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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 interstellar city projection lasted for three days at the Crystal Planet without dissipating. Chu Yun rushes into the projection in his probe mech, and his body is actually reorganized by quantization. He sees a "Real Game" billboard on a virtual street, and under the neon lights stands Dr. Lin from twenty years ago - he's handing out metal ring experience devices to passersby.

Dr. Shen warns via quantum-entangled communication, "The projection is devouring reality in reverse!" Xiao Man's light pattern energy forms a protective film, but downloads the game program when she touches the billboard. Her pupils floated in a countdown: 23:59:59, and the street NPC suddenly turned her head and smiled wryly, "Player Xiaoman has logged in."

Chu Yun found his body data in the game mall was clearly labeled: the mechanical arm was worth 3,000 time sands, and the memory chip was labeled at 5,000.When he tried to attack the vendor, the entire street warped into a data stream, teleporting him to the arena. The holographic opponent turns out to be a mechanical beast from seven years ago, but the battle mode becomes turn-based.

Xiaoman contacted Su Wanqing's avatar through the game's friend list, and the other party sent an invitation to form a team, "The ultimate copy requires five people to pass." Dr. Shen discovered the shocking truth when he hacked into the server - each NPC was a vanished Federation citizen consciousness body, and their flesh was rotting outside the projection.

The ultimate copy was actually a reset version of the Earth Community nuclear explosion scenario. Chu Yun is confronted with a mutated version of himself, and the mech operating mode is forced to lock. Xiaoman's light pattern energy materializes as a cheat code in the game, but every time it is used it results in the metallization of the real body. When the team defeats the final boss, Dr. Lin, the equipment that pops up turns out to be a metal ring key from reality.

Dr. Shen sends out an alert in the real world that the winning team's galaxy is being covered by a projection. The arena suddenly collapses, and Chu Yun grabs the key and falls into the data abyss, seeing Hongjun Maiden imprisoned in the core server array.

Chu Yun uses the key to unlock part of the server chains, and the remnants of the Hongjun Maiden whisper, "The game administrators are the culprits." Xiaoman intercepts the administrator logs before logging out - all operation records point to Dr. Shen's quantum communication code. The reality lab suddenly explodes, and Dr. Shen stands in a sea of flames with a metal ring in his hand, the disassembled Time Sand Stabilizer lying at his feet.

The astral projection begins to materialize, and Chu Yun's mech rusts and breaks at the junction between reality and reality. Xiaoman's light tattoo counts down to 00:07:00, and the remnants of the Hongjun Maiden reorganize themselves into combat form amidst the flames.

Chapter 38: The Border of Reality