A Ten-Thousand-Yuan Company Buys an Ocean

Han Jiu stepped through two rotten deck plates on his first visit. “Eight point three million for this?” he demanded, knee-deep in water. “The scrap plate on our boat is newer.” “Nothing above the water is valuable. What’s beneath it is.” After dark, Lan-Zero began construction. *Firefly One* carried the energy lattice beneath the platform. Structural printing consumed old piles, wrecks, and aquaculture frames. Matter flowed into underwater compartments. Robotic arms grew across the dark seabed like an inverted steel forest. Su divided every unusual power draw among “tidal generation,” “cold-chain storage,” and “seawater hydrogen.” Suppliers saw many small orders. No one saw them assemble into one factory.