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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 moment the pocket watch counted down to zero, the shoots in Chu Yun's chest suddenly withered. All the cosmic specimens trembled at the same time, the floor of the pure white room cracked into an abyss, and countless clones of Chu Yun were dragged into the darkness by the root system. The light cocoon of Embryo Zero suddenly burst, and billions of mechanical moths flew out, with the dates of destruction in different time and space engraved on their wings.

The remnants of the young Dr. Lin reorganized in the swarm of moths, his mechanical fingers pinching an alabaster orchid petal, "This is your last chance." The petal inserted itself into Chu Yun's brow, dragging him into the memory corridor - the image of himself personally burying the fire chip into the back of Dr. Lin's neck eight hundred years ago emerged clearly for the first time.

The laboratory in the corridor had an additional hidden door, behind which was Dr. Lin's hidden log, "Chu Yun is the initial virus, all reincarnations are only to remove him." Surveillance video shows that Chu Yun had implanted a metal embryo into his pregnant wife's uterus - that embryo was Zero's prototype.

The swarm of moths breaks through the wall of the corridor, revealing the truth about the outside world: every universe's Chu Yun is repeating the decision to kill his wife and save the world. Xiao Man's shadow coalesces from the ashes of the moths, and his photon blade is pressed against Chu Yun's throat: "You are the source of the disaster."

Chu Yun gripped the photon blade and stabbed it into his own heart, and the withered shoots suddenly sucked up enough blood to grow wildly. The branches penetrated the shield of the cosmic specimen and tore the pure white room into pieces. The young Dr. Lin melted in the glare, revealing the silver chip at its core - engraved with the same fire code as Chu Yun's chest.

Zero's mechanical heart fell from the void, automatically plugging into the chip slot. All the clones suddenly stopped falling, their roots wrapping back around the edge of the abyss. Chu Yun's consciousness spread through the explosion, seeing that his genetic chain was being copied into the core of each universe.

When the glare dissipated, Chu Yun stood on the ruins of the Magnolia Tree. Suspended in his palm was a miniature model of the universe, and within the model was the reset 2023 laboratory - the baby girl was handing an origami boat to a healthy Xiao Man.

Silver raindrops fall from the air, landing and condensing into a cluster of tombstones. Each tombstone is engraved with "Chu Yun", with the date of death in a different timeline. The cell phone suddenly vibrated, and a photo was sent from an unknown number: Zero's mechanical body was kneeling in the wilderness of the new universe, holding a bloodied magnolia petal in its hand.

The countdown resurfaces on the surface of the tombstone -

Shoots drilled out from the roots of the tree, veins of leaves forming Xiao Man's face, "It's our turn to observe you ..."

Chapter 69: The Moment of Returning to Zero