Summary of The Deep Eye Project: Welcome to the Real Universe
The story kicks off with the "Deep Eye VII" crustal drilling project, where Li Zhe, a researcher, discovers abnormal data at a depth of 127 kilometers—an enormous spherical cavity beneath the Earth’s surface, accompanied by bizarre gravitational fluctuations. Before the team can launch the eighth drilling, a global geological alert sounds: 17 synchronous anomalies along the Pacific Ring of Fire, hinting at massive underground movement.
Shortly after, three-meter-tall "rock beings" from the Earth’s core emerge near ultra-deep drilling sites worldwide. These creatures, with basalt-like skin and glowing crystal eyes, communicate through mathematical language (prime number sequences) and can manipulate silicon-based materials. During a contact attempt, Li Zhe learns from one core being—via pixel-rearranged images—the shocking truth about the Moon: it is an artificial structure built by the core beings’ ancestors to house the Lunar Filter, an invisible field that hides Earth’s life signals from cosmic "hunters" following the Dark Forest Rule.

The Lunar Filter, however, was damaged by decades of lunar missions, most recently by Chang’e-7’s drill, exposing Earth. Soon, red dots (alien fleets) appear in deep space, relaying signals and approaching the Solar System. The core beings reveal they have protected Earth for 500 million years by staging "natural disasters" (including the dinosaurs’ extinction) to reset civilizations before they emit detectable signals. With the fleets arriving in three months, humanity and core beings unite to repair the Lunar Filter via a magnetic matter stream tube, despite catastrophic energy costs.

Just as the lunar project nears completion, the fleets accelerate using warp drive, arriving in 14 days instead of 90. The core beings propose a desperate plan: overload the Lunar Filter to emit an EMP, disabling the fleets but shattering the Moon, regressing human civilization, and sacrificing themselves. As the countdown ends, the Moon unexpectedly calms—the Lunar Filter is remotely shut down.

A mysterious alien race called the Observer Alliance reveals themselves, explaining the fleets are test drones they created. They intercepted real hostile fleets a year ago and offer two choices: repair the filter to remain isolated, or deactivate it to join the Galactic Civilization Alliance. Humanity and core beings choose the latter. Three years later, alien communication is received; five years later, a joint human-core being mission departs for the Alliance hub, marking humanity’s entry into the real universe.

The first images showed the Earth 4.5 billion years ago—a young, molten sphere still forming from cosmic debris. A Mars-sized planet, Theia, slammed into it, sending fragments hurtling into space.


But what came next shattered every scientific theory humanity had ever held.


Those fragments didn't coalesce into the Moon naturally. The ancestors of the core beings—who lived on the Earth's surface back then—used some unimaginable technology to gather the debris.


They compressed it into a perfect sphere before guiding it into its current orbit. It was no accident, no cosmic fluke. The Moon was built.


"The Moon is... artificial?" Academician Wang whispered over the video link, his voice cracking.


He'd spent his entire career studying lunar formation; this revelation felt like the ground beneath his feet had vanished.


The second set of images was even more stunning. Inside the Moon lay a massive crystalline structure, pulsing with energy. It emitted a field that wrapped around the entire Earth like an invisible filter.


The core being communicated through mathematical equations, translated in real time by the task force's computers.


"This field blocks the quantum resonance signals unique to Earth's life forms," Li Zhe read aloud, his throat tight. "It makes our planet appear as a lifeless rock in the cosmic void."


"There are hunters out there—civilizations that seek out signs of life. We have hidden you from them."


The third image made the command center fall so silent, you could hear the hum of the air conditioning. It showed July 20, 1969—the Apollo 11 lunar module touching down on the Sea of Tranquility.


As Neil Armstrong's boot pressed into the lunar surface, a tiny crack appeared in a critical node of the Moon's crystal core.


Over the next fifty years, every moon landing, every rover mission, every seismic test widened that crack—slowly, steadily. Until three days earlier, when Chang'e-7's drill pierced 300 meters into the lunar far side, tearing through the main crystal layer.


The filter was broken. The hunters would soon come.


Chapter 3 - The Truth About the Moon