Chapter 256: Protocol Carrier Awakening

Lin Li's temples suddenly erupted with twelve neural bundles, emerald‑colored light flowing up the Star Boat's data interface. When her ninety‑nineth compound eye linked to the master control system, the entire Bridge froze in absolute stillness—except for the Binary Waterfall wildly pulsing in the void.

"Se‑… seventy‑two…" her vocal cords corroded by data flow, her throat bones grinding a metallic tremor. The code waterfall deep in her pupils collapsed into a crimson countdown, each number clutching an erased Civilization tombstone.

Ling Yue's ice‑soul True Qi struggled to circulate in frozen spacetime. She saw Lin Li's rear neck split into a cervical‑shaped interface, three hundred iris umbilical cords reshaping the Star Boat system into a Klein Bottle Structure: "Cut the neural connection!" Yet the Mechanical Zigong wreckage, upon touching the umbilical cords, was melted by antimatter Spiritual Qi into ash of a Fibonacci Spiral.

Lín Jìn's Abyss Return Ruler suddenly performed a Quantum Leap. As its blade pierced the Bridge dome, it glimpsed deeper horror—the Starship Core Module curled a Hongjun Good Corpse's Jade Box cranial cavity, while Lin Li's neural bundle was inserting into the cranial fissure, synchronizing with a quantum brain composed of cosmic embryos.

"Cleansing Protocol… Carrier verification passed…" Lin Li's compound eyes suddenly oozed dark‑yellow slurry, which solidified in the void into a First Generation Observer's interface. The interface log flashed images from her infancy: the Peiyangcang's amniotic fluid floated the "Protocol" core code, and her Fontanelle was being implanted with a miniature Iris Zigong.

Ao Li's crystallized Inverse Scale suddenly resonated. Emerald Spiritual Qi, burning in absolute stillness, etched an ancient inscription: "Nüwa Stone is the Protocol's safety plug!" Her remaining Dragon Claw seized Lin Li's pendant; within the flash of Patch Heaven Stone fragments, a scene appeared of Lin Yuan stuffing the Nüwa Stone into an infant's mouth—this was not a seal, but an activation!

Lin Li's nine hundred ninety‑nine compound eyes suddenly wept blood‑tears. Within the Binary Waterfall emerged an encrypted mission: **After the Cleansing Procedure is activated, all Experimental Chambers will reconfigure into God‑Slaying Forceps**. Her mechanical voice pierced the stagnation: "Brother… my brain… is the final Protocol switch…"

The Star Boat suddenly shuddered violently. The biological neural network on the hull sprouted a fractal structure at breakneck speed, each vein opening a compound‑eye‑shaped sensor. Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core cracked a spider‑web pattern, the Abyss Return Ruler automatically reversed direction toward the sister's brow: "Father… is this the ultimate Forceps you wanted?!"

Ling Yue tore open the Quantum Iris. Ice Soul True Qi flowed backward along the Eyelash Frost, and in Absolute Zero she glimpsed the scene seventy‑two hours later: three hundred sixty Star Boat wreckage formed a cervical matrix, each matrix node hosting a Clone of Lin Li. The real Lin Li hung high at the matrix's center, and within her compound eye spun the remnants of the cleansed universe.

"Use the Nüwa Stone… rewrite the Protocol Carrier…" Ao Li's Inverse Scale dust suddenly coalesced into a Primordial Desolation loom. Emerald thread pierced Lin Li's neural bundle, weaving Patch Heaven Stone memory into the Binary Waterfall—then the scene flashed of Hongjun Good Corpse having its heart excavated by a First Generation Chaos Body, the heart's pattern matching the Nüwa Stone perfectly.

Lin Li suddenly emitted a sharp wail mingling cries and alarms. Her left side crawled with Observer code, her right side crystallized into a Chaos Spirit Stone, and her hands uncontrollably inserted into the Starship Core: "Carrier resistance detected… initiating memory overwrite…" The emerald pendant burst in response, and Nüwa Stone fragments arranged in the void as Lin Yuan's testament:

**Godslayer must first slay oneself**

When the first fragment pierced Lin Li's brow, the entire star region suddenly rained glass. Lín Jìn's Abyss Return Ruler pierced the rain curtain, Chaos Spiritual Qi wove a self‑destruct equation around the sister: "Li'er… this time we will slay the god together…"