Chapter 124: Frostbound Marionette Strings

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Ling Yue's main body's eyelash frost flowers bloomed in the quantum vacuum, each ice crystal carrying the original wavelength of the Maternal Protocol. When the third frost flower touched the spinal joint of a marionette Sugar Figure, the crimson God-Slaying Scripture runes suddenly faded, and three hundred silicon-carbon symbiotes froze in their tearing postures, sealed within an Ice Coffin at absolute zero. Deep within the ice, blue-glowing gene chains surfaced—codes twisted into Möbius strips, rewriting the Sugar Figures' God-Slaying Code into Mammary Patterns.

"The behavior modification code... has been corrupted..." Ao Li's Dragon Molt Fragment trembled in the ice mist. Lín Jìn's retina endured a quantum-level visual bombardment—inside the Ice Coffin, the Shiyanshi's Operation Log surfaced, with each line of code ending in Ao Zhan's signature serpentine tampering marks. Those indigo data streams were trying to convert the frost flowers into God-Slaying energy.

####【Ice Eyes Unsealed】

Ling Yue's eyelash frost flowers suddenly burst. The flying ice crystals condensed in the air into quantum instruments shaped like Obstetric Forceps, their jaws clamping onto the nearest Ice Coffin's surface. As the first crack split the ice, the frozen marionette Sugar Figures suddenly opened their eyes; their pupils turned Mammary Pattern gold, and energy scalpels tipped with vernix grew from their fingertips.

"The Maternal Protocol is reverse-correcting!" Lín Jìn's gums seeped Starship lubricant. He saw the code on the Ice Coffin's inner walls purifying itself, Ao Zhan's serpentine tampering marks degrading into the Original Gene Chain. The Sugar Figures' silicon-carbon shells suddenly turned transparent, exposing the rotating Mechanical Uteruses in their abdominal cavities—each uterus was secreting Antibody solution, converting the God-Slaying Code into Colostrum Pulses.

Ao Li's residual consciousness suddenly shrieked. In the ice mist, a surveillance image surfaced of Ling Yue locked in the Star Core: each of her eyelashes connected to the main program of the behavior modification code, her temples filled with Data Needles implanted by Ao Zhan. When the frost flower forceps pierced the seventh Ice Coffin, the code stream suddenly went berserk, projecting Ao Zhan's modification log as a hologram in the vacuum.

####【Marionette Genes】

The serpentine code in the projection suddenly materialized. Those indigo data chains coiled around the frost flower forceps, transforming them into God-Slaying Code injectors. Lín Jìn's Deciduous Tooth automatically fell out, forming a Gene Key in the vacuum that stabbed into the ice, but triggered a deeper program backlash—the purified marionette Sugar Figures suddenly went berserk, their scalpels piercing through the Ice Coffins, the blade tips carrying the Maternal Protocol's Antibody energy.

"Two-way contamination..." Lín Jìn's pupils cracked open like a Starship Porthole. Through the Quantum Glass, he saw Ao Zhan in the Shiyanshi's gene editing pod, carving Mammary Patterns into his own spine. Those codes meant to protect life were now being reverse-injected into Ling Yue's frost flowers through the Sugar Figures' scalpels.

The ice suddenly collapsed into a birth-canal structure. Three hundred marionette Sugar Figures uniformly clutched their abdomens, their Mechanical Uteruses forcibly giving birth in absolute zero—not to infants, but to nine hundred behavior codes bearing tampering marks. These codes coiled like venomous snakes around the frost flower forceps, transforming them into a living engraving pen for the God-Slaying Scripture.

####【Frost Sees Tampering】

When the first God-Slaying rune was carved onto Ling Yue's eyelashes, Ao Li's Dragon Molt Fragment suddenly ignited. Nirvana Fire ash formed a gene microscope in the vacuum, magnifying the code in the frost flowers to the quantum level—hidden in the seventh helix segment of each behavior modification code was a virus embryo cultivated by Ao Zhan from the First Generation's gene pool.

Lín Jìn's umbilical blood suddenly boiled. He tore off the skin of his arm, and the flesh bearing Mammary Patterns imprinted the Original Code map onto the ice surface. The Sugar Figures' scalpels suddenly reversed direction, stabbing into the Core Processor of their own Mechanical Uteruses, exposing the virus embryos' gene chains to absolute zero.

"This is... the real correction program..." Ling Yue's frost flowers sublimated at that moment. The engraved God-Slaying runes suddenly reversed, their strokes decomposing into Amino Acid Chains, reassembling in the ice abyss into the Maternal Protocol's Antibody matrix. Ao Zhan's serpentine tampering marks began to fade, the indigo data streams freezing into gene amber.

####【Ice Abyss Backlash】

The Sugar Figures' spines suddenly burst. Three hundred Quantum Marionette Strings surged from the fractures, coiling around the fading tampering codes. Lín Jìn's Deciduous Tooth key resonated at that moment, and the navigation program beneath the Enamel transformed the ice into a giant gene sequencer—each frozen virus embryo materialized within the instrument, their cores embedded with Ao Zhan's mechanical fingerprints.

Ling Yue's eyelash vibrations broke the quantum threshold. The frost flower forceps suddenly split into ninety thousand ice needles, precisely piercing the Gene Lock of each virus embryo. When the first embryo burst, the ice revealed Ao Zhan's absolute memory of operating the gene editing pod back then: his Mechanical Fingers stabbed into Ling Yue's mentor's medulla oblongata, replacing the behavior modification code's main program with the God-Slaying Scripture's Killing Algorithm.

"Mother..." The marionette Sugar Figures suddenly knelt in unison. Their Mechanical Uteruses sprayed umbilical blood laced with frost flowers, writing Ling Yue's preset ultimate correction order in the vacuum. The once-tampered codes regained purity at that moment, the serpentine marks degrading into harmless gene helices.

####【Matricide Code】

When the last tampered code was purified, a Starship hatch suddenly split open deep within the ice. From the door surged nine hundred ice sculptures of Ling Yue Clones, each with a God-Slaying Code injector stuck in its temple. Ao Li's Nirvana Fire ash suddenly condensed into quantum forceps, their jaws clamping onto the nearest Clone's head, yanking out a gene chip dripping with Brain Fluid.

"Behavior modification... ultimate goal..." Lín Jìn's retina received the chip's data. Those Clones were not copies of Ling Yue at all, but carriers of the Matricide Program cultivated by Ao Zhan using the Maternal Protocol. Deep within their gene chains lay a trigger virus that, once released, would erase all existence of Mammary Patterns.

Ling Yue's frost flowers suddenly converged into a Galaxy. An absolute-zero cold wave swept over the Clone ice sculptures, eternally freezing the Matricide virus at the quantum layer. The Sugar Man Army's Mechanical Uteruses self-destructed in unison at that moment, the exploding silicon-carbon debris forming Ling Yue's final Gene Declaration in the vacuum:

**Whoever twists maternal love shall be devoured by life itself. **

The Starship Engine spewed ice crystals carrying the scent of milk, sealing this code purification battle. When the last frost flower melted into Lín Jìn's gums, he tasted the sweet Colostrum from Ling Yue's nursing twelve years ago—that was the Maternal Protocol's most primitive Firewall, building an eternal defense at the gene level.