Stars. Yue Ts.

Nearby. The controlled thermonuclear synthesis gave humanity cheap energy, a breakthrough in genetics made it possible to create new, improved people. In this serene world, something monstrous is happening: two scientific centers in China and Europe disappear without a trace, as if they are erased from the face of the earth. Moreover, they were not blown up, but simply disappeared.

During the investigation, government agents understand that they have never encountered anything like that, and the enemy surpasses them both intellectually and technically. And then they find out that an incredible discovery somehow belongs to the case: the speed of light is no longer constant, it began to increase. A few years earlier, the astronomer Van Haichen during the routine work on the FAST telescope catches several unusual signals. Two of them indicate the existence of two clouds of Dyson, artificial spheres in the universe, enveloping entire star systems. And the third carries encoded information. And she will irreversibly change the fate of not only Van Haichen, but all of humanity.