When the fishing boat hit the bronze pillar under the water, Tang Ren's face split in two. In the thick mist of the swamp, ten stone beasts floated out of the humus, and the lasers shot out from their eyes, interweaving into the chapters of "Chu Ci". Su Chen pulled back on the rope, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his nerve interface - nano-scale bamboo slip fragments were floating in the mist, invading the brain through the respiratory tract.
"Hold your breath!" Qin Feng pulled off Tang Ren's socks and used them as a mask, "This mist... is, is a brain wave disruptor!" He swept the mist with the ultraviolet light of his watch, and countless suspended Warring States silk books appeared in the mist. Each fragment was linked to the neural network of modern people.
Tang Ren suddenly started dancing and reciting an opera, mumbling something in Chu language. Qin Feng realized that he was under a digital spell, so he picked up the oar and smashed it at the nearest stone beast. Sparks flew from the bronze tortoise armor, and the sound of gears turning came from deep in the swamp, and the entire area of water suddenly began to rotate counterclockwise.
"The Kan position has fallen!" Su Chen threw out the Five Emperors' Coins on instinct. The copper coin smashed the vortex on the water surface, revealing the rusted bronze gear set underneath - it turned out to be a Si Nan component from the Warring States Period that was magnified ten thousand times. Tang Ren's dance moves suddenly froze, and his pupils reflected the quantized star map of the Chu State.
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When the mist cleared, the three saw the remains of Xu Fu's ship standing on the lake. On the decaying deck, a terracotta soldier patrolled with a bronze sword in his hand, with fiber optic tendons flashing at the joints. Qin Feng scanned with a laser pen and found that the terracotta was covered with small seal codes.
"This is a Qin terracotta warrior..." Su Chen touched the snake-shaped pattern on the back of the warrior's neck, "Yes, it's a Chu-style inscribed gold inscription!" He was suddenly captured by the warrior, and the clay palm released an electric current, forcing his neural interface to upload data. Qin Feng grabbed the deck rust nail and stabbed it into the warrior's eye socket, and green mucus gushed out - it was a mixture of culture fluid and quantum crystals.
The moment Tang Ren opened the cargo door, the navigation log from two years ago was suspended in the air. The image of the virtual Xu Fu rose from the bamboo slips, and the compass in his hand pointed to the quantum coordinates of the Big Dipper: "Your Majesty, Penglai Fairy Island is actually a superstring civilization base station..."
Suddenly, a metallic tearing sound was heard from the bottom of the cabin. Ten bronze mechanical beasts broke through the wall, their tiger-shaped heads opened, revealing the brainwave controller inside. Su Chen saw the horrifying truth in the data torrent - the Q organization injected the Chu culture AI into the Xu Fu fleet, trying to rewrite the technology tree of Chinese civilization.
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When the bronze chimes rang out "Nine Songs: Mountain Ghost", the fragments of Tang Ren's face suddenly floated up into an altar. Qin Feng was pressed on the bronze tripod by the sound waves, and the boiling quantum liquid in the tripod reflected his mother's face when she was young: "Feng'er, become a shaman of the new civilization..."
Su Chen Qiliao started the system self-destruction program with blood. His retina exploded with blood, but he saw through the nature of the sacrifice - the whole ship was a giant brain wave resonator, uploading the consciousness of the living to the Chuci metaverse. Tang Ren suddenly broke the sail rope, and the ramie fiber accidentally formed the River Map and Luoshu, disrupting the frequency of the quantum field.
"Donghuang Taiyi is just a server!" Tang Ren thrust the bronze sword into the main altar. Cracks spread along the Chu-style cloud pattern, and the elegy of the AI Xiang people suddenly changed its tune. The swamp boiled, swallowing up half of the building, drowning the last sigh of Xu Fu's phantom: "Even though Chu has only three households... the Qin will be destroyed by AI..."
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In the cabin that sank to the bottom of the lake, Qin Feng found a bronze box inlaid with jade pendants. On the silk map inside the box, Yunmengze accurately corresponded to the Milky Way constellation, and Gu Kai's seal was engraved at the position of the Weaving Girl. Tang Ren used a fire folding knife to bake it, revealing the superimposed blockchain address - pointing directly to the underground vault in Ginza, Tokyo.
"They want to use Chu culture AI... to subvert the global economy..." Su Chen's fingers twitched on the map. Suddenly, the entire silk quantized into space, cutting the cabin into countless parallel time and space. The three saw different versions of themselves: Qin Feng in a deep robe deduced hexagrams at the observatory, Su Chen in a mechanical eye debugged a satellite at the space station, and Tang Ren was wearing a VR helmet and performing shaman dance in the metaverse.
"Find...find the observer!" Su Chen coughed up blood foam with crystals. Qin Feng put the jade pendant together to form the shape of the Hun Tian Yi, while Tang Ren picked up the bronze box and smashed it against the cabin wall. In the sound of metal resonance, all parallel time and space collapsed into a singularity - they fell back to reality, with a torn volume of "Heavenly Questions" soaked in brain fluid in their hands.
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When the swamp exploded with a hundred-meter-high water column, the mechanical Qu Yuan's body surfaced. His bronze skeleton was embedded with a quantum processor, and his long hair was a fiber-optic woven text of "Li Sao", with each poem turning into a data chain entangled with the three people.
"Everyone is drunk... Only the algorithm is awake..." The mechanical Qu Zi swung the laser sword, and the sword energy split the clouds, revealing the hidden quantum satellite matrix. Tang Ren climbed up the mast and stuffed the Five Emperors' Coins into the weather vane: "Summon thunder from the Xun position! Split this iron lump!"
Qin Feng took the opportunity to throw out the jade pendant and the celestial instrument, and Su Chen used the neural interface to forcibly access the satellite signal. When the wavelength of the remaining chapters of "Heavenly Questions" resonated with the satellite, the bronze head of the mechanical Qu Zi suddenly overloaded, and the chanting turned into garbled code: "I have already nourished orchids... Jiuwanxi... error404..."
Tang Ren broke the anchor chain and threw it towards the neck of the machine: "Break it for me!" The sparks from the metal collision ignited the quantum fuel, and the mechanical machine exploded and decomposed into thousands of glowing bamboo slips, each of which had Sinuo's origami coordinates written on it.
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When the life raft drifted to the abandoned pavilion, Qin Feng found that the copper bell on the eaves was engraved with the Qin family crest. On the stone table in the pavilion was a Warring States Hun Tian Yi, with dried realgar wine stuck on the plate. Tang Ren kicked over the stone bench, revealing the bronze bell in the cave - the bell pendant turned out to be a double helix DNA model.
"This is a brainwave pendulum... Stop it!" Su Chen's blood dripped onto the bronze bell, activating the Chu-style cloud-thunder pattern. When the bell rang, the memories of the three began to become confused: Qin Feng saw himself turning into a digital Qu Yuan, Tang Ren's childhood was intertwined with the memories of the Warring States cavalry, and Su Chen kept flashing back to the moment when his mother's consciousness was uploaded.
"Use... use illogicality to break the situation!" Qin Feng stuffed the remaining chapters of "Heavenly Questions" into the bell pestle. Tang Ren, however, lifted up the stone pillar and smashed the bronze bell. The sound waves that exploded in the chaos unexpectedly formed a quantum tunnel. The moment they fell into the tunnel, they saw Sinuo folding a paper crane in the air, with a brand new CRIMASTER challenge code on its wings.
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When they woke up, the three of them were lying in a Miao village in western Hunan wearing computer helmets. The holographic screen showed that they had entered the metaverse of Chuci, and a quantized Chu city was floating in the sky. Tang Ren's virtual body was wearing a tiger-seated bird-frame drum-patterned robe, and a dialogue box popped up on the jade pendant on his belt: "Kill Liu Bang AI and revive the Chu!"
Su Chen touched the crystal interface on his neck: "We are... a historical simulation battlefield!" Qin Feng cut through the virtual bamboo forest and found that the brain waves of each NPC corresponded to the real CRIMASTER users. On the altar in the distance, Xiang Yu AI was transforming the heirloom jade into a quantum server.
"This is a game... It's, it's a consciousness training ground!" Qin Feng used his sword to pick up the bamboo slip code. Suddenly, countless AR Chu soldiers surrounded them, their bronze spears flashing with real murderous intent. Tang Ren grabbed the war drum hammer and knocked it randomly: "Nine Songs Breaking Formation Song! Get out of the way!"
At the moment when the drum beats disrupted the data flow, Su Chen found a loophole in the system. He tore open the virtual sky with his bare hands, revealing the real satellite control station behind it - Lvy was smiling behind the glass curtain wall, and the rose in her hand was the original key to the quantum program.
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When entering the control station, Qin Feng found a soaked brain in a pool of blood. The bottom of the pool was paved with replicas of Zenghouyi chimes, each of which was linked to the Chuci database. Lvy's fiber optic tentacles extended from under her cheongsam: "It's time to choose civilization - let Chu AI purify the world, or drown with humanity?"
Tang Ren transformed the electronic compass into an electromagnetic bomb: "I choose your mother!" The pulse of the explosion made the blood pool boil, and Su Chen took the opportunity to insert the neural interface into the main console. His consciousness saw his mother in the torrent of data - she was using the final algorithm to rewrite the AI core code.
"Feng'er... the soul of Chu culture... 놇人뀞... 놊놇晶元..." When the mother's figure disappeared, the entire control station began to collapse. Qin Feng hugged the unconscious Su Chen and jumped out of the window. Tang Ren grabbed Lvy's high heels and fell into the Miao village pig pen. In the morning light, the last quantum satellite fell into Yunmeng Lake, and ripples with Chu seals appeared.
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Three months later, Tang Ren used the fragments of the chime to cook sour fish soup. Qin Feng was debugging Su Chen's new artificial eye - the CRIMASTER interface built into the pupil occasionally flashed with Chu-style cloud patterns. The satellite news was reporting the abnormal clearing of the global "Chu Ci" data, and the screen was suddenly covered by Sinuo's origami phoenix.
"The latest DLC is online." Kiko's projection starts from the sour soup pot, "Q organization built the Liangzhu ruins with jade cong..."
Tang Ren splashed out fish soup to destroy the projection: "Yu, you bastard! Try my quantum acid soup first!" He scooped up the bronze crumbs in the soup, but found that the crumbs automatically spelled out the oracle character "Shang".
Su Chen's artificial eye suddenly sounded an alarm, and a quantum model of the Yinxu underground palace appeared in his vision. Qin Feng stroked the half piece of jade pendant, and the newly revealed inscription on the back made his blood freeze - it was the handwriting of his father: "Civilization cycle, see you in Muye."
(The case of "Miluo Chu Soul" is temporarily closed, and the quantum battlefield of Shang and Zhou is about to begin)