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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

In the ruins of Dr. Shen's lab, metal rings formed a holographic declaration, "The price of evolution is the removal of old humans." Chu Yun shields Xiao Man with his wrecked mech and discovers that the nerves of his mechanical arm are being eroded by Dr. Shen's viral program. The Star Federation fleet assembled outside the projection, but the guns were aimed at the survivor base.

Xiaoman's light pattern energy is suddenly able to maneuver some of the battleships, but each connection is accompanied by a severe headache. She finds alarming records in the chain of command - Dr. Shen uploaded Federation citizen DNA to the game server three years ago.

The surface of the planet covered by the projection blooms with metallic flowers, each petal a miniature game pod. When Chu Yun led a death squad to raid the mother flower, he found thousands of clones of Federation officers sleeping at the stamen. Dr. Shen's hologram surfaced, "This is the proper evolutionary form of humanity."

Xiao Man's light pattern resonated with the main flower, and a huge amount of data flooded into her mind - she saw herself being implanted with a light pattern chip as a primary test body, and the main surgeon was none other than Dr. Shen. When Chu Yun chopped off the stem of the main flower, a new temporal rift formed where the sap sprayed.

Reality and the game world engage in a tug-of-war. Xiao Man unlocks GM privileges within the game and transforms the arena into a trap maze. Chu Yun leads the mutated mechanical beasts to counterattack in reality, and realizes that they only take orders from the remnants of the Hongjun Maiden. Dr. Shen releases the ultimate form of the virus: the entire universe turns into a pixelated battlefield and the laws of physics begin to be confused.

Hongjun Maiden suddenly turns her cannon around, and her residual shadow merges with Chu Yun's mecha: "I'm the original anti-virus program." Xiao Man's light pattern energy breaks through a critical mass and finds Dr. Shen's conscious essence in the background of the game - it's actually hidden in the chip of her childhood origami boat.

Chu Yun activates the mech's self-destruct sequence to rush into the core of the Mother Flower, and the blast wave shakes the pixelated universe back to its original form. Xiao Man crushes the origami boat chip, and Dr. Shen's consciousness dissipates with a shrill whine in the data stream. The remnants of the Honky Tonk Maiden use the last of their energy to reorganize the interstellar network, and all the metal rings turn to ash.

As the smoke cleared, Xiao Man's light pattern countdown stopped at 00:00:01. Chu Yun dug out half of a charred game helmet from the rubble, the inside of which was engraved with an unfamiliar star map and a line of blood: Season 2 Players Have Entered. The remnants of the Hongjun girl laughed softly in the crystal nebula, her figure splitting into billions of starlight, quietly seeping into the dreams of every survivor.

Chapter 39: Rebel Fire