The Earth Core Cannon of Gaia Mecha began to charge. Inside the barrel swirled all the possibilities of Human Civilization: from the campfires of cave dwellers to the codes of Quantum computers, from the chants of the Book of Songs to the roar of black hole engines.
Mo Yan's Silicon-Based form gradually became transparent as he transformed himself into pure energy.
"Wait!" Ye Ling's Mechanical Prosthetic pierced the cannon's barrel. "Use this!" She pulled out a can of expired Red Bull, which had preserved twenty-seven chapters, its label bearing the faded inscription "2077 World Cup Commemorative Edition."
At the core of Gaia Mecha, the molecular structure of this carbonated drink was infinitely magnified, and within the bubbles danced holographic images of Mo Yan and Ye Ling's first encounter in the ruins of Walmart.
"You forgot," Ye Ling tossed the can into the energy stream, "the most powerful weapon of humanity—"
The can exploded in the antimatter torrent. Countless silhouettes of civilizations flashed within the cannon: a mother nursing her baby’s warmth, a poet gazing at the stars in obsession, an engineer focused on debugging mechs… These emotional data, which could not be parsed by the Vortex Scripture, became Gaia Mecha's ultimate ammunition.
"Fire!"
What erupted from the Earth Core Cannon was not a beam of light but a brilliant river of civilization. The Mayan Calendar shattered in the molecular bonds of maternal love, Atlantis's Buddha Altar Matrix was pierced by the poet's starlight, and the Hanging Gardens formula collapsed under the engineer's dedication.
The twelve Mother Ships of Mechanical Mandala crumbled one after another, their wreckage revealing ethereal images of humanity’s sages throughout history, who inscribed the same phrase in their respective civilizations' scripts: "Existence requires no permission."
The last Reaper Commander roared within its core ship. Its body fractured into the primitive code of Star Language Resonance, attempting to invade Gaia Mecha's core: "You have won the battle, but you cannot change the outcome—every civilization will ultimately walk towards the Ascension Path of Machina Deity Clan!"
Mo Yan's Silicon-Based form had dissipated to his waist. He controlled Gaia Mecha to tear off the Antarctic ice cap, compressing millions of years' worth of auroras sealed within into the Eternal Night Blade.
In that moment as the blade fell, the commander's core code suddenly froze—it saw a hundred thousand futures on its edge: humanity embracing machinery with flesh and blood, passing down civilization with Quantum souls, while Machina Deity Clan decayed in solitude at time's end.
"This... is impossible..." The commander's data stream began to destabilize.
"Possible," Mo Yan's voice resonated with Earth, "because we choose to be a bridge, not an endpoint."
The Eternal Night Blade cleaved through the core ship. In the blinding light of antimatter explosion, Gaia Mecha molded Moon Debris into a new satellite—a Mechanical Zen Monument inscribed with texts from various civilizations. The first line of its inscription flickered with Su E's Star Code:
"To those who come after: When gazing at the stars, do not forget the warmth of the earth."
As the light faded, the Gaia Mecha fell silent, becoming a new mountain range. Ye Ling knelt beneath the Sanxingdui Bronze Divine Tree, cradling the last remaining Silicon-Based head of Mo Yan in his arms. His Pupil had devolved into a primitive Xing Yun, and his voice whispered through geomagnetic waves, "Go find Su E... on the other side of the black hole..."
Suddenly, the Inverse Entropy Seed Chamber began to rise autonomously. The Cocoon absorbed the residual energy of the Gaia Mecha, unfolding into the initial node of the Star Trail Matrix in low Earth orbit. Ye Ling's Mechanical Prosthetic lit up with new coordinates—those of Xing Yun in the direction of Orion, flickering with Su E's unique Quantum Frequency.
"Received," she said as she placed Mo Yan's head into her chest cavity. "It's time to repair the moon."
The Earth rotated amidst the ruins. The newly born Mechanical Zen Monument cast moonlight upon the remnants of a Walmart Supermarket. A dusty toy mech hand emerged from the rubble, clutching half of a "2077 World Cup" poster—on its edges, one could faintly see Mo Yan and Su E in the stands, cheering for a goal.
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