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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 origin seed took root in the Federation starfield, and silver vines drilled out of the mechanical ruins. Chu Yun witnessed the mechs being swallowed by the vines, metal nerves fusing with plant fibers to form a new species. Xiao Man's pruning mark flickered brightly and darkly, triggering the vines to storm out with each flash. A black rainstorm descends from the starry pupil, the raindrops cauterizing Dr. Lin's face on the surface of the vines.

The survivor camp suddenly collapses, revealing the underground laboratory - the primordial Chu Yun body in the frozen chamber has disappeared, leaving behind only the hatch cover inscribed in blood, "The true virus is hope."

The vines bear fruits, and within each fruit is sealed a Mechanical Beast embryo. Xiao Man sliced the fruit with his photon blade, and the embryo actually transformed into a mini Chu Yun form. The starry pupil suddenly projected the leaderboards, "Wild species contamination level 71%, activating secondary purification." The swarm of vines began to attack the survivors, and those touched were instantly metalized.

Chu Yun realized that his blood could pacify the vines, but it would accelerate the plants' mutation. As he cuts his palm to feed the mother vine, a resonance of the Primordial Origin resonates from the ground - suspended at the core of the vine is Dr. Lin's mechanical heart, which is fusing with the Origin Seed.

Xiao Man bursts into the underground core, but the photon blade is absorbed by the mechanical heart. A hologram of Dr. Lin emerges, "You are my most perfect creation." The heart suddenly cracks open, extending silver nerves to wrap around Xiao Man, and the Pruning Seal is forced to activate. Chu Yun smashed the shield with his mech, and the vine sap corroded off half of his face.

When the mechanical heart came into contact with Xiao Man's chest, the starry pupils suddenly distorted, "Administrator privileges detected ..." All the vines stopped attacking and bore white flowers. Where the petals drifted away, the metallized survivor began to recover, but lost his eyes.

Xiao Man gained control of the purification system, only to find that the price was mind synchronization. Silver-colored mycelium grows from Chu Yun's face wound, and he can hear the commands of his star pupil. The Primordial Being is reborn from the mycelium and presses the Seed of Origin into Chu Yun's chest, "It's time to execute the final command."

The starry pupil unfolded the interstellar blueprint, marking 742 zones to be purified. Xiao Man's Photon Blade hung between Chu Yun's neck, and the Pruning Seal flashed madly. Vines suddenly wrapped around the two of them, forming a twin cocoon in a tangle of mycelium, the cocoon shell floating with a blood-colored countdown - 00:07:00.

Chapter 52: The Wild Era