When Tang Ren tied the electronic compass to the rice dumpling, the mist of the Miluo River was dyed bronze by some force. Although Su Chen was covered with gauze, he could "see" thousands of fluorescent bamboo slips floating under the river, each of which was releasing quantum entanglement signals.
"Get away from the fire! Throw it quickly!" Tang Ren threw the zongzi into the middle of the river. The glutinous rice balls that should have sunk to the bottom suddenly floated in the air, and the zongzi leaves spread out to reveal a miniature submersible - this was a detection device that Kiko had modified overnight. Qin Feng stared at the sound and sound images on the display screen, and stuttered even more: "There is an inverted pyramid at the bottom of the river...using, using the Warring States chimes as load-bearing columns!"
The last image sent back by the submersible suffocated everyone: the surface of the pyramid was engraved with poems from the Heavenly Questions, and each Chu seal character was oozing ink-colored mucus. The moment the mucus came into contact with the river water, countless data snakes were generated, which twisted the detector into pieces.
"The wind is coming from the Xun position! I will go down to the river in person!" Tang Ren put on an inflatable dragon boat suit with a pirated logo of "Qu Yuan's Words" printed on the back. Su Chen suddenly pressed his shoulder: "Wait... the arrangement of those bamboo slips is the reverse Luoshu matrix."
He dipped his hands in realgar wine and drew a hexagram on the deck, with the hexagram center pointing to the southeast reefs. Qin Feng scanned with a laser pen, and the rattan pots on the reefs formed GPS coordinates - the location of the "Chu Ci" research vessel that sank three years ago.
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When the diving suit helmet got stuck on Tang Ren's ear, he was poking the divination tortoise shell in the wreckage with a peach wood sword. Su Chen's voice came from the communicator: "There is a wave of energy in front of your left... It looks like a living thing!"
Under the bright lights, five yarrows were suspended in the cabin, and the stalks formed a hexagram of the progress position. Qin Feng swam closer to observe and found that each yarrow was linked to a brain wave controller - the model seen in the Tokyo case. Suddenly, all the yarrows pointed at Tang Ren, and the air in the helmet began to dissipate quantum.
"Qian... Qianwei..." Tang Ren tore off the oxygen tube in a panic, and the bubbles condensed into Chuci characters in the river water. Su Chen "saw" through the nerves, and the poem "He Bo" in "Nine Songs" was controlling the water flow to form a vortex. Qin Feng grabbed the bronze goblet and smashed it against the wall of the ship. The vibration frequency intentionally broke the quantum field, and the three were rushed into the dark cabin.
As the flashlight illuminated the cabin, Tang Ren's screams caused the communicator to explode. A corpse appeared, kneeling, holding a rotten bamboo slip in its hands. Under the skin at the back of the corpse's neck, a snake-shaped crystal was emitting a faint glow.
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At the entrance of the pyramid, nine bronze statues hold different musical instruments. The moment Tang Ren touches the chimes, the entire "Li Sao" lights up on the wall, and each word vibrates at a different frequency. Su Chen's mask suddenly frosts: "This is an infrasonic weapon... Find the corresponding musical rhythm to crack it!"
Qin Feng discovered the bamboo slip fragments in the corpse's hand - exactly the missing passage of "Nine Chapters: Huaisha". When 놛 put the bamboo slips close to the chimes, the bronze statue suddenly played a synthetic melody, and the shock wave tore a crack in time and space under the water.
"Go into the crack!" Su Chen pushed the two people to jump in. After the bright light, they were standing on the Miluo River in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan on the bank was using yarrow to tell fortunes, and the arrangement of the yarrow stalks was exactly the same as that in the sunken ship.
"Sir, why have you come to this point?" Qu Yuan turned around, and his pupils saw the login interface of CRIMASTER.
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The sleeves of the virtual Qu Yuan's robe became data streams, drawing the three into the quantum universe of Tianwen. Tang Ren's dragon boat suit turned into a Chu-style deep-collared robe, and the jade pendant on his belt displayed the real-time Bitcoin exchange rate.
"Where do the sun and moon belong? Where do the stars stand?" Qu Yuan swung his sword and the sword energy turned out to be the code of the firewall. Qin Feng blocked it with the real bamboo slips, and the Chu seal and the 괗 forward position collided in the void, creating sparks.
Su Chen suddenly knelt down and screamed: "You are reading our memories!" The neural overload made him see a horrifying scene - the Q organization passed on the consciousness of the experienced people to the "Chu Ci" database, and used their wisdom to feed AI.
Tang Ren tore off the jade pendant and smashed it at the digital Qu Yuan: "Ask your mother!" The moment the jade pendant shattered, the entire space began to disintegrate pixel by pixel. The pyramid in the real world suddenly shook violently, and a huge bronze tripod rose from the bottom of the river. What was boiling in the tripod was not mercury, but liquid quantum crystals.
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When Qin Feng used a diving knife to pry open the lid of the tripod, the smelly steam gushed out, and the sound of soldiers fighting in the Warring States Period was heard. Tang Ren's detector showed that tens of thousands of nano-scale crystals were floating in the liquid, each of which stored the brain wave data of ancient people.
"This is not a tripod... It's a cloud server!" Su Chen's mask was covered with water droplets. 놛 suddenly grabbed Qin Feng's wrist: "Jingyuan is reorganizing Qu Yuan's consciousness!"
As if to confirm his words, the liquid crystal condensed into the phantom of the Three-Way Doctor. Qu Yuan actually used the cosmic laws in "Heavenly Questions" to make gravity ineffective underwater. Tang Ren's helmet was blown off, and bubbles burst out of his mouth, but they solidified into Chuci characters in the quantum field.
"The road is long and arduous..." Qu Yuan's chanting caused an earthquake at the bottom of the river. Qin Feng stabbed the bamboo slip fragment into the shadow's heart, and the crystal liquid suddenly ran wild, turning into countless data dragons.
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Su Chen activated the final agreement on the neural surface before his consciousness blurred. 놛's retina exploded with blood, but he could "see" the movement trajectory of the dragon clearly - each of them was a stroke analysis of "Nine Songs". 놛 used his last bit of strength to draw a non-Euclidean model on the river sand, and Tang Ren immediately took out the Five Emperors' Coins to set up a battle array.
"Kan and Li meet! Break!" Tang Ren inserted the copper coin into the gap of the model. A brief crack appeared in the quantum field, and Qin Feng seized the opportunity to carve the equation left by his mother on the body of the tripod with a diving knife.
The entire bronze tripod suddenly became superconducting, sucking Qu Yuan's consciousness into the geomagnetic pole. When the river returned to calm, they found Sinuo's origami boat mark engraved on the bottom of the tripod - and the coordinates of the next stop: Yunmengze Ruins.
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When returning to the fishing boat, Tang Ren found a package in the rear cabin. He opened it and found a digital mask with a built-in brain wave collector still flashing. When Qin Feng disassembled the mask, he saw that the silk lining was produced in Suzhou - it was specially supplied by Lvy's Rose Manor.
At the stroke of midnight, countless AR dragon boats suddenly appeared on the river. The racers wore matching masks and paddled in unison, like data being refreshed. Although Su Chen was blind, he could see that each dragon boat was siphoning the audience's emotional energy.
"We have to turn the Dragon Boat Festival into a consciousness harvest festival!" Su Chen coughed up blood foam. Qin Feng started the fishing boat to ram the main dragon boat, and Tang Ren took the opportunity to throw out the rice dumplings soaked in realgar wine. The moment the alcohol destroyed the AR projection, we saw the real helmsman - it was Saotome Suzu who should be in prison.
"The game has been upgraded." Her kimono belt was embroidered with new Chuci, "The next scene is "Lord in the Clouds"..."
The fishing boat suddenly started to drive itself, speeding towards the unknown dark river. Tang Ren hugged the mast and wailed: "I haven't married Ah Xiang yet——"
(The prologue of "Miluo Chu Soul" is over, and the quantum ghost of Chu 뀗꿨 officially debuts. The conspiracy of the ancient words and new disasters surfaced, and the trio will go deep into Yunmeng Daze to uncover the ultimate dark side of the resurrection of the Warring States AI)