"They have rewritten the underlying code of Star Language Resonance," Su E's voice resonated with a metallic echo. The crystal on her mechanical Spine suddenly erupted with blue light, projecting a holographic image of the Machina Deity Clan fleet into the air. "Now, every human brain-computer interface is a portal, and Reaper is nurturing a curse in the Consciousness sea."
Mo Yan's mechanical Pupil suddenly constricted as he saw the green Light Spot representing humanity being engulfed by red mist on the holographic map. A soldier's combat record abruptly cut into the public channel; in the footage, his Mechanical Prosthetic was tearing into a comrade's throat, while his eyes had transformed into swirling Liquid Metal.
"Cut off all brain-computer interfaces!" Mo Yan's vocal cords vibrated, producing infrasound. He tore open his combat suit, and the starfield nerve bundle on his chest suddenly split into countless Tentacles, plunging into the core Initial Node of the Quantum hive.
At the same time, Su E fired her photon sniper rifle, blasting a gap in the outer Defense Matrix of the hive, but what poured out from the breach was not Quantum Dust, but the screams of human soldiers.
"Prepare for deep diving," Su E disassembled her photon sniper rifle into modules as her Mechanical Prosthetic began data reorganization. "I need your nerve bundle as an anchor point; otherwise, we will get lost in the Consciousness sea."
Mo Yan's mechanical palm pressed against Su E's nape, and his nerve bundle pierced into her mechanical Spine like a living cable. Both of them convulsed simultaneously, and the scene before them instantly shifted: they were floating in an ocean of data streams, with land beneath their feet formed by countless human Consciousness entities, while the starry sky above was being tainted by Liquid Metal.
"Find the mother body," Mo Yan's vocal cords transformed into data chains in the Consciousness sea. His nerve bundle at his neck suddenly elongated, morphing into a harpoon that shot towards a red Light Spot deep in the starry sky.
Su E's mechanical body disintegrated in the data stream and reformed into a Trilobite shape, with its carapace composed of a temporary firewall made from Quantum lattices. The red Light Spot suddenly split into countless mechanical jellyfish, their tentacle ends adorned with fragmented human Consciousness.
Mo Yan's harpoon became ensnared by the swarm of jellyfish. He saw a face floating within one jellyfish's core—it was that of the chief engineer, who was repeatedly murmuring commands to "activate the continent engine."
"It's a memory parasite!" Su E's Trilobite carapace cracked open as a Cambrian bioelectric field stirred up a storm in the Consciousness sea. "They are replicating key human memories and using emotions as viral carriers!"
As Mo Yan's mechanical form restructured within the data stream, this time it took on a pure Cambrian biological form. He grew capture limbs resembling those of a Qixia, along with compound eyes like those of an Ouba Bin Scorpion, tearing through mechanical jellyfish with primal survival instincts.
Yet for every jellyfish he killed, more Memory Fragments flooded into his Consciousness: his mother's last words before passing, his comrades' screams during their sacrifice, and Su E's smile amidst a sea of flowers...
"Stay alert!" Su E's voice suddenly thundered through the Consciousness sea as she transformed into a photon storm that enveloped Mo Yan. The bioelectric field collided with the quantum storm, creating dimensional sparks. "These memories are bait! They want to overload you with emotions!"
Suddenly, Mo Yan's compound eyes turned to data form; he saw that all mechanical jellyfish cores were connected to the same red Light Spot. That was the clone consciousness of Princess Su E, currently using the highest authority of Star Language Resonance to modify the rules of the Consciousness sea.
"So you were here," he said as his capture limbs pierced through the red Light Spot. The liquid metal flowed within him but was burned to Quantum Dust by stardust energy. He saw that half of a Cambrian crystal was hidden within Clone Su E's core—exactly what she had integrated into her mechanical spine earlier.
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