As Tang Ren fried eggs with a Luoyang spatula, the rainstorm in Anyang turned the archaeological pit into a quantum soup pot. Su Chen's titanium alloy artificial eye suddenly made a buzzing sound - raindrops condensed into oracle bone characters in mid-air, and each character was releasing gamma rays.
"Fire in the Qian position!" Tang Ren threw the frying pan towards the exploration area, and the red-hot axe hit the suspended "rain" character. The oracle bones instantly exploded, revealing a bronze door ten meters underground. Qin Feng wiped off the green rust on the door ring and found that the eyes of the Taotie pattern were actually dual-band signal transmitters.
"This, this is not a product of the Shang Dynasty..." Qin Feng's circumferential scan showed that the tin content of bronze exceeded the standard, "The door axis lubricant is... it is graphene nanofluid!"
When Su Chen used his artificial eye to see through the structure inside the door, his pupil suddenly oozed blue electrolyte. He "saw" piles of oracle bones suspended in the circular hall, and each piece of tortoise shell was linked to the quantum channel of the existing satellite. Tang Ren picked up the engineer pick and smashed it into the crack of the door: "Open sesame!" The sound waves from the impact actually activated the chimes inside the door, playing a binary version of the "Book of Changes" hexagram.
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The moment he passed through the airtight hatch, he was blinded by the bright light. When his vision returned, Tang Ren's wig was hanging on the lowest branch of the bronze sacred tree - the same sacred tree as the Star Pile, each leaf of which was made of biological crystals, and the branches were flowing with fluorescent green quantum fluid.
"Something is moving at the top of the tree!" Su Chen adjusted the focus of his artificial eye and saw more than a hundred transparent capsules hanging from the branches. Qin Feng used a drone to get close to shoot, and his blood almost froze - the capsules were soaked with brain tissue proportional to that of a real person, and the nerve synapses were connected to the Oracle server at the root of the tree through optical fibers.
Tang Ren suddenly twitched and fell to his knees. His titanium alloy knees were absorbing the electromagnetic pulses from the bronze tree. "Water level..." He struggled to disconnect the power supply of his prosthesis, and half of a blood-stained jade cong fell out of the prosthesis - a national treasure found at the Liangzhu ruins.
When Qin Feng picked up the jade cong, oracle bones suddenly fell from the wall and formed a dynamic picture of the Battle of Muye in the air. When the head of "King Zhou" was chopped off, all the brains lit up at the same time, and Su Chen's neural interface transmitted his mother's final warning: "Stop the deification..."
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The bronze tree suddenly tilted 45 degrees, and the oracle bones swarmed towards people like locusts. Tang Ren threw the Five Emperors Coins while running: "Zhen Gua! Thunder will kill these idiots!" The moment the bronze coins embedded in the cracks in the ground, the whole hall turned into a maze of fourteen hexagrams, and each wall was playing historical images from different timelines.
Su Chen saw his young father applying quantum coating to oracle bones, while Qin Feng was trapped in the illusion of the king's deduction of the Eight Diagrams. The most bizarre Tang Ren - he met himself in the "Kun" hexagram room, wearing animal skin, and that person was using a bone needle to carve the CRIMASTER original code on the tortoise shell.
"Are you my past life?" Tang Ren snatched the bone needle and poked at the phantom, "Do you know that piracy will lead to jail time?" Dark red liquid spurted out from the broken bone needle, and the bronze wall of the maze suddenly seeped human blood. Qin Feng discovered that the blood contained nanorobots, and they were trying to reassemble their DNA chains.
"Use... use illogicality to break the situation!" Su Chen smashed the jade cong towards the "Qian" hexagram. The moment the quantum field cracked, they caught a glimpse of the true appearance of the control room - thousands of physical computers were using oracle bones to train AI, and the progress bar on the screen showed: "The Investiture of the Gods 2.0 is loading."
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At the end of the escape tunnel was a burial pit, where corpses and Shang Dynasty bones were stacked together. When Tang Ren crushed the ribs of a skeleton, a holographic witch suddenly appeared at the bottom of the pit. The man's bronze mask was engraved with the CRIMASTER logo, and the jade spear in his mouth was flowing with blood of data.
"You barbarians, how can you know the will of heaven!" The shaman's elegant Zhou Dynasty language was translated into electronic sound by AI. Su Chen noticed that the jade hanging around his waist was not an ordinary jade artifact - the Shang Dynasty Xuanji made of niobium-titanium alloy was absorbing the resentful energy of the burial pit.
Qin Feng suddenly launched a surprise attack, brushing across the hem of the witch's robe. The tear in the fabric revealed military-grade optical fibers, and he instantly understood that this was a remote-controlled puppet of the organization. Tang Ren took the opportunity to transform his prosthesis into an electromagnetic pulser, and his titanium alloy knee hit the witch's lower back: "Eat shit, you charlatan!"
In the flames of the explosion, people saw the true face behind the witch mask - Saotome Suzu, who should be in Tokyo Prison. Half of her face has been mechanically modified, and Japanese and oracle bones are mixed: "Makino is not the end point... but the starting point of recurrence..."
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When escaping from the underground palace, the rainstorm turned into acid-corrosive quantum rain. Tang Ren's wig was burning with green smoke on his head, and Qin Feng used a bulletproof vest to protect the key oracle bones. Su Chen suddenly pointed to the ring-shaped mountain in the distance - it was not a natural landform, but an enlarged version of the bronze tree rings.
"The Lutai of King Zhou of Shang..." Qin Feng read the location information from the oracle bone inscriptions, "They used quantum technology... to restore the Zhaixing Tower!"
When climbing the ruins, Su Chen discovered that every brick was made of ceramics, and the cracks in the bricks were seeping out an alloy solution similar to the golden rod in the Starry Sky. Tang Ren kicked away the rubble, revealing a buried bronze steering wheel - the steering wheel of this "Shang Dynasty chariot" was actually linked to the Starlink satellite's navigation system.
"Look at the sky!" Tang Ren screamed, and the Big Dipper suddenly twisted into the oracle bone Chinese character "Zhou". A holographic Conferred God Platform appeared where the starlight focused, with more than a hundred brain wave amplifiers placed on the platform, each corresponding to the number of a CRIMASTER detective.
Su Chen forcibly connected to the amplifier network, and his consciousness was instantly thrown into the battlefield of Muye. He saw his artificial eye flashing on the faces of Shang Dynasty soldiers, and the end of Jiang Ziyue's fishing rod turned out to be Lvy's rose-colored staff.
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When the Conferred God Platform was activated, oracle bones appeared in the pupils of all CRIMASTER users. Tang Ren's prosthetic limb suddenly turned against its owner, and the titanium alloy fingers pinched Qin Feng's throat. Su Chen used the jade cong to refract the quantum starlight, and the beam shattered the parasitic crystal on the back of Tang Ren's neck.
"They are using the Investiture of the Gods... to seize the living!" Qin Feng tore open his collar, and oracle-like nanoworms were crawling under his skin. Su Chen inserted the jade cong into the eye of the Bagua array of the Investiture of the Gods platform and forcibly activated the reverse engineering - the phantoms of countless historical figures rose from the ground, from Fu Hao to Einstein, all struggling in the data stream.
Tang Ren raised the bronze spear and smashed it at the console: "Give your grandfather the title of Great Sage!" The electromagnetic pulses generated by the metal collision caused garbled characters to appear on the Investiture of the Gods. Saotome Suzu's mechanical body fell from the air, and Sinuo's origami-patterned body was revealed behind her shattered mask.
"You...are the sacrifices..." She laughed wildly, spitting out the fragments of quantum crystals. The Conferred God Platform suddenly tilted, throwing everyone to the bottom of the circular mountain. As he fell, Qin Feng saw his father's handwriting engraved on the mountain wall: "The one who defeated Shang is Zhou, and the one who defeated Zhou is Q".
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As the blood pool at the bottom of the mountain boiled, Su Chen recognized the mechanical structure at the bottom of the pool - this was a high-level version of the physical computer he had seen at the bottom of the Miluo River. Thousands of bronze catheters were pumping cerebrospinal fluid, and the person soaking in the pool was a clone of the younger version of Qin Feng's mother.
"Mom..." Qin Feng's voice penetrated the holographic projection. The clone suddenly opened his eyes, and his pupils shot out oracle lasers: "Feng'er, complete the closed loop!" Su Chen used his body to push Qin Feng away, and a charred "Zhou" character was burned on his shoulder.
Tang Ren dismantled the blood pool pipe like crazy, and pulled out the optical fiber hanging with half a tael of money from the Warring States period. When he threw the coins into the blood pool, the quantum field suddenly flowed back, and the pool water showed a more terrifying scene - the mechanical King Zhou in 2124 was slaughtering the AI Zhou army on the Muye battlefield.
"History... recursive function!" Qin Feng coughed up blood foam. He dipped his blood in the pool and drew a Möbius strip, pressing the jade cong against the strip. The pool of blood began to collapse, swallowing up the clone and the remains of Saotome Suzu, and finally condensed into a quantum singularity.
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When they escaped from the underground palace, the morning sun was being eaten by a solar eclipse. Tang Ren's prosthetic limb was stuck with half a piece of oracle bone, and the new oracle on the surface made him tremble: "In the fifteenth year of Emperor Xin, a guest star invaded Ziwei."
Su Chen used his artificial eye to scan the solar eclipse halo and discovered the quantum satellite cluster covering the earth. Qin Feng opened the notes left by his father, and the last page of the oracle bone rubbing suddenly oozes blood - that is the "Fengshentai activation code" they saw in the Yinxu underground palace.
Suddenly, all electronic devices simultaneously broadcast Sinuo's declaration: "Battle of Muye 2.0 will be released soon." Behind her hung holographic images of the Twelve Golden Immortals, and Taiyi Zhenren's dust whisk turned out to be a cluster of nanorobots.
Tang Ren pointed the Luoyang shovel at the sun: "Fuck your public beta!" The sunlight reflected by the shovel head was accidentally focused into a laser, which pierced through the quantum satellite in the clouds. The burning satellite fragments crossed the sky and spelled out a new CRIMASTER challenge code in the sky of Yinxu - the GPS coordinates of the Liangzhu jade cong.
Su Chen's artificial eye suddenly went black, and the last image that flashed was his mother's smile in the quantum cloud. Qin Feng tightly grasped the bloody jade cong and heard the sound of war drums coming from the long river of history.