When Tang Ren buried the electronic compass in the boiling sand, the Mingsha Mountain was being cut into pieces by some indescribable force. Su Chen stared at the surface of Crescent Moon Lake, which had suddenly become still. The ripples that were supposed to flow westward were now rotating counterclockwise, forming countless miniature Mobius rings.
"The world is turning upside down!" Tang Ren's scream startled the Camel Team. He had just used the compass to measure the direction of "Big 꿸" when a sharp hammering sound came from the back of the sand dune. Qin Feng leaned over and grabbed a handful of quicksand. The quartz particles flashed a strange binary luster between his fingers.
As the 꺘 team climbed over the sand dunes in the dark, they saw five thief holes that looked like teeth marks left by 꾫 beasts. Sandalwood-scented electronic smoke wafted out of the cave, and the wall of the cave was engraved with the new totem of the Q organization - a flying fairy holding a quantum computer, and the pipa strings turned into optical fiber cables.
"This, this is the server model that was seized by Interpol 2 years ago..." Qin Feng's fingers brushed over the incision, and the sandstone suddenly fell off, revealing the Tang Dynasty murals inside. The flying eyes of the bouncing pipa suddenly turned, and Su Chen's retinal projection was instantly submerged by the ancient Sanskrit data stream.
Tang Ren suddenly took out the origami spider he had taken from Shibuya and threw it towards the mural. As soon as the paper spider touched the flying dragon, the entire cave suddenly experienced quantum tunneling - they clearly saw the painter in 848 AD depicting their own figure breaking in.
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When Tang Ren used a peach wood sword to pry open the iron door of the replica of the Sutra Cave, thousands of digitized scriptures were suspended in the air and automatically turning pages. Su Chen noticed that the "Thus I have heard" in each volume of the Diamond Sutra was oozing out pixel-like blood beads, which condensed into blockchain addresses after falling to the ground.
"Li Kejin, watch me use technology to exorcise evil!" Tang Ren snatched Su Chen's power bank and smashed it into the console. The exploding star ignited the phosphorus powder in the air, revealing a hidden hologram of the reincarnation of the Dao - the cursor of the animal realm was flashing wildly, corresponding to the Dunhuang genetic laboratory in reality.
Qin Feng suddenly used his trekking pole to pierce the virtual hungry ghost path. In the torn code cracks, Saotome Suzu's 꿂-style voice mixed with the Cantonese opera singing style from twelve years ago: "Mr. Qin, the brain wave spectrum that your mother left behind in Mogao Grottoes should now sprout."
Su Chen suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. The system warned him that he had been implanted with a nano-level locator a few minutes ago, and the source of the signal was actually the flying gold foil in the mural. He pulled open his collar, and the metal worms crawling under his skin were engraving the longitude and latitude coordinates in Xixia.
"Borrow the wind from Xun!" Tang Ren threw the Five Emperors' coins into the vent. The copper coins were rolled into a DNA spiral by the airflow, accidentally triggering the secret door of the cave. In the ice cellar behind the door, there were two old-fashioned CRT TVs, each of which was playing a Dunhuang documentary of the same era - and in the picture of 1987, the figure of Qin Feng's mother was doing spectral analysis on the mural.
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As Tang Ren used a mutton skewer to crack the solar beacon, a quantum sandstorm suddenly blew up in the Gobi Beach. The Yadan landforms that should have moved with the wind were reorganized like a movie played in reverse, and Su Chen's system detected an abnormality in the curvature of local space-time - the atoms in some sandstones were older than the dinosaur era.
"This, this is the phenomenon of entropy reduction!" Qin Feng grabbed the lizard that was getting younger. The lizard suddenly broke free, and a fiber-like nerve bundle was exposed at the end of its tail. The crawling track left a Klein bottle topography on the sand.
The 꺘 team chased the quantum lizard into the abandoned fortress and ran into eight servers that were training AI with "The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions". The screen suddenly lit up red, and the virtual Xuanzang walked out of the data stream, pointing the tin staff in his hand at Tang Ren: "Donor, you stole the space-time anchor of Dunhuang."
Tang Ren was so scared that he stuffed the electronic compass into his crotch: "I'm going to stab you! It's obviously you, a bald ass, who is doing quantum fraud!"
Su Chen suddenly fell to his knees. His system was being forcibly connected to a huge historical correction program, and his retina flashed back and forth to Dunhuang in the same timeline - in 1944, Chang Shuhong's restoration team was mixed with members of the Q organization, and tourists in 2124 were using a brain-computer interface to imitate the mutated murals.
"Found it..." Qin Feng wiped the saltpeter off the wall of the fort, revealing the differential equation written by his mother in ochre. The Σ symbol at the end of the formula was bleeding real blood, resonating with the brain wave spectrum left by Saotome Suzu in Tokyo.
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When Tang Ren tied the electronic compass to the camel's back, the stubborn creature was circling clockwise along the ruins of the Great Wall of Han. Su Chen discovered that the camel's paw print showed a bloody code under ultraviolet light - each gene fragment corresponded to the brain wave characteristics of a CRIMASTER detective.
"Qianwei Tianchang!" Tang Ren used white wine to ignite the remains of the beacon. In the light, the phantom of a twelve-year-old camel rushed from the same era, and the vibration frequency of the camel bell caused the Yangguan city wall to collapse in a quantum state. Qin Feng reached out and touched the flag of the Tang Dynasty caravan that was materializing, and the cloth suddenly turned into a data stream and drilled into his smart watch.
Su Chen's language function was suddenly hijacked by the system. He uttered a warning in Xixia language uncontrollably, and drew a topological model with the same origin as his mother's equation on the sand. Seeing this, Tang Ren took out the broken porcelain pieces he picked up at Crescent Moon Lake, cut his palm, and used blood to fill the gaps in the model with the Qin family's ancestral Feng Shui talisman.
Time and space suddenly fell silent. When the tinnitus faded, they heard the sound of machinery and Buddhist chanting coming from the depths of the Gobi Desert. That was the quantum collider that the Q organization had disguised as a 3D-printed Buddha statue. In the circular tunnel, particles of disassembled flying murals floated.
"A Xiang, wait for me to go back for dinner!" Tang Ren's wailing was swept away by the sandstorm. Qin Feng clutched the draft of the equation left by his mother. On the back of the draft paper, there was a faint screenshot of his father in front of the quantum collider. The snake tattoo on his wrist was bleeding.