Don't go to the moon, there are gods on the far side of the moon.

The moment Lu Chenggong saw himself appear on the orbital map, he calmed down.

The golden-red aiming line stretched from deep within near-Earth orbit, passing through the debris of the Tianheng maintenance star, through the Xuan Niao III debris cloud, through the outer isolation net of the main control module, and finally stopping at his chest. It wasn't a firing line in the physical sense, yet all monitoring equipment simultaneously flagged it as a high-risk lock-on.

[Active verification of fragments from the nine days ago.]

[Target: Hou Yi sequence adaptor.]

Objective: To revoke firing privileges.

No one spoke in the main control room.

Lu Chenggong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked down at his hand pressing against the hard lock.

"Understood."

Qin Lan asked, "What do you know?"

"It doesn't just want to use fire to make arrows." Lu Chengong raised his eyes. "It also wants to use me as a bow."

The broken bow fragments were held down by the hard lock, but fine cracks appeared on the surface of the stabilizing shield. The cracks didn't originate from within, but rather seemed to be pieced together by an unseen hand from the outside. The Nine Suns fragments didn't need Lu Chen Gong's consent; they were directly verifying his body using ancient sequences.

Xu Wangshu immediately ordered: "Upgrade the Houyi isolation layer to level three."

Just as the technician was about to execute the command, a red message popped up in the system.

[Isolation ineffective. The target's privileges exceed the modern isolation definition.]

Wen Zhaolin's face was grim.

"This is the main authority of the Nine Suns Array. Tianheng has only had fragments and shadows of it before."

Lu Chengong smiled.

"You guys used to be pretty good at picking up trash."

Wen Zhaolin did not refute.

Wen Qingyue's channel suddenly cut in.

[It is recommended to immediately remove Lu Chengong from the main control link to prevent Hou Yi's sequence from contaminating the fire seed.]

Lin Xiaoman looked up, her eyes still red.

"Move it out for the sun arrows to shoot?"

Wen Qingyue said coldly, "He is currently the only locked target. If he remains in the main control room, the risk will spread."

"It's not like closing the door makes the people inside less human." Xiaoman's voice trembled, but it was firm. "My brother's chain just broke, and you guys also said the risk spread."

Xu Wangshu did not participate in the argument.

She dragged Lu Chenggong's personal rights interface to the front.

[Lu Chengong, the Houyi sequence adaptor: Do you currently agree to be removed from the main control link?]

Lu Chengong stared at the line of text and remained silent for two seconds.

"disagree."

Wen Qingyue immediately pressed for an answer: "Why?"

Lu Chengong twitched the corner of his mouth.

"I'm afraid of dying."

The public channel is silent.

He continued, "I'm also afraid that old arrows will be used as bows. Is that a specific enough reason?"

Qin Lan directly stamped the document.

[My refusal is valid.]

The aiming line suddenly brightened on the ninth day.

The temperature in the main control cabin rose rapidly, but the fire suppression system failed to detect any fire source. Everyone's shadows were elongated, as if nailed to the ground by the sun. Lu Chengong's shadow was the most prominent, with the outline of an ancient bow slowly emerging behind his shoulder.

After the third tap from Lin Jibai's toolbox, there was no more complete speech. The stability level stopped at 41%, barely maintaining its anchor. Xu Wangshu glanced at him but didn't call out. She knew she couldn't drag Lin Jibai out of the picture now.

The toolbox flashlight suddenly lit up.

A line of text appeared on the screen, broken and intermittent.

Don't let him shoulder the burden alone.

Lu Chengong stared at the line of text and cursed a very low swear word.

"You're all broken like this, and you're still worried about me?"

The toolbox is lit up again.

You didn't ejaculate.

Lu Chen choked up.

He wanted to say that it was his own business and that it was none of his concern. But all that came out of his mouth was a cold laugh.

"Fine, then don't leave me to shoulder this alone."

Xu Wangshu immediately asked, "What do you need?"

Lu Chenggong raised his hand and pointed to the public channel.

"Publicly display my Hou Yi sequence record next to the refusal area."

Wen Zhaolin suddenly looked up.

Are you sure?

The Hou Yi sequence records contain data on Tianheng's modifications, his destructive parameters when he went out of control, and all his dark history as an orbital weapon adaptor. If this is made public, Lu Chenggong can no longer simply be an "assistant." He will be feared, judged, and exploited by countless people.

Lu Chengong stared at the increasingly bright aiming line.

"The Nine-Day Fragment wants to use those old commands on me. Then let everyone see which are the old commands and which are me."

Xu Wangshu did not try to persuade him.

She only asked, "In the public sphere?"

"The joint review process is fully documented. Irrelevant medical privacy is omitted, but the Tianheng renovation milestones, the individual's refusal to use the service, and three hard-lock records are retained."

Qin Lan glanced at him.

"This will lead many people to demand that you be punished."

Lu Chengong said, "That's still better than letting an arrow decide for me."

Xu Wangshu carried out the order.

The Hou Yi sequence record is displayed in the sidebar of the main screen. Among the dense data, the most eye-catching thing is not the damage parameters, but a newly written record.

[Contact Incident: I refused to participate in the hunting.]

[Regarding the three knocks: I reserve the right to refuse to fire.]

[The Gonggong Chain Severance Incident: I have forcibly locked the broken bow, refusing to use fire as a weapon.]

The aiming line suddenly trembled on the ninth day.

The Hou Yi it verified was no longer a set of callable weapon interfaces, but a person who kept rejecting old commands.

The Deep Space Divine Court sent a chilling notification.

Individual refusal does not affect sequence assignment.

Nuwa fragments respond.

[Sequence assignment does not override the user's choice.]

The deficit at Zhurong Terrace is slowly emerging.

Hou Yi neither hunted for fire nor returned his arrows.

After these words appeared, the shadow of the ancient bow behind Lu Chengong cracked open.

He groaned and knelt down on one knee.

That's not like the fragments of the Nine Suns letting him go.

Instead, it began to forcibly strip away the Hou Yi adaptation layer from him. Since this adaptor could not be successfully invoked, it revoked the permissions, leaving only a useless shell.

Lu Chengong's right arm began to lose temperature from his fingertips, and the sunspots beneath his skin receded inch by inch into the broken bow fragments. The stabilizing shield's hard lock creaked and groaned as if it were trying to pull his bones out with it.

Lin Xiaoman exclaimed urgently, "It's pulling out his bow!"

Wen Zhaolin stood up.

"We can't let it all be pulled out. The adapter layer is connected to nerves; it could kill someone."

Lu Chengong gritted his teeth: "You're actually starting to act like a human being now."

"Shut up." Wen Zhaolin's voice was deep. "Dr. Xu, cut off Tianheng's old adapter port. I know of a backdoor."

Everyone looked at him.

Wen Zhaolin raised his hands.

"I'm going public."

He threw the hidden maintenance port that Tianheng had implanted in Hou Yi's adaptor system years ago into the core interface. It was a backdoor that could have remotely restricted Lu Chen Gong, and also evidence that Tianheng had once controlled the adaptors.

Wen Qingyue's channel instantly turned cold.

Wen Zhaolin, you have no right to disclose the group's core assets.

Wen Zhaolin looked at the screen, his voice very soft.

"That's not an asset."

He paused for a moment.

"That's the lock we owe him."

Qin Lan wasted no time and immediately organized a manual review. Xu Wangshu rewrote the back gate port as a one-time reverse circuit breaker, not taking over Lu Chen Gong, but only severing the homogeneous interface between the old Tianheng adaptation layer and the Nine Suns fragment.

Before carrying it out, she looked at Lu Chenggong.

"Is this your confirmation?"

Lu Chengong was in so much pain that his forehead was covered in sweat, but he still smiled.

"confirm."

Circuit breaker activation.

A sharp, snapping sound, like a string breaking, rang out from the main control room.

The shadow of the ancient bow behind Lu Chengong completely split open, and the aiming line of the Sun Arrow deviated by half an inch, grazing his chest as it slid towards the broken bow fragments.

Inside the stabilizing shield, the fragment suddenly flipped over on its own.

It is not about welcoming the ninth day.

Instead, he turned his back to the Sun Arrow, using the broken bow spine to block the Sunken Bow.

Lu Chengong was stunned.

The character for fire on the Zhurong Terrace slowly appeared.

[A broken bow recognizes its rider, not its formation.]

The next second, the first solar arrow from the nine fragments shot towards the broken bow's stabilizing shield.