Chapter Ⅰ

A normal day

Time: 2050

Scene: Chelsea College of Art

Möön is a new student of graphic design at Chelsea College of Art. Today is her first day at this college. When she wakes up in the morning, any corner of the world is playing on the screen-wall in real-time, as long as there are cameras and access rights, everyone can see it. Möön typically cuts into the room of her long-distance lover Nöön, a biologist, who has an eight-hour time difference and is doing biomedical experiments in the lab. Now the most common means of transportation is a magnetic conveyor belt, it automatically works 24 hours a day, unmanned, in fact, everyone just needs to walk out of the door and into a space the size of the elevator, and input location, this space will be fast adsorbed onto the conveyor belt, When it reaches its destination, it will automatically detach from the conveyor belt and dock at the destination.

Möön went out of the door. In less than a minute, Möön arrived at Chelsea and walked to the enrolment place. Instead of filling in her personal information with a pen, she entered a glass space where a machine scanned her whole body and entered the available information into the college's system. It's not like 30 years ago when you didn't have to fill in your nationality, gender, etc. Because it is a borderless society now, people(Human or other humanoid beings, we call them "euman" now) can reach any corner of the earth freely and quickly. People (or non-people) no longer distinguish between genders, but between life forms, human and euman (replicators, synthesizers, bionic-men, etc.), which does not represent any discrimination, just to be more reasonable in the distribution of food. After all, food is important to any life at any time. "Food" needs of human and euman are different.

Chelsea is a more civilized area than the area that Möön was in, and is the best center for learning the visual language today. It is the gathering place of the greatest visual artists on earth, where the visual language of human and euman on the earth is updated and iterated, finally spread to all corners of the world. Even the visual memories of deceased artists are stored in small digital boxes and displayed in museums. In short, this is the land of the past and the future, where you can feel the visual changes of the earth from ancient times to modern times. That's why Möön came here. She wants to absorb the useful information and go back to work with her lover Nöön on a visualization bioscience project. Their dream is to establish a sanatorium for vegetative patients in a forest. The visual memory will be implanted into the brain of the vegetative patients through scientific means to help them recover the memory and return to normal life. Möön and Nöön are a whole, their lives are linked together, from the first sight of each other, as if to know the memory of the future. Nöön is a synthesizer. Even though it is 2050, the human race has not advanced enough to fall in love across the species. However, they are a brave couple who believe that love can accommodate everything, without a narrow cosmological view, boundary and framework. As long as you love, there is no right or wrong.

Chapter Ⅱ

Disappearing Nöön

Every day, the screen-wall of Möön and Nöön's room broadcasts each other in real-time. They want to watch each other even without sleep and embed each other in their limited lives. Because of jet lag, They often look at each other as they fall asleep on the screen wall and feel the each other's even breathing as if they were looking at a child that has split off from their own body.

A normal school day, Möön comes home and throws away her school bag lying on the bed, recalls the scene from today's lecture, the speaker is a designer working in memory station on the moon, he helps people designing the shape of their memory, visualizes their memory, stores the memories in a digital memory box, through "outernet" uploads to Moon Memory Station. This is where everyone's memories are stored. After many years, the body disappears and the memories remain intact. In the PPT of the speaker, a video was played, and countless digital memory boxes rose slowly into the night sky, some of which were as far away as stars, just like the Kongming lamps she saw when she was a child. This scene is lingering in Möön's mind for a long time. After closing her eyes and thinking for a moment, Möön opens the screen wall, as usual, to see what her dear Nöön is doing. The scene on the screen makes her so surprised that she can't speak. Nöön is sitting in a black swivel chair, and his body is disappearing, starting with his feet, gradually becoming transparent. She knows that synthesizers do not have muscle tissue or skeletal meridians like human beings, but she also knows that once synthesizers become transparent, they will completely disappear from the world. In other words, Nöön is dying.

Möön flies to Nöön's home on the other side of the earth through the electromagnetic conveyor belt. Nöön smiles peacefully at Möön as if to say, "don't ask, don't tell." Möön stumbles, almost crawling to the chair where Noon is sitting, unable to speak and just wants to hold him. But she finds desperately that she can hold nothing but the cold chair. Nöön's soft voice echoing around the room, said, "my body will disappear, I will appear in another life form, come to me, I will always be with you." In a few minutes, Nöön is gone, leaves Möön alone in the empty room. She can't take it. She feels sick and wants to throw up. She used to cry a lot, but this time she finds that when she is most sorrowful, there are no tears. On this blue lonely planet, Nöön was a full-hearted companion integrated into her body. When Möön closes her eyes, there are all Nöön's smiles. When she opens her eyes, there is nothing.

Chapter Ⅲ

go to the Moon Memory Station

(two years later)

In the year 2052, life takes more and more forms, it can be created not just by conception and reproduction, but by copying a clone, by transplanting a soul into an object, or by taking a part of the body and recoding and synthesizing it. However, one thing is irreplaceable, that is memory. Memories follow you from the moment you were born. They can't be copied, they can't be transplanted. It's so complicated, it's the most amazing brain activity that life has ever created. No two living things have the same memory.

This year Möön graduated, she decided to go to the moon to help people design the shape of their memories and the storage modes of memories. This is a special job, and the process of transforming abstract disorder into visual order is the key to memory. In addition to the requisite design skills, she also needs to practice diving into clients' memories and observing their lives. With the client's consent, she can go into anyone's memory. This ability also needs talent, not everyone can do it. As a result, many earthlings that went to the Moon Memory Station were sent back to earth.

After numerous practices, Möön has become adept at diving into customers' memories, capturing the most active memory points, weaving them into a memory network, and then bringing them back to the Moon Memory Station to design their vision.

But Möön's real purpose is only known to herself. She wants to dive into Nöön's memory to find out why Nöön disappears suddenly, but Nöön is no longer here. Möön can't penetrate the other one's memory without their consent. But Nöön is a life that has been with Möön for many years, and they know from birth that they came into this world for each other. Möön had been afraid to make any move because she feared that if she failed, she would get nothing and destroy Nöön's original memory. It is Nöön's birthday today, and Möön can't help missing Nöön. She goes to the workbench and entered the familiar name Nöön. She suddenly sees light, interlaced points of light, lines of light, faces of light, and she does not know which dimension she was in. Her brain seems about to explode, along with these beams of light. The scene ahead shakes her eyes. She squints at some crystallized facula. That's the outline of Nöön! She is overjoyed that she has managed to dive into Nöön's memory, Nöön was always open to her, he allowed her to do anything, so diving into his memory was no exception.

Möön travels back to 2050, the afternoon her lover disappeared. Nöön seemed to be talking to something, no sound, no face, only the excitement and the ups and downs of the body. Möön rubbed her eyes and saw a mass of transparent jellyfish-like thing floating in front of Nöön, splitting and sticking together constantly. Moon speculated that the object came from another civilization, possibly an export of a language or the noumenon of another creature. Since Nöön has been gone for two years, these images are only blurred outlines. Moon decides to dive deeper into Nöön's memory. It was risky to do so. Maybe both of their memories would disappear, but Möön always feels that Nöön had not disappeared, but was waiting for her to find him somewhere else. She remembers the words Nöön said to her before he disappeared, "Come to me. I will always be with you."

Her skin tingles as she brushes away the light. She is like a person who cannot swim, floating in the boundless ocean, holding a piece of wood slowly moving. At last, she reaches an island. She sees what is visible and on the memory network, and Nöön's memory of the day flashed into her mind.

The jellyfish-like thing is a life form of a higher civilization, and Nöön is having a fourth-type-of-contact with it (through telepathic communication). Only a few earthlings know this language, and the advanced-civilization creatures were curious about it, and deciphering it was their first step to colonizing the earth. The life forms they exist don't need water, sunlight, air, the right temperature, and golden orbits, they don't even have bodies, they're a mass of consciousness, they just need a connection point to spread, and that connection point is other living things that understand their language. Nöön "predicted" the list of "connection points" when he communicated with them. He only saw two words, which were translated as "Möön" and "Nöön" in the language of the earth. Original destiny lets them two encounter, it is destiny in numerous and complicated space-time. This is not "foreseeing" the future, but remembering memories from the future. Through Möön and Nöön, advanced civilization life forms would weave the whole life network and colonize the earth. The first bodhi would grow in Eden, and a new civilization would take over the earth. Not only would Möön and Nöön disappear completely, but the earth civilization would also disappear completely.

But Nöön knew that these two connections were indispensable because they are one, and no new network of life could be built without any connection point. He laughed. He laughed at the fact that advanced civilized beings knew everything but did not know the most basic "love". He knew that advanced civilized beings could conquer everything they knew, and that only the unknown could conquer them, and that the unknown was love. Love is the initiative to give, love is consciously expected, love is the resonance of the soul. Nöön glanced at the live broadcast on the screen-wall. Möön was studying visual language in Chelsea, he felt happy and contented. He bit his teeth and his eyes suddenly became indescribable. They were very noble eyes, firm and resolute. He wanted to destroy himself, save her, save the earth where they had happy memories. He cut open his skin, and his vital signs began to faint. Without an important connection point on earth, advanced civilized life forms were unable to establish contact and could only return to their original zone. Since Nöön is synthetic, his body gradually became transparent and eventually disappeared, but his energy mass rose. His soul, a series of electrical signals generated by activity in his brain, would travel out into space at the speed of light. His energy mass landed on a plant at the Moon Memory Station.

Möön sees it all, and the mystery is finally solved. She is proud of Nöön that love can make a person so great. Even if he didn't have to do it, she could feel his love flowing through her everyday life. If the first connection point established by an advanced being was Möön instead of Nöön, Möön would do the same thing. As the two of them used to say, you are me and I am you.

There is a long pause before she withdraws from Nöön's memory. She steps off the workbench and goes outside.

The leaves of a plant rustle with the wind, as if to convey a kind of message, speaking a kind of language. She approaches it, strokes it as if talking to it.