The amphibious drone debugged by Odin took off into the air. In the picture sent back by the camera, Lin Shuying's hairpin reflected a strange spectrum in the sunlight - it was not an ordinary pearl, but a crystalline mineral cultivated with lunar soil.
Xiao Zhenbei's pupils suddenly contracted, and he remembered the similar substance he had seen at the lunar base three years ago: this "Moonstone" that can keep its crystals intact in a vacuum environment is the priceless strategic resource in the "Guanghan Palace Agreement".
As the sun sets, Xiao Zhenbei looks at Lin Shuying who is teaching Sheng Xun how to count with sticks in the corridor.
The little girl's glass abacus beads reflected the purple-red color of the sunset, and engraved on the abacus chips was the Long March rocket fuel formula designed by her father.
He suddenly understood why NASA wanted to trace the data of "Chang'e 3" that disappeared that year - those signals marked as "abnormal radiation" might have come from the mineral paint box that Shengze played with.
As the night deepened, Sarah's pocket watch pointed to three in the morning.
She gently pushed open the west window of the old house, and the moonlight poured down like mercury.
At the Wenchang launch site ten kilometers away, the wreckage of the Long March 9 lies quietly in the depths of the bay, and some mechanical structures that do not belong to this era are shining strangely in the moonlight.
As she aimed the micro-laser at the satellite receiver on the roof of her old house, the data stream on the screen in a basement far away in New York suddenly began to fluctuate violently - the rare earth futures market in Southeast Asia as a whole was experiencing unprecedented shocks.
When Lin Shuying brought the last steamed sea bass to the rosewood round table, the Xiao family's dinner had lasted for a full two hours.
There were seven dishes on the table: the aroma of Dongpo pork and the rich flavor of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall entangled in the air, the silvery scales of the steamed sea bass shimmered in the candlelight, and the most eye-catching was Lin Shuying's special "Moon Soil Cake" - made from a mixture of basalt powder brought back from the lunar base and trehalose, with a taste somewhere between truffle and caramel.
"Xiao Ze, what new songs did you learn today?" Xiao Zhenbei picked up a piece of lunar soil cake with silver chopsticks and watched Sheng Ze scoop the Big Dipper frosting on the cake with a small spoon.
The child was humming the melody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but smeared icing sugar on the cuffs of Xiao Jin's cheongsam, making everyone laugh.
"Brother, are you really planning to let the third brother get in touch with Lin Shuying?" Xiao Jin wiped his cuffs with a wet wipe, but his eyes fell on the titanium alloy tag around Miss Lin's neck.
That was the proof of participation in the Hexagonal Star's "Genesis" plan, and it was now swaying gently with her movements.
"The Huang family has set their sights on the rare earth separation plant." Xiao Zhenbei pushed the cake in front of Sheng Ze, "We need new technological allies."
His eyes swept over the holographic projector that Lin Shuying was debugging, which was projecting the Dunhuang murals onto the century-old gable. The flying sleeves of the fairy and Miss Lin's hair intertwined into a poem of light and shadow.
"Actually," Lin Shuying suddenly spoke, her German mixed with Chinese pronunciation making the air linger. "My mentor at the Geneva Institute for Nuclear Research was the chief engineer of the Genesis project." She pulled a coded document from her sleeve. "This is an analysis report of microbial samples from the lunar base. The extremely radiation-resistant strains found in it..."
Before he could finish his words, the roar of helicopter propellers suddenly reached him from outside the window. Three black bulletproof cars rolled down the bluestone lane, their rooftop searchlights illuminating the old house.
Osa's watch suddenly vibrated, and a warning popped up on the Lunar Minerals Association's emergency communication channel: "Unknown militants are attacking the rare earth refinery..."
"Protect Shengze!" Xiao Zhenbei stuffed his daughter into Lin Shuying's arms, grabbed the fire axe from the corner and rushed to the backyard.
Osa's holographic projector instantly switched to the defense system interface, and the shadow of Dunhuang Feitian turned into a laser barrier, covering the old house in a blue-purple light curtain.
When the first ray of moonlight seeped into the old house, Sheng Ze was lying on Lin Shuying's knees counting abacus chips.
The crisp sound of the glass beads colliding formed an eerie contrast with the sounds of gunfire coming from the backyard.
Lin Shuying's German notebook was spread out on her knees, densely packed with biological sample data from the lunar base. One of the pages contained half a piece of lunar soil crystal - she had secretly taken it out from Xiao Zhenbei's safe.
"Three times three is nine, four times four is sixteen..." Sheng Ze suddenly stopped and pointed at a flashing red light somewhere outside the window, "Dad's rocket!" Xiao Zhenbei's Falcon drone was returning from the Wenchang launch site, and the red signal light on the tail pierced the night sky.
Lin Shuying's pupils suddenly contracted - the cargo compartment carried by the drone was clearly filled with reverse engineering equipment for the "Genesis" project.
"Hide in the secret room quickly!" Xiao Jin suddenly rushed into the warm room, the hem of her cheongsam stained with gunpowder smoke, "The Huang family's commandos blew up the main gate!" Before she finished speaking, an incendiary bomb whizzed past the top of the wall, exploding a charred pattern on the blue brick wall.
Lin Shuying's quantum key module suddenly beeped, and she caught a glimpse of a warning flashing across the encrypted communication channel: "Helium-3 purification device compromised..."
"Use the frosting from the lunar soil cake!" Sheng Ze suddenly raised a small spoon dipped in purple frosting, "Dad said rare earth elements were added to it!" Lin Shuying's pupils lit up with stars, she grabbed Sheng Ze's abacus and rushed to the laboratory.
Those bamboo slips engraved with "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" emit a strange phosphorescence under the moonlight, producing a quantum entanglement effect with the lunar soil crystals.
When the morning light fell on the old house again, the Xiao family's backyard was full of bullet holes.
Osa's holographic projector was playing news: the tin ore futures market controlled by the Huang family suddenly collapsed, and an international consortium announced that it would acquire the Xiao family's rare earth separation plant at three times the market price.
Lin Shuying's encrypted communicator suddenly vibrated. A secret message arrived from the Israeli intelligence agency: "The 'Genesis' biological sample you provided has successfully cultivated a radiation-resistant microbial community."
"It seems that our 'lunar soil cake' has done a great job." Xiao Zhenbei wiped the wreckage of the Falcon drone and his eyes fell on Sheng Ze's little hands covered with icing sugar.
The child was using abacus to fiddle with the metal fragments he had picked up from the laboratory. The glass beads reflected a strange spectrum - it was clearly a symbiosis of lunar basalt and the earth's rare earth elements.
"Grandpa," Osa handed the repaired quantum key module to Xiao Zhengtang, "it's time to start the 'Big Dipper' plan." The old man stroked the miniature recording device on his sleeve. It was a relic from the Jiuquan base, and it was now transmitting the family conspiracy into deep space - there, a satellite numbered "Chang'e X" was adjusting its orbit, preparing to receive genetic samples from Earth.
Lin Shuying's titanium alloy tag suddenly became hot. She caught a glimpse of the Hebrew inscription on the inside of the tag: "Genesis Project·Human Survival".
When she placed Shengze's counting chips and the tag side by side, the two actually made a buzzing resonance - this was by no means a coincidence, it was suspected to be a secret code between the two planetary civilizations across time and space.
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