Chapter 995 Earth Scale
Next to it was written: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, the earth's veins are like strings, if you play a wrong note, heaven and earth will mourn together." The mountain breeze swept through the museum, and the ancient patterns on the dragon and phoenix rubbings flowed again. This time, they were no longer warnings, but poems of rebirth.
Today, the manor has built a global geomagnetic monitoring center. The dragon and phoenix totems on the screen are jumping in real time, guarding every inch of land.
Qi Tongwei placed his palm on the holographic screen, and the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totem flowed along his blood vessels, turning into fine golden lines. Suddenly, the pupils of the dragon totem burst into a dazzling red light, the monitoring network instantly burst into a piercing buzzing sound, and the data streams of hundreds of ground vein nodes simultaneously showed a bloody alarm.
"Arctic permafrost zone!" Liang Lu's voice was trembling. On the satellite cloud map, the emerald green that originally symbolized the stability of the earth's veins was being swallowed by a strange ink color. What was even more terrifying was that the ink color spread along the longitude and latitude lines, like a festering wound on a giant dragon. The little fox's hair stood up, and its tail rolled up the fragments of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". The yellowed paper pages moved without wind and stopped at the record of "The Candle Dragon holds the fire essence to illuminate the gate of heaven".
Thousands of miles away, the real-time images from the Arctic research station are breathtaking. The network of ground veins under the ice is shaking violently, countless ice pillars exploded into sharp dragon teeth, and the black matter gushing out from the ground condensed into a huge dragon-shaped outline. The ground vein energy extractor secretly developed by a certain country is running frantically, and the dark blue liquid flowing in the metal pipe is exactly the same as the scale pattern of the dragon totem in Dongjiang Village.
"They are extracting the 'dragon soul' from the earth veins!" Qi Tongwei dug his nails deep into his palms. He suddenly remembered the prophecy engraved on the bronze tripod dug out from under the old locust tree during the fungus disaster 20 years ago: "The dragon spine is broken, and the world is in chaos." The alarm sounded more and more sharp in the monitoring center. On the holographic screen, the global earth vein network was like a taut string that could break at any time.
The changes first appeared inside the manor. The rice ears in the bell-ringing rice fields suddenly twisted into ferocious dragon claw shapes, and the hyphae of the night-scented fungus wove ancient forbidden runes on the ground. The dragon totem of the new locust tree began to ooze black mucus, and the originally majestic golden lines were corroded into mottled dark red. The sonic defense system that Zhang Dazhu was debugging suddenly went out of control, broadcasting a deafening dragon roar, shattering all the glass in the monitoring center.
"Activate the Dragon and Phoenix Resonance Formation!" Taoist Xuanqing waved his peach wood sword, and twelve soul-soothing talismans turned into streams of light and sank into the new locust tree. Master Mingkong struck the bronze chime, but the distant Buddhist sound was torn to pieces by the roar coming from underground. Qi Tongwei led the villagers to spread the soil mixed with the ashes of the account books of past dynasties in all directions, and suddenly found that the soil automatically arranged into the "Kun Gua" in the "Book of Changes" after it touched the ground.
At the critical moment, Liang Lu found a key clue in the ancient books in the library. The fragments of the Song Dynasty's "Dragon Vein Research" recorded that the North Pole was hidden with "Zhulong Nishu". If it was forcibly mined, it would cause the world to turn upside down. She trembled and unfolded the yellowed silk cloth. The ancient map on it showed that the dragon and phoenix totems of Dongjiang Village were connected to the core of the North Pole through a hidden "dragon vein".
However, the madness of transnational interest groups is beyond imagination. Dozens of icebreakers equipped with the latest technology sailed into the Arctic Circle, and their energy weapons directly bombarded the ground vein nodes. When the first beam of blue light hit the frozen soil, the new locust tree in Dongjiang Village made an earth-shaking roar, and the dragon totem on the trunk completely collapsed. Black sap gushed out and condensed into a huge dragon-shaped shadow in the air.
Qi Tongwei felt the power of the earth veins in his body surge violently, and the patterns of the dragon and phoenix totems burned on his skin. He grabbed the bronze compass handed down from his ancestors and found that the needle broke the rules of physics and pointed to Dongjiang Village and the North Pole at the same time. "It turns out that we are all the strings of the earth veins!" He suddenly realized and led the villagers to follow the guidance of the compass and use the sound wave device to spread the frequency of the dragon and phoenix totems to the world.
The thrilling confrontation lasted for three days and three nights. On the holographic screen of the monitoring center, the golden dragon and phoenix fought fiercely with the black dragon, and every collision triggered a strong geomagnetic storm. When the core of the Arctic earth vein was about to be drained, Qi Tongwei bit his fingertips and dripped blood on the intersection of the dragon and phoenix totems. A miracle happened - all monitoring equipment played the ancient dragon roar at the same time, and the sound traveled through thousands of years and shattered the energy extractor in the Arctic.
At dawn, the inky black of the North Pole gradually faded, and the new locust trees in Dongjiang Village regained vitality. Crystal clear amber grew from the cracks of the dragon totem, sealing the memory of the earth veins' struggle. On the screen of the Global Earth Vein Monitoring Center, the dragon and phoenix totems turned into a golden network, automatically repairing every damaged node.
After the disaster, Qi Tongwei wrote in his Earth Veins Notes: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, the dragon's spine is not made of metal or stone, but the human heart is the universe." The newly built ecological museum displays dragon-shaped ice crystals brought back from the Arctic, which echo the dragon and phoenix totems of Dongjiang Village. People around the world have begun to learn to communicate with the earth veins, using technologies such as sonic planting and quantum repair to repair the rift between humans and nature.
Whenever the mountain wind blows across the dome of the monitoring center, the patterns on the dragon and phoenix rubbings will still flow gently. But this time, they are no longer warning symbols, but stars that guide mankind forward.
This piece of ice crystal brought back from the Arctic is two people tall. The energy of the earth veins sealed inside flows under the light, outlining a lifelike dragon outline, which is far away from the dragon and phoenix totem rubbings of Dongjiang Village on the other side of the exhibition hall. Suddenly, ripples appeared on the surface of the ice crystal, and the pattern of the dragon's tail coincided with the trajectory of the snowflakes falling outside the window.
"Professor Qi! Urgent data has been sent from the European geomagnetic monitoring station!" Intern Lin Xia rushed into the exhibition hall holding a tablet computer. The waveform jumping on the screen showed a strange spiral shape. "The geomagnetic nodes in the Alps are experiencing resonance disorder, just like... like someone is playing an out-of-tune piece of music!" Qi Tongwei's eyes swept across the "geomagnetic resonance meter" in the center of the exhibition hall. This instrument, which combines a sound wave device and a quantum computer, suddenly beeped, and the projection of the dragon and phoenix totem twisted into a warning symbol in the air.
At the same time, the real-time images from the Arctic research station once again touched people's hearts. Researchers captured an amazing scene: under the melting ice shelf, countless blue-glowing earth vein crystals were dormant, shaped like sleeping young dragons. The "Starlink Project" secretly launched by a certain country is trying to activate these crystals with high-frequency electromagnetic waves. When the first energy beam hit the ice, the global geomagnetic monitors exploded at the same time, and the dragon totem of the new locust tree in Dongjiang Village once again oozed golden juice, condensing into ancient seal characters in the air: "Those who go against the scales will be punished by heaven and earth."