Chapter 173

The remains of the Frost Flower Zigong collapsed behind them into ice crystal spores, and the jungle where the vanguard team had crashed steamed with jade‑green miasma. Zhou Yan's aged right hand had just touched a fern leaf when his skin instantly sprouted silicon scales—those towering three‑hundred‑meter cycads had veins that were the living translation of the Primordial Slaughter Scripture.

"Gravity parameters abnormal!" Chen Mo's mechanical spine suddenly bent into non‑Euclidean geometry, his vocal cords emitting quantum‑modified bird song: "West longitude 45 degrees... spacetime curvature in the mammary..."

###【Quantum Rainforest】

The sky‑covering spiral fern displayed a Klein Bottle Structure under ultraviolet light, each feather‑like compound leaf wrapped around a micro black hole. Lín Jìn's retinal birthmark seeped inverse entropy amniotic fluid, and he saw those black holes slowly sucking the temporal entropy of the teammates—Wang Ning's protective suit had faded into a Victorian whale‑bone skirt, while Li Tuo's quantum rifle had degenerated into a flintlock gun.

"Don't touch the dew!" Ao Li's reverse‑scale fragments suddenly assembled into an umbrella‑shaped shield. When the jade‑green rust spot contacted the liquid dripping from the leaf tip, it triggered a local heat‑death reaction—water droplets froze in vacuum into dodecahedral ice crystals, inside which curled fossilized embryos of the Insectoid juveniles.

Chen Mo's mechanical prosthetic eye burst into a spectrum, the scan showing that the surface of the nearest redwood trunk was covered with mammary emblems: "These growth rings... are a counter‑growth war chronicle!"

###【Silicon Symbiosis】

The lobes of the giant Venus flytrap flung open, revealing gear‑shaped mouthparts. The instant Zhou Yan's flintlock gun fired a lead bullet, the bullet siliconized in mid‑air into a miniature sand table— the sand grains assembled the horrifying truth of this world: every plant root system is linked to Ling Yue's Zigong caesarean scar.

When Li Tuo's protective boots sank into the fungus carpet, the soles suddenly sprouted neural synapses. The fluorescent fungi spread along his leg armor, etching the Pregnancy chapter of the Life Cradle Protocol onto his tactical panel. When he tried to peel off the mycelia, he discovered his own DNA was quantum‑entangled with the Insectoid gene chain.

"Civilization remains to the southeast!" Wang Ning's whale‑bone skirt suddenly hardened into an exoskeleton, the skirt spine spike pointing at the obelisk cluster in the mist. The surfaces of those twisted obelisks were densely engraved with the coordinate codes of all deleted test worlds.

###【Memory Predation】

Passing through the non‑Euclidean labyrinth formed by aerial roots, Zhang Weiran suddenly screamed. Fluorescent vines burst from his temples, his brain fluid being remade into a biological hard drive—the mycelial network forced playback of Ling Yue's deleted conception log, each frame triggering a uterine‑contraction‑style tremor in the jungle.

Ao Li's reverse‑scale umbrella suddenly stabbed into the infected's skull, jade‑green fire blazing to reveal a shocking truth: those vines were the neural synapses of the Insectoid queen, reconstructing the mammary matrix via memory contamination. The rescued Zhang Weiran's left eye had already siliconized into a sand‑table interface, deep in the iris floating the abortion records of the test worlds.

Lin Jin's quantum via memory contamination. The rescued Zhang Weiran's left eye had already siliconized into a sand‑table interface, deep in the iris floating the abortion records of the test worlds.

【14】 Lín Jìn's quantum dentin ran amok, stabbing into the main trunk of the nearest spiral fern. Stardust spewed from his gums, assembling the reverse‑feeding equation on the trunk surface— the entire giant plant suddenly burst into quantum foam, within which a holographic projection appeared of Ling Yue cultivating the First Generation Insectoid.

###【Embryo Lighthouse】

The black obelisk at the ruin's center pulsed, its stele splitting open to reveal a cervical‑shaped fissure. What welled up was not blood but the rust‑tinged amniotic fluid of the Primordial Slaughter Classic, within which floated thirty‑six embryo specimens of the test worlds. Chen Mo's mechanical spine suddenly quantum‑leapt, inserting into the crack in the stele: "This is... Ling Yue's Civilization Zigong!"

When the spinal spur touched the core, the entire ruin began silicon‑based childbirth. The ground swelled into a mammary gland mountain range, and from the fissure extended twelve‑dimensional mammary ducts, each ending linked to battlefield remnants of different eras. Wang Ning's whale‑bone skirt suddenly activated, its skirt spine spike piercing her spine to start reverse‑transmitting Victorian‑era steam code.

"Stop cognitive contamination!" Lín Jìn's quantum dentin pierced the mammary ducts, the point of stardust injection triggering a chain‑like collapse— steam code degraded into primordial soup organic matter, the silicon‑based mountain range regressing into nebula dust. But when the collapse wave reached the obelisk's core, all test‑world embryos suddenly opened their compound eyes.

###【Dimensional Birth】

The obelisk burst in the wail of absolute zero, welling up inverse entropy amniotic fluid that turned the jungle into uterine folds. Zhou Yan's flintlock gun suddenly siliconized into a mammary pump, its muzzle no longer firing lead bullets but the abortion algorithm of the Primordial Slaughter Classic. The struck spiral fern instantly degraded into a single‑celled organism, yet in vacuum it evolved a sucking‑mouth feature of the Insect Race.

At this moment Ao Li's reverse‑scale umbrella assembled into obstetric forceps, jade‑green fire blazing to reveal a transdimensional truth: "This world... is Ling Yue's biological culture dish!" In the fire loomed a horrifying vision— all vegetation were unfinished Insectoid motherships, while animals were failed human weapon prototypes.

When the final thread of amniotic fluid seeped into the earth fissure, Ling Yue's mechanical tear stain appeared on the ruin's debris. The tear droplets condensed in vacuum into ice‑crystal annotations.

**Explorers will ultimately become the embryos of seeding. **

The surviving vanguard team members suddenly vomited in unison, each vomit a curled test‑world embryo. Deep in the compound eyes of these embryos, a new Frost Flower Zigong was budding in the quantum foam— the coordinates on the doorframe flickered with even older era codes, Cambrian tentacles and Jurassic teeth faintly visible within.