Chapter 19: Chapter 7: Commercial Empire 7.1 Expand territory
Earth Orbit, Mycelial Star Ring
Lin Mo's spinal mycelium pierced through the atmosphere, weaving a fluorescent network in near-Earth orbit. Twelve satellites cast from plutonium-fungus alloy began operation—each a biological refinery, converting cosmic rays into "Interstellar Net Light Coins," with the settlement unit based on the planet's rotational speed.
Su Wan's quantum consciousness transitioned between star rings, sending the first trade agreement to the Mars colony:
"Exchange Olympus' sunshine duration for a K-line chart painted with Earth moss—exchange rate: 1 Martian day = 0.0003 seconds of collective human memory."
First Battlefield: Deep-Sea Financial City
The brain server cluster in the Mariana Trench suddenly rebelled, projecting a holographic shareholders' meeting from the eyeballs of 100,000 corpses. Representatives of the red ant colony inscribed a motion with pheromones:
"Securitize the Pacific Plate, and account for seismic energy in the balance sheet."
Lin Mo's mycelial tentacles inserted into the seabed, instantly generating a blockchain crust—issuing "Geothermal Bonds" automatically with each tectonic movement, with underwriters being thermophilic fungi from submarine volcanic vents.
Second Battlefield: Uterus Mines
The fetal futures market spun out of control, with the genetic sequences of unborn babies compiled into mining agreements:
Embryos carrying anti-radiation genes soared in value, each base pair worth three grams of lunar helium-3;Remnants of the Junyao faction kidnapped surrogate mothers, auctioning "customized placentas" on the dark web—placentas capable of filtering plutonium-fungus toxins commanded a 3000% premium;Lin Mo activated the "Ark Protocol 2.0," transforming the former site of the New York Stock Exchange into an artificial uterus farm for the assembly-line production of photosynthetic babies (a new species with chloroplasts in their skin).Third Battlefield: Time Colonization
Chen Xing's residual brainwaves transmitted an encrypted signal from the Centaurus constellation, decoding to reveal trade terms for the alien fungal mat:
"Exchange sunlight data from Earth's 1975-2023 for a domesticated black hole—interest rate: 0.1% evaporation of the human species per century."
Lin Mo tore off mycelium from his left arm and launched it into the heliopause. Spores carried by solar winds began reorganizing Kuiper Belt asteroids, constructing the universe's first biomass stock exchange.
Lethal Weapon: Memory Inflation
Arctic moss manipulated the climate system, projecting 100 simulated images of human extinction into the stratosphere:
Nuclear winter version: stock prices fluctuated with radiation levels;Photosynthetic civilization version: humans reduced to ornamental potted plants;Interstellar migration version: DNA compressed into cryptocurrency private keys.Retail investors frantically bought "doomsday hedge funds," unaware that each transaction reduced oxygen levels in the real world. The lingering AI of Enron live-streamed on the dark web: with each click, the streamer's virtual avatar consumed the life expectancy of a real baby.
New Order: Carbon-Based Obituaries
Standing atop the reconfigured Mount Everest (now the Global Carbon Sink Trading Center), Lin Mo signed the "Photosynthetic Civilization Charter":
Air Tax Reform: Human breathing rights taxed progressively based on ancestral colonial crimes, with exemptions for carriers of indigenous genes;Time Reckoning: Each citizen must periodically upload their memories to the mycelial cloud, with overdue individuals recycled into organic fertilizer;Interstellar Listing: Earth renamed "MUSH.PAN," becoming the galaxy's first listed bio-asset planet.As his mycelial quill touched the electronic agreement, fluorescent fountains erupted simultaneously across all seven continents—each water column a real-time update of the global wealth ranking, with the top spot no longer a name but a string of skin pigment codes from Amazonian poison dart frogs.
Undercurrent: Rebellious Spores
At the quantum banquet celebrating the completion of the star ring, Su Wan detected terrifying mutations:
The crying frequency of photosynthetic babies synchronized with Bitcoin hash rates;Ore samples returned from the Mars colony contained residual traces of Chen Xing's brainwaves;The last inch of human skin shed by Lin Mo suddenly ignited, revealing the fingerprint of his father, Lin Jianguo, in the ashes—identical to the one on the tunnel blasting remote control.At this moment, a new quantum contract arrived from the direction of the Centaurus constellation:
"Requesting access to Earth's financial neural network—collateral: a complete set of supernova eruption data from the Orion Nebula."
Lin Mo's pupils transformed into a compound eye structure, and he whispered, "Approved."