Chapter 517: Gene Holy War

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The conference room's blast-proof door rattled with a bang as the blood‑palm imprint struck it, and a mutant fused with Mechanical Tentacles was squeezing out through the gap. Ao Li's dragon horn cut a cold light in the darkness, illuminating the twisted faces around the round table—on the left, the Elder Council members' skin showed protruding metallic veins, on the right, the Godslayer Faction's eyes glimmered with the silver sheen characteristic of Antibody.

"Going to X-09 is the only hope!" the Godslayer Faction leader Lin Ran tore open his sleeve, the Inverse‑Scale Pattern on his forearm secreting Antibody serum, "My Gene Lock shows that the true Godslayer of the First Generation Observer is hidden there..."

His words were cut off by the sound of metal tearing. On the left, a Mechanical Faction elder suddenly mutated, seven black‑blood conduits bursting from his spine and piercing the ceiling. The entire bulletproof glass curtain wall shattered in response, revealing a hellish scene in the outer corridor: warriors awakened by Antibody fought half‑mechanized comrades, severed limbs reborn in the amniotic‑like black blood as terrifying aberrations.

####**Mutinous Gene**

Ao Li swung her sword to cut off the attacking Mechanical Tentacle, and the wound sprayed not oil but colostrum mixed with dragon blood. The mutant elder's skull split into an Obstetric Forceps shape, and from his vocal cords came the snicker of a Star Sea fetus: "Mother, you should lie on the birthing bed now."

Lin Ran's Antibody serum condensed in the air into a silver net, enveloping three mutated clerical personnel. Their skin suddenly turned transparent, exposing a cluster of ancient god cells beating within their cavities. "Their Gene Lock has long been corrupted!" Lin Ran's iris fractured into a Compound Eyes structure, "X-09 hides the true God‑Slaying Code, I can sense it!"

The round table suddenly melted into a black‑blood vortex, and the seven surviving executives retreated simultaneously. Ao Li's dragon horn pierced the floor, carving a quarantine line through the metal flesh and blood spreading like a fungus carpet. She saw her own reflection twisted in the pool of blood, her abdominal Star Pattern birthmark entangling quantumly with X-09's coordinates.

####**Godslayer's Bet**

The base's dome was suddenly torn open, and ancient god tentacles, clutching three space station wrecks, slammed down. Lin Ran, while dodging, threw a Holographic Star Chart, its navigation route, activated by Antibody serum, pointing straight at the Rose Nebula: "Thirty‑seven minutes ago, I intercepted quantum communications from 9527; he is waiting for us at the Godslayer Temple in X-09!"

The Mechanical Faction remnants suddenly knelt en masse, their chests splitting open, extending glowing umbilical cords that linked into a formation. From beneath the floor came the roar of a bronze birthing bed rising, and the phantom of the Star Sea fetus solidified within the array: "Good child, come to mother here."

Ao Li's Inverse‑Scale Sword suddenly slipped from her grasp, its hilt's vertical pupil reflecting a horrific scene—on the altar of the Godslayer Temple were three hundred Ao Li clones, their abdomens sliced open, being drenched with primordial Dragon Clan blood to fuel some Antimatter device. 9527 stood in the pool of blood, holding in his hand the Godslayer Dagger of the First Generation Observer.

####**Crimson Choice**

When the ancient god tentacle pierced the final line of defense, Ao Li's Gene Lock suddenly collapsed. Her dragon horn sprouted Star Nebula markings, and the quantum ripples bursting from her abdominal birthmark instantly shattered the bronze birthing bed. Within the absolutely still Time‑Space Rift, she simultaneously saw two futures:

In the left time bubble, the fleet heading to X-09 was traversing the birthing‑channel star gate. Lin Ran thrust the Godslayer Dagger into 9527's heart; the erupting Antimatter wave instead accelerated the ancient god embryo, and the entire Rose Nebula curled into the fist of a newborn.

In the right time bubble, the stationed Observer activated the Zihui Mijian. The black hole formed by the base's Collapse temporarily trapped the Star Sea fetus, but thirty days later, all survivors' Gene Locks automatically unlocked, and humanity mutated into living birthing channels.

"I choose the third path." Ao Li's Inverse‑Scale Sword suddenly reversed, stabbing into her own abdomen. Primordial dragon blood splashed onto the Star Chart, activating the hidden Jump Engine of the First Generation Observer—a quantum pathway paved by nine million Godslayer remains, leading straight to the Godslayer reactor at X-09's core.

####**Torn Consensus**

When Ao Li withdrew the bloodied blade, the forty‑three survivors split into a crimson array. Seventeen Antibody awakeners stood behind her, their skin bearing the Godslayer Zhengtong; twenty‑six Mechanical Faction remnants merged into the ancient god network, with birthing‑channel monitoring probes extending from their eye sockets; the remaining Wall Rider faction, amid screams, had their genes collapse, their flesh and blood solidifying into fuel for the Jump Engine.

"This is not a choice, it is destiny." Lin Ran injected Antibody serum into the engine core; outside the Glass Pod door, ancient god tentacles were gnawing the last three escort ships. At the moment the Jump Engine activated, Ao Li saw her clones appear on every bridge, their raised Star Pattern birthmarks resonating quantumly with her own wound.

Amid the radiant distortion of space‑time, the entire fleet transformed into an Inverse‑Scale stream of light. The base wreckage that remained in place suddenly curled, metal and flesh merging into a gigantic fetal palm that reached toward the Jump direction, its palm lines faintly displaying the three‑dimensional coordinates of X-09.