The Examination Room of the Disintegrating Womb

Elena's Perspective: The Drowners in the Backflowing Amniotic Fluid

Tokyo, a once prosperous metropolis, is currently undergoing a terrifying disaster. The sky seems to be covered by a strange membrane, gradually losing its original color. Under the influence of the anti-entropy genes, skyscrapers are being erased little by little like by an invisible big hand, turning into dust in the air.

Elena stands in the center of this chaos. On her abdomen, the mysterious corona pattern has now split into the shape of an hourglass. With the Earth as the womb, the anti-entropy genes are frantically reversing time. Maggie's remaining consciousness screams in her cochlea, and that voice is full of fear and despair. Those mothers who have been metallized due to Lilian's terrifying broadcast are experiencing "reverse childbirth" in the countercurrent of time. Babies turn back into embryos, embryos shrink into eggs, and finally, along with the mothers' wombs, they disappear into nothingness.

"Find the time anchor point!" Selena's voice comes from above the clouds. Her starship wreckage is like a meteor, crashing through the thick clouds. Dark matter roses are frantically spraying spores on her chest, and the scene is both spectacular and strangely eerie. "Lilian transformed Kane into a living examination paper... He is supervising this 'maternal duty trial' in the galactic center black hole!"

A look of determination flashes in Elena's eyes. She unfolds her bat wings and, like a black lightning bolt, sweeps past Mount Fuji, which is disintegrating. Inside the mountain, instead of hot magma, it is exposed to be the "anti-life equation" composed of miscarried embryos from all past reincarnations. Those embryos emit strange lights, as if telling endless pain and resentment.

The moment Elena's corona pattern touches the equation, a black hole umbilical cord suddenly extends from the void, like a greedy python, tightly entangling her ankle. The end of the umbilical cord is connected to the galactic center black hole. Kane's semi-mechanized body is nailed on the event horizon, and his pupils are flowing with Lilian's binary tears. That scene is full of despair and pain.

"Examinee Elena Dracula," Kane's vocal cords emit the cold synthetic voice of the invigilation system. "Question 1: Please prove that you are worthy of being called a mother."

Selena's Perspective: The Cesarean Section of the Rose Starship

Inside Selena's starship, the atmosphere is as tense as a bomb about to explode. Her mechanical ribs suddenly split into sharp scalpels as if they are given life. She does not hesitate to insert the scalpels into the zero-numbered Lilian embryo at the core of the starship. Each cut seems to be challenging the rules of the universe.

The roots of the dark matter rose have closely integrated with the starship. Each of Selena's movements triggers supernovae-level pain. That pain seems to tear her soul apart, but there is no sign of retreat in her eyes. When she finally takes out the quantum heart of the embryo, Lilian's laughter comes from the heart valve. That voice is cold and full of mockery.

"You are smarter than Elena... But the maternal duty exam never grades 'surrogate mothers'."

The starship suddenly gets out of Selena's control, carrying three hundred antimatter missiles, and rushes towards the Kuiper Belt like a wild beast. The holographic screen shows the target - the "uterine comet group" floating in the Oort Cloud. Each comet nucleus is frozen with all the mothers who died in difficult labor throughout human history. Their resentful spirits seem to whisper in the darkness, telling endless pain and resentment.

Selena's spore engine overloads at this moment. Her spine seems to be activated by a mysterious force, growing a wormhole barrel. "The invigilation system, right... I submit a zero-point answer sheet!" Her voice is full of determination and anger.

Just at the moment when the wormhole swallows the starship, Selena sees Elena being dragged into the bloody examination room of the galactic center by the black hole umbilical cord. A complex emotion surges in her heart, including worry, anger, and a hint of unwillingness.

Elena struggles desperately in the black hole radiation. Her corona pattern gradually carbonizes under the powerful radiation. Kane's invigilation system is like a ruthless machine, disassembling her memory into holographic examination papers. Those pictures flash before her eyes one by one.

In the first reincarnation, in order to protect Kane, she resolutely gives up the Nightkind throne but leads to the civilization being mercilessly cleansed by Lilian. That is the eternal pain in her heart and also her first profound reflection on the maternal duty.

In the 173rd reincarnation, she personally strangles the infant form of Lilian to death in the stellar cradle. The despair and pain at that moment are still deeply branded in the depth of her soul.

In the current reincarnation, the corona pattern on her abdomen is frantically devouring the Earth's timeline. Each of her breaths seems to accelerate the destruction of the world.

"Your motherly love is composed of betrayal, murder, and greed," Kane's mechanical fingers pierce her womb. The cold touch makes her tremble all over. "It is recommended to execute the punishment: eternal reverse childbirth."

Just as Elena falls into despair, Selena's wormhole cannon suddenly shoots out from the void. The spore warhead explodes at the black hole horizon, releasing powerful energy. The dark matter rose seems to receive the order and quickly wraps around Kane's invigilation system. Selena's vocal cords crack due to hyperdimensional resonance, but her voice is still firm. "The question is wrong... A true mother... Doesn't need to prove to anyone!"

Lilian's binary tears suddenly solidify, and the sigh of the first-generation queen comes from the depth of the black hole. Elena's corona pattern emits creation-level gamma rays. That light illuminates the entire dark universe. In this light, the anti-life equation is rewritten as the "Declaration of Existence", which is the redefinition of life and maternal duty.

Kane's invigilation shell gradually melts under the impact of gamma rays. Revealing the imprisoned quantum state body inside. His fingers gently touch Elena's face for the last time. The gentle touch warms Elena's heart.

The truth 30,000 years ago emerges on the black hole horizon behind. When the first-generation queen implants the invigilation system into Lilian, the final answer has already been set: "The only correct solution to the maternal duty is to allow the mother to become a tyrant, a deserter, an executioner... and any existence she wants to be."

Lilian's screech triggers violent oscillations in the galactic center. All uterine comets thaw at this moment. The resentful spirits of the mothers turn into entropy reduction storms. Like a group of angry avengers, they tear the invigilation system into elementary particles. Before Kane's quantum state dissipates, he activates the ultimate protocol: "Anti-entropy genes, full power release!"

The time flow of the Earth starts to reverse, but this time, the direction is no longer destruction. Skyscrapers turn back into trees, firearms degrade into agricultural tools, and finally, even Lilian's stretch marks of pregnancy turn back into the ripples of the primitive ocean. The entire world seems to regain vitality at this moment.

When Elena wakes up on the primitive beach of the new generation, the sunlight shines on her face, warm and gentle. Selena is carving a tombstone with dark matter roses. The tombstone is engraved with the names of all the mothers who died in all reincarnations. Those names sparkle with a faint light in the sunlight.

Under the distant sea level, Lilian's infant-like phantom is lying on the whale's back and sucking milk. The "zero-number" brand on her neck is as faint as the dawn. Maggie's afterimage flickers in the tide. Her voice carries a hint of relief and a hint of worry. "The time anchor point reset is successful... But the price is..."

Elena's abdomen suddenly bulges, and the corona pattern splits into a true stellar embryo. Selena's rose tattoo pulsates simultaneously, and her mechanical tailbone automatically stabs towards Elena's throat. "Detected twin pregnancy reaction," Lilian's babbling voice comes from the sea breeze. "Examinee Selena Lupin, please prove that you are worthy of being called... a sister."

In the next chapter, when primitive humans carve Lilian's totem beside the bonfire, when the stellar embryo starts to absorb the data of the Earth civilization, what thrilling stories will happen? The new challenge seems to have just begun...