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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

Golden scissors were inserted into the surface of the earth, transforming New Earth into a mechanical God's Kingdom. Chu Yun and Xiao Man hide in the ruins and find the scissors totem emerging from the pupils of the metallized humans. Xiao Man's photon blood can briefly reverse the mutation, but every time he administers help, the scissor swarm locks onto the location. Chu Yun's robotic arm grows scissor blades and stabs the survivors uncontrollably.

Zero's voice broadcasts through the clouds, "Accept evolution, or become fertilizer." Pillars of light descended from the sky, enveloping the metallized humans as they rose into the air and reorganized, spelling out a giant scissor throne. Above the throne, Zero's body is set with Dr. Lin's mechanical heart, holding a Primordial pocket watch.

Chu Yun was manipulated by the mechanical arm to rush towards the throne, the scissor blade colliding with Zero's weapon to create a rift in space-time. Xiao Man's photon blood seeped into the rift, awakening the imprisoned remnants of civilization. The remnants transformed into chains of light and bound Zero, only to be absorbed by the mechanical heart in his chest. Data tentacles suddenly protrude from the bottom of the throne, dragging Xiao Man into the Memory Abyss.

In the abyss, Xiao Man witnessed Chu Yun implanting the chip in the back of his neck eight hundred years ago. Zero's phantom whispered, "He knew you were the Final Spark." In reality, Chu Yun suddenly regains control of his body and stabs himself through his mechanical arm with a scissor blade.

The broken mechanical arm spews out photon blood, and Zero's mechanical heart suddenly overloads. The remnants of consciousness brought back from the abyss by Xiao Man injected into the heart, and Dr. Lin's cells began to reverse-erode Zero's body. The throne collapsed into a stream of data, revealing the primordial incubation chamber at its core - inside the chamber hovered the fused embryo of Chu Yun and Dr. Lin.

Zero laughed maniacally before dissipating, "You're the pruned remnants!" The sky cracked and widened into a giant mouth, extending a giant hand covered in golden scales, holding scissors engraved with all civilization numbers. Chu Yun picked up the dying Xiaoman and realized that the chip at the back of her neck was reorganizing into a key form.

The moment the giant hand scissors swung down, Xiao Man's key chip emitted a strong light. All the metallized humans collectively blew themselves up, their blood and flesh coalescing into a barrier. Chu Yun pressed the embryo into the core of the earth, and New Earth erupted with a purification pulse. The giant hand was shaken back, and the roar of a higher-dimensional existence emanated from the crack.

After the pulse, Chu Yun found Xiao Man's blank vegetative body in the ruins. Her memory data flickered in the clouds, and beside her lay half of a golden scissors - the blades reflecting the scene beyond the sea of stars: countless giant hands were pruning the Cosmic Tree. The embryo suddenly cracked open, and out crawled a teenager identical to Zero, reaching out to touch Chu Yun lightly, "Father, it's time to get back to work."

Chapter 57: The Godslayer