Chapter 998 Relationship
When Liang Lu rushed over with the medicine box, she saw Qi Tongwei pouring a whole box of sedatives into the flowerpot. "Old Qi, it's time to take your medicine." She handed over the warm water and glanced at the torn invitation letters on the ground. Qi Tongwei suddenly made a face, holding the pills in his mouth and said vaguely: "They want to make NFTs out of the dragon and phoenix totems and sell them for money. They are simply tattooing the earth veins!" Before he finished speaking, the alarm at the monitoring station suddenly sounded, and the earth vein nodes in the North American shale gas mining area began to vibrate violently.
This crazy and stupid drama started three months ago. A scientific research team from a superpower claimed to have developed "non-destructive extraction technology of earth vein energy", but in fact, they used nanorobots to forcibly cut the earth vein meridians. When they entered the manor with the gold-plated cooperation agreement, Qi Tongwei suddenly performed a funny mechanical dance at the reception, rolling the agreement into a paper tube as a telescope: "I see your ambition, which is darker than a black hole!"
After the news spread, the global public opinion field was in uproar. Conspiracy theorists claimed that Qi Tongwei had a mental breakdown, and the capital group took the opportunity to launch the concept stock of "scientific development of earth veins". Only Liang Lu understood that her husband was using an antique abacus in the dark room of the monitoring station to calculate the correspondence between quantum entanglement and the changes of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes. The backs of those deliberately painted drawings were densely recorded with countermeasures.
On the eve of the winter solstice, a snowstorm blocked the winding mountain road. Qi Tongwei squatted in the computer room wrapped in a quilt, his fingertips rapidly tapping on the old keyboard. He deliberately switched the system interface to children's mode, and the jumping dinosaur pattern on the screen covered the complex firewall program. When hackers from a multinational energy company tried to hack into the earth vein database, they received a looping nursery rhyme "Two Tigers" with a pop-up window saying: "People who dig the earth veins have no tails!"
"How long are you going to act?" Liang Lu found her husband curled up in a swivel chair pretending to sleep in the monitoring room. On the screen, the network of ground veins under the Antarctic ice sheet was being eaten away by some unknown energy, while the international media was reporting the gossip that "Qi Tongwei was diagnosed with paranoia." Qi Tongwei suddenly turned over and sat up, with a sharp light flashing in his eyes: "When they think I'm crazy, I will show my real fangs."
The turning point came on the day of Jingzhe. The holographic projection of the Ecological Museum suddenly broke down, and all visitors' devices automatically played an encrypted video: In a laboratory, researchers injected earth vein energy into the human body, and the subjects' skin gradually grew a dragon-scale-like stratum corneum. In the lower right corner of the screen, the pattern of the dragon and phoenix totem was growing at a strange speed. In the chaos, Qi Tongwei secretly inserted the USB flash drive into the server, which contained the earth vein gene map that he had cracked for half a year.
As the truth was exposed, demonstrations broke out in many places around the world. When angry crowds surrounded the energy company's headquarters, Qi Tongwei was feeding chickens in his manor in cartoon pajamas. When the reporter held up a microphone to ask him his opinion, he suddenly took out a toy water gun from his arms: "Look! This is my dragon-slaying gun!" Off camera, Liang Lu received an anonymous email with an attachment containing a recording of a meeting of a certain country's top leaders on "clearing the earth vein guardians."
In the middle of the night when it was pouring rain, three black SUVs broke through the cordon of the manor. Qi Tongwei deliberately locked himself in a cultivation room full of night-scented mushrooms and painted exaggerated smiley faces on his protective suit with fluorescent paint. When the armed personnel kicked open the door, they were greeted by deafening square dance music, and dozens of automatic sprinklers sprayed special bacterial liquid at the intruders. When the liquid came into contact with the skin, it actually showed ancient forbidden runes.
The farce ended with the news that a well-known scientist suddenly suffered from hysteria and injured someone. However, during the fermentation of the incident, an anonymous account published hundreds of GB of confidential documents on the dark web, revealing in detail the interest chain behind the development of the earth vein. When the public discovered that politicians from many countries held shares in related companies, the alarm of the stock market crash and the beeping of the earth vein monitoring station intertwined into a doomsday symphony.
At the monitoring center today, Qi Tongwei still maintains his "crazy" personality. He would use plasticine to mold a geocentric model at an academic seminar, and would suddenly shout into the air: "The dragon says it has a toothache!" But every night, he would conduct quantum encrypted communications with guardians around the world in the tree hole secret room of the new locust tree. In those "Geometrium Notes" that he deliberately wrote crookedly, there are strategic deployments that only his peers can decipher.
On the day of the spring equinox, the mountain wind brought news from Siberia: a mysterious explosion occurred in a secret laboratory. The surveillance footage showed that the dragon-shaped patterns growing on the body of the experimental subject formed the word "Stop" before the explosion. Qi Tongwei looked out the window at the ringing rice fields, and the bronze wind chimes hanging between the rice ears suddenly played an ancient tune. He took out a children's notebook and wrote on the graffiti-filled page: "Pretending to be crazy is the sharpest shield, and being sober is the heaviest shackle. When the world is dancing a crazy dance, perhaps pretending to be deaf and dumb is the greatest loyalty to the truth."
As dusk deepened, the dragon and phoenix totems in the astronomical telescope still circulated in the starry sky. Qi Tongwei, wearing cartoon dinosaur gloves, poured the newly developed earth vein repair bacteria liquid into the stream.
The bacterial liquid spread along the winding river channel. Wherever it went, the polluted water plants grew again, and the black silt deposited on the riverbed began to bubble up, turning into wisps of green smoke that dissipated into the twilight. In the distance, the bell-ringing rice fields swayed in the wind, and the ancient tunes played by the bronze wind chimes intertwined with the gurgling stream, as if an ancient requiem was being played between heaven and earth.
The world is now in the center of a hidden storm. On the surface, politicians from various countries talk about sustainable development at international summits, and the media compete to report the latest environmental technology breakthroughs; behind the scenes, capital groups are secretly manipulating the earth's vein resources, treating the ancient earth vein network as a giant battery to be developed. And Qi Tongwei's "madness" is like a stone thrown into this muddy water, causing a storm under the seemingly calm lake.
In a luxurious conference room on Wall Street in New York, energy giants sat in front of a huge holographic projection, with the ground vein monitoring data of Dongjiang Village flashing on the screen. "That madman Qi Tongwei must be dealt with in a way." A white-haired CEO tapped the table, his eyes flashing with greed, "His existence is the biggest obstacle to our development of ground vein energy." However, just as they were plotting, the lights in the conference room suddenly flickered, and a cartoon dinosaur suddenly appeared in the holographic projection, playing "Two Tigers" with its teeth and claws bared. Everyone was stunned, but they didn't know that this was Qi Tongwei's silent warning.
At the same time, deep in the Sahara Desert in Africa, a country's secret ground mining base is operating intensively. A giant drill goes deep into the ground, trying to extract ground energy.