Episode 26 of 'Rebirth: A New Life in the Cryptocurrency World' - 'The Last Train of the Silk Road'

The fluorescent lights in the biology lab buzzed at two in the morning.

Su Tingting squatted in the shadow of the incubator, her fingers brushing against the server's ventilation holes,

The acrid warning of a mix of humus and silicone filled the air —

She knew that on this night, what she was touching would be more than just plant genes.

Lin Feng held up his phone flashlight, the beam sweeping over hard drives labeled 'Genetically Modified Tomatoes',

Each hard drive stored over 10TB of dark web transaction data,

This data was not ordinary transaction records, but secrets related to money laundering in cryptocurrency and transnational smuggling.

A wave of unease surged within him: this conspiracy intertwining genes and blockchain far exceeded his imagination.

“This batch is going through Vladivostok, using glucose injection as insulation.”

The biology teacher's voice came from next door, calm yet filled with an uneasy trading atmosphere.

Lin Feng suddenly heard the notification sound of a Bitcoin transaction,

It was the listening program he had secretly installed three months ago while fixing Wang Hao's phone —

At that time, he thought Wang Hao was just an ordinary student,

But now he realized that everything was beyond his understanding.

Three months ago, the biology teacher explaining chloroplast transformation from the podium,

At this moment was injecting a SIM card disguised as a plant hormone with a pipette —

He did not know that he had become an unknown link in this dark web biological experiment.

Su Tingting suddenly grabbed Lin Feng's hand and pulled him into the sterilization cabinet.

Chu Yunting's henchman burst in, pushing a cold chain box.

Condensation dripped from the box onto the floor, forming a dark river of the Silk Road.

“This batch of 'Cacti' is going to Mexico, the recipient wants a 10% kickback.”

When the henchman lifted the box lid, Lin Feng saw not succulent plants, but vacuum-packed Bitcoin mining chips.

Those mining chips were refurbished from defective products of the Chu Yunting family's electronics factory,

The serial numbers were laser-etched onto the cactus spines.

When the barking of the drug detection dog pierced the night sky,

Lin Feng tightly held onto Su Tingting's sweaty hand as they curled up behind the centrifuge.

He saw through the small window a corner of embroidery peeking out from the biology teacher's lab coat pocket,

The stitches outlined a familiar Bitcoin symbol — exactly like the pattern on the handkerchief left by Su Tingting's mother.

The agents burst in, their boots covered in vegetable leaves from the cafeteria kitchen.