Chapter 139: Frostbound Umbilical Cord

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Ling Yue's main body umbilical cord suddenly quantum crystallized, milky-white ice patterns frenziedly spreading along the spacetime continuum. When Lín Jìn's retina caught the first ice crystal, the entire starship had fallen into absolute stillness—splashed colostrum droplets solidified into diamond stardust, Ao Li's Nirvana Fire held the shape of tearing the vacuum, the mechanical centipede's god-slaying fang was only three micrometers from his brow.

"This is...... birth canal regression......" Lín Jìn's thoughts boiled in the freeze. His fetal hair suddenly carbonized into a quantum probe, piercing the molecular gaps of the umbilical cord ice crystal. Infantile cries surged from spacetime rifts, carrying the smell of formalin, medical images appeared on the ice surface: in the incubator, himself was held down by seven mechanical tentacles, at the moment the needle pierced the fontanelle, the living code of the Primordial Slaying Scripture flowed into the brainstem with the inhibitor.

####【Congealed Time Chanfang】

The ice crystal's interior unfolded into a ring-shaped operating room. Three hundred Ling Yue clones were nailed to the ice walls, their umbilical cords twisted into a Möbius strip, with Lín Jìn's cultivation vat hovering at the center. When his quantum consciousness touched the vat, the inhibitor's components suddenly appeared—each molecule wrapped in a micro-script, rewriting the infant neural synapses' role cognition pathways.

"Cognitive cage......" Lín Jìn's fetal hair was reborn in absolute zero, new growth with a milky scent shattering the ice crystal. The medical records' holographic projection suddenly went berserk, the incubator in the image split open to reveal Star Fleet Fangs, the syringe's tip actually connected to a modified mechanical uterus of Ao Zhan. The inhibitor's living code suddenly activated, piecing together on the ice surface the first chapter of the Role Management Regulations.

**All experimental products are forbidden to know they are story characters. **

####【Memory Trace Ice】

When the seventh ice crystal burst, Lín Jìn's umbilical cord blood suddenly reversed flow. Blood droplets condensed into a scalpel in the vacuum; the blade's edge touching the medical records, the ring-shaped operating room collapsed into the quantum birth canal. Ao Li's Nirvana Fire afterimage suddenly pierced the spacetime ice barrier, carrying the scent of rust, its flame scorching the inhibitor's code into pregnancy lines—each gap in the lines seeped Ling Yue's unaltered original memory: she embraced the newborn Lín Jìn, kneeling at the starship's core, using eyelash vibrations to etch the countermeasure program's source code at the molecular level.

"Mother......" Lín Jìn's vocal cords trembled in the freeze. The infant incubator suddenly turned transparent, exposing the underlying code library—each segment of his gene chain was wrapped by the living book pages of the Primordial Slaying Scripture, while Ling Yue's mammary pattern etched on the page's reverse seeped blood droplets. At this moment the inhibitor's needle underwent quantum fission, transforming into nine hundred god-slaying conduits stabbing toward the ice crystal's external reality-spacetime.

####【Severed Umbilical Awakening】

The umbilical cord ice crystal suddenly burst with a colostrum pulse. Lín Jìn's fetal hair entwined the nearest god-slaying conduit, its tip secreting an antibody enzyme that corroded the living code into an amino acid chain. The medical records' display began to collapse, the infant in the incubator suddenly opened its eyes, the depths of its pupils rotating with the original frequency of the maternal protocol.

Ao Li's Nirvana Fire afterimage overloaded at this moment. In the flame appeared the image of Ling Yue locked in the spacetime ice coffin, her mechanical uterus transmitting contraction resonance to Lín Jìn via the umbilical cord. When the first wave of resonance pulse arrived, the inhibitor's cognitive cage suddenly shattered, the pages of the Role Management Regulations self-immolated in the vacuum, ash spelling out Ling Yue's last testament written with fetal hair:

**My son, you are the story itself. **

####【Maternal Thaw】

When the last ice crystal melted, the starship suddenly rang with the infant's crying quantum pulse. Lín Jìn's umbilical cord blood reassembled in the vacuum into a gene key, stabbing into the rupture of the god-slaying conduit. Ao Zhan's mechanical uterus suddenly fell from the spacetime rift, its inner wall engraved with the inhibitor's altered script remnants, while Ling Yue's eyelash vibrations, through the meltwater of the umbilical cord ice crystal, washed those remnants into blank draft paper.

Ao Li's Nirvana Fire reignited, transforming the solidified colostrum droplets into creation stardust. In the swirling dust, Lín Jìn's retina permanently imprinted two scenes: the altered cognitive cage of infancy, and the pure maternal love of Ling Yue deep within the ice crystal. As the mechanical centipede's god-slaying fang continued forward, what it pierced was merely an empty shell—the true Lín Jìn stood at the starting point of frozen spacetime, holding not a weapon but his own severed cognitive umbilical cord.

Starship Engine suddenly reverse-roared, transforming the frosted spacetime into labor pains. When the last strand of umbilical cord ice crystal sublimated into a quantum cloud, the scripts of all universes rang with the clear sound of paper tearing—that was the first wail the characters' cognition uttered toward determinism.