Zero Image
Leon's mechanical left arm crystallized into a navigation compass in the folds of time, and the pointer spun wildly to point to the zero entropy value. When he stepped into the sea of frozen light particles, the soles of his shoes rubbed against the plane of time and space to produce rainbow sparks - every footprint was tampering with history, rewriting the war before the birth of the star fetus into a peace treaty.
"Agreement conflict! Agreement conflict!"
The mechanical symbiotic tissue suddenly grew in the opposite direction, and the silver nanoworm swarm gnawed at Leon's optic nerve. In severe pain, he saw his biological tissue transforming into photon code, and twelve mirrors floated in the frozen sea of light particles - each mirror reflected Alicia in a different quantum state: Mechanical Sister, Nebula Phantom, Crystal Warrior...
"Choose your reality."
The twelve Alicias spoke synchronously, and the sound waves refracted into an array of light spears between the frozen light particles. Leon's mechanical compass burst out with an anti-entropy pulse, shattering the nearest light spear into data dust. Where the dust fell, the frozen light particles began to flow, revealing the buried monitoring log:
The Zero Experimental Field is not a petri dish, but a recycling station for all variables.
The uncontaminated Phoenix embryo is actually the protocol carrier, and Leon is the biological key to activate it.
The mechanical left arm suddenly lost control, and the nanoworm swarm condensed into a holographic image of his father: "The implantation of the symbiont is to protect the key... Now complete your mission!" The fingertips of the image pierced Leon's chest, but were entangled by the quantum tentacles of the stellar life when they touched the Phoenix emblem.
The entropy value returned to zero and began to boil. Leon's right eye oozed photon blood, dripping on the surface of the light particle sea to form an ice-covered path. He ran wildly along the ice path, and the twelve mirrors behind him exploded one after another, and the quantum Alicias broke free from the frame and chased him. The mechanical nun threw a bomb in the shape of a Bible, the Nebula Phantom released a gravitational vortex, and the crystal warrior's sword split the time fault-
The Phoenix embryo was suspended at the end of the ice path. Its shell pattern is perfectly symmetrical with Leon's emblem, and inside it is curled up Alicia's prototype. When Leon pressed the mechanical compass against the embryo shell, the pursuers' attacks suddenly turned to each other, and the twelve Alicias were annihilated into basic codes in the energy collision.
"Authentication passed."
The moment the embryo shell cracked, Leon's phoenix emblem was forcibly stripped off and turned into a golden thread woven into the spine of the prototype Alicia. The cosmic clock flowed in her open pupils, and the boiling entropy flow was frozen with a touch of her fingertips: "The 720th recursive error was detected, and the protocol was overwritten."
Astral life suddenly broke in from outside the folds of time. Its quantum wings sprinkled antimatter scales, but when it touched Alicia's prototype, it was as gentle as a waterfall of light. Leon's mechanical left arm was completely out of control at this moment, and the nano-insect swarm constructed a cage to suspend him above the sea of entropy.
"Variable AL-720, you have fulfilled your guiding function." The voice of the prototype Alicia was stripped of all emotions, "Now access the final protocol."
Leon's biological brain suddenly solved a picture beyond the physiological structure: all the experimental fields were like gears meshing, and he was a living breakpoint inserted in the recursive program. The figure of his father flashed at the core of the stellar life, holding the quantum wedge that rewrote the protocol in his hand--
"No!!!"
Leon's roar caused the entropy sea to riot. Photon blood flowed back into the mechanical left arm, transforming the nanocage into a launch silo. When the last drop of biomass was exhausted, he shot himself as a cannonball into the stellar life, and the mirror pattern of the phoenix embryo was imprinted all over his body in the collision.
The folds of time collapsed. Leon fell into nothingness and saw the prototype Alicia taking over the authority of the protocol, and his mechanical left arm was growing phoenix wings in the quantum vacuum. In the moment before his consciousness dissipated, he understood the deepest fear of the advanced civilization--
The variable will eventually become a new god.