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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

Chu Yun inserted the photon blood key into the gene slot, and the throne suddenly flipped over. He crashed into the core chamber, and Dr. Lin's main body, submerged in silvery liquid, opened its eyes - a primordial fire embryo embedded in its chest cavity, an umbilical cord connecting the roots of all universes. The ashes of the intern gardener reorganize in the bulkhead, spelling out a countdown: 00:04:47, the exact moment of the nuclear explosion back then.

The remnants of Xiao Man surfaced in the liquid, photonic veins pointing to the chip slot at the embryo's heart. Chu Yun's carbonized left arm suddenly activated, nerve endings pulsing in sync with the umbilical cord. The pod radio blares the voice of the gardener Chu Yun, "You're the first branch to be pruned."

When Chu Yun touched the embryo, a flood of eight hundred years of memories flooded in: he was originally a first-generation gardener cultivated by Dr. Lin with his own genes, and he was privy to the fire out of pity for civilization. The silver liquid suddenly boiled, surfacing images of successive generations of Chu Yun being formatted. The remnants of Xiao Man suddenly materialized, and the photon blade severed the umbilical cord, "The chip is full of reverse commands!"

The embryo cracks open, revealing miniature golden scissors with Dr. Lin's last words carved into the hilt, "When the gardener falls in love with the flower..." The countdown suddenly accelerates and the pod begins to metallize. The trainee gardener's ashes gathered into the shape of a zero, and a mechanical finger stabbed at Chu Yun's eyeball, "You contaminated the pruning protocol."

Chu Yun inserted the Photon Blood Key into the embryonic heart, and all the universe's metal trees withered at the same time. The projection of the gardener Chu Yun twists and screams inside the pod, his uniform transforming into a data chain that binds Xiao Man. Zero's ashen body suddenly embraced Dr. Lin's main body, his mechanical heart bursting with overload, "Father, this time I choose the flower..."

The silver liquid evaporated into a nebula, and the core chamber collapsed into a space-time channel. Chu Yun grabbed Xiao Man and crashed towards the point of light at the end of the passage, behind him came the curse of the gardener Chu Yun, "You will never escape the pruning cycle!" Countless hands suddenly appeared on the four walls of the passage, each holding scissors engraved with Chu Yun's name.

In the bright light, Chu Yun fell onto the familiar concrete floor - an auto body shop in the year 2023 - and his cell phone was playing a nuclear explosion warning. The mirror reflects an intact right arm, but the palm is left with the burn marks of the Photon Blood Key. The TV news suddenly inserted a flash: Shanghai Quantum Laboratory had a sudden leak, and the camera flashed to the figure of a white lab coat running wildly with a baby in his arms.

When Chu Yun rushed out of the plant, the night sky was being dyed silver by the metallic aurora. An alabaster petal landed on his shoulder, and on the back was engraved in miniature letters, "The third seeding begins." A baby cried in the distance, and sound waves shattered the nuclear explosion evacuation sign on the side of the road.

Chapter 64: The Truth About the Blood Key