Chapter 3: Blood Sacrifice to Cloud Dream

When the water of the Yangtze River poured into the Jingzhou Museum, cultural relics restorer Su Evening Qing was desalinating the Warring States Chu Jane. The bronze display case suddenly oozed black slime, and the canonical handle of the Zeng Hou Yi chimes twisted into a DNA double helix structure before her eyes. When the first mechanical compulsion sculpture crashed through the glass of the dome, she saw that the bamboo slips of the Chu Rhetoric - Nine Songs were being reorganized into binary code.

"Xiangjun Ruoxi does not return!" The mechanical compulsion sculpture emitted an electronically synthesized Chu Earth invocation tune, and the sound waves shattered the glass of the display case. Su Wanqing's protective gloves were cut by the bronze fragments, and her blood dripped onto the Qin simplices of Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land - the bamboo fragments recording the laws suddenly activated, etching out the word "Prisoner" in seal script on her palm.

Thundering from the direction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, nine J-20s converted into bronze dove birds swooped down. When Su Wanqing hid in the dark room of the Progress Hall, she found that the ancient map of Yunmengze was projected on the wall, and her own blood was outlining the movement trajectory of the Mechanical Xiangliu on the map.

Lingkong stood on the quantum collision ring on top of Yueyang Tower, clutching his wife's burnt wedding ring in his hand. The wreckage of the Mechanical Compass Sculpture floats on the surface of the Dongting Lake, each body playing fragments of his wedding video - the moment Su Yuan threw the bouquet is looped infinitely, and the bouquet of alabaster orchids reconfigures itself into a bronze chime on the surface of the lake.

"It's about to start." He swallowed the capsule containing his wife's ashes, and the synchrotron device lit up with an eerie blue glow at his spine. When the collision ring was activated, the mocking beasts on the flying eaves of Yueyang Tower suddenly opened their mechanical eyes, and the bronze bells on the eaves shook out the quantum harmonics of the Heavenly Question.

108 bronze pillars rose from the surface of the lake, and the Taotie pattern on the surface of the pillars was devouring the consciousness of the survivors. Lingkong saw his own reflection quantumizing in the lake water, while Suyuan's phantom was crawling out of the mechanical compulsion sculpture's abdominal cavity - she was holding an anti-matter charm in her hand, and holographic fluttering ribbons of Dunhuang Feitian were drilled out of the stitches at her neck.

In the incubation chamber of the Shennongjia underground base, the umbilical cord of Chu Yun's embryo is fusing with the nanobots. Biologist Shen Nanxing stares at the gene-editing instrument, and the screen shows that the trigrams of the 44th sign of the Pushback Diagram are rewriting the DNA chain.

"The 49th gene iteration failed." The embryo suddenly grew bronze scales in the AI's cold beep. Shen Nansheng ripped off his white coat, revealing the Hetu Luoshu tattoo on his chest-the code that had been engraved on his skin before the last psychic blew himself up.

When the alarm sounded, the pupils of the mechanical candle dragon were reflected in the blast glass of the incubation chamber. Shen Nansheng picked up the embryo and rushed to the emergency passageway, realizing that the fire door handle had turned into the hilt of the Yue Wang Goujian sword. At the end of the passageway, Wang Mang's father was blocking the sharp claws of the mechanical compulsion eagle with his body, and a holographic projection of the Sichuan River Horn floated out of the military water bottle.

The bronze bell at Wuhan Pass suddenly chimes on its own, and the sound of the bell shakes the Yellow Crane Tower into bronze powder. Su Wanqing finds half a piece of Chu Jian in the ruins, stained with the black oil of a mechanical compulsion sculpture - the goo is reorganizing the totem of Xi Wangmu from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The collision ring in the sky overclocked, and the Yueyang Building began to quantum leap. When the entire building appeared on the Bund in Shanghai, he saw Lu Li a hundred years later chopping off the reverse scales of the mechanical candle dragon. Su Yuan's phantom suddenly materializes and detonates itself with an anti-matter charm, and the shockwave melts the bronze pillars into the map of the Nine States recorded in the Yugong.

The embryo in Shen Nanxing's arms suddenly cried, and the sound wave shattered the bronze scales of the mechanical compulsion sculpture. He saw images of Lu Li's battle flashing in the baby's pupils, while the monitoring screen of the incubation chamber showed - on the 23rd pair of chromosomes of the genetic sequence, Lin Han's quantum signature was clearly engraved.