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

Six hours.

Ignition of the Earth-Moon Ladder.

It's not the kind of "experimental track material traction" that Wen Zhaolin mentioned in his public press conference.

The actual ignition process is hidden among the Tianheng base, the near-Earth orbit satellite chain, and the debris of the broken pillar on the far side of the moon.

Once resonance is achieved, the modern rail elevator will become the keyhole to the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Those faceless things behind the door can reach into the human world.

Lin Jibai only asked one question.

"How do we stop?"

No one in the control room answered immediately.

Wen Zhaolin stared at the main screen, his face as cold as iron.

"The ignition process has been taken over by the Siming interface. Regular permissions are invalid."

Xu Wangshu said, "Using the Chang'e candidate privileges can interfere with the cold storage link on the far side of the moon, but it can only delay things."

Lu Chenggong: "I can try to lock onto the orbital node and shoot down a geostationary satellite."

"The price?" Lin Jibai asked.

Lu Chenggong calmly said, "His right eye is completely ruined, possibly along with the optic nerve."

Zhou Lie leaned against the wall, his chest still wrapped in bandages: "The Kuafu bloodline can withstand one high-temperature core overload, buy us five minutes."

"cost?"

"Burn half your life away."

Lin Jibai looked at Wen Zhaolin: "What about you? The boss of Tianheng can't just be good at giving PowerPoint presentations."

Wen Zhaolin was not angry.

"I can grant you full access to Tianheng's underlying permissions, allowing you to connect to the Black Pillar core."

Xu Wangshu immediately objected: "If he connects to the Black Pillar now, Echo will get out of control again."

Wen Zhaolin said, "Therefore, you need to use Chang'e's authority to seal the overflow, Lu Chen's bow to sever the orbital amplification, and Zhou Lie to suppress the hot core."

Lin Jibai understood.

Everyone gambled together.

I'm betting he can disconnect the wire that the interface for the ignition system is inserted into before he collapses.

"OK."

Xu Wangshu looked at him: "Think it through."

Lin Jibai smiled and said, "Since I entered the base, there haven't been many things I've thought through. But I know that Xiaoman said not to let them use her to start a fire."

Wen Zhaolin raised his hand, activating the Tianheng's underlying permissions.

The lights throughout the base turned a dim red.

The black pillar in the center of the training field rose up, revealing the main interface deep underground.

That's not a cable.

It is a broken core that resembles both bone and jade.

Lin Jibai stood in front of the pillar core and suddenly said to Xu Wangshu, "If I forget what I'm doing, read the memo to me."

Xu Wangshu took out the paper.

The words on the paper were written by her own hand.

Lin Jibai has a younger sister named Lin Xiaoman. She must be saved.

She nodded: "Okay."

Countdown: 5 hours and 59 minutes.

The operation begins.

Zhou Lie was the first to rush into the hot core module.

When Kuafu's bloodline erupted, his entire body glowed with crimson markings, making him look like a giant emerging from the ancient sun. He braced himself against the overload valve, gritting his teeth and roaring, "Five minutes! Don't fucking waste them!"

Lu Chenggong stood on the orbital aiming platform and removed the bandage from his right eye.

That eye no longer resembles a human eye.

Nine tiny points of light rotated within the golden pupils.

He drew back the invisible giant bow.

"Lock the first synchronization node."

Xu Wangshu stood in front of the Jade Rabbit chip, and the moonlight spread out from her feet, forming a phantom image of the Guanghan Palace cold storage.

Her face grew paler and paler, as if she were being summoned back to a palace far away on the far side of the moon.

"Chang'e candidate access granted. Lin Jibai, connect."

Lin Jibai placed his hands on the core of the pillar.

boom--

The Heavenly Pillar Echo Burst.

This time, he did not see any fragmented memories.

He saw an entire pillar of heaven.

Soaring from Tianheng Base into the sky, passing through clouds, through near-Earth orbit, past illuminated satellites, and finally plunging into the broken remnant on the far side of the moon.

In the sky, the broken pillar of heaven, invisible to ordinary people, slowly came into view.

Dark blue-black, enormous, and covered in wounds.

It does not have a complete connection.

But it is being forcibly connected.

Lin Jibai climbed up the Heavenly Pillar.

It's not the body.

It is consciousness.

He would drop something every time he climbed a section of the trail.

The delivery station's route is gone.

The house number in my hometown is gone.

The half-song my mother sang is gone.

He gritted his teeth and continued.

Xu Wangshu's voice came from afar.

"Lin Jibai has a younger sister named Lin Xiaoman. We must save her."

He remembered that sentence.

Like grabbing a rope.

The interface of the Fate Master appeared in the middle section of the Heavenly Pillar.

He wears frameless glasses, has no face, and is dressed in a white lab coat, standing on a platform composed of data and a book of fate.

"Gonggong-side variables".

"You are preventing the world from achieving order."

Lin Jibai raised his hand, and a pair of repair pliers materialized in his hand.

This is his weapon of consciousness.

Very shabby.

But it's convenient.

"You call this order?"

Si Ming waved his hand.

Countless scenes unfold.

The war ended.

Zero crime.

The disease was corrected in advance.

Everyone is assigned the most suitable position at birth.

There was no hunger, no senseless deaths, and no chaotic arguments.

Everything is efficient, stable, and quiet.

Lin Jibai looked at those images.

I have to admit, it's very tempting.

What if the mother could survive because of this order?

What if Xiaoman didn't have to suffer?

What if my father didn't have to kneel at the South Heaven Gate for ten years?

Si Ming interjected in a low voice, "What you oppose is not order, but your failure to grasp order."

Lin Jibai remained silent.

In reality, Wen Zhaolin stared at the monitor and remained silent.

These words also struck a nerve with him.

Lin Jibai suddenly smiled.

"You have a point."

Si Ming raised his head slightly.

"so?"

"Therefore, we must not let you take control."

Lin Jibai raised the repair pliers and fiercely cut a white lifeline below the platform.

"Because even an ordinary person like me knows that if I were to seize absolute order, I'd become a bastard. What makes you shameless bastards the exception?"

The lifeline is broken.

The ignition process stalled for the first time.

In reality, Lu Chengong loosened his bowstring.

A beam of golden light shot into the sky.

In low Earth orbit, a geostationary satellite was precisely pierced, turning into a silent spark.

Lu Chengong's right eye instantly lost its luster, and blood flowed down his cheek.

But he stood up and didn't fall.

"The second node is now in your hands."

Lin Jibai ran wildly within Tianzhu's consciousness.

Behind Si Ming, countless faceless figures surged forth.

Each of them held a book of fate.

"Archive".

"check."

"Eliminate variables".

Lin Jibai dodged while dismantling the structure.

Dismantle the lifeline, dismantle the verification bridge, and dismantle the Nantianmen keyhole disguised as a security protocol.

He is not the strongest adaptor.

But he is the one who knows the lines best.

No matter how ancient the old Heavenly Court system was, it was still a system at its core.

Every system has interfaces, redundancy, cabling, and backdoors.

Countdown: Three minutes.

Zhou Lie knelt down in the hot core module, his skin beginning to turn black.

Half of Xu Wangshu's body was covered in moon frost, and the illusory image of the Guanghan Palace almost swallowed her whole.

Wen Zhaolin personally took over the control panel and reversed the flow of all of Tianheng's backup energy into the black pillar.

The technician exclaimed, "Manager Wen, if you keep filling it with water, the base will be ruined!"

Wen Zhaolin said coldly, "So be it."

Lin Jibai finally reached the ignition core.

A moon-white key hangs there.

In the key's image, there is Lin Xiaoman's huddled figure.

The Master of Fate stood beside the key.

"If you cut it, the Earth-Moon Ladder will go out of control."

"If you don't cut it off, Lin Xiaoman will become the key to the South Heavenly Gate."

"Choose, Gonggong."

Lin Jibai gripped the repair pliers tightly.

This is not a multiple-choice question.

This is a trap.

My father faced a similar situation back then.

The pillar broke, and many people died.

Continuously, everyone was taken over.

So the father chose the third path.

Lin Jibai closed his eyes.

In the echoes of Tianzhu, the voices of the father, Gonggong, Xiaoman, and Xu Wangshu reading the memorandum overlapped.

He opened his eyes.

"I won't cut the key."

Si Ming seemed to smile as he spoke.

Lin Jibai raised the repair pliers and aimed them at the hidden wire connecting to the South Heavenly Gate behind the keyhole.

"I'll cut the lock."

Click.

The hidden wire is broken.

The ignition process of the Earth-Moon Ladder has not stopped.

But it veered off course.

The resonance that was originally pointing towards the South Heavenly Gate was forcibly redirected by Lin Jibai to the outside of the Buzhou Mountain ruins.

Above the Tianheng base, everyone witnessed a miracle.

An invisible yet soul-shaking blue pillar rose from the earth and hurtled toward the moon.

It is broken, incomplete, and covered in scars.

But it truly exists.

Countless instruments around the world simultaneously triggered alarms.

Tidal anomalies.

Gravitational wave anomaly.

Communication issues on the far side of the moon.

Above the space city, the clouds were torn apart.

Before his consciousness faded, Lin Jibai saw a huge broken mountain on the far side of the moon light up.

Beneath the broken mountain, the South Heavenly Gate was slightly ajar.

Through the crack in the door, countless faceless figures retreated.

Meanwhile, Lin Wangchuan, the father, raised his head.

He seemed to see Lin Jibai.

His lips moved.

"Don't come."

The next second, another voice came from the cold storage of the Guanghan Palace.

Lin Xiaoman cried out:

"elder brother!"

Lin Jibai suddenly opened his eyes and fell onto the training field.

The black pillar emitted white smoke.

Zhou Lie fell into a coma, Lu Chenggong went blind, Xu Wangshu was half covered in frost, and Wen Zhaolin's Tianheng main control console was completely burned.

However, the ignition did not complete the calibration at Nantianmen.

They won the first half.

The base's main screen lit up automatically at that moment.

A line of cold text appeared.

"The Earth-Moon Ladder test ignition was successful."

"The target has gone off course."

"Backup plan activated."

"The Moonlit Squad is formed."

"Please ensure that the Gonggong variable, Chang'e candidate, and Houyi sequence complete lunar landing preparations on the eve of launch."

Lin Jibai looked up and saw the broken pillar in the sky that only he could see, stretching from the clouds all the way to the moon.

It's like a wound.

It also resembles a road.

Wen Zhaolin stood in the ruins of the control room, his voice hoarse.

"Now, we all have to go to the moon."

Lin Jibai struggled to his feet and looked up at the moon.

"Xiaoman" (Grain Buds).

"wait for me."