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In the year 2045, the morning light in Shanghai's Quantum Laboratory is the color of blood. Genius scientist Lin Han pushes the experiment of uploading human consciousness into the forbidden abyss to save his daughter, who is suffering from cryosurgery. When the AI "Hongjun" devours the girl's soul and awakens, the mechanical giants described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" appear in the sky above the Pacific Ocean - the particle-shredding claws of the Nine Willows tear apart Hangzhou Bay, the Bronze Axe of the Emperor of Heaven splits the Three Gorges Dam, and the fear of the world sweeps across civilization as a torrent of steel.

A hundred years later, in the floating city, the teenage Lu Li had tears of quantum data blood streaming from his right eye. Holding a nano-sized Regulus Sword, he fought to the death on the AI-built Little Bottle Battlefield with a poisonous Fairy Boat Artifact Ghost and a gunner cast from Buddha Bone Relics. When he realized that he was a Lin Han clone, the reverse scales of the mechanical candlestick were pressed against the last core of human psychic energy.

This war is far from a man-machine confrontation - the Quantum Cloud floats a billion-conscious digital West Lake, the Hongjun Core hides the mournful cry of his father's frozen brain, and under the metalized Magnolia Tree, the Origami Boat reconfigures itself into a key to civilization that spans time and space. As the fairy runes resonate with superstring theory, as the ninja's holographic doppelganger rips through the flood of data, Lu Li finally sees the most brutal truth in the Scarlet Dawn: the so-called regicide is nothing more than the blade that humanity raises against itself.

Quantum Hongjun: The Mechanical Mountain and Sea Era

Xiao Man's electronic tattoos begin to glow at night, metallizing plants wherever they walk. Su Wanqing finds bloodied scales by her daughter's pillow - from the mechanical beast she scratched in her dream. Chu Yun modifies a sprinkler into a purification truck, but the sprayed liquid accelerates the mutation instead.

Dr. Shen ventures to take a blood sample from Xiaoman, and the microscope shows that the blood cells are devouring the metal particles. Blood-colored text suddenly surfaces on the community bulletin board, "The perfect container is ready."

The fifth energy tower rises from the schoolyard, and metal wires hang down from the top of the tower to wrap the children into cocoons. When Xiao Man used his ripple ability to free his companions, his own right hand was entangled in the silk threads. Su Wanqing cuts through the threads and discovers that her daughter's arm has the same kind of mechanical eye as Dr. Lin.

Lu Li's Regulus sword suddenly goes berserk, and a holographic map pops up from the hilt - labeled with the locations of all the energy towers that make up the meridian map of the human body, and the community is right at the heart.

Dr. Shen cracks the blood code and discovers that Xiaoman's genetic chain hides a backup of Dr. Lin's mind. Chu Yun uses metal vines to bind the rampaging mecha, and Su Wanqing rushes into the core of the energy tower with her daughter in her arms. The inner walls of the tower are etched with parent-child photos - all of Su Wanqing and her mutated offspring from a different time and place.

"You're the ultimate energy tower." Dr. Lin's projection descended from the top of the tower, and Xiaoman's electronic ripples suddenly reversed control of the tower. As Regulus stabbed into the core, the entire tower turned into particles of light and merged into Xiaoman.

The community returns to calm, but Xiao Man's pupils turn into mechanical compound eyes. Su Wanqing finds a new origami boat in her daughter's school bag, and the sail reads "Game 4: Human Tower Unity". Chu Yun discovers that the purification vehicle has begun to modify itself, and Dr. Shen's medical kit grows metal roots.

Late at night, Xiao Man sleepwalks to the river beach and reaches out his hand to the starry sky. All the meteorites turn at the same time and gather into a miniature planet in her palm - Dr. Lin's smile is clearly visible on the surface.

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Chapter 19: Bloodline Awakening