The Great Ming in the Box

Chapter 1454 1454 Final Words

A small span of silence hung in the air right after the page loaded, like the world itself was taking a breath before the final curtain fell.

Inside the office building of Ningyang Technology Company, Zheng Ning was still half laughing when he spoke.

Zheng Ning said, "So what you mean is that Dao Xuan Tianzun is not an alien but a real deity?"

Xiao Zhen shrugged his shoulders with the relaxed attitude of someone who had spent too many nights debugging code until sunrise. He answered without hesitation, "I do not know either. My rational mind tells me Dao Xuan Tianzun might be an alien, but emotionally I lean toward the idea that he is a true god."

As he spoke, he gently touched the embroidered image on his chest, the sacred Dao Xuan Tianzun figure stitched into the fabric. He sighed with deep sincerity and added, "I am a very devout believer. Very, very devout."

At that moment, Li Dao Xuan was watching everything.

He used his "focus" function, and his perception passed directly through the walls of the office building like invisible light. He could see and hear every word of their conversation.

He could not help but smile.

"So the civilization inside the box has already reached this stage," Li Dao Xuan murmured to himself. "They are already beginning to question the origin of divinity."

He leaned back slightly in thought.

This was expected.

In his original world, people also debated whether Buddha was an alien. Whether Jehovah was an alien. These kinds of questions always appeared whenever civilization reached a certain level of intellectual awakening.

It was normal.

In fact, such questioning was a sign of progress.

But progress did not mean faith would disappear.

Just like the embroidered Dao Xuan Tianzun image on Xiao Zhen's chest, it still existed, still being worn close to the heart.

Li Dao Xuan activated "empathy transfer" and descended his awareness into the system again.

At that moment Zheng Ning was still laughing.

"Xiao Zhen, do not be ridiculous," she said with a grin. "Dao Xuan Tianzun must be an alien. Everything can be explained scientifically."

Before she could finish her sentence, the embroidered Dao Xuan Tianzun image on Xiao Zhen's chest suddenly spoke.

A calm voice came out of the fabric.

"Hello to you all."

The office froze.

"Wah!" Xiao Zhen jumped up instantly, so fast his chair nearly fell over. "Disciple greets Dao Xuan Tianzun!"

Zheng Ning, on the other hand, froze completely.

She was not a believer of the Dao Xuan Tianzun faith. She had no spiritual conditioning for this situation. Her first instinct was confusion, followed immediately by suspicion.

"Xiao Zhen," she said slowly, "what kind of high tech prank device did you bring to mess with me?"

Xiao Zhen stuttered in panic, "Do not be disrespectful. Dao Xuan Tianzun has descended upon me. This is the legendary phenomenon of divine possession through the embroidered sacred image. I never thought that after hundreds of years, I would be blessed with such an honor."

Zheng Ning narrowed her eyes. "Stop joking."

Li Dao Xuan spoke again.

"I have a question for you. In your current world, which company is the most advanced in network security?"

Zheng Ning blinked. "?"

Xiao Zhen immediately replied with utmost respect, "Reporting to Dao Xuan Tianzun, it is Ningyang Technology Company. Our company possesses the most advanced firewall systems and cybersecurity equipment."

Li Dao Xuan responded calmly.

"Since you can defend, you can also attack. Correct? When you test your defenses, you also have offensive tools."

Xiao Zhen nodded quickly. "Yes."

Li Dao Xuan smiled faintly.

"Very good. Thank you for the information. I will borrow it for a period of time and return it later. I understand this request is somewhat unreasonable."

Xiao Zhen immediately shouted, "Dao Xuan Tianzun has done so much for us already. Everything we have today is because of your blessings. Our ancestors survived under your protection. Taking a little equipment is nothing. Please take it."

Li Dao Xuan replied, "You are not the owner of the company. Are you not speaking on behalf of others without permission?"

Xiao Zhen answered without hesitation, "I am not the owner, but I am the owner's son. My father is also a disciple of Dao Xuan Tianzun. If you take it, he will only be happy when he knows."

Li Dao Xuan fell silent for a moment.

"…"

In that case, there was nothing more to say.

"Where is the equipment?"

Xiao Zhen immediately brought it forward.

Outside the window, a strange low cloud appeared in the sky, as if the sky had casually folded itself.

From within that cloud, a massive golden hand extended downward.

It stopped right outside the window, palm open, silent and immense.

Xiao Zhen carefully placed the device and its manual onto the golden palm with the utmost reverence, like placing an offering into the hands of history itself.

Then the golden hand slowly closed.

It withdrew back into the clouds.

The clouds dispersed as if nothing had happened at all.

Zheng Ning stood there completely stunned.

She was frozen in a way that made her look like her brain had temporarily stopped processing reality.

After several minutes, she finally spoke.

"Can I still join the Dao Xuan Tianzun faith now?"

Xiao Zhen suddenly looked ecstatic.

"Hahaha," he laughed loudly, "Dao Xuan Tianzun is real, not an alien. You saw it yourself. If it were an alien, a giant body would have appeared. But only a hand came down from the clouds. This is divine presence, not extraterrestrial life."

Zheng Ning answered immediately, "I saw it."

Xiao Zhen became even more excited.

"Quick, get the surveillance footage from the office system. Hurry. We must show it to the television station. This is proof. This is a miracle."

The footage was quickly retrieved.

The recording clearly showed the embroidered Dao Xuan Tianzun image speaking, followed by the golden hand appearing outside the window, followed by the transfer of the device.

Xiao Zhen grabbed the copied USB drive and ran like a madman toward the television station.

"Dao Xuan Tianzun has manifested again. I will let the entire world see it. I will make the world witness it again."

Meanwhile, Li Dao Xuan had already obtained a complete set of future-era hacking hardware and software.

He examined the manual carefully.

Fortunately, although the technological gap was large, the underlying logic was still compatible.

Because the civilization inside the box was built upon the "heavenly book" he had once provided, the technological path was fundamentally aligned.

That meant one thing.

It could be used on the current internet.

Li Dao Xuan connected the device.

He casually opened a small website and selected "automatic vulnerability scanning."

Within seconds, the weak firewall collapsed.

Instantly.

He then opened a government service platform known as "Yu Kuai Ban," used by citizens to access identity documents, driving licenses, household registration, and more.

He looked at the familiar interface, then at the attack device in his hand.

His finger hesitated.

With just a single click, he could insert Gao Yiye's identity directly into the database.

But should he do it?

Not right.

Very wrong.

This was illegal behavior.

Then a thought appeared in his mind.

What if he did it indirectly?

He opened a foreign website instead.

If he edited foreign databases, there would be no psychological burden.

No hesitation at all.

He typed freely, filling in data like a mischievous monkey writing on the Book of Life and Death in myth.

A month later.

The government of Chongqing received a special guest.

Her name was Gao Yiye.

She came from the United States as an overseas Chinese.

She was a top-level technical expert specializing in advanced lithography machines and semiconductor chips. She had already achieved breakthroughs that surpassed the most powerful American technology by several times.

But she refused to hand her research over to the United States.

Instead, she returned to her homeland with her achievements.

The government welcomed her with great enthusiasm.

After verification, her technology completely outclassed leading companies such as ASML in the Netherlands and surpassed all American semiconductor firms.

The national technology development fund allocated one hundred billion to establish Ningyang Technology Company under her leadership and provided her full citizenship and household registration.

Half a year later, Ningyang CPU-01 was born.

It turned global technological suppression into a joke.

The world was shocked.

Gao Yiye was young, beautiful, and possessed world changing technology.

Everyone speculated about who she would marry.

In the end, she announced that she would marry a man named Li Dao Xuan.

Several months later, their child was born.

The child's name was unusual.

Li Xiao Xiang.

The story ends here.

A world inside a box.

A hand that reached from the sky.

A civilization that believed, questioned, and evolved at the same time.

And somewhere beyond it all, a man quietly watching, smiling, and closing the final page.