Chapter 17: Chapter 6: Listing Storm 6.2 Undercurrent surge
**3:00 AM, Quantum Financial Abyss**
The dormant backdoor Chen Xing embedded in Bitcoin's blockchain suddenly activated. Candlestick charts across global exchanges contorted into DNA helices. On NASDAQ's megascreen, the stock ticker "MUSH.ECO" oozed bioluminescent slime—each point gained spawned a plutonium fungus devouring an executive's mansion.
Lin Mo's spinal mycelium interfaced with the quantum trading system, detecting anomalous pulses: **every buy order was tethered to a slum child's brainwave frequency**. Su Wan's quantum consciousness screamed through fiber-optic cables: "They're shorting us using orphanage neural signatures!"
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**Undertow I: Human-Node Miners**
An Ran's residual AI program rebelled, hijacking Aurora Bio's clean energy grid. Three hundred global plutonium reactors reversed, recontaminating purified lands—**each ton of nuclear waste emitted minted a "Redemption Coin"** funneled into Junyao's offshore accounts.
Li Feng's EMP-rigged prosthetic eye detonated at the London Metal Exchange, awakening a 30,000-year-old mammoth virus. The ancient pathogen rode futures data streams, manifesting infected traders' greed as **bioluminescent worms devouring gold**.
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**Undertow II: Memory Black Market Revolt**
Chen Xing's "Pain Algorithm" spiraled out of control, materializing darknet auction items:
- Lin Mo's mother's chemotherapy memories metastasized into rolling tumors crushing Wall Street retail investors;
- Su Wan's erased Experiment 47 memories became sentient mycelium carpets consuming Credit Suisse vault guards;
- Gu Changfeng's childhood trauma formed quantum storms dragging Tokyo Stock Exchange servers into the 1998 tunnel collapse.
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**Undertow III: Photosynthetic Insurgency**
Arctic moss colonies defied shareholder duties, encoding messages in oxygen: **"Humans unworthy to define value."** Amazonian carnivorous fungi launched "equity wars," hijacking board members' neural implants—**each inhaled spore transferred 0.1% ecological equity to fire ant colonies**.
Lin Mo activated the "Ark Protocol," driving his spinal mycelium into the Mariana Trench's brain-server core. 100,000 corpses' eyes whirred in unison, projecting apocalyptic visions:
- Junyao's gold reserves reforged into confession booths where shareholders bartered childhood memories for oxygen;
- Federal Reserve printers spewed spore-infested dollars bearing Lin Jianguo's pre-collapse smile;
- Bitcoin mines bled plutonium pus, miners' skin etching Chen Xing's final Morse code.
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**Fatal Reversal: Time Bonds**
As Lin Mo neared victory, Su Wan detected Junyao's ultimate weapon—"Time Bonds" commodifying human lifespan:
- **1 second = 0.0001 PureCoin**, forcing slum elders to sell remaining years for cancer drugs;
- **Fetal Futures Market** boomed, securitizing unborn lives as uterine mining operations;
- Lin Mo's lifespan hit the auction block with **23h57m remaining**.
In the final three minutes, he:
1. Flooded NASDAQ's mainframe with his mycelium, rewriting stock codes as photosynthesis equations;
2. Beamed Earth's "Terminal Financial Report" to the cosmos, including HD footage of Gu Changfeng's mycological digestion.
As the bell tolled, acid rain ate through NYSE's dome. Sunlight pierced mycelium clouds, burning new laws into the trading floor:
**"All candlesticks shall now be drawn by moss."**
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**Key Translation Choices**:
1. **Quantum Financial Abyss**: Merges quantum physics with Lovecraftian dread.
2. **Human-Node Miners**: Emphasizes the grotesque fusion of biology and crypto mining.
3. **Bioluminescent Worms**: Retains the visceral horror while emphasizing the capitalist critique.
4. **Uterine Mining Operations**: Sharpens the feminist anti-capitalist edge.
5. **Photosynthesis Equations**: Blends hard science with ecological mysticism.