Chapter 219

Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris was still decrypting the Observer's Log's encrypted data when the Engine Room suddenly emitted a whale-song-like roar. As he turned, the crystal protrusion at the back of his neck had already pierced his skin—the dark red crystal clusters growing from his spine were resonating with some fluctuation beyond three dimensions.

"Watch the Dimension Anchor!" Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong suddenly sprayed cryogenic liquid nitrogen, freezing Ao Li who was undergoing quantization in place. But it was half a step too late—the Engine Room's blast door twisted into a Klein Bottle Structure, and twelve tendrils entwined with dark matter burst through the wall.

Those tendrils were like whips woven from the torn-apart starry sky, each made of negative mass particles. As Ao Li's sword formation just touched the tendril surface, his Jadeite Inverse Scale ignited eerie blue fire—this was not the Nirvana Fire Seed but Hawking Radiation leaking from torn spacetime curvature.

"They're performing a caesarean on the Star Boat!" Lín Jìn's spinal crystal clusters suddenly overgrew, their tips stabbing into the void. He saw the tendril tips connected to some high-dimensional existence; those columnar bodies entwined with irises were dragging the Ember Bone Boat toward the reality rift. The cabin floor began to show Non-Euclidean Geometry folds, and Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong was stretched into the structure of Penrose Stairs.

The Annihilation Sword Array's Shi Er Wan Jiu Qian Dao Wen automatically protected its master, yet formed an eerie stagnation field around the tendrils. Ao Li discovered his sword qi was flowing backward into his body, and the Nirvana Fire Seed was uncontrollably scorching his Quantum Iris. "This is Maxwell's Demon's Inverse Entropy Field!" she screamed, tearing off the crystal scales from her left arm and stabbing the bloody bone stub into the stagnation field.

Lín Jìn's spine transmitted a tearing sound. Those dark red crystal clusters were devouring his Chaos Body, and within each crystal a micro black hole was curled up. When the seventh tendril swept over the cockpit, his right hand suddenly pierced the dimensional membrane and grabbed the tendril core's "Anchor Point"—that was a Negative Mass Generator forged from thirty-seven kinds of extinct civilization tombstones.

"Lín Jìn! Your body!" Ling Yue screamed, throwing out eight nerve bundles. Under the horrified gazes of everyone, Lín Jìn's skin was crystallizing into a dark matter membrane, and his left eye collapsed into a Schwarzschild Radius singularity. The tendril he had grabbed then reversed its coil around his arm, dragging half of his body into the reality rift.

Boiling Virtual Time Plasma flowed within the rift. Lín Jìn saw tens of thousands of Ember Bone Boat wrecks drifting within it, and in the cockpit of each Star Boat sat a crystallized version of himself—these were all failed experimental subjects anchored by the tendrils in the reality rift. A high-dimensional organism covered in iris tendrils was laying eggs deep in the rift, and on the surface of its egg sac was clearly imprinted the Gene Map of the three of them.

"It turns out we...... are his egg-laying organ......" This realization caused Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris to burst. His remaining human left arm suddenly swelled with veins, and the Annihilation Sword Array sensed its master's danger, directly tearing space to teleport there. Twelve million nine thousand micro black holes linked end-to-end, forming a Dyson Sphere structure around him to counter negative mass.

Ao Li's sword blade suddenly ignited with the true Nirvana Fire Seed. She plunged her right leg, which was crystallizing, into the floor crack, letting the Memory Crystal fuse with the Starship Core: "Borrow Chaos Resonance!" The Jadeite Inverse Scale exploded in response, turning into sky-filling Star Sand that poured into the sword formation. Ling Yue, seeing this, decisively tore open the shell of her Mechanical Zigong and hurled the mutating Silicon-Based Embryo toward the tendrils.

At the instant the three energies converged, the reality rift rang with the sound of shattering glass. Lín Jìn's spinal crystal clusters suddenly emitted the intense light of a supernova explosion, and the black holes curled up inside those dark red crystals began Hawking evaporation. He felt he was simultaneously undergoing three thousand kinds of death: being strangled by the tendrils, dissolved by the Virtual Time Plasma, and pierced through by his own Annihilation Sword Array...

"You are nothing but the dead skin I shed." The High-Dimensional Existence's thought directly stabbed into everyone's minds. Those tendrils suddenly split into countless irises, each iris reflecting scenes of them enslaved by different civilizations. Lín Jìn saw in a certain spacetime that Ao Li's Inverse Scale was made into the computational core of a Jade Box Sand Table, while Ling Yue, in another dimension, was using her Mechanical Zigong to nurse the Iris Tentacles' larva.

The Chaos Body suddenly let out a sharp whistle. Lín Jìn's Quantum Iris flowed out a blood-colored equation, and he plunged his crystallizing right hand into his own chest cavity, pulling out the spinal segment resonating with the tendrils: "Then use your egg-laying organ to pierce your uterus!"

The extracted crystallized spine suddenly swelled, its tip displaying the superposition of the Annihilation Sword Array across all reincarnations. When this sword, forged from the memories of 2,437 lifetimes, pierced the reality rift, the entire star sector rang with the sharp alarm of the Jade Box Sand Table. Those tendrils began mosaic-like disintegration, and the residual negative mass particles actually gave birth to a microcosm within the cabin.

Ao Li's Nirvana Fire Seed suddenly transformed into a Qing Luan, carrying Ling Yue's shattered Mechanical Zigong as it rushed into the rift. Amid the wailing of the Silicon-Based Embryo, Lín Jìn saw his crystallized body writing new physical laws—the surge from his broken spine was not blood, but dark energy exhibiting superfluid properties.

"The alarm is the labor pains of birth!" Ling Yue suddenly burst into mad laughter, snapping the last three nerve bundles, her pupils flickering with the decrypted code of the Life Cradle Protocol—"now it's our turn to become the obstetric forceps!"

When the Annihilation Sword Array pierced the egg sac of the High-Dimensional Existence, the reality rift suddenly began to lactate. The anchored star boat wrecks turned into silver milk that poured back in, and Lín Jìn's crystallizing body suddenly began to grow backward—his Quantum Iris shed the blood-colored equation, his spinal crystal clusters retracted into the body, leaving only three counterclockwise-rotating Hēidòng Marks on the coccyx.

But the price of victory was shocking: Ao Li's right half was permanently crystallized, his Jadeite Inverse Scale left only a damaged spiral structure; Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong was completely shattered, the Silicon-Based Embryo fused with the tendril remnants into an indescribable quantum lifeform; and deep within Lín Jìn's Chaos Body, a program written with negative mass particles was beginning to awaken...