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

When Lin Jibai rushed into the control room, Xu Wangshu was already there.

She was wearing a coat, her hair not yet tied up, clearly also awakened by the signal.

On the screen, a moon-white waveform repeatedly flickered.

The frequency is very weak.

However, it precisely bypassed all of Tianheng's public communication links and directly penetrated the Yutu chip.

Xu Wangshu's voice tightened: "The Guanghan Palace cold storage has a private emergency access channel. According to the access control records, this channel is only for the caretaker and the sealed samples."

Lin Jibai stared at the waveform: "Can it reproduce the sound?"

"It's being done."

Lu Chengong also arrived, his right eye faintly bleeding beneath the black bandage.

Wen Zhaolin arrived last.

Nobody wasted words.

Everyone knew that this might be the first time Lin Xiaoman had actually sent back a message from the far side of the moon.

Amidst the noise, Xiaoman's voice gradually emerged.

"elder brother……"

Lin Jibai's knuckles turned white.

"Xiaoman, I'm here."

Xu Wangshu cautioned, "She can't hear you. This is a delayed dump, not real-time communication."

Lin Jibai nodded, but his eyes never left the screen.

Xiaoman's voice was very soft, as if it were coming from behind a thick layer of ice.

"I am not dead."

"It's so cold here."

"They said I was a sample and wouldn't let me wake up."

"There were many cabins, many people, many... things that didn't look like people."

The video was simultaneously analyzed.

The images of the Guanghan Palace cold storage are intermittent.

An endless array of white pods stood in the darkness, each pod bearing a number.

The remains of an old god.

Failed adaptor.

Contaminated samples from the far side of the moon.

Unregistered variables.

Lin Jibai saw several names that belonged to Tianheng's list.

The seven people who supposedly "received the moon from the far side" are all among them.

They didn't die.

But it doesn't feel like being alive either.

Xiaoman continued:

I dreamt about my dad.

"He was under a very large door."

"The door was pressing down on him."

"People ask him every day if he wants to hand over the key."

Lin Jibai felt as if his throat was blocked.

The screen then pans to the deepest part of the cold storage.

South Heaven Gate.

It is even bigger than Lin Jibai's dream.

The two doors seemed to grow out of the depths of the moon, their surfaces engraved with human and divine names. Cold white light shone through the cracks in the doors, and within the light stood countless faceless figures.

Lin Wangchuan knelt there.

Half of his body had already fused with the bronze gate base, and his spine was pierced by twelve chains. Yet his hand remained firmly pressed on a dim core.

He was closing the door.

Ten years.

Use yourself.

Xiaoman cried.

"Brother, Dad is still alive."

"But he's almost forgetting us."

Lin Jibai suddenly turned around to look at Wen Zhaolin.

Wen Zhaolin did not avoid his gaze.

"This is the first time I've seen this footage either."

"You'd better be." Lin Jibai's voice was low and hoarse.

The signal for Xiaoman suddenly became urgent.

There is a person wearing glasses in the cold storage.

"He has no face."

He said he was the intermediary of fate.

"He said that his brother had woken up, and Gonggong had also woken up, so the Heavenly Ladder had to be lit ahead of schedule."

Xu Wangshu immediately retrieved the half-name from Chapter 27 of her memory.

The God of Fate.

Wen Zhaolin's expression finally changed.

"The Siming interface couldn't possibly still be running. Lin Wangchuan personally shut down this project back then."

Lin Jibai said coldly, "But it has a receiving label on Xiaoman's bedside."

Lu Chengong asked, "What is the God of Fate?"

Xu Wangshu quickly explained: "In mythology, the God of Fate is in charge of people's life, death, and lifespan. In modern terms, it might be the human interface of the old Heavenly Court's fate verification module. In other words, it is not a person, or not entirely a person."

Xiaoman's voice rang out again.

This time it's closer, and it's more terrifying.

"Brother, it saw me."

The screen shook violently.

The lights in the cold storage room went out one by one.

A figure wearing a white coat and frameless glasses stood outside the cabin.

His face looked as if it had been erased by an eraser, leaving only a blurry skin.

He looked down at Xiaoman.

"The key container for Nantianmen has been unsealed ahead of schedule."

Purpose: Calibration of the Earth-Moon ladder.

Xiaoman frantically pounded on the cabin.

"elder brother!"

Lin Jibai rushed to the control panel: "Reconnect! Reconnect it for me!"

Xu Wangshu's fingers flew across the keyboard: "I need secure access to the cold storage, otherwise its location will be exposed!"

"So what if we're exposed!"

"She's the one who was exposed!"

Lin Jibai froze.

Xu Wangshu's eyes reddened, but she forced herself to calm down: "Give me thirty seconds, and I'll use my Chang'e candidate privileges to open a fake channel and lead the tracking to the abandoned cabin area."

"I'll help you."

Lin Jibai placed his hand on the Jade Rabbit chip.

The echoes from the Heavenly Pillar surged in.

This time, he didn't read blindly.

Following the training method, he compressed the echo into a thin line, dismantling only the channel and not touching the memory.

Like repairing a circuit that's about to burn out.

Xu Wangshu glanced at him.

He is really making progress.

It's not about talent.

It's about repeatedly breaking yourself down and piecing yourself back together.

Communication was briefly established after thirty seconds.

Lin Jibai whispered into the microphone, "Xiaoman."

In the cold storage footage, Lin Xiaoman suddenly looked up.

"elder brother?"

Lin Jibai's eyes welled up with tears, but he forced himself to suppress his voice.

"Listen to me. Don't be afraid. Count to three, close your eyes, and think about the dying mint plant on our balcony."

Xiaoman laughed through her tears: "I died a long time ago."

"I bought another one later, but it's still dying. So you have to come back and save it."

Xiaoman nodded vigorously.

Xu Wangshu interjected, "Xiaoman, this is Xu Wangshu. Can you see the number on your hull?"

"Yes... Guanghan Palace, abnormal sample area, south column 7, number 03."

Xu Wangshu immediately took notes.

Lu Chengong asked, "How many main chains are there beneath the South Heavenly Gate?"

Xiaoman looked into the distance: "Twelve. But one is broken."

Wen Zhaolin whispered, "Lin Wangchuan can't hold on any longer."

Xiaoman suddenly screamed.

The figure with frameless glasses turned his head and looked in the direction of the communication.

Even though it had no face, Lin Jibai felt that it was looking at him.

"Gonggong-side variables have been located."

Communication began to break down.

Xiaoman shouted with all her might:

"Brother! Don't let them use me to start a fire!"

"The Heavenly Ladder isn't the path to the moon!"

"It's the keyhole!"

The screen went dark with a snap.

The control room was deathly silent.

The next second, the base's main screen automatically lit up.

The countdown to the Earth-Moon Ladder project has been reduced from 72 hours to 6 hours.

Wen Zhaolin looked up.

His voice was terrifyingly low.

"Someone bypassed me and started the ignition process."

Lin Jibai watched the countdown and slowly clenched his fist.

"Then let's take it back."