Chapter 994 Stitching
Qi Tongwei began to study the relationship between the dragon and phoenix totems and the energy of the earth veins. He found that on the new and full moon days, the dragon totem would absorb the underground magnetic field, while the phoenix totem would gather the energy of the celestial body. The special frequency formed by the fusion of the two actually resonated perfectly with the human body's bioelectric field. He tried to apply this frequency to sonic planting, and the crops he cultivated not only tasted great, but also had significant health benefits.
However, a greater challenge followed. Multinational companies coveted the secret of the dragon and phoenix totem and tried to buy the manor at a high price. They even used satellite remote sensing technology to try to analyze the distribution of earth vein energy. But every time the detection equipment approached, it would always encounter mysterious interference, and the pattern of the dragon and phoenix intertwined would appear repeatedly on the screen.
At an international ecological forum, Qi Tongwei presented his research results on the dragon and phoenix totems. On the big screen at the venue, the ecological network of the manor was played in real time: the dragon-shaped earth vein energy and the phoenix-shaped celestial radiation intertwined to form a complex and orderly system. "Totems are not superstition," he said, his voice resounding throughout the venue, "but the ancient code of the laws of nature."
Today, the manor has unique scenery in all four seasons. In spring, the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totems are sprinkled on the bell-ringing rice fields, and the growth trajectories of the rice seedlings are automatically arranged into hexagrams; in midsummer, the fluorescence of the night-scented mushrooms and the projections of the dragon and phoenix complement each other, like a fairyland; in autumn, dragon and phoenix patterns are naturally formed on the harvested fruits and vegetables; in winter, the dragon totems of the new locust trees will exhale white mist, which, under the guidance of the phoenix totems, gathers into a warm air curtain.
Qi Tongwei's "Notes on the Earth's Veins" is still being written. The latest page depicts a pattern of a dragon and a phoenix circling the earth, with the following words written next to it: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, and the heartbeat of the heaven and earth is hidden in the dragon and phoenix totems. If humans can understand this code, they can coexist with all things." The mountain breeze swept across the dome of the museum, blowing the rubbings of the dragon and phoenix totems. The ancient patterns flowed in the sun, telling the story of the millennium-long bond between the land and humans.
Whenever night falls, the dragon totem on the new locust tree resonates with the stars in the sky, and the phoenix totem absorbs the essence of the moonlight.
The ink marks of dragons and phoenixes circling the earth on the rice paper had not yet dried, but the ink in the inkstone rippled strangely, forming a coiled dragon phantom. A piercing alarm came from the direction of the monitoring station, and the ecological network map on the holographic screen suddenly cracked into spider-web-like scarlet cracks.
"The core of the earth veins has been invaded!" The little fox's claws dug deeply into Qi Tongwei's shoulders, and the runes on the tip of its tail burst out with dazzling golden light. "It's the permafrost zone in the northeast!" When Liang Lu rushed in, her temples were still stained with fluorescent spores from the night-scented mushroom cultivation room. She unfolded the satellite cloud map, and the green color that originally represented the health of the earth veins was being swallowed up by the strange indigo color, like a wound spreading under the skin.
Thousands of miles away in the snowy plains of Northeast China, a multinational energy group's drilling platform was roaring. The moment the giant drill penetrated the permafrost, a muffled sound similar to the roar of a dragon came from deep underground. The workers were horrified to find that the surface of the extracted rock core was covered with dark red lines, and the shape was exactly the same as the dragon totem of Dongjiang Village. Even more bizarre was that all electronic device screens simultaneously popped up a pattern of intertwined dragons and phoenixes, followed by the tragic scene of the fungus disaster in Dongjiang Village 20 years ago.
"They are mining the energy of the earth veins!" Qi Tongwei's knuckles turned white. He opened the thirty-third volume of "Earth Vein Notes", and the frozen soil samples sandwiched between the yellowed pages suddenly oozed black liquid, forming a winding dragon shape on the table. Zhang Dazhu urgently debugged the sonic defense system, but found that the frequency emitted by the equipment resonated with the interference waves from the northeast, and spider-web-like cracks appeared on the glass curtain wall of the monitoring station.
As night fell, the dragon totem of the new locust tree began to ooze golden juice, outlining a global earth vein map on the surface of the bark. The phoenix totem turned into a red stream of light that shot straight into the sky, resonating strangely with the satellite positioning system. Qi Tongwei led the team to lock on to the signal source and found that the earth vein nodes in the northeast tundra were collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a giant dragon with its spine pulled out.
"We must activate the dragon and phoenix resonance array!" Taoist Xuanqing and Master Mingkong rushed over overnight. When the twelve bronze tripods burned mugwort under the new locust tree, the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totem suddenly peeled off the stone tablet and intertwined into a huge protective shield in the air. But the energy impact from the northeast was too strong, and ripples appeared on the surface of the protective shield, like the surface of a lake in a storm.
At this time, Liang Lu's father, who was far away in the city, suddenly woke up from his sickbed. He trembled and opened the dusty diary. The handwriting on the page in 1998 was automatically reorganized, and a warning emerged: "Under the frozen soil, the pulse of the world is hidden." The old man looked at the neon lights outside the window and suddenly picked up the phone: "Quickly stop the Northeast project! That is the reverse scale of the earth vein..."
But it was too late. A thunderous roar came from the Northeast drilling platform. The moment the core of the earth vein was forcibly mined, the instruments of the global monitoring station exploded at the same time. The new locust tree in Dongjiang Village groaned in pain, the golden juice of the dragon totem turned bloody, and the red light of the phoenix totem turned into a strange blue-gray. Qi Tongwei watched the earth vein connecting Dongjiang Village and the Northeast tundra zone on the holographic map break like a string.
Ecological disasters followed one after another. The docile bell-ringing rice suddenly grew wildly, and the rice ears turned into sharp steel needles; the fluorescence of the night-scented fungus turned into a strange purple, and the hyphae weaved into a huge spell on the ground. Even more terrifying was that the villagers began to hallucinate one after another, and the scene of the Northeast tundra being torn apart kept flashing in front of their eyes, and the shrill roar of dragons echoed in their ears.
Qi Tongwei found a breakthrough in the chaos. He discovered that the ancient farming wisdom recorded in the "Earth Vein Notes" resonated wonderfully with modern quantum mechanics. He led the team to convert the frequency of the dragon and phoenix totems into special quantum entanglement signals and sent them to the sky over Northeast China via satellite. When the first beam of signals arrived, the drill bit of the drilling platform suddenly stopped rotating, and ancient seal patterns emerged on the surface.
But the real turning point comes from people's hearts. After learning the truth, the energy group employees spontaneously organized a strike. They made the collected core samples public, and the dark red dragon-shaped patterns shocked the world. Environmental organizations launched a global petition to stop all underground energy mining. Liang Lu's father also donated all the assets of Tianshu Group to the ecological restoration fund before his death.
Thanks to the efforts of many parties, the cracks in the ground veins of the Northeast tundra have begun to slowly heal. The new locust trees in Dongjiang Village have regained vitality, and the golden juice spit out by the dragon totem has turned into a repair agent and flowed along the ground veins thousands of miles away. When the first spring breeze blows through the bell-ringing rice fields again, the collision of rice ears no longer makes crisp bell sounds, but deep and distant dragon and phoenix calls.
Qi Tongwei drew a picture of the broken and reborn earth in the latest page of "Notes on the Earth's Veins", and the dragon and phoenix totems turned into golden threads to stitch up the cracks.