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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 magnolia in the morning light fluttered down its thirtieth petal, and Chu Yun woke up in the auto shop. His cell phone displayed three consecutive identical text messages, "Live well today too - sent in 2099." When he touches the scab on his forehead, his fingertips feel metallic - there is a microchip buried under his skin, engraved with "Observer 49".

The TV news cycles through images of the Quantum Lab's recognition, and the camera sweeps over the baby girl in Dr. Lin's arms - her eyes flashing mechanical blue in the bright light. As Chu Yun disassembles the engine, a holographic countdown suddenly surfaces on the wrench: 29:23:17. The shop radio auto-tunes itself, playing the electronic tones of Future Xiao-Man: "Finding the ghosts in the day..."

A bizarre phenomenon occurs in the city: objects remain metalized in the shadows where the sunlight does not reach. Chu Yun chases a piece of magnolia flying against the wind, and the petals lead him to an abandoned subway station. Silver resin oozes from the tunnel walls, condensing into the silhouette of Xiao Man: "They reset the timeline, but didn't wipe the traces clean."

Mechanical arms suddenly reached out from the shadows, dragging Chu Yun into the ventilation ducts. At the end of the duct was a hidden laboratory, with thirty Chu Yun clones floating in the incubation chamber. On the mechanical arm of each clone, different countdown numbers were engraved. Zero's soft laugh came from the vent, "Father, you are now a virus sample."

Chu Yun smashed the main console, and the clones collectively opened their eyes. Their pupil projections intertwined to form a complete picture:Dr. Lin was injecting the baby girl with nanobots, with alabaster DNA floating in the liquid.When Chu Yun ripped off the clone's infusion tube, the silver liquid splashed onto his face - the skin instantly became transparent, revealing the mechanical structures underneath the skin.

"This is the real you." Zero's hologram rose from the incubation chamber, playing with the miniature Earth model in his hands. The lab suddenly shook as all the clones spoke in synchronization, "Observer anomaly detected... Initiate removal program..." Chu Yun crashed through the emergency channel and found the door to be a laboratory corridor in the year 2023 - young Dr. Lin was walking head-on with a baby girl in his arms.

Chu Yun's transparent arm passes through Dr. Lin's body, but the baby girl suddenly grabs his mechanical fingers. The nanobots flowed back down the fingertip, reorganizing into a control program inside Chu Yun's body. The corridor lights dimmed abruptly, and mechanical beast prototypes sprang up on either side, their cores glowing with the same blue light as in the baby girl's eyes.

Magnolias poured in through the vents, their petals plastering the alarms. Zero's voice echoed over the explosions, "You will be the perfect carrier..." Chu Yun inserted the chip into the fire hydrant at the last second, and two timelines surfaced in the bright light-one showing a baby girl laughing and folding a paper boat, and the other showing the metal globe shattering under the scissors.

The electronic clock on the wall suddenly went black, displaying:

"Seeding progress 98%... Awaiting final instructions..."

Chapter 66: The Ghost of Daylight