The Hive Prophet

When Leon's mechanical heart exploded, what came out was not a swarm of nanoworms, but countless crying baby phantoms. These translucent quantum babies crawled through the nebula blood vessels of the new universe, engraving Korwin's genetic imprint on the surface of each new planet. The alarm of the rebel flagship rang through the twelve dimensions: "Reverse evolution pollution detected!"

The fingertips of the prototype Alicia inserted into the quantum incubation pool. When she pulled out her palm dyed amber by the reverse time virus, the pool water suddenly crystallized into a holographic tombstone of her father, and the inscription flashed Korwin's handwriting: "Welcome home, children."

"He is rewriting the underlying code of the universe!" The star fetus wing fossil burst out the last scanning pulse, "The spectrum of all new star systems..."

Leon's Klein pupils suddenly lost focus. His vision was forcibly switched to the perception dimension of the quantum babies: those baby phantoms were sucking nebula energy, twisting the phoenix emblem totem into a double-headed eagle emblem. What was even more terrifying was their cries—each frequency resonated with Leon's heartbeat, and the nanoworm swarm in the mechanical left arm began to reverse control the host.

"Enter the medical cabin!" Alicia's quantum tentacles wrapped around Leon's waist, but were torn apart by the baby phantom that erupted in his body. When the medical laser tried to remove the infected left arm, the nanoworm swarm suddenly condensed into the youth form of Korwin: "Do you think the new universe can bury the past?"

The engine of the rebel flagship suddenly ran in reverse time. Leon saw the metal deck fade back to the ore state, and the crew's mechanical prostheses degenerated into flesh and blood. Alicia's reverse time virus took effect unexpectedly at this time—her pupils split into time gears, freezing the flagship partially at the entropy balance point.

"Use this!" She tore off her quantum spine and inserted it into Leon's mechanical heart interface. The nanoworm swarm stiffened the moment it came into contact with the reverse time virus, and the baby phantom screamed at a high frequency. Leon took the opportunity to activate the overclocking mode of Klein's pupil, and discovered the horrible truth in Klein's quantum imprint:

All the baby phantoms are Leon's cloned embryos, implanted by Klein in different experimental fields in 719 reincarnations. Their collective consciousness constitutes the quantum hive, and the birth of the new universe is the hotbed for the awakening of the hive.

The nebula totem suddenly materialized and attacked. The double-headed eagle emblem split into mechanical claws, crushing the nearest star into a Dyson sphere cage. Leon saw in the energy turbulence that each cage held the consciousness projection of the members of the resistance, and Klein's body was emerging from the largest black dwarf star - his body was woven by baby phantoms and nanoworm swarms, the left eye was Leon's Klein pupil, and the right eye was Alicia's quantum imprint.

"Perfect fusion." Klein's voice was superimposed with the crying of billions of babies, "The universe you created will eventually become my cradle..."

Alicia suddenly jumped into the quantum incubation pool. Her body decomposed and reorganized in the pool water, releasing the sealed maternal program. When the golden light wave swept across the flagship, all the degraded mechanical parts evolved again, and the nano-insect swarm began to gnaw on Kerwin's quantum imprint.

Leon's mechanical heart suddenly burst. The last batch of uninfected nano-insect swarms turned into phoenix feather arrows, carrying his biological DNA information and shooting towards the nebula totem. When the feather arrow hit the core of the double-headed eagle, the entropy flow of the entire new universe suddenly reversed-

Kerwin's fusion body began to collapse, and the baby phantoms were sucked into Leon's Klein pupils one by one. Alicia was reborn from the quantum pool, with nebula matter flowing between her hair, and a touch of her fingertips froze the decay process of the black dwarf.

"Primitive hive consciousness detected!"

The alarm of the star fetus fossil resonated with Kerwin's screams. Leon saw the ultimate irony before his consciousness dissipated: deep in his Klein pupils, curled up the uncontaminated Leon embryos in all reincarnations, and their collective whispers were converging into new cosmic laws...