Chapter 1001 Repairing the Scene
Archaeologists made an amazing discovery at the restoration site of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Under the murals of a certain Tang Dynasty cave, there are even older rock paintings hidden. In the paintings, the ancestors performed sacrifices around the dragon and phoenix totems. The lines under the altar completely match the network of the earth veins in Dongjiang Village. When the restoration fluid came into contact with the rock paintings, the dragon and phoenix on the murals suddenly "came to life", casting huge light and shadows in the cave. At this time, Qi Tongwei was experiencing a severe headache at the monitoring station - the same picture was flashing wildly in his brain.
"This is the resonance of the earth's memory." The voice of Master Mingkong came from the video link, and the old monk turned the thousand-year-old Buddhist beads in his hands. "The Avatamsaka Sutra says, 'One is everything, everything is one.' When humans touch the core of the earth's veins, they will connect the cause and effect of the entire space and time." Qi Tongwei looked at the new locust tree outside the window, and suddenly understood why every time he came into contact with the earth's energy, he would see scenes from different eras - those were not illusions, but the memories of civilization buried deep in the earth's veins.
As the research deepened, more bizarre phenomena occurred one after another. The mycelium of the night-scented mushroom cultivated by Qi Tongwei in the laboratory automatically arranged into the Luoshu Nine Palaces Diagram; the quantum computer at the monitoring station suddenly generated Sanskrit verses when processing the data of the earth veins; even the steam from the Chinese medicine he took daily condensed into ancient runes in the air when boiling the medicine. Liang Lu's team tried to explain it with modern science, but found that all theories seemed pale and powerless at this moment.
During an expedition to the Arctic, Qi Tongwei discovered a well-preserved mammoth carcass under the ice. When he used an instrument to test it, the device suddenly automatically played the chanting of humans in ancient times. Even more shocking was that the blood vessel patterns under the mammoth's skin were exactly the same as the scales of the dragon totem in Dongjiang Village. At that moment, he seemed to hear the earth veins whispering: All life is a poem written by the earth.
However, these discoveries also brought about a greater crisis. A certain country secretly launched the "Prometheus Project", attempting to extract the ancient consciousness in the earth veins to create super weapons beyond human cognition. They sent elite troops to raid Dongjiang Village, but encountered a strange phenomenon when approaching the monitoring station: the soldiers' weapons automatically turned around, and painful expressions appeared on their bodies, as if they were being judged by some invisible force.
Qi Tongwei stood under the new locust tree, watching the soldiers flee. His eyes fell on the newly formed dragon and phoenix totems on the bark, the lines gleaming golden in the moonlight. Suddenly, he felt a strong energy surge into his body, and countless images emerged in his mind: ancient sages comprehending the great way between heaven and earth, modern scientists exploring the truth in the laboratory, all the images finally converged into one voice: "Science and metaphysics are originally from the same source."
Today, the Ecological Museum has opened a special exhibition area called "Xuanhuang Zhizheng". Qi Tongwei's experimental notes are displayed in the display cabinets. On the yellowed pages, quantum physics formulas and annotations of the Tao Te Ching are intertwined; meteorite slices under a microscope are displayed side by side with replicas of thousand-year-old rock paintings; and there is also a video recording the blood vessel patterns of mammoths, which is played in a loop to show the wonderful connection between life and earth veins.
The latest volume of Qi Tongwei's "Notes on Earth Veins" has a golden dragon and phoenix totem printed on the cover. On the title page, he wrote in cinnabar: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, and the three feet above your head are not gods, but the echo of cause and effect over billions of years. When the probe of science touches the folds of the universe, metaphysics is no longer a mist, but another language of truth."
The mountain breeze swept across the dome of the monitoring station again, and the dragon and phoenix totems in the astronomical telescope merged with the starry sky. Qi Tongwei stroked the new locust tree, feeling the energy flowing under the bark.
The patterns of dragon and phoenix totems appeared on his skin, winding like liquid metal, and the alarm of the monitoring station tore through the night sky. On the holographic map, the global earth vein network was being eaten away by black cracks at a speed visible to the naked eye. From the Amazon rainforest to the Mariana Trench, the green light spots that symbolized the pulse of life went out one after another, turning into a strange purple.
"It's quantum entanglement contamination!" Liang Lu's voice was trembling like never before. She threw the test report on the operating table. "Someone has transformed the ground vein nodes into signal amplifiers. All energy waves that try to repair them will be distorted into weapons!" On the screen, a certain country's newly launched satellite array is forming a huge grid in orbit. Its trajectory is surprisingly consistent with the "Zhou Tian Xing Dou Array" recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
When the first wave of purple energy swept through Dongjiang Village, Qi Tongwei was in the "Xuanhuang Zhizheng" exhibition area of the museum. The meteorite slices on display suddenly floated up and collided with each other, making a sound like chimes. He looked up at the starry sky projected on the dome. The moment the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totems overlapped with the satellite grid, black mucus oozed from the surface of all the exhibits, and merged into a line of ancient seal characters on the ground: "Heaven and earth are against the inn, and the disaster cannot be escaped."
The multinational energy group's actions were faster than expected. Under the banner of "purifying the earth veins", they blocked the sky above the manor with a group of drones equipped with high-frequency sonic weapons. As soon as the defense system controlled by Zhang Dazhu was activated, smoke came out of the equipment, and the surveillance footage was replaced with a collection of Qi Tongwei "going crazy" - only this time, the cartoon dinosaur in the video had real blood in its eyes.
"They have cracked the resonant frequency of the earth veins!" The little fox's hair stood on end, and the runes on the tip of its tail flickered wildly, "These people want to transform the earth into a huge energy battery!" Before he finished speaking, the new locust tree suddenly made a mournful roar, and the newly formed dragon and phoenix totems on the trunk began to peel off, turning into golden fragments floating in the air, piecing together the full picture of the earth vein network that was about to be destroyed.
Qi Tongwei made a surprising decision in the chaos. He put on the patched cartoon raincoat, carried cinnabar mixed with night-scented fungus spores in his arms, and climbed up the observation tower alone. When the laser cannon of the drone group aimed at him, he scattered cinnabar into the air, and the night-scented fungus spores collided with the purple energy, condensing into a giant "Book of Changes" hexagram in the air. "Qian Gua Chu Jiu, the latent dragon is not used!" His roar mixed with the roar of the sound wave device shattered the lenses of half of the drones.
In the underground laboratory, Liang Lu led the team to make a key discovery. The frequency of the quantum signals that polluted the earth veins perfectly matched the fear band in the collective subconscious of human beings. "They are creating panic!" She overlapped the EEG monitoring chart with the earth vein waveform, "When enough people fall into anxiety, the earth veins will collapse like a resonating string!"
The crisis reached its peak on the night of the winter solstice. The core of the Arctic Circle's earth veins was forcibly activated, and the resulting geomagnetic storm plunged the world into darkness for three days and three nights.