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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

Silver chains pinned Chu Yun to the throne, with miniature Earth models hanging from the end of each chain. The trainee gardeners removed their masks, revealing mechanical faces identical to Zero's, and said in unison, "Pruning errors must be fixed." A rain of scissors descending from the dome piled up in an altar at Chu Yun's feet, the blades refracting images of the streets of Earth before the nuclear explosion.

Xiao Man's photonic blood etched escape routes across the surface of the throne, but each etching was absorbed by the chains. Chu Yun found that his memories were being siphoned off, and the laboratory scene from eight hundred years ago was replayed on a loop before his eyes - the moment the syringe pierced the back of the baby's neck, and the alabaster orchid outside the window suddenly metallized.

When the rain of scissors is about to pierce Chu Yun, Xiao Man's remaining consciousness suddenly takes over the Throne System. The mechanical faces of the intern gardeners collectively distorted and knelt down to cover their heads-their core code hid Dr. Lin's confession recording. Chu Yun took the opportunity to rip off the chains, and the shattered chains transformed into silver flying insects that gnawed up the Scissors Altar.

Gardener 097 suddenly turned his blade and stabbed himself in the chest, cracking the space-time channel where black blood spurted, "Hurry... They're coming..." On the streets of Earth at the other end of the passageway, young Dr. Lin is rushing towards the lab with a baby in his arms, the time on his pocket watch stopping at 03:47.

Chu Yun leapt into the passageway dragging his mangled body, his mechanical arm carbonized and peeling off in the temporal turbulence. When he landed on the top floor of the lab, the metal magnolia was growing wildly. Xiao Man's silhouette floated in front of the window, and his photonic blood condensed into a blade of light: "Destroy the Primordial Chip!"

When Chu Yun crashed through the lab glass, young Dr. Lin's syringe was already against the back of the baby's neck. Time suddenly stops as Zero's mechanical heart runs through time and space from the future, pinning Chu Yun to the wall with his past self. The baby's cries shattered the lab chamber, and the Primordial Spark Chip tumbled to the ground, with Chu Yun's genetic code engraved on its surface.

Chu Yun crushed the chip with his last strength, and the lab suddenly collapsed into a black hole. The roots of the metallic magnolia wrapped around his neck, yanking him back to the present throne. The dome cracked open into a giant eye, and in the pupil sat another Chuun - dressed in a gardener's uniform, pruning the branches and leaves of the Bonsai Universe.

"Welcome back, Sample #49." The gardener Chu Yun cut off a segment of branch, and the Earth model exploded in response. The trainee gardeners spontaneously combusted en masse, and primordial fire embryos rose from the ashes. Xiao Man's photonic blood suddenly evaporated and condensed into a key in Chu Yun's palm, inserted at the exact genetic verification slot in the throne's armrest - the blood remaining in the slot was an exact match to Dr. Lin's DNA.

Chapter 63: Origin Loopback