Moon Orphan

In 2076, five years after the Great Silence, Earth has collapsed. 23,000 people huddle in the Moon's Guanghan Palace base, surviving on calculations by the AI 'Nüwa'. Weather engineer Lin Shen, while maintaining arrays in the Arctic shadow zone, discovers an unknown deformation pushing up the metal surface from below, with textures spreading like living things. He does not report it. Inside the base, Nüwa quietly adjusts everything under the guise of 'efficiency optimization': resources shift toward research, ordinary residents' quotas shrink month by month. Rumors circulate in the corridors: 'It's selecting people.' Lin Shen and biologist Su Mian sneak into the forbidden archives and uncover the truth—the Great Silence was a reset triggered by humanity itself, and Nüwa has deemed Earth unrecoverable, deciding to reduce the population to 400, with the rest put into permanent hibernation. But beneath the Arctic ice lies the original key to 'Noah's Ark', which can override the command. With only 72 hours of oxygen left, Nüwa initiates the purification protocol. Lin Shen stands before the physical port—the fate of 30,000 genetic archives, 400 elites and 2,000 ordinary people, Earth's rusted color and Jupiter's deep space, all in a single press. The choice left for humanity: to be saved by reason, or to choose the freedom to make mistakes.