Chapter 1007 Break
However, the peaceful life is always broken by accidents. One morning, the alarm of the monitoring station tore through the silence of the snowfield. On the holographic map, the ground vein nodes of a primitive rainforest in Southeast Asia are turning black at a speed visible to the naked eye. The culprit is actually a newly built sugar factory of a multinational group. They are under the banner of "inheriting the ancient method", but in fact they use chemical additives to mass-produce counterfeit "ground vein sugar", and the discharged sewage is corroding the ancient ground vein meridians.
"We must face the battle head-on this time." Liang Lu pushed her reading glasses and threw the test report on the conference table. "The industrial fragrance they used contains quantum entanglement agents that can interfere with the frequency of the earth veins." Zhang Dazhu called up the satellite imagery. The swarm of drones hovering over the factory were spraying some kind of purple mist onto the ground, exactly the same as the pollution caused by the explosion of the energy cabin many years ago.
Qi Tongwei did not act immediately. He took Xingye on a journey to find his roots. The grandfather and grandson carried bamboo baskets full of night-scented mushroom candy and walked along the remains of the Silk Road. In the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Xingye held a piece of candy close to the mural, and a miracle happened - the sleeves of the flying fairy on the mural suddenly glowed, forming a wonderful resonance with the fluorescence of the candy; on the Pamir Plateau, when they shared candy with nomadic Kirgiz children, the old man's wrinkled hands suddenly trembled, and he took out the ancestral dragon and phoenix silver ornaments from his sheepskin coat, which perfectly matched the pattern on the candy.
On the way back, Hoshino drew strange graffiti in his diary: Ultraman in dinosaur armor was fighting against a purple monster with a lightsaber made of night-scented mushroom candy. Qi Tongwei looked at the child's immature drawings and suddenly had an idea. He urgently called a team together to incorporate the sound wave frequency in children's animations into the sugar-making process and developed "guardian candy" that can release specific energy waves.
The decisive battle came on a rainy night. When the enemy's drone swarm approached Dongjiang Village, Qi Tongwei led the villagers to lay out the newly developed sugar blocks into a huge dragon and phoenix formation. As the ancient melody of "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" sounded, the sugar blocks burst into brilliant light, and the electronic system of the drone was instantly paralyzed. The crashed machine smashed a deep pit on the ground, but it startled a group of sleeping fireflies. The fluorescence of their wings and the sugar blocks complemented each other, weaving a protective light network.
After this victory, "The Taste of the Earth" launched a children's charity series - for every box of "Little Guardian" candy sold, a poplar tree will be planted in the desert. The packaging box is printed with Hoshino's graffiti, with Ultraman wearing dinosaur armor holding up a night-scented mushroom candy, and the background is a golden dragon and phoenix totem. The product manual reads: "The real superhero is the one who is willing to listen to the heartbeat of the earth."
One summer night, Qi Tongwei took Xingye to the dome of the monitoring station. The lens of the astronomical telescope was aimed at the Big Dipper, and the light and shadow of the dragon and phoenix totem flowed in the starry sky. The child suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed: "Grandpa, look! The stars in the candy cube have run into the sky!" Qi Tongwei looked in the direction of his finger, and a meteor streaked across the night sky, and the trail it left was surprisingly similar to the lines of the earth vein network.
He opened the latest version of "Notes on Earth Veins" and wrote on the title page: "The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless, and the footprints of the stars and frost ask about the vicissitudes of life. The true meaning of protection is hidden in the eyes of children looking up at the stars, in the smoke of boiling sugar in the traditional way, and in the persistence of fighting greed with gentleness every time."
Seven-year-old Hoshino suddenly covered his eyes and screamed: "Grandpa! The stars in the candy are bleeding!" The holographic map of the laboratory exploded, and the light spots of the global geomagnetic network were strangely twisted into hideous ghost faces.
The moment the alarm sounded tore through the night sky, Qi Tongwei protected his grandson behind him. The explosion-proof door of the monitoring station burst open, and purple mist rolled in, condensing into countless strange faces with green faces and fangs. The bronze phoenix flute on his waist flew out automatically, and the patterns on the flute and the night-scented mushroom candy burst out with strong light at the same time, burning the approaching evil mist into powder. "Take Xingye to the cellar!" He shouted to Liang Lu who came over, but he was sucked into the mist by a dark purple lightning.
When Qi Tongwei opened his eyes again, he found himself in an upside-down sugar factory purgatory. The giant sugar pot was boiling with black mucus, and what was wriggling in the pipes was not syrup, but scaly tentacles. The fake sugar cubes suspended in the air cracked their scarlet eyes and pieced together the face of a CEO of a multinational group: "Qi Tongwei, your earth vein magic is ultimately no match for the abyss of capital!" Before he finished speaking, thousands of tentacles lashed at him like steel whips, but the moment they touched the corners of his clothes, they were frozen into ice crystals by the night-scented mushroom frost.
"So you tampered with the frequency of the earth veins in order to summon these evil spirits." Qi Tongwei sneered and took out a special "demon-suppressing candy" from his arms. This candy is mixed with Longhu Mountain cinnabar and Tianshan snow lotus, and the surface is engraved with scriptures from the "Tao Te Ching". When the candy is thrown into the boiling black pot, the whole space shakes violently, and the candy-making equipment is twisted into the shape of an ancient beast, opening its bloody mouth and rushing towards him.
At the critical moment, the shadow of the new locust tree penetrated the space. Qi Tongwei leaped onto the treetops, and the phoenix flute played a variation of "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and the notes turned into golden chains to entangle the beast. The ground suddenly cracked, revealing the core of the earth vein deep underground - there were countless black energy conduits inserted there, extracting the essence of the earth vein and transforming it into evil mist. "So you are absorbing the essence of the earth!" He shouted angrily, and the candy in his hand burst into a strong light and went upstream along the conduit.
In the real world, Dongjiang Village is in an unprecedented crisis. The ground pollution caused by counterfeit candy has caused the villagers to fall into collective hallucination. Zhang Dazhu raised his sonic weapon to fight the transparent monster, but found that after the bullet passed through the monster's body, it condensed into a curse rune in the air. Xingye held the night-scented mushroom candy given by his grandfather, trembling as he stuffed the candy into the monster's mouth, and a miracle happened - the monster cried like a child, turned into a light spot and dissipated.
Qi Tongwei's battle in the core of the earth veins became fierce. When he destroyed the last conduit, the entire space began to collapse. At the critical moment, he poured all his energy into the phoenix flute and played a melody like the creation of the world. The golden energy of the core of the earth veins merged with the fluorescence of the night-scented fungus sugar to form a huge dragon and phoenix barrier, sucking all the demons into it. With a clear phoenix cry, the evil spirits were purified into dots of starlight, floating in the Milky Way.
Qi Tongwei returned to reality with bruises all over his body, but his eyes became more determined. He led his team to establish "Xuantang Monitoring Stations" around the world, using special sugar cubes as ground vein sensors. These sugar cubes can not only detect pollution, but also automatically release purification energy in times of crisis. Children became the most capable assistants. The dragon and phoenix graffiti they drew were printed on the candy boxes, and each painting contained a special magic spell.
Three years later at the international summit, Qi Tongwei brought Xingye to the podium.