Lake Base

Three days later.

Tengzhou City, Dongshan Province.

During China's ancient Eastern Zhou period, an extraordinarily gifted and highly subversive genius had emerged here.

As a youth, he had worked as a shepherd and learned carpentry.

Later, wearing straw sandals, he traveled the world on foot.

Later still, he took in countless disciples and founded a powerful independent school.

He then devoted himself to science, proposing theories of epistemology, logic, cosmology, mathematics, and Ingenious Wooden Mechanisms.

After his death, his ideas continued to spread far and wide, and later generations honored him as the "Saint of Science."

On the shores of Weishan Lake, 150 kilometers from Tengzhou City.

Green mountains encircled the area, and the lake water rippled like an emerald mirror upon the earth.

A massive thirty-meter-tall statue stood in the middle of the lake.

It depicted an ancient old man holding a walking stick, dusty from travel as he hurried along in pursuit of knowledge.

Four characters were inscribed below: Master Craftsman Mozi.

A breeze swept past.

The tranquil lake suddenly rippled, and a straight line abruptly cut through the center of Weishan Lake.

Immediately afterward, the lake split in two down the middle.

They were actually two movable hatch doors, covering an area a thousand meters across and equipped with soundproofing and water-recovery systems.

The lake water parted, forming silent waterfalls on either side.

The entire Weishan Lake was an entrance.

The entrance to a vast underground base.

In the sky.

Light pulsed and flickered several times before a white Ark Aircraft slowly appeared, its visual-reflection camouflage deactivated.

It descended silently into the entrance beneath Weishan Lake.

The water closed behind it, as though nothing had happened.

Below.

There was a massive cylindrical space, four hundred meters deep and several hundred meters in diameter.

It was brightly lit