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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 starry pupil descended into a silver suitcase containing a miniature pocket watch and golden scissors. The moment Chu Yun touched the scissors, the mech's nerves mutated into a tree root shape. The ground surface of the Federation's main star cracked open, raising a cultivation pod of the same model as the giant cocoon, and inside the pod was a group of juvenile-bodied mechanical beasts.

Xiao Man's silver chip automatically accessed the Federation network, and the holographic screen displayed a cosmic health assessment report, "Current civilization survival rate 0.03%, full pruning recommended." The survivors are horrified to find countdowns floating above each other's heads - the shortest with only 07:00:00 remaining.

A holographic tutorial pops up from the suitcase: the mechanical beasts in front of Chu Yun's eyes are labeled "lesion area to be pruned". When he hesitates, the beasts suddenly go berserk and attack the survivors. Xiao Man builds a barrier with her photonic blood, the value of which decreases with the countdown. The silver chip suddenly took control of her hands, automatically executing the pruning program - the light blade decimated one tenth of the survivors.

"This is the necessary price!" The starry pupil descended with a reward: the pruned area was revitalized. Chu Yun's mecha nerves sprouted scissor devices, automatically targeting the next "diseased target" - the federal parliament building under reconstruction.

Xiao Man forcibly removes the silver chip, leaving a glowing pruning mark on her forehead. Chu Yun realizes that the mech cannot defy the pruning command, and the mechanical arm has pierced through the foundation of the parliament building. The underground reveals a dusty laboratory, where an eight-hundred-year-old Chu Yun's main body is sealed in a freezer - covered in silver conduits, which are connected to the primordial Giant Cocoon prototype.

When the current Chu Yun touched the freezer, the conduit suddenly pierced his spine. A scoring screen appeared in the starry pupil: "Gardener synchronization rate 91% ... Memory erasure program initiated." Xiao Man's light blade severed the conduit, and the primordial mechanical beast - shaped like an enlarged silver pocket watch - rushed out from the black liquid gush.

The Primordial Mechanical Beast bites Xiao Man, and the Pruning Seal is injected with the virus code. Chu Yun pierces the beast's eye with golden scissors, and space and time suddenly stand still. The primordial Chu Yun's main body in the freezer opened its eyes, holding a grain of glowing seed in its palm, "This is the uncontaminated origin."

When the seed touched the soil of the present world, the entirety of the Federation's mechanical creations instantly weathered. The pupils of the starry sky contracted angrily, raining down a black resin storm. Xiao Man found his reflection holding golden scissors in the rain, with a smiling Dr. Lin standing behind him. Chu Yun gripped the sprouting seed and heard a new broadcast from the void, "Wild sprout detected, opening the Ultimate Purification Protocol ..."

Chapter 51: The Everything Gardener