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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 resin ocean suddenly solidified and formed a transparent floor. Chu Yun saw countless micro universes floating in bubbles through the floor, with pruning tools attached to the outside of each bubble. Xiao Man's vegetative body began to crystallize, and the pocket watch pattern turned into an energy scale. The remnants of Zero's body suddenly reorganized, and his mechanical fingers plunged into the floor, digging out "potted universes" the size of grains of stardust.

The projection of the Dimensional Gardener suddenly descends, his glove pattern identical to Zero's chip. The gardener blew away the stardust in his palm, and the universe where Chu Yun was instantly shrank ten thousand times and landed on his fingernail cap: "It's time to get rid of the bugs." Xiao Man's crystallized body suddenly glowed, stinging the gardener's eyes.

Chu Yun took the opportunity to jump into the folds of the gardener's protective suit and realized that inside was the magnified battlefield. Sweat hairs were like giant pillars in the sky, and metallic pollen flew out of his pores. Zero's mechanical heart transformed into a drill, chiseling out channels in the fibrous fabric. Shards of Xiao Man's crystals drifted in the wind, each piece carrying blasting codes.

When the gardener tapped the suit, the shockwave jolted Chuun into the thermostat. The display lists the numbers of all the pruned universes, and Chu Yun finds his own - labeled "Pest Level 3". Zero suddenly grabbed the controller and turned the temperature to absolute zero: "Death is the ultimate purification."

Xiao Man's crystallized dust reorganized in the hot zone, forming a quantum virus. The gardener's gloves began to metallize and his fingerprints cracked into thin slits. Chu Yun dived into the respiratory filter and inserted Zero's chip into the oxygen supply system. The virus rushed into the gardener's lungs with the airflow, and his pupils suddenly reflected fear - his skin was being covered with metallic moss.

"You guys... It's the virus!" Gardener ripped off his protective suit, revealing a body that was a fusion of machinery and flesh and blood. Cosmic bubbles oozed from his wounds, each one playing images of Chuun pruning civilization. Zero suddenly turned the drill and stabbed into the gardener's heart, sucking out the silver liquid, "This is the highest level of nutrient fluid."

The gardener's body collapsed into a metal flowerpot, and the Cosmic Tree took root in it. Zero pushed Chu Yun into the flowerpot and the roots immediately wrapped around his limbs. Xiao Man's virus etched escape diagrams on the surface of the flowerpot, but black resin oozed out of every crack. As the gardener's mechanical eye rolled down, the pupil reflected the entire room - countless florists were pruning their respective cosmic trees.

Chu Yun touched a nameplate between the root systems, engraved with "Trainee Gardener No. 097". The cosmic tree suddenly blossomed, and its petals drifted towards the room's air vents. Zero's voice came from the stamen: "It's time for a higher being to see us ...." Outside the vents, there is a faint roar of giant scissors opening and closing.

Chapter 61: Dimensional Florist