There was no metal or machinery, only an endless tree of flesh and blood, adorned with human-shaped fruits.
Mo Yan felt a sudden sharp pain in his neural bundle as he watched a fruit in the Holographic Projection crack open, revealing Su E clad in combat gear. The crystal on the girl’s chest synchronized perfectly with the real Su E. She opened her mouth, but a mechanical synthesized male voice emerged: “You think you are fighting against mechanical civilization? No, you are merely pawns on a chessboard.”
“Shut up!” Mo Yan's mechanical hand pierced through the Holographic Projection, and the energy from the Chronicle Forge surged through his neural bundle into the Data Sea. The entire space began to collapse, but the collapsing code reassembled into new holographic images.
This time, it depicted Earth's past and future: the extinction of Mechanical Dinosaurs, the Cambrian explosion, and the rise of Human Civilization. Every historical Initial Node was anchored by Quantum points from the Machina Deity Clan.
“What you call dimensional warfare,” Su E's phantom suddenly appeared behind Mo Yan, holding a half piece of Cambrian crystal, “is merely a mechanism for the mother tree of the star abyss to filter nutrients. When civilization reaches a certain critical point, it will be transformed into dimensional energy by the Reaper.”
Mo Yan's mechanical body began to reconstruct itself in reverse; the Silicon-Based shell peeled away to reveal crimson muscle fibers beneath. He turned and grasped Su E's mechanical Spine, sending his neural bundle through the cracks into her energy core. “Then what is this Su E? Your surveillance left on Earth?”
Su E's Pupil suddenly became data-like, and the Holographic Projection behind her transformed into a structural map of Earth, red dots marking all Chronicle Forge locations. “I am the most perfect fruit of the mother tree, carrying all memories of the star abyss. But when I encountered you…”
She suddenly coughed up Quantum Dust, cracks spreading across her energy core. “I began to generate variables that should not exist.”
The entire abyss shook violently as Magma poured down from the ceiling, solidifying into an octopus shape made of Liquid Metal on the ground. Mo Yan's mechanical hand was ensnared by the octopus's Tentacles; he saw Su E's face appear on each Tentacle, every mouth repeating, “Stay with me.”
“You will not control me!” Mo Yan's vocal cords vibrated at Stardust frequencies as he tore free from the Tentacles' grasp and detonated an entire Mantle thermal column using Chronicle Forge energy. The explosion ripped apart the Liquid Metal octopus into Quantum Dust, but the collapse of the abyss triggered a chain reaction—the Quantum anchors within Earth began to overload, and continental plates cried out in agony.
Su E's photon form suddenly materialized; she grasped Mo Yan's remaining left arm as they plummeted like meteors into deeper layers of Earth. Behind them came the sound of the mother tree of the star abyss devouring space; those collapsing Quantum anchors transformed into dark red matter that spelled out Machina Deity Clan’s final whispers: “You shall return to the mother tree…”
“Activate the continental engine!” Mo Yan thrust Su E towards the energy core while his mechanical body transformed into bio-cables, wrapping around the entire control panel like a cocoon. He saw on the holographic map that humanity’s last stronghold was surrounded by star abyss Tentacles; but this time, Chronicle Forge energy flowed not towards machinery but into Su E’s chest crystal.
“Remember what I said.” Mo Yan’s voice faded within the energy cocoon as his mechanical Pupil turned silver-white like Stardust. “The true starry sky needs no spark; it only needs…” As the crystal erupted with blinding light, the entire abyss was engulfed in white brilliance. In his final moments, Mo Yan saw on Su E’s mechanical Spine bloom dual phantoms of human Gene Chain and Star Map.
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