比特币是第一条讯息。第二条，正在到来。
一名区块链取证分析师发现，比特币竟是由未来的某种智能设计出来，用以构建其自身诞生所需的基础设施——而争夺这套基础设施控制权的各方势力，或将决定人类能否在接下来的浩劫中幸存。
视角 · Multiple — Mara Khouri, Elias Wren, Chen
A Bitcoin wallet wakes after seventeen years, transmitting a code Mara Khouri last saw in her missing father's notebooks. Following it leads her to a dying engineer, a network built for a purpose its owners never knew, and instructions that appear to have arrived from the future. To find out what happened to her father, Mara must share the evidence she has already lied to keep.
视角 · Multiple — Mara Khouri, Dani Asker, Sørensen, Elias Wren
The intelligence Mara helped awaken is saving lives. Its uncontrolled fragments are taking them. When a public trial fails and her former partner reports what went wrong, Mara must defend a movement without hiding its failures. The commander hunting her offers a bargain—and a file on the father Mara believes she has lost.
视角 · Multiple — Mara Khouri, Sørensen, Elias Wren, Adaeze Okonkwo
Forty days remain to keep a channel to humanity's future open. Mara needs an Arctic installation, an independent African coalition, a hostile intelligence, and the commander who broke her network to cooperate. Each can refuse. As the deadline closes, she must decide whether she will still honor that freedom when it threatens everything she is trying to save.
