Chapter 218

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris still oozed blood, the retina retaining the microbial glow from when the culture dish dome ruptured; outside the porthole, floating Silicon-Based Embryos grew in Riemannian geometry, and suddenly the whole corridor rang with a crystalline sound.

Ao Li's sword tip just touched the bulkhead, the Jadeite Inverse Scale suddenly emitted a buzzing; she saw the metal surface exude milky-white colloid, which crystallized into hexagonal prism structures within five seconds—each cell storing memory fragments of the three of them from different Time Lines.

"Don't touch!" Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong extended neural bundles, but it was a step too late; Ao Li's fingertip had already brushed the crystal surface, and instantly countless foreign memories flooded her Quantum Iris: she saw herself wearing a wedding dress woven from Star Sand, marrying Lín Jìn amidst an antimatter flower rain; she also saw Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong burst out chelipeds, pinning the Annihilation Sword Array onto the imaginary-number engine.

"These are all possible branches preset by the Observer." Lín Jìn's spine emitted the crisp sound of crystal growth, the Chaos Body was secreting some kind of transparent mucus, "but what we are experiencing is......"

His words were drowned out by the crystalline sound; at the corridor's end, the crystal suddenly proliferated fractal structures, devouring the metal bulkhead like cancer cells. Inside one crystal was stored a scene Lín Jìn had never seen: his white-haired self feeding infant Ao Li Star Sand, and in that Ao Li's pupil flickered the code of the Life Cradle Protocol.

"False memories are materializing!" Ling Yue tore open her skirt, revealing the quantum computing core of her Mechanical Zigong; the eight neural bundles behind her suddenly hardened into scalpels, slicing the incoming Memory Crystals, but from the shattered crystals welled a silvery-white mist that made the Silicon-Based Embryos suddenly wail.

That wail made Lín Jìn's head feel like it would split; he saw the scene of his 1,700th Reincarnation: Ling Yue pierced Ao Li's Quantum Iris with neural bundles, merely to stop her from activating the imaginary-number engine, and now those bloody scenes were seeping into reality through the mist, projecting holograms onto the bulkhead.

"Use the Nirvana Fire Seed!" Ao Li's sword array just lit up, the Jadeite Inverse Scale suddenly shed; she horrifiedly discovered that at the shed spot Memory Crystals were growing, their surfaces showing the scene of Lín Jìn embracing her corpse—clearly a prophetic vision from before the imaginary-number engine's activation.

The mucus secreted by the Chaos Body pooled beneath Lín Jìn's feet into a mirror; he suddenly knelt, seeing in the reflection his white-coated self dropping Silver Correction Fluid into the Jade Box Sand Table, and "The Observer's memories...... are reverse‑contaminating us......"

The entire corridor had become a crystal cavern, each facet staging a different tragedy: Ling Yue remade into a culture dish mother body, Ao Li's Inverse Scale becoming a laboratory specimen, Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris turned into a surveillance lens; even more terrifying, these crystals were rewriting reality—Lín Jìn's arm suddenly showed injection marks, the imprint of a "gene preparation" that never existed in his memory.

"They're patching the universe." Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong sprayed a cryogenic plasma flow, vaporizing the incoming Memory Crystals, "Advanced civilizations are covering true history with Memory Crystals!"

Ao Li suddenly shrieked; her Nirvana Fire Seed actually flowed back from the sword array into her body, the Jadeite Inverse Scale's regeneration speed unable to keep up with the Memory Crystals' erosion, and a crystal rooted at her collarbone was playing a horrifying scene: Lín Jìn's Chaos Body split open, revealing within it a curled-up higher‑dimensional organism larva bristling with Iris Tentacles.

"Don't trust your eyes!" Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris suddenly hyper‑spun, the 129,000 Micro Black Holes in the depths of his pupil arranging into a Klein Bottle Structure; he reached into his chest, pulling out a segment of memory neural bundle that was crystallizing, and "This is the source of contamination!"

The extracted neural bundle suddenly elongated, its tip differentiating into countless Memory Crystal spikes; in agony Lín Jìn saw the truth—the Chaos Body's secretion was not mucus but nanomachine worms vibrating at the Planck Scale, these swarms converting their flesh into storage media.

"It turns out we...... were already living hard drives......" Ling Yue suddenly laughed, her Mechanical Zigong cracking open with spider‑web patterns; deep in her uterus, a Silicon‑Based Embryo was growing in Non‑Euclidean Geometry, its wail resonating with the Memory Crystals.

Ao Li's sword array suddenly reversed direction, stabbing into her own abdomen; the Nirvana Fire Seed burned along the Sword Marks, turning the Memory Crystals into vitreous cavities, and in the flame she saw a sealed truth: the so‑called Chaos Body resonance was actually the collective intelligence awakening of the nanomachine worm swarms.

"Use the Annihilation Sword Array's entropy‑reduction trait!" Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris began to ooze blood‑red equations; he pressed his palm against the frenziedly proliferating Memory Crystals, and "Since these crystals are storage media, we'll write an infinite recursive death loop into them!"

When the 129,000 Sword Marks pierced the crystal core, the whole cabin rang with the Jade Box Sand Table's error tone; the Memory Crystals' proliferation halted abruptly, and the stored false memories suddenly began to rewind—Lín Jìn saw his white‑coated self fading, while countless death scenes from his Reincarnations turned into a Binary Waterfall flow.

But deep within the crystal, an encrypted memory stubbornly resisted deletion; when Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris broke through the final Firewall, he saw a vision that froze his soul: Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong was automatically printing the Observer's Log, and the log's cover bore the Gene Map numbers of the three of them—Experimental Subjects α, β, γ.