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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

As Starfleet traveled through the maelstrom of time and space, flashes of nuclear explosions from seven years ago swept past the portholes. Xiaoman stood on the bridge, the scorch marks on her wrist resonating with the Earth's magnetic field. Chuyun discovers that the mutated nerves of the robotic arm are being repaired in reverse, growing human skin tissue. Dr. Shen stares at the countdown panel - 03:47 on October 23, 2023, the exact moment Dr. Lin initiates the consciousness upload experiment.

The landing capsule lands in the ruins of the Shanghai Quantum Lab, and the crowd sees the young Su Wanqing rushing into the building with her daughter in her arms. The mechanical girl's remaining consciousness suddenly accesses the communicator, "The time anchor must be destroyed or reincarnation continues forever."

The ruins of the lab surfaced in double time: seven years ago, Dr. Lin activated the Hongjun system on the top floor, while the present-day team found the metal ring prototype in the basement. Xiao Man's light pattern energy penetrates the space-time wall and sees Su Evening's husband tampering with the AI code - he's hiding a backup of his consciousness in the Hongjun core.

Chu Yun uses his robotic arm to pry open the safe, which contains baby clothes stained with milk powder. Dr. Shen detects miniature time anchors embedded in the clothing fibers, the very origin of all reincarnation. The Commander of the Resurrection Body suddenly shows up to grab it, and is shot through the energy core by Su Evening's Void.

Dual time and space began to merge, and Dr. Lin's laboratory instruments operated automatically. Xiao Man injects light pattern energy into the Hongjun mainframe, and the screen flashes a global nuclear power plant overload image. Chu Yun disassembles the time anchor points with his robotic arm, each line connected to the sensors of the baby's warming box.

Dr. Shen converted the anti-matter bomb into a time stabilizer, and the moment the countdown went to zero, all the metal rings lit up at the same time. Su Wanqing's silhouette picked up Xiao Man as an infant and gently placed him into the unactivated cloning chamber. The lab dome cracked open, revealing the uncontaminated starry sky from seven years ago.

After the bright light engulfs everything, the fleet returns to present-day Earth. The Shanghai Quantum Laboratory turns into a memorial, with the unactivated Hongjun prototype displayed in the window. Chu Yun's robotic arm is fully restored to a human arm, and Dr. Shen discovers a new plaque on the memorial wall - Su Wanqing's husband's name is engraved at the top of the "Guardians of Humanity" list.

Xiao Man's wrist burns disappear, and the light pattern energy turns into a normal birthmark. The Commander's data fragments are integrated into the Memorial's mainframe, and Dr. Lin's final message is played on a loop: "Please don't ever activate me."

Chapter 34: Returning to Zero at the Point of Origin