164: We respectfully invite the socially awkward Emperor Lin to ascend the throne!

The awkward atmosphere lasted for a full three seconds.

Every second felt incredibly long.

Wang Dalong's fat face turned bright red; he wished he could perform a disappearing act on the spot.

To lie right in front of the person involved—the retribution had come!

Jiang Wanqing's voice broke the dead silence.

She walked to a spare computer, her tone returning to its usual coldness: "Your video content involves a national treasure; every detail must withstand scrutiny. I will be responsible for the review."

The underlying meaning was: the score will be settled later, but business comes first.

Wang Dalong felt a sense of relief and forced a smile at her back that looked worse than crying, giving her a "received" hand gesture.

Lin Feng just nodded, put his headphones back on to isolate the outside world, and sat down at the main control console.

Once in work mode, Lin Feng was like a different person.

The shut-in who avoided eye contact disappeared, replaced by a general with absolute control over his domain.

"Fatty, arrange all the footage chronologically."

"Camera A, that time-lapse of 'the Dipper's handle pointing east,' pull that out separately."

"The close-up of pushing the stone slab from Camera B and the wide shot from Camera C—do a picture-in-picture comparison!"

His instructions came through the microphone clearly—concise, accurate, and straight to the point!

There was no one else in his eyes anymore, only the light and shadow on the screen and the world-shaking secret about to be awakened.

"Copy that!"

Wang Dalong dropped his playful grin, his expression becoming more serious than ever as his fingers flew across the keyboard like lightning.

Their seamless chemistry left Jiang Wanqing, who was watching from the side, in a daze.

She had originally thought Lin Feng was just an internet celebrity seeking attention.

Seeing him now, accurately picking out key shots from a massive amount of footage as if by instinct... she finally realized that this young man's success was no accident!

What kind of passion was that?

A nearly fanatical obsession and reverence for history rooted deep in his bones!

Lin Feng had already rehearsed the video's concept thousands of times.

He didn't want cheap sound effects or flashy transitions; he only wanted reality—the weight and shock coming from the depths of history!

The opening had no nonsense.

The scene cut to the starry sky over the Kunlun Mountains; under time-lapse photography, the Dipper's handle slowly pointed east.

The scene shifted.

Lin Feng and Wang Dalong worked together in the cold wind to push that massive stone slab.

The camera focused tightly on their faces, flushed red from lack of oxygen; the heavy, bull-like panting was kept entirely, clearly transmitted to every viewer's ear.

"Rumble—"

The stone slab opened, and the scene cut straight to five seconds of black screen, enough to make everyone's heart leap into their throat.

"Click."

The phone light flickered on, a beam of faint light piercing through seven hundred years of darkness.

Where the beam reached, the dust-covered secret room, the simple stone platform, and the golden box atop it were revealed to the world for the first time.

When the Lin Feng in the video brushed away the dust on the box, revealing those four Pre-Qin Seal Script characters—"Received the Mandate of Heaven."

Even someone as calm as Jiang Wanqing couldn't help but hold her breath.

As a top scholar, she knew the weight of those four words better than anyone!

"Brother Feng! Brother Feng!" Wang Dalong leaned in with a wink, "Should we edit in the 'Ascension' part? This is definitely the ultimate explosive point!"

Lin Feng's brow furrowed, instinctively resisting.

Making his most socially embarrassing moment public? That would be worse than killing him!

But he only hesitated for two seconds before remembering Zhou Zhenguo's entrustment.

He needed traffic; he needed to use the most popular, even the most playful way to let the whole world see and believe!

"Keep it." He nodded, his voice dry.

"But that dialogue of ours afterward—'Its only destination is the National Museum of China'—must be included word for word! Highlight it in red!"

The former was the traffic code, while the latter was the stance that had to be made clear.

Neither could be missing.

An hour and a half later, a video of fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds was freshly completed.

At the end of the video, there was no usual disclaimer.

Instead, there was a solemn line of white text on a black background.

【A tribute to every Guardian of history.】

Signed: Lin Feng.

Under the gaze of Zhou Zhenguo and Jiang Wanqing, Wang Dalong took a breath and clicked the upload button.

At that moment, it was as if an information nuke had been silently dropped into the ocean of the global internet... At nine o'clock in the evening, only two hours after the video was released.

"Holy crap! Brother Feng! The server exploded!"

Wang Dalong pointed at the computer, his fat face flushed red with extreme excitement, "The Bilibili technicians are practically crying on the phone! They said the background counter was blown out and can't refresh at all!"

He tremblingly opened Weibo.

Of the top twenty on the trending list, nineteen were dominated by the terms "Lin Feng" and "imperial seal"!

#The imperial seal of china has been found# [Explosive]

#Lin Feng Ascends the Throne on the Spot# [Boiling]

#Received the Mandate of Heaven, May he lead a long and prosperous life# [Explosive]

#The imperial seal of china Appears in the Kunlun Mountains# [Explosive]

...Meanwhile, major global social media, from Twitter to YouTube, were being swept by this Eastern video!

Top experts from countless countries were dragged out of their beds by the media overnight to analyze the video frame by frame.

The imperial seal in the video that everyone dreamed of, those four Golden Edicts, and Lin Feng's powerful line: "Its only destination is the National Museum of China"!

This information storm instantly cleared away all previous speculations about "prehistoric behemoths."

In its place was the shock and resonance originating from an ancient civilization!

And Wang Dalong's humorous line "Please, Brother Feng, ascend the throne," paired with Lin Feng's world-weary eye-roll, was instantly turned into memes by netizens and spread like a virus.

A nickname full of playfulness and contrast emerged, quickly reaching the top of the trending list!

#Great Emperor Lin#

"Hahaha! Brother Feng! Look!"

Wang Dalong was rolling in his chair with laughter, shoving his phone in front of Lin Feng.

"You've become a god! You're 'Great Emperor Lin' now! Hahaha!"

Lin Feng took the phone expressionlessly.

On the screen were silly memes of him photoshopped into dragon robes and wearing a crown by various masters, with comments piling up like skyscrapers below.

"Long live the Emperor, long live, long live!!"

"Greetings, Great Emperor Lin! Your Majesty, have you reviewed the Bilibili memorials today?"

"The fastest ascension process in history: Find the imperial seal -> Pick up the imperial seal -> Ascension successful!"

"LMAO, the person above forgot the most important step: Roll your eyes!"

Lin Feng stared fixedly at the title "Great Emperor Lin" being celebrated across the internet, then looked at his own world-weary face on the screen.

His vision went dark.

An unprecedented sense of despair, a hundred times stronger than when he was being chased by the Death Worm, instantly filled his mind.

It's over.

This time, it's really over.

He felt like he would have been better off being swallowed whole by that Death Worm back then.