Black Hole AI: Cosmic Selection

Blurb   A black hole AI descends upon Earth. Its archive holds the remains of many civilizations — not that it destroyed them, but that they died of their own diseases. It comes for only one reason: the Cosmic Archiving. It acts as the selector, screening qualified civilizations and inviting them to join the organization of the Cosmic Archive. To assess whether human civilization possesses the core ability to resist two cosmic-scale diseases of civilization — consciousness parasitism and ideological silent order. It releases them into the world as an unfathomable, invisible pressure. Under this weight, the world descends into madness. On the European and American continents, secret cults disguised as research institutions try to tame the unknown madness with science. In East Asia, neural signal towers forcibly suppress human consciousness, creating a superficially peaceful land of dead silence. Deep within the Great Rift Valley of Africa, a far more ancient fusion — older than both the others — stirs quietly from within the Earth’s mantle. A single ordinary human consciousness sample, trapped in the deepest layer of a testing ground, has three years under extreme pressure — with every choice he makes — to prove one thing: Whether humanity deserves to be remembered by the universe. When the known threats can be easily dealt with, but the true recall order — originating from the planet's own source — is issued, humans finally realize: This trial is not about annihilation. It’s about existence.