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This novel is an Arc of an album-style super-length work, using the experiences of the protagonist group to connect various relatively independent novellas or short stories within the same world setting. This standalone novella tells what the protagonist group sees and hears during their invited visit to Dinosaur Island. It is a Extreme Realism/Slow-paced/Rational Fiction/Ongoing Archive/Engineering Rigor style novel. "Dinosaur Island Arc" tells the story of the protagonist group visiting a fully established and mature Jurassic Park in a highly technologically advanced and stably functioning world. In this dinosaur park and its surrounding facilities, they experience, as tourists and vacationers, the harmonious coexistence between dinosaurs and human society, as well as the commercialization of dinosaur themes. Everything here is mature; the equipment can be manufactured in the near future, the creatures are in line with the laws of evolution and nature, and the tourists and managers possess undiminished intelligence. In short, under the governance of scientists in power, it depicts a well-organized world. However, the original novel manuscript is a Chinese novel, and the English version is automatically translated by machine according to some very complex style settings. I myself can read both Chinese and English reasonably well, but cannot spare the time to proofread the translation. Therefore, deviations are inevitably present. Please forgive me, dear readers. Thank you all. Only the pure English version is provided here. The bilingual (Chinese-English) version of the original manuscript is stored on my Substack personal homepage. Readers who are interested or who find any errors or omissions in the translation can check the original manuscript and leave me a message. The background story tells that in the year 2120 on Earth, before the protagonist *Mr. H* naturally dies of old age at 120+ years old, he qualifies for rebirth due to his contributions in both social reform and scientific research. He is brought by *Feynman* and *Hilbert* into an immortal world constructed by the group of the finest scientists and engineers from humanity since 1850. This world is extremely stable and advanced, with extraordinarily abundant resources, yet there still remain many research projects worth exploring… The protagonist *H*, as a newcomer, obtains a young body, but his knowledge and abilities have clearly fallen far behind the cutting edge of this world.Each Arc story recounts what he sees and hears during his first decade-plus of adapting to life in this new world, serving as an apprentice through observation and travel. Adopting a third-person narrative rooted in the protagonist’s perspective, and from the viewpoint of the lower-middle ruling class, it leads readers to appreciate the full-spectrum stable forms of this new world: its social development, political system, facilities and technologies, ideology, and more. It also imagines how, amid explosive near-future development, all disciplines that can be called *reality* (实在, entity, object of real existence)—including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, information, finance, language, sociology, education, political science, art, and so on—integrate and evolve.
