On a rainy day, the Chinatown night market was bustling again. Tang Ren was showing off his skills at the goldfish stall, but the paper net kept leaking koi with a metallic sheen. "The scales of this fish are shiny! They must have been injected with nano-beauty needles!" He shouted, holding up the fish tank, and the water reflected the bronze candlesticks at the antique stall opposite.
Su Chen stood in front of the sugar painting stall, the tip of the scalpel dipped in caramel, drawing a pattern on the iron plate. When the third sugar painting was taking shape, he suddenly stopped - the sugar strands spontaneously twisted into a DNA double helix when they cooled down, and some kind of nano-scale vibration was coming from underground.
"Qin...Qin Feng!" Tang Ren suddenly knocked over the goldfish stall, holding up a half-bronze fish talisman, wet, "This thing was getting hot in my pocket just now!" The "Nirvana Mantra" engraved on the surface of the fish talisman was seeping with dark red rust, and it looked like weeping blood under the neon lights of the night market.
As Qin Feng squeezed through the crowd, the radiation detector on his tactical belt suddenly buzzed. He looked in the direction of Tang Ren's finger and saw the antique stall owner packing bronze candlesticks. The shape of the solidified candle tears was strikingly similar to the cross-section of the slag from the laboratory explosion.
"Boss, this candlestick..." Qin Feng just touched the handcuffs when the lantern above his head suddenly exploded. What fell down was not broken glass, but tens of thousands of nanorobots, which gathered into the phantom of the bronze Guanyin in the humid air after the rain.
The night market was in chaos. Su Chen inserted a scalpel into the cracks of the floor tiles, and the electromagnetic pulses from the handle temporarily froze the nanocluster. Tang Ren took the opportunity to overturn the antique stall, revealing the brain-computer interface device hidden in the secret compartment - the display screen was beating with 37 live broadcasts of the death ceremony.
"Family! Light up your red heart and help me become a Buddha!" The host's cry came from the device, and the virtual lotus that the audience appreciated was being transformed into a nanorobot injection. Su Chen's system interface suddenly turned red, and a familiar EEG signature appeared in the host's data stream.
"It's the mentor..." The scalpel trembled in Su Chen's hand, "He is controlling the rebirth process through live broadcast."
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On a full-moon night after the case was closed, the trio squatted on the rooftop of the police station and ate roasted sweet potatoes. Tang Ren used sweet potato peels to set up a Bagua formation, and suddenly pointed to the night sky: "Look! Sister Chang'e is dancing in the square!" The star chain tracks formed by the passing satellites just happened to spell out the new LOGO of the Lin Group.
Qin Feng was slicing sweet potatoes with a tactical dagger, and suddenly he thrust the blade into the crack in the ground: "The ground... the geomagnetic field is abnormal, and the rooftop is slowly rotating." He swung the climbing rope to tie the ventilation pipe, "It rotates once every... every forty-seven minutes, which is the same as the resonance period of the Buddha Temple Matrix."
Su Chen's white coat was lifted by the night wind, revealing the sandalwood knife case at his waist. When he took out the scalpel to calibrate the star position, the moonlight reflected from the blade cast a bronze coordinate on the ground - pointing to the location where the sunken ship was salvaged three months ago.
"Play... play chess?" Qin Feng touched the nano chess he carried with him. When the "king" chess piece fell on the crack of the rooftop, the whole building suddenly shook, and the thirty-seven-story glass curtain wall simultaneously projected the entire "Diamond Sutra", and the Sanskrit strokes were composed of light spots from the drone group.
Tang Ren's sweet potato rolled to the edge of the rooftop and was picked up by a nanorobot before it hit the ground. The tooth marks on the sweet potato skin suddenly seeped out bronze juice, took root and grew into a miniature Bodhi tree, with the floor plan of the laboratory from three years ago embedded in its growth rings.
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On a late autumn afternoon, Su Chen was looking for an old pharmacy in a demolished area. As he passed through a narrow alley full of bronze wind chimes, the sound of the erhu playing "Moon Reflected in Two Springs" came through a carved wooden window. The sound of the erhu refracted on the alley walls, forming a strange sound wave station.
"Frequency 457 Hz," he stopped to record the data, "which matches the activation threshold of the nanorobot." The tip of the scalpel lightly touched the moss on the wall, and the moss suddenly shrank into the Sanskrit word "Hum", permeated with morning dew that smelled of plutonium-238.
The blind old man playing the erhu suddenly pushed the window open: "Young man, do you want to have your fortune told?" Half a biological crystal was stuck between the cracks of the tortoise shell, and the rust marks on the copper coins spelled out the tutor's work number when he was young. When Su Chen reached out to touch it, the bronze wind chimes on the entire wall automatically rang without wind, playing the last surveillance recording before the laboratory exploded.
Tang Ren chewed on a dough twist and bumped into the alley: "I've seen this old man before! He's been here for a month..." As soon as he finished speaking, the erhu sound box suddenly cracked, and nanorobots poured out like incense ashes, gathering on the wooden road to form a wheel of the mantra of rebirth.
Qin Feng followed, the electromagnetic pulse gun was still raised, and the old man disappeared through the window. The lost bow was entangled with quantum optical fiber, and the number plate of the sugar water shop was tied to the end.
When the bells rang on New Year's Eve, the trio squatted on the abandoned terrace. Tang Ren was wrapped in an electromagnetic shielding blanket and eating dumplings. Suddenly, he pointed at the holographic fireworks and shouted, "Look! Boss Lin is making a scissors hand gesture in the fireworks!"
Qin Feng adjusted the focus of the sniper scope, and there was indeed a human figure hidden in the fireworks. When he pulled the trigger, twelve quantum entangled beams shot out from different directions, interweaving into a giant bronze bell in the night sky.
"This... this is full-band interference!" Qin Feng's earphones exploded with piercing Buddhist sounds, "They... they are synchronizing the biological clocks of 300,000 computer users!"
Su Chen stabbed the console with a scalpel, and the system began to track the source of the signal. When the map locked onto the TV screens of every household in Chinatown, the Spring Festival Gala stage suddenly changed—the host's pupils turned bronze, and the congratulatory speech was tampered with into the sound wave code of the "Nirvana Mantra".
Tang Ren took out his spare mobile phone and played "The Most Dazzling National Style", and danced square dance on the distribution box. The magical melody accidentally interfered with the quantum signal, and cracks appeared on the bronze bell. Su Chen took the opportunity to inject a neural virus, and all the accused users sneezed at the same time, and the nano-rust shavings on the snow spelled out the instructor's last letter.
On the snowy night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, the closing meeting was held, and the radiator in the forensic laboratory was sizzling. Tang Ren used a bronze Guanyin statue to cook hot pot, and the nanorobots turned into lotus shapes in the red oil. The report submitted by Qin Feng contained a sugar-painted DNA map, which Kun Tai mistook for a bookmark.
Su Chen stood in front of the window and stared at the snow. Suddenly, the system popped up a new reminder. The eyes of the melting snowman rolled down, revealing a micro-camera. In the lens, the quantum server that should have been destroyed was restarting under the Antarctic ice. The monitoring screen showed that it was three years ago today.