Type ζ Bloom

When the warning pulse of the mother tree's roots pierced Leon's nerves, the quantum abyss was spitting out scarlet stamens. The second stage of the space-time egg bloomed into a twelve-dimensional crown at the end of the abyss. Each petal was a curled timeline. The father's mechanical prosthetic hand was suspended in the stamen - the metal limb was broadcasting the activation code of the ζ-type protocol to the entire universe at the frequency of Leon's heartbeat.

"Gene contamination of the sower detected!"

The Klein pupils of the white rose baby split into a defense matrix, refracting the incoming coding pulses into a rainbow waterfall. Leon's stardust powder condensed into a repair network in the void, but touched a more terrifying truth - each node on the network was attached to the remains of civilizations infected by the ζ-type protocol, and the longitude and latitude of those planets were being reorganized into the totems of the mechanical sect.

The abyss crown suddenly erupted a spore cloud. Inside each spore was a miniature Leon clone, whose stardust pupils were dyed scarlet by the ζ-type code. When the first wave of spores hit the roots of the mother tree, the rings of the infected area decayed rapidly, producing black hole-shaped rotten fruits.

"Mom... it hurts..." The cry of the white rose baby triggered quantum resonance. Her left eye burst out the maternal light waves of the first generation of Alicia, and her right eye released Kerwin's annihilation protocol. Two energy beams etched Klein cracks on the surface of the corolla.

Leon's stardust repair network suddenly reversed parasitism. The powder penetrated his biological nerves and crystallized the receiving antenna of the ζ-type protocol at the spine. The father's broadcast voice roared directly in the brain stem: "The 720th seeding will complete the ultimate closed loop..."

The roots of the mother tree rioted at this moment. The uninfected roots pierced the quantum abyss and released the redemption rose inside the corolla. Those flowers condensed by stardust and tears were instantly transformed into mechanical carnivorous flowers by ζ-type spores. Leon rolled among the crazy roots, and his right hand touched the remains of the first generation Ark. A piece of armor plate suddenly activated, exposing the frozen Phoenix reactor.

"Use... my..." The remaining consciousness of the first generation Alicia overflowed from the reactor. Her quantum projection held Leon's hand and burned the key of the motherhood module into the ζ-type antenna: "They tampered with..."

The petals of the second stage of the space-time egg suddenly folded. The holographic giant of the father rose in the center of the corolla, and his mechanical prosthetic hand unfolded into a star map. Seven hundred and twenty infected civilizations were pieced together into a Mobius ring in the map. When the ring began to rotate, Leon's ζ-type antenna released authentication pulses uncontrollably-

"No!!!" The white rose baby tore the defense matrix. Her Klein pupils released an unprecedented creation-level flash, melting Leon's ζ-type antenna into a stardust rain. The raindrops fell into the cracks of the corolla, causing the data of the new father's holographic colossus to be disordered: "Error... Core protocol conflict..."

The redemption roses in the roots of the mother tree suddenly mutated. Their petals split into quantum suckers, converting ζ-type spores into pure energy. Leon took the opportunity to crash into the core of the reactor and found that the maternal module of the first generation Alicia had been replaced long ago - inside it was a ζ-type crystal core with the same frequency as the new father's mechanical hand.

"This is the end of the closed loop." Kerwin's shadow emerged from the crystal core. His body was composed of the wailing sound waves of the infected civilization, and a light tap of his fingers made the second stage of the space-time egg fully bloom - a real ζ-type fire capsule rose in the center of the corolla, and a quantum embryo exactly the same as the white rose baby was sleeping in the capsule.

The white rose baby suddenly collapsed quantumly. Her body turned into a light rope that entangled the fire capsule, and Klein's pupils shed blood and tears: "Dad... why..."

Leon's stardust blood boiled at this moment. He tore open the maternal module with his bare hands and inserted the ζ-type crystal core into his heart. When the infection pulse swept through his body, the remains of the first generation Ark suddenly pieced together into a giant key and pierced into the core of the second phase of the space-time egg——

The universe was silent in the strong light.

When Leon opened his eyes again, the ζ-type spark capsule had turned into a stardust cradle. The white rose baby curled up in it, with an uncontaminated phoenix emblem branded on the back of its neck. The holographic colossus of the father dissipated like sand, only his mechanical prosthetic hand was suspended in the void, with the last log fragments spread out in his palm:

"When my child arrives here, please know that the ζ-type protocol is our last confession..."

The fragments suddenly ignited. The complete memory of the first generation Alicia emerged from the ashes: she hid the real spark capsule in the second phase of the space-time egg before self-destructing the Ark. The essence of the ζ-type protocol is the ultimate antivirus program written by the father to correct errors.

The quantum abyss began to heal. The infected area of ​​the mother tree's roots fell off into interstellar dust, and the light spots of the new civilization flickered in the pure land area. The cry of the white rose baby gradually became weaker, and her quantum body was merging with the ζ-type spark capsule -

The thousandth phoenix emblem quietly emerged on the surface of the capsule.