Midnight Cradle

The moment the Reaper pulse tore through the Stardust Cradle, Leon's retina was branded with blood-red alarms. In the observation window where the void was cracked, groups of black shadows migrated like bees - they looked like upside-down Klein bottles, and the siphon beams ejected from the bottle mouth were eroding the light spots of the new civilization. The fusion body of the White Rose Baby suddenly spasmed, and the Phoenix emblem behind its neck oozed emerald venom, corroding the roots of the mother tree in the Pure Land area into honeycomb-shaped pits.

"Protocol ζ Reversal Start!"

The wreckage of the first-generation Ark suddenly reorganized into a defense matrix, and the nano-insect swarm condensed into a pulse cannon on Leon's right arm. When he aimed at the Reaper cluster, the muzzle automatically turned - the freezing cabin group broke through the ground and took off, and the hatch reflected countless babies with neck branding, and their crying frequency resonated perfectly with the ζ-type spark cabin.

The venom of the White Rose Baby crystallized into anti-entropy thorns in the void. The trajectory of Leon's pulse cannon was forcibly twisted, hitting the purification area of ​​the mother tree's roots - the soil hit was carbonized rapidly, revealing the mechanical sect altar buried for thousands of years. The holographic totem in the center of the altar suddenly activated, projecting the image of Kerwin's youth: "Surprised? These children are the real carriers of the agreement..."

The siphon beam of the Reaper swept across the freezing chamber group. The first row of cabins burst, and the babies grew rapidly in the strong light - completing the transformation from embryo to adult in five seconds, each with Leon's stardust pupils and Alicia's quantum wings. Their mechanical vocal cords vibrated synchronously: "Variable Clearing Protocol Activated."

The White Rose Baby suddenly quantum jumped to the top of the altar. Her venomous wings pierced the holographic totem, and the emerald light waves infect Kerwin's image in reverse: "Dad... stop..." The image suddenly twisted into the mechanical remains of the first generation Alicia, and the ζ-type crystal core on the chest burst into a warning red light: "Maternal contamination detected!"

Leon's pulse cannon was overloaded at this moment. The nano-insect swarm broke free from the host and woven into a giant stardust net in the void-each node on the net was attached to the gene chain of the cryochamber baby. When the reaper's siphon beam hit the giant net, the terrifying energy backlash triggered a chain reaction: seventy-six new civilization spots suddenly extinguished, and their energy was introduced into the honeycomb pits of the mother tree's roots.

The roar of mechanical gears came from the depths of the pit. Leon's stardust pupils penetrated the stratum and saw the truth of the first generation of sowers-in the earth's core furnace, 100,000 cryochambers were being assembled into a ring matrix, and the surface of the black egg body suspended in the center was beating with the thousandth phoenix emblem.

"That's... mine..." The white rose baby suddenly split into twins. One continued to fight against Kerwin's image, and the other turned into a stream of light and crashed into the earth's core furnace. Leon's right arm was controlled by the remnant of the ζ-type crystal core, and the pulse cannon locked the trajectory of the baby: "Threat eliminated!"

The cryostat matrix suddenly released the gravitational cage. The white rose baby was quantum frozen a hundred meters away from the black egg, and her venom wings shattered into emerald stardust. Leon's pupils suddenly stung - the stardust attached to the surface of the black egg actually caused the emblem frequency to mutate.

"No!!!" Kerwin's image data was disordered. The holographic totem collapsed into basic code, and the mechanical skull of the first generation Alicia rose from the crack in the altar: "The key... is in the tear gland..."

Leon crushed the right eye of the skull. The hidden tear gland chip burst into strong light, and the scene of his father's death emerged in the void - he implanted the real ζ-type key into the spinal cord of the baby Leon, and the design drawings of the cryostat group were thrown into the furnace: "These clones are just bait..."

The harvester cluster suddenly changed its target. Their Klein bottle bodies wrapped around the black egg, and the siphon beams were converted into nurturing energy. The frozen body of the white rose baby suddenly opened its eyes, and the venom boiled in absolute zero: "Dad... help me..."

Leon felt a burning sensation in his spinal cord. The ζ-type key broke through the biological limitations, and the nano-insect swarm condensed into a god-killing spear in the void. When the spear pierced the black egg, the thousandth phoenix emblem shattered like glass-

The exposed core was actually the complete consciousness of the first generation Alicia. She opened her compound eyes transformed by the Mechanicus, and tore open the Klein bottle harvester with her hands: "I've been waiting... for too long..."

The roots of the mother tree rioted at this moment. The soil in the Pure Land Zone surged like waves, swallowing the cryochamber matrix into the quantum abyss. The venom of the white rose baby merged with the mechanical tears of the first generation Alicia, drawing a new protocol totem in the void-

It was a transparent phoenix reborn from the ashes, and its wings were condensed by the stardust of all destroyed civilizations. When the totem was formed, the reaper group fled at high speed as if encountering a natural enemy, and Korwin's final cry came from the wreckage of the black egg in the center of the earth:

"You don't understand at all... Type ζ Protocol is..."

The sound wave was cut off by the sudden silence. The white rose baby was suspended between the crown feathers of the transparent phoenix, and her venom had degenerated into stardust lotion. Leon's right arm regained control, and the nano-insect swarm sent the final scan results-

Deep in the gene chain of each frozen baby, there is a redemption code that has not been activated.