Chapter 1000 Awesome
"So I have to live." Qi Tongwei pulled the corner of his mouth, moving the burn on the side of his neck, "Remember to wash my dinosaur gloves, and I have to wear them next time I do damage." He forced himself to sit up and looked out the window at the blackened ruins of the monitoring station - the new locust tree was still standing, and on the charred trunk, the dragon and phoenix totems were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The explosion shook the entire geo-protection circle. On the dark web forum, the code name "Dinosaur Man" suddenly became popular, and someone edited the surveillance video into a sci-fi short film: a figure in a cartoon raincoat rushed out of the sea of fire holding an energy capsule, and in the energy storm that exploded behind him, the shadows of dragons and phoenixes could be vaguely seen hovering. However, the official news characterized the accident as a "cryogenic equipment failure", and a certain energy group took the opportunity to issue a statement, claiming that it had mastered a safer geo-energy storage technology.
Qi Tongwei launched a new "crazy action" on his hospital bed. He attended the International Energy Summit via video link, wearing a child's firefighter helmet on his head, with a model of the earth vein made of Lego in front of him. "Look! This is my Noah's Ark!" He pressed the dinosaur toy on the model, "Only by locking greed in can the earth vein baby sleep well!" The live broadcast was suddenly cut off, but that night, millions of netizens around the world spontaneously uploaded imitation videos, using various absurd props to interpret "protecting the earth vein."
At the same time, Liang Lu led the team to find amazing clues in the ruins. The fragments of the energy cabin were embedded with microchips, which, after quantum decryption, showed the logo of a certain country's military laboratory. What's more terrifying is that the code remaining in the chip is exactly the same as the hacker attack program that Qi Tongwei had intercepted before - this explosion was not an accident at all, but a precise attack on Dongjiang Village.
When Qi Tongwei returned to the manor with a plaster cast, he was in time for a special welcome ceremony. Children held up homemade dinosaur flags, the sound wave device debugged by Zhang Dazhu played nursery rhymes, and the branches of the new locust tree were hung with notes with blessings. But under the calm surface, undercurrents surged, and bizarre accidents occurred one after another at the reconstruction site of the monitoring station: the excavator inexplicably stalled, ancient runes appeared on the surface of building materials, and some workers even claimed to have seen dragons and phoenixes circling in the twilight.
The crisis broke out on the night of the autumnal equinox. Twelve military trucks broke through the cordon of the manor, and the red dots of the infrared sights jumped on Qi Tongwei's cartoon pajamas. He took out the bubble machine from his pocket calmly, and the colorful bubbles floated towards the convoy with the wind, but condensed into ice crystals the moment they touched the vehicles. "Don't touch my dinosaur eggs!" He suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, and his voice spread throughout the valley through the modified sonic amplifier.
A dull roar came from the ground, and the roots of the new locust tree broke through the ground and entangled the military truck. Qi Tongwei took the opportunity to activate the quantum resonance device buried in the ground vein node. The frequency of the dragon and phoenix totem resonated with the underground energy, and the whole mountain began to tremble. The military commander looked at the data jumping wildly on the dashboard and was horrified to find that all electronic devices were playing the same picture: Qi Tongwei was wearing dinosaur gloves and making a "hush" gesture to the camera.
The confrontation ended in a bizarre way. When the first rays of morning light pierced through the clouds, the military vehicles retreated without a fight, and the locust tree roots wrapped around the tires loosened automatically. Qi Tongwei found half a burnt dinosaur glove in the ruins, and the damaged part revealed a hidden micro recorder - which contained evidence that could subvert the world.
In today's ecological museum, the wreckage of the explosion has been made into a warning exhibit. Next to the broken energy capsule, Qi Tongwei's cartoon raincoat and dinosaur gloves are displayed, and the display board reads: "The most absurd resistance often hides the most sober persistence." Every late night, the astronomical telescope of the monitoring station is still aimed at the North Star, and the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totem penetrate the repaired lens, outlining the trajectory of protection in the starry sky.
Qi Tongwei's "Notes on Earth's Veins" has a new gold-plated title page, on which a knight wearing a dinosaur helmet swings his sword to cut off the black chains wrapped around the earth. The note next to it is stained with blood: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, and protection is never a fairy tale. When the sharp teeth of capital tear open the skin of the earth, there will always be someone who wears absurd armor and guards the last bottom line of civilization under the appearance of madness."
The mountain wind once again swept across the dome of the rebuilt monitoring center, and Qi Tongwei stroked the new bark of the new locust tree. The dragon and phoenix totems that were damaged in the explosion have now grown into more resilient lines, like an epic written by the earth.
Liang Lu was debugging the latest bioelectric monitor. When the electrode patch was attached to his back, the shadow of the new locust tree suddenly appeared on his white coat - this was a quantum afterimage caused by the overly strong resonance of the earth veins.
"The MRI shows that there is an abnormal magnetic field in your skull." Liang Lu projected the image onto the wall. The area of the brain that should have been blank was now dotted with dark patterns similar to dragon and phoenix totems. "It's like... the energy of the earth veins has left a mark in your brain." Qi Tongwei smiled and pulled the corner of his mouth, pulling the gauze on his neck: "Maybe this is a medal given to me by God." Before he finished speaking, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded at the monitoring station outside the window. On the holographic map, the earth vein nodes in the Sahara Desert in Africa were twisting in a spiral shape.
In the laboratory late at night, Qi Tongwei wore a special anti-radiation helmet, with Baopuzi and quantum physics textbooks in front of him. He used tweezers to pick up a meteorite fragment stained with earth vein energy. The pattern on the surface of the fragment coincided with the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes. When the laser microscope was magnified to the nanometer level, an amazing scene appeared: the molecular arrangement inside the meteorite actually formed a complete dragon and phoenix totem. What was even more incredible was that these molecular structures were still carrying out activities similar to biological metabolism.
"This is not just pure matter at all." Qi Tongwei muttered to himself into the recorder, "It's some kind of... existence between energy and consciousness." He remembered the totem that emerged on his skin when the energy capsule went berserk on the day of the explosion. The feeling of resonating with the earth's veins was like thousands of years of memories suddenly flooding into his mind - the Cambrian oceans, the Cretaceous forests, the Bronze Age sacrifices, all the scenes were accompanied by the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totems.
At the same time, in a luxury hotel suite in Dubai, energy giants were holding a secret meeting. The holographic projection was playing a video of Qi Tongwei "going crazy", but it was suddenly paused by a senior executive. "Pay attention to his eyes." The man pointed at the screen with a laser pen, "Every time he said key information, his pupils would flash with golden light. This is not the look of a madman at all." They didn't know that at this moment Qi Tongwei was at a monitoring station thousands of miles away, connecting his brain waves with the electronic equipment in these conference rooms through quantum entanglement technology, and every word he said was secretly transmitting the ground vein warning signal.