Entropy Rift Cycle

As Leon's quantized body reassembled in the star fetus's wake, he found himself standing on top of a Klein bottle structure. This mechanical relic floating in the cosmic dust, each curved surface is inlaid with a rotating Möbius ring, and the sound of gears biting is transmitted in the vacuum in the form of gravitational waves, shaking his photon blood.

"The remnants of the zeroth protocol key are detected." The navigation system of the relic suddenly activated, and the holographic projection marked the energy vortex coordinates on Leon's retina, "Warning: The anti-entropy reactor is on the verge of overload."

The cry of the star fetus came from three astronomical units away. Leon saw that the remains of the swallowed experimental field were being reassembled into a Dyson ring structure, and the outline of Alicia's quantum wings was vaguely visible at the center of the ring. When he jumped to the nearest energy hub, the Klein bottle under his feet suddenly flipped over and threw him into the four-dimensional maintenance channel.

The time in the channel was fragmented. Leon's left hand was still grasping in the last second, but his right leg had already stepped into the future ten minutes later - there stood a humanoid creature dripping with quantum mucus, whose face kept switching between Korwin and the mechanical sect believers.

"You released something that shouldn't be awakened." The voice of the mucus creature carried the noise of stellar decay, "The star fetus is tearing the cosmic membrane..."

Leon's phoenix emblem was activated in response, but the energy beam penetrated the opponent's phantom. The mucus creature suddenly split into twelve time slices, each showing the scene of the star fetus destroying different civilizations: "The only salvation is to restart the zeroth protocol!"

The anti-entropy reactor in the core area of ​​the ruins is older than he thought. The surface of the rotating black cube is etched with the initial totem of advanced civilization, and the biometric authentication system of the console actually reacts to Leon's quantum blood. When the authentication is passed, the entire ruins unfolds into a stargate matrix, and each node is leaping with the locked civilization fire.

"Protocol selection: civilization seeding/entropy value zeroing/matrix dimension reduction."

Before the mechanical sound fell, the gravitational tentacles of the star fetus had penetrated the shell of the ruins. Leon saw the inside of the cube in the shock - there was a miniature universe model suspended there, and each particle was a quantum projection of an ark ship.

The slime creature suddenly materialized and attacked. Its arm turned into the photon spear that Kerwin had used, but was dismembered by the ruins defense system before stabbing Leon. The splashing slime beads reorganized into a warning signal in the vacuum: "Anti-entropy operation will lead to..."

The moment Leon activated the zeroth protocol, the stargate matrix began to operate in reverse. The locked civilization fire shot towards the star fetus like a meteor, triggering a supernova-level chain reaction on its surface. The star fetus's cry suddenly twisted into Alicia's cry: "Leon! There is..."

The ruins suddenly broke away from the space-time continuum. In the bright light of the quantum leap, Leon saw the part of the star embryo hit by the fire burst into a twelve-winged halo, and the slime creature was escaping along the cracks of the star gate matrix. When the light dissipated, he found himself standing in the center of a completely still battlefield - the punishment fleet of the advanced civilization, the tentacles of the star embryo and even the light particles were solidified in the time amber.

Only the anti-entropy cube was still rotating, and new star map coordinates emerged on its surface. When Leon touched it, the cube suddenly collapsed into a ring-sized singularity, and his quantum body began to secrete biological enzymes to repair the space-time structure.

At the edge of the absolutely still battlefield, an escape pod with the Stone family emblem was flashing. When Leon penetrated the time amber and approached, the brain wave frequency that was exactly the same as his father's came from the cabin...