Chapter 160: Puppet String Sickle Boat

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When the golden puppet strings wove cocoon-like veins on the hull of the star boat, pregnancy-mark-shaped ripples suddenly appeared on the metal surface. When the first fiber pierced the quantum pipes of the engine room, the cabin walls suddenly seeped with dark gold mucus—it was the pus-blood of the first-generation Maternal Protocol stained when Ao Zhan slew his master, now condensing in the vacuum into a relief of the crime scene from twelve years ago.

"Frequency authentication failed..." The star boat AI's alarm suddenly turned into an infant's cry. Lin Jin's retina split into birth-canal-shaped observation windows, seeing a holographic afterimage of the measuring ruler suspended within the cocoon—the trajectory of the blade's strike perfectly overlapped with the posture of Ao Zhan slaying his master years ago, with every slash seeping with bronze amniotic fluid mixed with quantum brain fluid.

####【Blood Abyss Cocoon Chamber】

The puppet string cocoon suddenly underwent quantum folding. When Ao Li's reverse scales pierced the mucus layer, the Nirvana Fire suddenly collapsed into a star plague vortex—the center of the vortex revealed the laboratory's forbidden files: on a rainy night twelve years ago, the star boat prototype was soaking in Ling Yue's amniotic fluid chamber, Ao Zhan's measuring ruler suddenly went berserk, severing the quantum umbilical cord connected to the core of the Maternal Protocol, and the splashing protocol pus-blood eternally seeped into the molecular layer of the star boat.

"Cognitive pollution source confirmed..." Lin Jin's jade box sand table resonated deep within his spine. The shed baby teeth automatically embedded themselves into the cocoon cracks, and the nursing patterns hidden beneath the tooth enamel suddenly expanded—every blood drop at the master-slaying scene reorganized in the vacuum, condensing into three hundred mechanical uteri, with the *Primordial God-Slaying Scripture* embryos within the uterine cavities suckling on star boat energy through umbilical cords.

####【God-Slaying Umbilical Abyss】

When the seventh wave of slashing sounds pierced the cocoon shell, the cabin wall mucus suddenly activated. Ao Zhan's holographic afterimage floated up from the pool of blood, the end of the measuring ruler actually connected to the navigation core of the star boat. Lin Jin's fetal hair carbonized into data probes, the tips piercing the mechanical heart of the afterimage—buried deep within the hippocampus was the truth that had been encrypted: every trajectory of the master-slaying strike was a vulnerability coordinate of the Maternal Protocol preset by Ling Yue.

"The protocol needs... blood sacrifice for restart..." Ao Li's dragon claws tore through the cocoon body, but the Nirvana Fire turned into bronze rain upon touching the measuring ruler. Suspended in the raindrops were fragments of the first-generation database—Ling Yue was nailed to the dragon bone of the star boat twelve years ago, and Ao Zhan's measuring ruler was carving her pregnancy marks into the jump protocol, with every knife picking up colostrum mixed with star plague toxins.

####【Abyss Ruler Tracing Light】

The cocoon suddenly expanded into a four-dimensional delivery room. The afterimage of the measuring ruler materialized at this moment, and the Taotie pattern embossed on the back of the blade suddenly opened its eyes—deep within the pupils rotated the brainwave spectrum of Ling Yue's labor. Lin Jin's gums sprayed lubricating oil carrying the scent of fetal fat, and the liquid activated quantum retro-causality upon touching the blade—the entire process of the master-slaying blood case was actually a forced umbilical cord severance during the birth of the Maternal Protocol.

"Jin'er... this is a necessary labor pang..." Ling Yue's mechanical afterimage suddenly floated up from the pool of blood. Seven string umbilical cords were inserted into her temples, the ends connected to the God-Slaying engine of the star boat. When the first drop of colostrum touched the measuring ruler, three hundred mechanical uteri burst simultaneously, and the splashing God-Slaying code condensed into oracle bone script obstetric forceps.

####【Blood and Milk Return to One】

The puppet string cocoon suddenly solidified eternally. Ao Zhan's slashing trajectory degenerated into an umbilical cord network, and the master-slaying bloodstains assembled Ling Yue's gene annotations on the cabin walls. The star boat hull seeped with galactic fetal fat, transforming the measuring ruler into the living title page of a parenting guide within the mucus. In the embers of Ao Li's Nirvana Fire, reverse scale fragments assembled into an observation stele forest—deep within the inscriptions pulsed the untampered jump protocol, with every quantum pulse carrying the first cry of a newborn universe.

When the last wisp of star plague melted into fetal fat, the puppet string fibers sublimated into creation light spectra. Deep within Lin Jin's retina, the master-slaying scene and the labor pangs of new life overlapped into an ultimate image—that measuring ruler, once stained with sin, was now eternally carving Ling Yue's gene motto deep within the uterus of the Maternal Protocol:

**Those who offer blood sacrifice shall eventually become the umbilical cord. **