The Roman "Water-Flow Pattern pottery shard" Valeria had brought formed a "resonance between urban water management and mountain agriculture" with the Inca "Terraced-Field Pattern"; the Global Mountain Conservation Organization presented a live link: the Xiangxi Heritage Learning Station sent a video of "Bamboo Grove Fist" and bamboo patterns used to protect slopes, while the Congo Rainforest service station demonstrated the connection between the "Leaf-Vein Pattern" and rainforest soil and water conservation, carrying the concept of "symbiosis within the global ecological order" across mountains and seas. Before they left, Kino gave Muhammad a wool blanket woven with the "Pleiades Pattern" and the paths of the "Astral Field-Guarding Steps." "This blanket is woven with the soul of the terraces and the warmth of civilizations around the world. Looking at it is like looking at the starry skies over the Inca mountains." That winter solstice, Muhammad returned to Hangzhou with the wool blanket and the Astral Terrace AR Manual. He spread the blanket beside the Silk Road Heritage Stele in front of Chen Jialuo's Tomb, where, together with keepsakes such as the Alpine cold-weather blanket, the Maasai wool blanket, and the Maya jade pendant, it formed a "panorama of the ecological order of global civilizations." Di Yun and Granny Hua looked at the "Astral Field-Guarding Diary" Kuito had uploaded to the Global Pattern Digital Platform, their eyes filled with gratification. "Senior Lin, Senior Chen," Muhammad said softly, "from the Inca astral terraced-field patterns to the Alpine Snow Mountain Astral Pattern, and then to the Maasai Grassland Astral Pattern, what we have passed down has never been symbols, but humanity's reverence for and protection of nature's order. Now, through young people's hands, that reverence is being passed on across terraces, snowy mountains, and grasslands." West Lake's winter snow fell on the wool blanket, yet could not cover the warmth of the land held within it. In the distance, Leifeng Pagoda stood like a silent mountain sentinel. Muhammad knew that the Young Heritage Vanguard Team's journey would continue-the next stop might be the Congo Rainforest, or perhaps the Ancient City of Rome. But wherever they went, the moral principles of A Deadly Secret and the warmth of patterns from around the world would remain forever bright, like the starry skies over the Inca mountains, guiding human civilization toward coexistence with nature and continuing a new chapter of culture that would never end. A new chapter of A Deadly Secret: symbiosis of star-chart and plant patterns in the Congo Rainforest. Around the spring equinox, the Young Heritage Vanguard Team's off-road vehicle once again drove into Africa's Congo Basin-Moka, an elder of a Pygmy tribe, had sent a third invitation, hoping to deepen the revitalization of the "Rainforest Star-Chart Pattern" and the "Plant Frost-Protection Pattern." The "Plant-Breathing Step" the Pioneer Team had previously designed had already helped the young people understand how rainforest plants grew. Now, with global attention turning to "winter protection of tropical ecosystems," the elder hoped to uncover the deeper logic of "symbiosis among humans, the rainforest, the stars, and plants" within the patterns, so that the younger generation could not only "identify medicinal herbs through plant patterns," but also understand the Pygmies' survival wisdom of "using the stars to protect plants." Muhammad led members including Soka, Karen, Marco, Lucio, Kam (a young tribal boy from Congo taking part for the first time), Diego, Karu, Lina (a girl from the Alps), Pacha, Valeria, Isabel, Enzo, Hans, and Kuito along a damp rainforest path toward the tribe's winter camp. Standing before a grove of upas trees, Elder Moka pointed to the "Sirius Pattern" painted on a trunk in red earth and said, "This pattern is our ancestors' 'guide to protecting plants from frost'-the time Sirius rises in the winter night sky corresponds to the arrival of low temperatures in the rainforest; the 'Vine-Wrapping Pattern' beside it shows a way of wrapping seedlings to help them withstand cold winds. But children these days only know how to wrap seedlings in plastic sheeting. How would they know that the stars can warn of low temperatures?" Kuito stroked the Inca astral terraced-field wool blanket he carried with him, remembering his experience using the "Pleiades Pattern" in the mountains to give advance warning of frost damage to the terraces:
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