and the current world is the seventh. Every extinction was caused by contact with the "Eternal Key," an artifact capable of rewriting the laws of physics.

Ye Zhou contends with competing factions and discovers that the Silicon Valley "Singularity Cult" plans to use AI algorithms to control civilization's reboot, while the ancient organization known as the "Rosicrucians" guards the secret to freeing humanity from its energy constraints. After the team discovers the remains of non-carbon-based life in Antarctica, they split over whether to destroy the key.

In the final chapter, it is revealed that all the laws of physics are programs written by the previous iteration. As twelve civilization tombstones around the globe activate and a gigantic structure appears on the moon, heralding the apocalypse, Ye Zhou chooses to awaken the memories of all humanity rather than reset civilization. Yet the epilogue hints that in 3025, a warning he left behind is still being found: the cycle may not yet be broken. Blending historical mysteries, science fantasy, and the fate of civilization, the story asks whether humanity is worth the price of the truth, even if that price is destruction.