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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 rushed into the street clutching the engraved alabaster petal, the pungent smell of burning metal filling the air. The time on his cell phone read 03:45-two minutes left before the nuclear explosion. He crashed through the iron door of the quantum lab and saw young Dr. Lin aiming the consciousness uploading device at the baby's forehead.

"Stop! It's a trap!" Chu Yun hissed and lunged for the console, only to find that his hands passed through the holographic projection - at the moment, he was like a ghost, unable to reach past it. The alabaster petals suddenly flared up, burning black holes in his palms, and the remnants of Zero's voice came out, "You're just the observer ..."

The lab alarms snapped, and the mechanical beast hatchling broke out of the incubation chamber. Dr. Lin knocked over the freezer in a panic, and where liquid nitrogen roiled, Chu Yun's ghostly form suddenly materialized. With his bare hands, he breaks the interface of the uploading device, and in the blue arc of electricity, an image of the future emerges: he is holding the metalized Xiao Man and igniting explosives in the ruins.

The baby suddenly cried, and the sound waves shattered the explosion-proof glass of the laboratory. White magnolia petals fluttered down from Chu Yun's fingers and stuck to the baby's swaddling clothes, the petal patterns perfectly overlapping with the baby's birthmark. Dr. Lin suddenly stiffened, his pupils flashed with mechanical red light: "Error code ... Execute Clear ..."

Chu Yun escaped by smashing the window with the baby in his arms, and the street had turned into a metal jungle. The streetlights twisted into mechanical tentacles, and the asphalt pavement oozed silver resin. The baby in his arms suddenly spoke, his voice as old as zero, "You can't save everyone." The alabaster petals transformed into sharp blades and pierced the back of the baby's neck - there was no bloodshed, only a spray of data streams.

The sky cracked open and the higher dimensional scissor swarms fell like meteors. Chu Yun used his body to protect the baby, only to find that the scissors pierced through himself and stabbed straight through the baby's heart. Amidst the sound of metal cracking, the baby dissolved into particles of light, leaving behind only a chip - engraved with the words "Seeder 000".

The moment the countdown to the nuclear explosion reached zero, Chu Yun inserted the chip into the streetlight control box. A bright light engulfs the city, but he is standing on an uncontaminated street. The window TV broadcasts the morning news: "Shanghai Quantum Laboratory successfully avoided a major accident last night ..."

The phone suddenly vibrates with a photo from an unfamiliar number: Dr. Lin holding a healthy baby girl, with a lab full of magnolias in the background. There's a blurry figure in the corner of the photo - Chu Yun in his future battle armor, gazing out the window.

"Third seeding complete, Season 4 players have entered. --Gardener 000"

The magnolia tree swayed in the wind, and a new countdown appeared on the back of the petals - 30:00:00.

Chapter 65: Breaking Dawn Choice