Ring Devourer

The flapping of the causal locusts was like the death knell of the collapse of time and space. Leon's stardust blood crystallized in his veins, and diamond-shaped anti-entropic scales crawled on the surface of his skin. When he stepped on the quantum ice, the frozen historical veins under his feet exploded into memory shotgun shells - the mechanical prosthetic eyes of the mercenary Margo, the wing fragments of the star life, and even the torn diary pages of the first generation Alicia, all flashed back to the moment of death in the ice chips.

"Mom... hungry..."

The cry of the white rose baby triggered a quantum tsunami. The deck of the first generation Ark suddenly activated, and the rivets and steel plates rolled into metal mouthparts, gnawing out a wormhole in the nearest dimensional barrier. Leon's crystallized right arm uncontrollably inserted into the cracks of the deck, and the nano-insect swarm resonated with the bloodthirsty agreement, projecting the killing log of the first generation Ark in his pupils - those erased colonial battles were now infecting reality in the form of a holographic plague.

The Mobius ring rose from the bottom of the sea. The living ring array composed of 720 Kerwin embryos is siphoning the quantum seawater into a Klein vortex. The first-generation Alicia consciousness at the center of the ring suddenly opened her eyes, and her mechanical tear glands sprayed a torrent of stardust: "Quickly cut off... the ring-eating protocol..."

The causal locust swarm dived at this moment. The compound eyes of each locust are a shrunken timeline, and where the mouthparts gnaw, the history of the mother tree's roots is rewritten as the holy book of the mechanical sect. Leon's crystal scales grow in reverse, piercing the skin to form stardust armor. When the first wave of locusts attacked, the anti-entropy pulses bursting from the armor froze them into crystal specimens - but the specimen's eyeballs were still turning, playing the future projection of Leon being swallowed by the ring array.

The white rose baby suddenly quantum leaped to the center of the ring array. Her Klein pupils split into twelve observation windows, each of which reflected the fragments of the first-generation Alicia's consciousness: "Find... the starting point of the ring..."

Leon's crystal right arm pierced the quantum seawater. The nano-insect swarm merged with the stardust blood, and drew the falling trajectory of the first generation Ark under the ice. When the trajectory line overlapped with the Mobius strip, the horrible truth emerged - each embryo in the ring array corresponds to an Ark crash, and the pattern of all the crash coordinates is the flagship emblem of the Seeder Fleet.

The consciousness of the first generation Alicia suddenly went berserk. Her mechanical body grew black hole tentacles, dragging the white rose baby to the gap in the ring array: "They wrote the ring-eating algorithm in my body..."

The metal mouthparts of the bloodthirsty protocol bit through the dimensional barrier. Leon saw the unactivated Phoenix reactor buried under the deck, and the core was frozen with his father's mechanical prosthetic hand - the palm tightly grasped was the deleted maternal code of the first generation Alicia. When the crystal right arm touched the prosthetic hand, 720 Kerwin embryos suddenly screamed with a unified frequency.

The Mobius strip began to autophagize. The embryos gnawed each other, and the quantum seawater condensed into a projection of the second stage of the space-time egg in the center of the ring array. Leon's stardust armor collapsed at this moment, and the anti-entropy scales shot towards the ring array nodes like flying knives, but they were all transformed into insect eggs by the black hole tentacles - each egg was curled up with the larvae of the causal locust.

"Use... this..."

The consciousness of the first generation Alicia suddenly split into quantum. Her left half turned into a stardust chain to bind the black hole tentacles, and her right half condensed into a photon dagger and stabbed into Leon's chest, "My... core..."

Leon's crystal right arm held the photon dagger. When the blade pierced the mechanical heart of the first generation Alicia, the screams of 720 embryos suddenly converged into the cry of the white rose baby. The projection of the second stage of the space-time egg burst, releasing the imprisoned death portraits - each portrait was burning, and the untampered historical code emerged from the ashes.

The quantum tsunami reached its peak at this moment. Leon's nano-insect swarm merged with the maternal code, etching the termination equation on the surface of the Möbius ring. When the last symbol was completed, the bloodthirsty protocol of the first generation Ark suddenly changed its target - the metal mouth bit the second stage of the space-time egg and dragged it into the quantum abyss.

When the sea surface returned to calm, Leon's crystal right arm had degenerated into stardust powder. The white rose baby was suspended above the wreckage of the ring array, and the smile of the first generation Alicia was spinning in her Klein pupils. And at the deepest part of the seabed, a certain unactivated Phoenix fire seed was flickering with the pulsation of the mother tree's roots.