Chapter 16: Chapter 6: Peak Showdown 6.1Preparing for listing
**5:00 AM, Gene Exchange**
Lin Mo's pupils reflected the holographic candlestick charts, each curve generated in real-time by global pollution indices. Dawnlight Bio's ticker "MUSH.ECO" had been oversubscribed 3,000 times during its dark web pre-sale, yet NASDAQ suddenly demanded an additional "bioethics margin deposit"—using 100,000 living human neurons as listing collateral.
"They want this." Su Wan's quantum consciousness seeped from the server, unfurling a luminous map of cerebral cortex. "Junyao buried neural bombs beneath the Tokyo Stock Exchange. When the listing bell rings, these brain cells will release memory viruses."
Chen Xing's residual consciousness rippled through the quantum trench: "The black box data from my wheelchair proves they manipulated stock prices using Alzheimer's patients' brainwaves."
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**First Kill Mechanism: Ethical Valuation Model**
An Ran's core chip was implanted into the NYSE main server, her AI persona forced to execute an "ESG rating surgery." The report revealed:
- **Environmental Score**: SSS+ (Plutonium fungi cleansed 37% of Earth's nuclear waste);
- **Social Score**: F- (IPO would displace 5 million energy workers);
- **Governance Score**: D (98% of board members non-human organisms).
"The solution lies here." Li Feng's cybernetic-eye legacy—a final encrypted message—showed Junyao held 300 "carbon hostages" whose emission rights could precisely fill the social score gap.
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**Second Kill Mechanism: Roadshow Warfare**
Beneath the dome of London's financial district, Lin Mo's spinal mycelium pierced the holographic projector. The roadshow PPT mutated into bioweapon animations:
- NYSE copper bell entangled by fungal tendrils, its chime shattering Junyao's gold reserves;
- DNA sequences of radiation victims emerging on stock certificates;
- Goldman Sachs' logo altered to "GOLD-SACK" (Golden Body Bag).
Suddenly, Su Wan's quantum consciousness alerted—Junyao's hired "memory editors" were rewriting investor dreams on the dark web, replacing Dawnlight's purification data with Chernobyl disaster footage.
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**Third Kill Mechanism: Code Pandemic**
Chen Xing's final program resurrected on the blockchain, detecting anomalies: all "MUSH.ECO" subscription contracts contained suicide code. Upon successful listing, subscribers' brain-computer interfaces would forcibly release plutonium spores.
"Counter with this." Lin Mo tore a mycelium crystal from his rib, grinding it into quantum powder—an "antibody program" devouring malicious code. When scattered over the underwriters, Goldman's CEO convulsed, fluorescent mushrooms sprouting from his ears, spores spelling: **"Greed Breeds Disease."**
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**Trump Card: Ecological Options**
At the final board meeting, Lin Mo activated the Noah Protocol's final chapter. Dawnlight allocated 51% equity to Earth's 137 least-polluted species:
- Polar bears gained climate hedge fund voting rights;
- Amazonian fungi held carbon trade veto power;
- Mariana trench tube worms' metabolism dictated dividend cycles.
"Now we're Earth's first non-human-led public entity." Lin Mo's vocal cords fully mycelial, sonic waves shattered bulletproof glass. "Want profits? First learn photosynthesis from moss."
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**Pre-IPO Night: Crimson Dawn**
Su Wan's quantum consciousness detected aberrant rhythms—Lin Mo's chest mycelium was rewriting articles of association:
- Article 4.8: Neonatal gene sequences accepted for IPO shares;
- Article 9.3: Board resolutions requiring approval from prehistoric viruses in Siberian permafrost;
- Addendum: Human shareholders must pay "respiration tax" to dominant species in their biomes nightly.
When An Ran's core chip intervened, Lin Mo's right hand morphed into a fungal cannon, obliterating the boardroom table: "IPO isn't an exit—it's carbon-based civilization's death warrant."
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**Bell Toll: New Era Requiem**
At NASDAQ's bell ceremony, Lin Mo's mycelium gripped the hammer. At the first chime:
- Global trading screens bloomed bioluminescent mushrooms;
- Junyao's ticker transformed into an endangered species list;
- Acid rain melted paper filings into fertilizer.
Su Wan's quantum consciousness breached dimensions in the final millisecond, compiling IPO data into DNA strands raining through the atmosphere. Each raindrop carried equity certificates—humans must now photosynthesize access codes through their skin to trade.