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In 2085, the Institute of Quantum Physics in the Desert in Nevada, USA detected an abnormal time fluctuation. Astrophysicist Erin Carter discovered that Earth's time is reset in a cycle of 72 hours, and the only thing that retains memory is a group of "awakeners" whose brains are not erased by time due to the quantum entanglement effect. As the investigation deepened, Erin discovered that the source of the cycle was a "time cocoon" device from 12 billion light years away, deployed by an alien civilization called "Silent". The silent believe that any civilization that cannot break through the shackles of time should be eliminated to maintain the order of the entropy increase in the universe. Meanwhile, American society is in chaos due to the cycle: the rich try to monopolize reset the rules, the doomsday carnival broke out in slums, and the government plans to destroy the cocoon with nuclear weapons. Erin must join forces with the Awakener to crack the time code for a limited time and answer the ultimate question - is human beings worthy of being tolerated by the universe?

The Chrono Cocoon

New Earth Hydrothermal Vent, Year One of the New Epoch

The instant single-celled organism A-12 split, triggering quantum resonance in the seabed basalt layers, its three base pairs (G, T, X) folded into a Klein bottle structure. The encoded final message of old humanity, written on the λ equation, was translated into chemical pulses: "When you learn pain, send your tears to the third star of Orion's belt."

A-12's cell membrane began to proliferate, forming a topology reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty's ruins. Nearby, the hot spring colonies collectively secreted anti-entropy enzymes, constructing a miniature Silicon Valley dome on the ocean floor. In a sulfurized Apple HQ replica, the first shareholder meeting of primitive RNA was taking place.

The pupil of the cosmic child, the old calendar could not measure time.

Erin's quantum ghost collided with the nebula in the shape of an iris, and each fragment gave birth to a new universe. Max's silicon fragments crystallized in radiation, forming a twelve-light-year-long tombstone belt, with inscriptions written in Hawking radiation:

"Here lie the fools who chose the plague of possibilities."

Rex's algorithm manual suddenly activated, its pages unfolding into a Möbius strip in the vacuum. Erin's ghost fragments stepped onto it and heard the cries of the cosmic child transform into gravitational wave music—echoes of the trigger pull Sara never made when she destroyed the temporal cocoon, after billions of years of redshift.

New Earth Geostationary Orbit, 12,000 Years into the New Epoch

The multicellular colony G7-K began spelling out the equation of matter-energy through photosynthesis. Their chloroplast arrays suddenly received a strong light pulse from Orion—a biological rocket launched by the 300th generation descendant of A-12. The rocket body was composed of calcified tear droplets fused with λ equation fragments.

Inside the rocket, the embryonic consciousness of the new civilization soaked in superfluid helium. As they passed through the Oort Cloud, the walls of the capsule leaked the metal petals left behind by old humanity. Each petal replayed Sara's final choice: "We deserve to be feared."

Pentagonal Hand Nursery, Outside the Timeline

The cosmic child cupped New Earth to its ear, listening to the quantum hum of the underwater vents. It smiled with supernova-level energy, and in the palm's grooves appeared the recursive starlight:

Each new civilization repeated the launch of biological rockets, each rocket transforming into notes in a higher-dimensional nursery. And the melody formed by all the notes was the half-finished love confession Erin failed to say before she dissipated:

"Love is the only non-recursive..."

The Song of the Embryo