Chapter 513: Origin of the Observer

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In the archive room's air, gelatinous time particles float, each speck replaying a scene from three hundred years ago. Ao Li's dragon horn pierces the darkness, and when the phosphorescent glow sweeps across the wall, the neural fibers embedded in the alloy suddenly awaken, writhing like a startled swarm of snakes.

"This isn't the archive room..." Lín Jìn's pocket watch fragments heat up in his palm, "it's a living memory corridor."

####**1. Flesh and Blood Files**

Technician Xiao Wang's spotlight sweeps over the third row of shelves, and the leather‑bound file suddenly inflates into a fetal‑shaped meat ball. When his finger touches the "Founding Minutes," the book spine cracks open, revealing a throbbing mechanical heart; vascular‑like conductors coil around his wrist and begin reverse transfusion.

"Stop struggling!" Ao Li's Sword Qi slices the conductors, black blood splatters onto the ceiling and solidifies into a holographic projection of the First Generation Observer leader. This man, who resembles Lín Jìn by seventy percent, is injecting a black‑blood serum into his infant self.

"Welcome home, children." The holographic projection suddenly turns toward the crowd, its pupils fissuring into a birth‑canal shape, "Come see your true birth certificates."

The metal floor suddenly becomes transparent, revealing three hundred Bronze Coffins soaked a kilometer below. Each coffin seeps black blood, and the Star Nebula totem on the Coffin Lid matches exactly the countdown tattoos on everyone's wrists. The coffin at the very center suddenly opens, and out crawls a desiccated corpse bearing Ao Li's dragon horn; in its rotting hand it clutches a parchment scroll.

####**Midwife's Oath**

The parchment scroll unfurls in dragon flame, and an ancient gene contract materializes in the void. The clauses written in dragon blood seep into each person's iris:

**Clause 1: In your bloodline forever resides the birth‑canal seal, to serve the offspring of the Star Sea for generations. **

**Clause 2: When the fetus's cry reverberates across the star domain, you must forge civilization into a birthing bed. **

**Clause 7: Inverse Scale Godslayer shall be subjected to the eternal uterine‑contraction penalty. **

Lín Jìn's pocket watch suddenly plays an encrypted recording, the First Generation leader's voice tinged with metallic tremor: "Black blood is not a weapon; it is the amniotic fluid of an ancient god. We Observers have never been guardians; we are the white blood cells of a fetus's respiratory system."

The alloy surface of the file cabinet begins to melt, revealing an inner biological structure—it is the uterine wall forged from the core stars of countless civilizations. Amber‑colored light specks drift among the vascular network, each speck a dying memory of a devoured civilization.

####**Gene Punishment Devices**

When Xiao Wang attempts to photograph the gene contract, his pupils are suddenly veiled with a white haze. The nanobots inside his protective suit collectively rebel, carving an Obstetric Forceps totem onto his skin. "Obedience protocol activated!" he screams, crashing into the Bronze Astronomical Instrument, and the splattered blood solidifies in the air into a fetal electrocardiogram.

Ao Li's dragon horn erupts a purifying light wave, but upon touching the contract text it backfires. Her spine suddenly sprouts a mechanical Obstetric Forceps, which uncontrollably clamps toward Lín Jìn's neck. At the last moment, the Dragon Clan lineage suppresses the gene program, and the forceps freeze three millimeters from the artery.

"Look here!" the tech team discovers the First Generation leader's Gene Map mutating. The originally human portion is overwritten by Dragon Clan sequences, and the rewrite timestamp coincides exactly with the era when Ao Li's ancestors vanished. The Holographic Log suddenly plays automatically, showing the First Generation leader deep within the Rose Star Nebula, injecting black blood into a dragon egg.

####**Godslayer's Shackles**

From the depths of the archive room comes the sound of gears jamming, and twelve bronze statues burst from the earth. These dragon‑head humanoid statues cradle a Star Sea fetus model in their palms; when Ao Li's blood drips onto the altar, the model suddenly opens amber eyes.

"The Dragon Clan has never been an exception," the statues emit the First Generation leader's reverberation, "Your Inverse Scale is the amniotic membrane shed by an ancient god, and the God‑Slaying Code is merely a birthing analgesic."

Lín Jìn's pocket watch fragments suddenly hover, forming a ring that assembles a complete Gene Lock structure in the air. At the lock core, Ao Li's DNA model appears, with the ninth pair of chromosomes melting into black blood—within lies the obedience program implanted by the First Generation leader.

When Ao Li attempts to destroy the Gene Lock, the entire base suddenly erupts with the roar of uterine contractions. Remnants of the Resetters surge from all directions, assembling a massive birthing platform in the center of the archive room. A phantom of the Star Sea fetus hovers above the platform, its umbilical cord piercing the dimension, dragging a civilization twenty light‑years away into the birth canal.

"The game should end now," the fetus's voice freezes time and space, "Mother, please lie upon the place of your birth."

Ao Li's dragon horn suddenly detaches, and before it hits the ground it transforms into nine Inverse Scales. These scales automatically embed into the eye sockets of the bronze statues, activating a three‑hundred‑year‑old truth illusion—deep within the Rose Star Nebula, nine hundred Observer‑like organizations are performing the midwifery ritual across different universes.