Documentary: Lighthouse 43

'Coastal Dismantler' game completed

Game settlement phase

Three-star hidden objective: Locate Ewiniar's 'Eye of the Hurricane' core point and destroy the energy field node. Completed.

Game rating: Three stars

Game final chapter completion: 98%

Countdown refreshed: Current Death Countdown—'fifteen days.' Timer stopped.

Item obtained: Origin Origin Point—Trade Wind Core—Coastal Storm

Reward ability obtained: Modular Combination (Cooldown: 12 hours)

Special settlement reward: The money you earned at 'Schlote Heavy Industries' may be used as starting capital for your next character projection.

Three-star special settlement reward: After the storm passes, you may make one final anonymous purchase of a service through your own 'Schlote Heavy Industries.' (Hint: Malice from others can never be fully contained. It is best not to reveal your identity.)

Note: Among timelines with countless possibilities, resolutely eliminating all uncertainty is, in itself, a kind of romance.

Su Wen looked at the rewards.

A thought occurred to him:

"Trade Wind Core? Could it work together with the hyacinth I obtained?"

Thanks to the hyacinth,

his physical condition improved every day.

He walked over to the windowsill.

He watched the soft, bulbous plant gently sway its branches in the breeze.

Then he took out the pale-blue crystal from the Storage Box and placed it beside the flowerpot.

The next second,

strands of pale-blue, velvety light continuously stretched out from the hyacinth bulb and drifted through the air.

They then formed a ring-shaped pale-blue sphere in midair.

The core seemed to be drawn by the Origin Origin Point as well.

It floated toward the center.

Then it gradually melted in the breeze.

The current Trade Wind Core is of too low a rank and is in a dormant nourishment state.

R75 Specialized Nutrient Solution may be consumed to perform minor wind-field regulation.

"A new ability. It looks pretty good."

Su Wen said.

After the game ended,

the Storage Box's unlimited space also came to an end.

He kept several key high-tech items, so he could take them out whenever he needed them in reality.

Now,

the most important reward was the 'Schlote Heavy Industries' service purchase.

He looked over the prompt.

Then, for the last time, he opened the old employee terminal interface of 'Schlote Heavy Industries.'

He selected a service that was probably not all that meaningful, but also would not draw the attention of organizations like the Mental Review Bureau or the 'Zero-Sum Game.'

"Mr. Su, if you're late, no one's going to ask for leave on your behalf."

As the top student of her year, already preparing to apply to world-famous universities,

Jiang Menghan had never taken a day off for herself.

Yet she had reported sick leave for Su Wen for two consecutive days.

Of course,

as for whether she would help him request leave,

she was only saying that.

Other than a select few, no matter what anyone else said, it would not affect the decisions she made.

"I'm here. The moment the scent of breakfast drifted over, I was already awake."

Su Wen smiled, closed his computer, put on his coat, and went downstairs.

Only the window remained behind.

That delicate pale-blue hyacinth gradually revived in the breeze.

Ripples belonging to the Origin Origin Point slowly spread beyond the dimensions as well.

Half an hour later,

Su Wen held an umbrella as he walked with Jiang Menghan toward Coastal University through the endless rainy weather left behind by the passing hurricane.

He looked toward the distant coastline.

Although it was still shrouded in dark rain clouds,

the scene he had seen on the computer was no fabrication. So he said to the beautiful girl beside him:

"Once the rain stops, how about we go take a look at the seaside?"

"Have you figured out how we'll get there?"

The girl did not refuse.

On the contrary,

she seriously considered the possibility of this short trip.

Su Wen said breezily:

"We'll take my beat-up bicycle. I'll give you a ride."

Jiang Menghan blinked, her voice cool yet carrying a hint of teasing:

"Mr. Su, are you sure it won't fall apart?"

"Let's take the tram instead."

Su Wen probably had even less faith in the durability of his beat-up bicycle than he did in the Lighthouse 43 shelter.

Three days later,

Jiang Xiuyuan temporarily returned home and invited Su Wen over as a guest.

After learning that Su Wen had advanced to become a transcendent and saved Jiang Menghan, he solemnly expressed his gratitude.

But soon after,

he returned to the research institute for closed-door research.

For some people,

once they chose something, they would likely have to lose something in return.

Jiang Menghan understood.

Five days later,

the two boarded a tram bound for the seaside.

As the scenery outside shifted from a steel-jungle city back to nature,

the coolness, cleanliness, and earthy fragrance left behind by the rain gradually filled the air.

Looking at the sky, washed clean by the downpour and clear as glazed glass,

Jiang Menghan wore a dress, her fair calves exposed as she stepped barefoot onto the white sandy beach.

Then she gently sat by the shore and scooped up a handful of clear seawater.

Click.

The image froze.

That beautiful moment was forever preserved in a silhouette of time.

The girl waved at him.

"Su Wen, what are you doing?"

"Photographing a beautiful girl who makes people's hearts race."

Meanwhile,

a film quietly became an online sensation:

Documentary: Lighthouse 43

From an overlooked watchman to the only harbor in a hurricane

Released by: Azure

A story of Lighthouse 43, built at the end of the last century.

Then, after enduring the passage of time,

it finally waited for the engineer who needed it to arrive beneath the cliff face.

Then,

piece by piece, mechanical components were assembled into the foundation of civilization that stood against the hurricane.

The storm passed.

The film reached its end.

Su Wen and Jiang Menghan sat on a bench by the sea and finished watching the civilization documentary that had topped Twitter's trending list.

Night had long since fallen.

Recycler No. SLT-3701, the final thoughtful service you ordered has arrived. We wish you a happy life. Goodbye.

Employee information destroyed.

Schlote Heavy Industries Future Timeline has changed.

The Martian Rescue and Stellar Sea Expedition time nodes have changed.

In an instant,

the already dim night sky was flooded with light.

They were fireworks launched from below the mountain, like streaks of meteors shooting upward and splitting open the sky.

Flaming trails bloomed into seeds of flowers, flourishing wantonly in the darkness—purple dandelions like suns, falling green spider plants, roses woven from red and gold, white dahlias...

It was as though some Celtic poet had used the night as a canvas

and painted the entire starry sky into a sea of flowers.