The Ruins of the Universe

The Montgomery-Odrezko law is true: the distance between the zeros of the zeta function and the distance between the energy levels of heavy atom nuclei do follow the same curve, and no one knows why. Lin Shuming wants to touch the actual stardust - what will happen if a pure mathematician comes into contact with alien creations? The Kuiper Belt is getting closer. See you in the next chapter.

"They're not doing fusion, they're digging something." Voss is only one step away from the truth.

Lu Yan saw a Chinese character in the fragments: "". The monument is composed of words. The next chapter of Project Prometheus is launched.

The river map is not carved on it, but "grown". Notching is subtraction, growth is alive—a distinction that will become crucial later. The first volume ends here: fusion is successful, the national strategy is upgraded, but the 300-meter icy object in the Kuiper belt turns to the inner solar system, and rivers grow on its surface. Lu Yan's silver pattern stays permanently and does not require sleep. The door is open and something on the other side is on its way. In the second volume, the chess game unfolds and the opponent appears.

Q=1.43, Human beings made energy from fusion for the first time. Chen Wei's eyes were red, Zheng Duo's shoulders were shaking, Lao Zhou's tea cup clinked - these reactions had no lines, but they were more important than the lines. But the really important number is not the Q value, but something turning over in the distance at the moment of ignition.

Stardust gives different messages to different people - Lu Yan collects structure, Shen Tang collects emotions. This isn't a bug, it's a configuration: it's choosing the "understanding direction" based on the recipient. The Fang Xu case was the first time that hidden clues surfaced

"Don't be afraid" - Lu Yan did not speak, but his voice spoke through Shen Tang. For the first time, the stardust connection spans 400 million kilometers, from the resonance chamber to the core of the ruins. The two-hundred-meter dark gold polyhedron, prime number pits, and central sphere—the ruins are not dead objects, they are waiting, choosing, and responding.

Zheng Duo is not a villain, he is what an engineer should be - not trusting intuition but only trusting data. But after the data proved that Lu Yan was right, he believed it more thoroughly than anyone else.

Xingchen gave direction rather than drawings, Lu Yan gave intuition, and Chen Wei gave craftsmanship. This was the first real collaboration between Xingchen and Xingchen. "It's like a tree, you have to let it grow on its own" - this is where the inspiration for biomineralization came from.

"Find us" - this is the first complete sentence spoken by the monument. Previously, teaching prime numbers was about letters, but now it starts to form words. The Hetu Luoshu in this book is not a metaphysical symbol, but... In the next chapter, Lu Yan takes the initiative to touch the fragments for the first time. The torrent of information will drown him, and it will also...