When Tang Ren put the electronic compass into the fortune-telling box, Su Chen was staring at the strange pixel snow on the lantern of Kaminarimon. The LED screen that was supposed to play the tourism advertisement suddenly flashed "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, and the wave crest broke into countless Bitcoin symbols.
"The Xun position generates wind, Xun your mother!" Tang Ren kicked the vending machine three times. Two minutes ago, he used the Feng Shui compass to locate the evil spirit, but the Pokémon Power Water Terry spit out by the machine was soaked in half of a fragment of a Ukiyo-e painting - the hairpin of the geisha in the painting was exactly the Tang Dynasty step-shake that was stolen from the British Museum.
Qin Feng suddenly pressed the coin-operated button on the vending machine. His fingertips were stained with the fluorescent paint that he had just scraped off the back of the fragment, and in the sunlight, a QR code pattern appeared: "This is... ordinary print."
Su Chen's system suddenly buzzed. In the retinal projection, the wave pattern on the geisha's belt was reorganized in the Fibonacci sequence, and finally spelled out the three-dimensional coordinates of a certain encrypted building in Shibuya. Before he could open his mouth, Tang Ren had already climbed over the guardrail with the fortune-telling rope: "Follow me! This fortune-telling says that I will be in trouble with peach blossoms today!"
When the trio squeezed into the tourist rickshaw, a miniature projector fell out of the driver's kimono belt. The huge waves of Katsushika Hokusai suddenly exploded over Sensoji Temple, and the tourists' mobile phones, drenched by the virtual waves, received an NFT auction invitation letter at the same time - a dark web transaction of Tang Sancai fragments as admission tickets.
"Li fire overcomes metal, watch me use fire to break the evil spell!" Tang Ren lit the talisman and threw it at the driver, but it ignited the power bank in Su Chen's backpack. In the thick smoke of the explosion, Qin Feng caught a glimpse of the snake tattoo on the driver's neck, which was exactly the same as the one in his father's photo.
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When Tang Ren broke into the gigolo club wearing night vision sunglasses, Su Chen was systematically analyzing the sound wave frequency of the geisha's hairpin. The holographic courtesan behind the bar suddenly opened her eyes, and the swaying steps between her hair buns emitted infrasound waves, and the neon signs on the entire street began to play CRIMASTER challenges.
"This, this is a cognitive virus controlled by brain waves." Qin Feng cut the optical fiber cable in the store, and the image of the courtesan was instantly distorted into a snow girl. Tang Ren took the opportunity to splash sake on the server, and drunkenly made a Tai Chi starter: "Kanshui... Run it down!"
The moment the liquid seeped into the chassis, Su Chen captured an abnormal electromagnetic pulse. After forcibly entering the system, he found something even more terrifying in the underlying code of the Oiran - the brain waves of tens of thousands of tourists were being siphoned into a virtual Yoshiwara, and their consciousness was trapped in the eternal Edo period.
"Madder than the Q organization... They want to turn living people into digital symbols!" Su Chen had just issued a warning when Tang Ren was suddenly overwhelmed by the prizes spit out by the pinball machine. Hundreds of steel balls rolled to the ground and automatically formed an AR mark of the intersection in front of Shibuya Station.
Qin Feng picked up the steel ball with the lip print and saw the micro-engraved message for help under the ultraviolet light: "Save the real Ukiyo-e artist". The watermark at the signature was actually a variation of the origami butterfly that Sinuo left in London.
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While Tang Ren blocked the vent with takoyaki, Su Chen was using the tip of a hairpin to crack the capsule hotel's quantum lock. In cabin 304, where the luggage was to be stored, curled up the unconscious Ukiyoe restorer Saotome Suzu - in the brush she held in her hand was half a bloody Bitcoin mining chip.
"Qian three links, Kun six breaks... There's something wrong with the layout of this row of capsules!" Tang Ren took out the Five Emperors Coin and threw it into the air. Before the coin hit the ground, the entire capsule wall suddenly flipped into a Mobius ring structure, trapping the three people in an infinitely looping corridor.
Qin Feng suddenly pressed the icy beer against the wall. The pattern drawn by the condensed water turned out to be the missing boatman's outline in "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". Su Chen's system scanned the water marks and found that it contained military-level topological encryption - it could only be cracked by using Utagawa Hiroshige's "The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" as a decoding template.
"Saotome-san's eyelashes are trembling... She's pretending to sleep!" Qin Feng suddenly shouted. As if to prove his words, the whole hotel suddenly rang with the shamisen version of "Ode to Joy", and all the capsules began to reorganize like Tetris.
Tang Ren grabbed the fire hose in the violent shaking: "The wind and thunder are moving in the Xun position! Let's go!" The moment he kicked open the ceiling, the three of them fell into the hidden machine room below - two hundred mining machines were mining data, and the heat was baking the original woodcut of Katsushika Hokusai in the center.
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When Tang Renju rushed into the Shibuya holographic advertising screen with "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji", the "Puwang Tune" that rang simultaneously on 50,000 passers-by's mobile phones suddenly changed its tone. The system interface on Su Chen's retina began to collapse, and he was shocked to realize that the so-called "Ukiyo-e Killer" was a dimensional trap - every stolen print was a topological door to the dark web.
"Kunwei load! Calm it down for me!" Tang Ren attached the electronic compass to the base of the Hachiko statue. Qin Feng took the opportunity to hack into the traffic control system, and the traffic lights suddenly displayed the CRIMASTER challenge. The self-driving cars crashed because they couldn't solve the problem and collectively abandoned their anchors.
In the chaos, the real killer trick emerged from underground. Saotome Suzu half emerged from the ukiyo-e poster on the subway station pillar, and the mining chip in her hand began to release electromagnetic pulses: "Mr. Qin, the cognitive virus program that your father participated in writing back then should now be upgraded to version 6.0. "
Su Chen suddenly inserted the hairpin into the surface of his mobile phone. The brainwave spectrum reverse-engineered by the system formed a huge projection of a geisha in the sky - that was exactly the appearance of Qin Feng's mother when she was young. Saotome Ling screamed inhumanly, and the crystal was burned to charcoal in the overload.
"The game..." Qin Feng supported the dizzy Su Chen, "It just started."
Tang Ren took out three cans of beer from the vending machine: "Start, you pineapple bun! Didn't you see the police coming!" He pointed at the flashing police lights in the distance, but secretly tucked the Ukiyo-e master copy he had taken from the computer room on his lower back.
The night wind rolled up the flyer in front of the convenience store, on which was printed the slogan of the auction tomorrow: "Katsushika Hokusai Gen Cosmic Gallery Grand Opening". The folds on the edge of the flyer were exactly the same as the origami technique of the birthday card Qin Feng received ten years ago.