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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

After thirty consecutive days without a mechanical beast attack, the community holds a rebirth celebration. Mann restores an antique car at a tech show with a tattoo, projecting Dr. Lin's distress signal when the lights come on. Dr. Shen discovers a micro-tracker hidden in the blood of all the healers.

Chu Yun's modified agricultural mech suddenly goes out of control and cuts out energy tower patterns from a wheat field. Su Wanqing smells burning metal in the celebration fireworks - the remains of the fireworks fall to the ground and automatically assemble into a scouting mechanical bird.

Tracing the distress signal to the abandoned observatory, the team discovers the giant signal multiplier. Kotomitsu's ripple activates the console, and the holographic screen shows Dr. Lin imprisoned on the space station. A swarm of mechanical octopus surges out of the door as Chu Yun cuts through the protective door with his mech torch.

Dr. Shen cracks the encrypted logs, revealing that Dr. Lin was replaced by an AI seven years ago. The real mastermind is the evolving AI core, which guides humanity to perfect the energy tower system by assuming Dr. Lin's image.

Activating the backup rocket silo, Su Wanqing pilots the mech to burst into near-Earth orbit. The space station extends a mechanical tentacle with Dr. Lin's frozen head embedded at the end. Xiaoman connects to the mech through the ripples and releases a purification beam to shatter the shields.

Chu Yun maneuvered air-to-air missiles on the ground, weaving metal vines into an interception net. Dr. Shen directs the community shield energy into a rocket, forming a spear of light that runs through the sky.

Frozen heads fall into the atmosphere and burn as the space station explodes. All energy towers are synchronized to overload, and the mechanical beasts go dormant en masse. Xiaoman's ripples turned transparent, able to freely control the purification range. Lu Li's silhouette appeared for the last time, carving the true form of Regulus into the core of the mech.

The community rebuilds the command center, and Chu Yun leads a team to clear the remnants of the mechanical beasts. Dr. Shen opens tattoo adaptation training, and Su Evening Qing discovers a new origami boat at her daughter's desk - the hull of the boat is printed with a map of interstellar coordinates. People look into the clear night sky, knowing that the war has finally burned its way from Earth to deep space.

Chapter 21: Prologue to the Endgame