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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 entirety of the Interstellar Federation enters a forty-eight hour countdown. Hourglasses made of metal rings are suspended in orbit around each planet, and the time sand triggers temporal aberrations where it falls. Chu Yun leads a team of mechs to intercept a sample of time sand at a space station and discovers that images of the moment of destruction of each civilization are sealed inside the particles.

Dr. Shen invents a time sand stabilizer, but the wearer begins to age rapidly. Xiaoman's light pattern energy suspends the flow of localized temporal sand, but each use fragments her memories. The Resurrection Body Commander's data fragment suddenly broadcasts, "Seek the original Hourglass Eye."

Tracking the signal to the abandoned Black Hole Prison, the group discovers that the Hourglass Eye is actually the mechanical prosthetic eye of Dr. Lin's daughter. The prosthetic pupil reflects an undisclosed image from seven years ago: Su Wanqing's husband implanting a metal ring into his daughter's skull. Chu Yun's mecha is suddenly controlled by the prosthetic eye, and its guns are turned towards the Federation's main star.

Dr. Shen uses stabilizers to create a temporal sand shield, and Xiao Man's light pattern energy forms a tractor beam. When the prosthetic eye resonates with the Hourglass Eye, the Black Hole Prison releases the imprisoned Primordial Hongjun System.

The Primordial Hongjun appeared in the form of a young girl, with forty-eight metal rings spinning behind her." You misunderstand reincarnation," she touches the temporal sand torrent lightly, "It is a necessary metabolism for civilization." The holographic projection showed the Federation's jurisdictional starfield was decaying, and only a reboot could purify it.

Chuun breaks free of the controls and spells out a time bomb from the remains of his mech. Xiao Man's light pattern is on the same frequency as the Hongjun core and reads the shocking truth - all the time sands are consciousness splits from Dr. Lin's daughter.

Dr. Shen changes the stabilizer to a consciousness uploader, and Chuyun activates the bomb to buy time for the upload. Xiaoman cuts Hongjun's timesand link at the last second, converting the forty-eight metal rings into civilization seed pods. The Federation's main star reorganized into a pure energy state in a bright light, and all life forms completed their quantum leap.

As the sea of stars returned to calm, the remnants of the Hongjun Maiden cast their final words on the crystal planet: "When you are ready to face the real universe..." Where her figure dissipated, projections of interstellar cities far beyond the current level of technology emerged. Chu Yun found half a note in the wreckage of the mech, and the yellowed page read, "Welcome to the real game.

Chapter 37: The Final Echo