On the big screen, NASA's deep space probe was crashing into the gravitational anomaly area in a suicidal manner, as if trying to trigger something first.
Xiao Zhen suddenly burst into laughter, shocking Li Xinmin so much that the cold sweat under his tactical vest soaked through his shirt.
"I've finally been waiting for this!" He slammed the red button, and the Raptor 9's fairing opened with a bang, revealing a quantum encryption array inside that was flashing with blue light - this technology was developed by China for the future Earth-Moon communication network.
March 18, Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center
Fan Dabao looked at the red dots flashing wildly on the three-dimensional star map, and his newly-worn lieutenant general shoulder straps were soaked with cold sweat.
Twelve hours ago, the gravitational anomaly near Jupiter's orbit had spread into a space disturbance zone with a diameter of 300,000 kilometers.
Even more terrifying is that all the detectors passing through the area have sent back contradictory data - some show that there is nothing there, while others have captured giant structures that block out the sun.
This phenomenon is strikingly similar to the unknown electromagnetic interference encountered by Chang'e 5 on the front side of the moon.
"That madman Xiao Zhen..." The Lieutenant General stared at the image coming from the synchronous orbit. The quantum encryption array carried by the Raptor 9 was forming a regular dodecahedron in space, each side reflecting a distorted image of the starry sky.
Suddenly, a ray of light beyond human chromatographic cognition burst out from the geometric center, and quantum communications in the entire solar system were instantly interrupted.
When the signal was restored, all major spacefaring nations received the same message. It wasn't electromagnetic waves, but encrypted coordinates projected directly onto the retina—a galactic map composed of hexagonal crystals, with a flickering coordinate point representing Earth's current location.
Late that night at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang
Xiao Zhen stroked the crystal in the chess box, and a holographic projection of the Milky Way star map was projected onto the courtyard wall.
Li Xinmin noticed that seven newly emerged marks were moving towards the solar system, and their trajectory equations were completely consistent with the atomic structure of the lunar crystals.
"Do you remember the new rules on the chessboard?" Xiao Zhen suddenly pressed the quantum chip onto the stone table. The chip seeped into the granite like liquid, etching a miniature version of the Milky Way on the tabletop.
From now on, every step of Earth's civilization... will be watched."
There was a sharp brake sound outside the yard, and Xiao Zhenbei rushed in holding a broken aluminum container.
Inside the container, on the calcite slabs shipped from Egypt, geometric patterns that were mistaken for ancient decorations were flashing in sync with the alien coordinates on the star map.
In the distant orbit of Mars, the camera of Tianwen-4 suddenly captured a shocking scene: in the shadow of an asteroid, a giant device made of hexagonal crystals vaguely emerged.
The faint blue light seeping from the surface of the device cast a geometric light spot thousands of kilometers long on the equator of Mars - the shape was exactly like the Milky Way etching on Xiao Zhen's stone table.
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