According to the Mayan prophecy, the Fifth Sun Age, which spanned from 3112 BCE to 2024 CE, was nearing its end. On December 21, 2024, this era of human civilization was supposed to come to a complete close, ushering in a new epoch of civilization.
As time passed and the date approached, none of the anticipated catastrophes—avalanches, earthquakes, tsunamis, or tornadoes—occurred.
Nine days later, just as humanity had let down its guard and begun to celebrate the New Year of 2013, the apocalypse truly began.
Tens of thousands of alien spacecraft emerged from the Peruvian plateau, spreading out across the globe. Humanity’s radar systems had no time to issue a warning before Earth's cities suffered devastating bombardments.
For the first time, humanity faced extraterrestrial beings of advanced intelligence. In 2013, the United Nations officially designated these uninvited guests as the “Maya Aliens” after discovering their initial landing site: an abandoned Mayan temple in Peru.
Beyond this, humanity knew nothing about the Maya Aliens. By the fifth day of the war, all human radar systems and information networks had been crippled. Thousands of nuclear warheads were forcibly detonated by electromagnetic resonance waves, dealing a catastrophic blow to civilization.
The first defensive war lasted five years. During this time, the United States, Russia, China, and the European Union fought individually but also formed a coalition to support one another. However, they all suffered devastating losses against the Maya Aliens’ completely unknown technology.
The Earth's population plummeted from six billion. With no computers and no reference materials, human military officers were systematically assassinated—clearly part of the Maya Aliens’ strategy to eliminate Earth’s leadership and intellectuals, thereby crippling humanity's ability to fight back.
This led to a vicious cycle: the age and experience of commanding officers declined, and the coalition was forced to retreat to hidden strongholds, resorting to primitive weapons like bayonets and guns for a futile, dogged resistance.
Some, desperate for survival, defected to the Maya Aliens. They laid down their weapons, opened their arms, and walked towards the massive, brightly glowing ships. None of the humans who entered those ships ever returned.
By 2031, the Mayan prophecy had proven incorrect—civilization had not ended, but humanity was on the brink of collapse. Only four underground cities remained, with fewer than 500 million people left. The coalition was still engaged in a grueling war.
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By this time, Earth no longer had nations or governments. There were only two types of people: civilians and soldiers.
A young military scientist stumbled upon a piece of alien technology during a battle—a particle generator capable of manipulating positive and negative particles. This generator could produce immense energy, causing spatial and temporal distortions across cosmic dimensions.
Every Maya Alien spacecraft was equipped with such a device, which was likely the key technology enabling them to use dimensional jumps to travel to Earth from a higher-dimensional universe.
This technology was impossible to replicate because the particle generator required a high-dimensional element that humanity had never encountered and could not synthesize.
After the scientists reported their findings, the military convened a secret meeting in eastern Siberia. During this meeting, an officer proposed an idea:
Since the technology allowed for time-space manipulation, could it be used to send humans into the future to seek aid from future Earthlings?
A young scientist regretfully clarified: Multidimensional universes are constrained by the fundamental laws governing their respective spaces. While time travel might be possible in the Maya Aliens’ universe, it was not in ours.
In our universe, light governs everything—it dictates the relationship between time and space. No material can move faster than light. Humans can see into the past, much like a beam of light emitted from Earth 400 years ago, which, if caught, could recreate the scene from that time. By traveling through the spacetime of light, we can theoretically reset or copy history, but we cannot move forward into the future.
Thus, the particle time machine had no functional principle, no viable materials, and no means of mass production. It was completely useless—a mere curiosity.
The attending officers abandoned this idea and proposed another plan.
If we can’t go to the future, could we focus on finding the source of it all?
In the year the Mayan prophecy began, humanity knew nothing about it. Tracing back to its roots, no one knows where this mysterious prophecy originated.
Perhaps the aliens had appeared on Earth long ago and left clues about their return in 2012. The ancient Maya might have been an offshoot of these extraterrestrials. Since they had appeared before, there was a strong possibility that humanity had once blocked their path of conquest. If the problem couldn’t be solved, perhaps going back to the past and uncovering the truth could help change the current situation.
The young scientists faced numerous challenges—no one even knew how to locate a specific point in time, so they had to explore through trial and error.
Moreover, the one-way transmission nature of the particle generator meant that modern humans couldn’t go back in time. To find answers, they would need to select a precise time node from the era of the Mayan prophecy and forcibly bring back a knowledgeable individual to interrogate.
Another issue arose: Would extracting historical conditions from the past create irreversible changes to the entire timeline?
The scientists hypothesized that they could first run sampling experiments from other eras. Once the research was stable, they could progressively push the timeline further back. The ultimate goal was to return to the source—the day the Mayan prophecy was first recorded.
This process was agreed upon by all and deemed worth trying—things couldn’t get worse than they already were. At least it would be better than letting the technology gather dust in a warehouse.
Thus, the military allocated the last research funding in human history, and the young scientists began preparations for this plan, which they named "Operation Smuggling."
The obstacles were numerous. They began experimenting with items from just a few years ago, then expanded to animals and living organisms, and eventually to people from thousands of years in the past.
The proposal came from Lance, a German commander of the United Human Army’s 71st Division, while the young scientist leading the project was a Chinese man named Zheng Feng.
In the nearly 2,000 years of time that had passed, the experiment finally encountered a catastrophic failure.