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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

Half of the fruit grew in Xiao Man's arms, and the surface surfaced with the Federation's various planetary patterns. Chu Yun's mecha nerves were connected to the fruit's root system and could hear the earth's core wailing. The remnants of Hongjun manifested at the top of the bronze tree, his long silver hair wrapped around the remnants of Dark Star, "We are all planted in a lie."

The contraction of the Mirror Universe creates a super black hole that engulfs all fleets in its path. The metallization of the survivors intensifies and some begin to disintegrate into elementary particles. The photonic blood of Xiaoman reverses its flow into the Fruit, and a projection from the incubation chamber shows that the two universes were originally twin fruits of the Silver Tree.

The dark star remnants broke free and turned into roots that stabbed into the black hole. Chu Yun led the metallized troops to pursue, and discovered that inside the black hole was the main root of the Silver Tree - countless civilization remnants piled up into a mountain of fertilizer. Dr. Shen's bionic body is carving words into the main root, each stroke triggering galaxy-level earthquakes.

Xiao Man's fruit suddenly storms out, its roots wrapping around the bronze tree and sucking up energy. The remnants of Hongjun tore off his long silver hair and braided it into chains to bind Darkstar, "It's time to end this growth game." The mechanical body of the primordial gardener crawled out of the crack in the ground, holding pruning shears dripping with golden resin.

The gardener's mechanical body indiscriminately attacked all lifeforms, and space and time fractured where the pruning shears cut through. Chu Yun blocked the shear blade with his mech, and the nerves of his mechanical arm fused with the resin to form a new weapon. Xiaoman infused fruit energy into the photon blood, blowing up passages in the Silver Tree's main root.

The Dark Star Remnant took the opportunity to burst into the end of the passageway, where the Controller's Throne hovered - it actually sat the adult version of Xiaoman. The river of stars under her feet was pieced together from countless mirror shards, and she held a miniature version of the Silver Tree in her palm: "You are my best pruning tools."

When Chu Yun swung his sword at the throne, the blade pierced through the void. The adult Xiaoman laughed softly, "The real silver tree died when it was sown." The main root channel suddenly closed, and the dark star remnants died with the Hongjun branch buds. The gardener's mechanical body stops attacking, and the chest pod pops up with the logs of the first seeders - all civilizations are distress signals released by the Silver Tree on its deathbed.

The black hole collapses into a tree seed, and Xiao Man fuses half of the fruit with it. The newborn seedling pierced the dimensional barrier, its roots wrapping around the Master Controller's throne. As the Federation fleet cheered, the seedling suddenly cracked open into thin slits - inside were pruning blades magnified ten thousand times that were cutting through the entire universe. Chun Yun hissed in his last communication, "Destroy ... now." The signal is drowned out by the churning resin.

Chapter 45: The End of the Root System