The soles of Mo Yan's boots crunched over the Triassic rock layers, the gravel hissing under the corrosion of Silicon-Based Blood. The wind from the Skeletal Basin carried a scent of rust, reminiscent of countless ancient beasts sighing. He looked up at the horizon, where the Reaper's "metal clouds" swirled—an aerial reconnaissance net made up of nanomachines, each speck of metallic dust carrying the erosion codes of the Vortex Scripture.
"Where's your mech?" Ye Ling jumped off her modified motorcycle, scanning the cracks in the rock wall with her Carbon Crystal Lens. "Don't tell me Xing Tian can only fire once before it breaks down."
"It's charging in the Mantle Rift," Mo Yan crouched down, his fingertips pressing against the surface of the rock layer. Silicon-Based Blood seeped into the stone crevices, instantly activating the Biological Memory Steel veins buried for two hundred million years. A muffled sound of gears turning echoed from within the rock, and a fluorescent blue vein spread like a blood vessel.
"The gift of the Cambrian... memories of Trilobite fossils." Ye Ling whistled as her Mechanical Prosthetic deployed a laser drill. "So we're going to dig through half a mountain?"
"No!" Mo Yan stood up, circuit patterns on his chest suddenly glowing. "We're letting them crawl out themselves." He plunged his hands into the rock layer. The moment Silicon-Based Blood resonated with Fossil Memory Steel, the entire mountain began to tremble.
Cracks spider-webbed across the rock wall, and countless Trilobite fossils emerged from deep within. Their shells melted and reformed in Quantum resonance, ultimately coalescing into a three-meter-long metallic Spine—Cambrian Steel Bone.
"Cool!" Ye Ling's eyepiece data stream surged wildly. "How many credit points can we sell this for?"
Mo Yan didn't answer; a warning flashed across his retina: Silicon-Based Process has reached 21%. The circuit patterns beneath his skin were creeping toward his neck like a cold mechanical snake. He grasped the Cambrian Steel Bone, its touch chilling to the bone, and a holographic projection of the Cambrian ocean appeared on its surface, ancient microbial life swimming in virtual waves.
"Next is Jurassic Fuel," he turned toward the marshes deep within the basin. "Quantum propellant synthesized from Dinosaur Genes."
An eerie metallic mist hung over the marsh, a Gene Pollution Field set by the Reaper. As Ye Ling's motorcycle entered the misty area, sparks erupted from her dashboard.
"Damn it!" She slammed on the steering wheel, drifting along the edge of the marsh. "This fog eats circuits!"
Mo Yan raised the summoner for his Xingtian Mecha—a shard embedded in his wrist bone from Zhendan Forge. The core of Melting Furnace emitted a crimson beam, vaporizing the metallic mist in high temperatures and revealing a drilling platform covered in vines. The rusted sign on it read "Jurassic Park 2077: Gene Revival Project."
"A Mechanical Dinosaur DNA storage facility..." Ye Ling squinted. "How much black technology did you guys develop back then?"
"Enough to wipe out humanity three times," Mo Yan sneered.
They crashed open the airlock, and the stench of decaying plants assaulted them. Inside the cultivation pod floated the embryo of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, immersed in quantum gel that glowed with a ghostly blue light. Mo Yan inserted the Cambrian Steel Bone into the control panel, the trilobite patterns on its surface meshing with the system interface as the gate of the cryogenic storage slowly rose.
"Warning! Abnormal biomass activity detected!"
Before the electronic voice could finish, the ground suddenly shook violently. The cultivation pod burst one after another, and from the viscous quantum gel crawled out a grotesque mechanical dinosaur—the Reaper's "Metal Zombie King."
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