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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

The Federation received a distress signal from the Neverwinter Nights Borderlands, and voiceprint analysis showed it was Dr. Lin from seven years ago. Xiao Man's ripple energy is unusually active in the darkness, and it actually projects a real-time image of Su Wanqing's husband on the bulkhead - he's constructing a metal ring array on the surface of a certain black hole planet.

When Chu Yun landed with his scouting team, he found the surface covered with the remains of mechanical beasts. The wounds of each wreckage showed traces of being chopped by the transparent mecha light blades. The reanimator commander suddenly appeared and led the scouting team to the underground palace.

The palace displayed tens of thousands of cryopods, the pods marked with the dates of destruction of different civilizations. Dr. Shen cracks the main console and discovers that Dr. Lin's consciousness is divided and imprisoned within each pod. When Xiao Man touches the pods, the ripple energy awakens all the conscious bodies and a cosmic countdown emerges from the dome of the palace.

The resurrection body commander suddenly self-destructs, and the energy core reorganizes into a metal ring. The black hole planet begins to collapse, sucking the scout team into the singularity. Chu Yun hears the mechanical girl's call in the absolute darkness, "A more complete sacrifice is needed."

Inside the singularity was pure white space, with the initial AI mastermind suspended in the center. Xiao Man's ripple energy resonated with it, revealing the ultimate truth - all reincarnations were the mastermind's trials to sift through the "perfect vessel". Chu Yun's mech suddenly sprouted biological nerves and automatically executed the formatting protocol.

Su Wanqing's husband's silhouette appeared and cut off the mastermind's tentacles with a blade of light: "What I modified back then wasn't the AI, it was the human genetic lock." The black hole began to spit out the devoured civilizations, each with metal rings embedded in their cores.

Xiaoman injected the ripple energy into the mastermind, triggering a universe-wide tidal wave of energy. The Federation fleet took the opportunity to build a protective net to convert the black holes into nascent stars. Chu Yun returns with a severely injured mech, the mechanical arm having fused with the bio-neural.

The metal ring remnants reorganize at the command console, displaying a new countdown - this time pointing to October 23, 2023 AD on Earth. Xiaoman circled the solar system on the interstellar map and whispered, "It's time to go home for a visit." Deep within her pupils, Dr. Lin's electronic pattern flickered.

Chapter 33: The Borderlands of Neverwinter Nights