Chapter 257: Brother‑Slaying Protocol

Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong suddenly erupted with blinding electric arcs; when her index finger entered Lin Li's temple brain‑machine interface, the quantum tide of the entire star domain abruptly reversed. The iris codes tangled on the neural bundles went berserk, turning into three thousand data chains that bound her wrist.

"Sister... stop..." Lin Li's vocal cords, corroded by the Protocol Code, turned her words into a binary alarm. Her right‑eye pupil fissured into a Self‑Referential Paradox structure, while her left eye leaked blood‑tinged tears infused with jade Spiritual Qi—Nüwa Stone fragments were battling the Brother‑Slaying Protocol for control of her brain.

"Kan Palace Ice Soul, Li Fire Scorch Evil!" Ling Yue tore open the artificial skin on her abdomen, exposing the Mechanical Zigong's Core Processor to vacuum. She used Ice Soul true qi to freeze her right hand as it was quantum‑ifying, while her left fingertip sparked with Antimatter, forcibly ripping out the monitoring chip deep within Lin Li's hippocampus. The moment the chip detached, every screen on the Star Boat suddenly displayed the same encrypted footage:

**Experiment Log – Final Chapter: Brother‑Slaying Protocol Carrier implanted in Omega Container, activation condition—Abyss Return Ruler resonance**

In the footage, infant Lin Li's Fontanelle had a miniature Iris Zigong implanted, while Lin Yuan, covered in tubes beside the operating table, etched a God‑Slaying Equation onto the chip's surface with spinal bone fragments. Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong suddenly overclocked with a high‑pitched whine, and her Quantum Iris split open a Cervical Shape fissure: "So your father... had long ago......"

The warning was swallowed by the blinding light of the chip fragments. When the glare faded, Lin Li's nine hundred ninety‑nine compound eyes suddenly exuded a dark‑yellow fluid—those liquids coalesced in the air into a blood‑colored hologram, displaying the Ultimate Form of the Brother‑Slaying Protocol: Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core pierced by the Abyss Return Ruler, and the Ruler‑holder was the embryo nurtured within Lin Li's Quantum Zigong.

"Mechanical Zigong overload threshold!" Ao Li's Crystallized Remnant Body suddenly resonated, jade dust arranging in the void to form Lin Yuan's handwritten note: "Moon, Li's chip in the brain... is the final safety valve......" Repair Heaven Stone Spiritual Qi suddenly ran amok, freezing Ling Yue's right half, which was quantum‑ifying, into a Klein Bottle ice sculpture.

Lín Jìn's Abyss Return Ruler suddenly reversed direction. When the ruler's tip pierced his own chest, Chaos Spiritual Qi resonated with the Brother‑Slaying Protocol: "Father... even my self‑destruction is in your calculations?!" At the instant the Seed Core split, every Shenjing Wangluo aboard the Star Boat abruptly proliferated, and the hull surface bulged with countless Birth Canal Folds.

Ling Yue used her remaining Ice Soul true qi to forge a hexagonal prism barrier. Her Mechanical Zigong Remnant collapsed into a Singularity under overload, and Absolute Zero frost rose up along the data chains: "Li... look into your brain... the true memories......"

The Brother‑Slaying Protocol suddenly self‑destructed. Lin Li's Quantum Iris exploded into 129,000 prisms, each reflecting an encrypted truth: at age three, she had grasped the toy Abyss Return Ruler forged by Lin Yuan and personally pierced the heart of a young Clone in the Peiyangcang—whose face was identical to Lín Jìn's.

"Brother... I have long ago... killed you......" Lin Li's vocal cords suddenly regained a human voice, and within the Repair Heaven Stone Spiritual Qi burst from the jade pendant appeared Lin Yuan's final scene: he thrust the Nüwa Stone fragment into his daughter's mouth while pressing the activation button of the Brother‑Slaying Protocol.

The Star Boat suddenly split in two. The Jade Box cranial cavity of Hongjun Good Corpse rose from the fissure, its surface engraved with insertion coordinates for the God‑Slaying Forceps. Lín Jìn's Chaos Seed Core was utterly shattered, yet the splashed Spiritual Qi automatically coalesced into a new Abyss Return Ruler—its shaft entwined with Lin Li's Brother‑Slaying Protocol Code and the radiance of the Nüwa Stone.

"Detected dual‑born Pinqü... Great Purge Protocol... upgrading to Genesis Protocol......" Lin Li's Compound Eyes suddenly exuded a blood‑colored equation, and her hands entered the Jade Box cranial cavity; from deep within the Quantum Zigong came the cries of three hundred cosmic embryos.

When the first Abyss Return Ruler pierced the Jade Box, Ling Yue's Mechanical Zigong finally vanished completely. The last scene she saw in Absolute Zero was the Nüwa Stone sigil appearing on Lin Li's forehead, and within Lín Jìn's shattered Seed Core, an embryo sucking on the Protocol Code and Chaos Spiritual Qi.