Drawing Bright Fire from the Sun-Sunfire!

Beijing, night fell.

The city looked like another Milky Way rising from the horizon.

Lights along the long streets spread outward in succession with the city's pulse.

Neon signs between the buildings colored the night.

They illuminated this city of more than twenty million permanent residents as brightly as day.

Yet people had long grown accustomed to it all. They would not even bother to look up at those lights.

Because when the sun set, the lights naturally came on.

This rule, like the sun rising as usual tomorrow, had become a matter of course in people's lives.

Only, within that taken-for-granted certainty, some things had slowly begun to change.

In September, among the mountains west of Future Science City in Changping, Beijing, a transformation was quietly taking place.

Late at night.

Part of the Nan Kou section of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway had been temporarily closed.

Several police cars led a convoy of heavy transport vehicles dozens of meters behind them, keeping their speed down.

The transport vehicles carried variable-pressure drive source modules weighing several hundred tons.

Led by the police cars, they exited the highway and quietly turned into the mountains.

Meanwhile, the Natural Gas Demand Peak Pledge passed in Bonn was also incorporated into the energy plans of every signatory.

Several power companies in Japan and South Korea were the first to revise their annual natural gas procurement volumes after 2035.

The European Commission also began drafting supporting regulations requiring member states to explain how their natural gas imports would peak in 2035.

Yet the natural gas market did not fall because of purchasing restrictions as many had expected. Instead, it rose another 10% in just half a month.

Because every buyer wanted to stockpile enough gas before the 2035 pledge took effect.

While countries busied themselves locking