Chapter 520: The Truth of the Birthbed

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Emergency lighting turned the Starship corridor crimson, and Ao Li's dragon horn cast twisted shadows on the metal bulkhead. Antimatter fuel spewed from the ruptured pipe, condensing in the air into a Fetus palm‑shaped corrosive cloud. Technician Lao Zhang's mechanical arm suddenly jammed on the engine compartment valve, and he caught a glimpse of minute laser‑cut marks at the threaded interface—those were not damage caused by the storm.

####**Precision Destruction**

"The quantum coupler of Engine No. 3 had its core crystal removed!" Lin Ran's Antibody Blade slashed through the melted maintenance panel, exposing neural junction cables that had been precisely destroyed inside, "It was done with a molecular cutter; the damage occurred twelve hours before the Jump Engine."

The medical officer suddenly aimed the Antibody serum injector at Ao Li: "When the storm arrived, you were the only one who inspected the engine compartment alone." Bronze Pregnancy Stretch Marks shimmered at the edge of her pupils, and her needle‑holding wrist was nailed to the bulkhead by Lín Jìn with a pocket watch fragment. Where the serum splashed, the metal floor was corroded into a First Generation Observer's Burial Coffin Sacrifice Zhengtong.

Ao Li's dragon horn pierced the main console, pulling up surveillance data from the past seventy‑two hours. At a certain timestamp the display suddenly warped into a waveform of a contracting birth canal, but amid quantum noise everyone saw a dark silhouette of a bulging abdomen using an Obstetric Forceps‑shaped tool to dismantle the Safety Valve.

####**Bronze Brand**

While emergency repairing the Antimatter reactor, engineer Xiao Wang discovered a micro‑etching on the back of the fuel pump— a Bronze Birthbed Zhengtong composed of three hundred civilization characters, with Earth's interstellar coordinates etched at its center. When he illuminated the Zhengtong with a laser pen, the entire engine compartment suddenly quantum‑shifted, and everyone fell into a memory corridor spanning a million years.

The First Generation Observer's Starship wreckage floated in the void, each hull tethered by a Bronze umbilical cord, pulling the dying civilization toward the central Birthbed. Ao Li saw her own Clone bound to the edge of the Birthbed, its abdomen linked to a Star Sea fetal umbilical cord, and she was carving new civilization coordinates with her dragon horn.

"The saboteur left a signature," Lín Jìn's pocket watch fragments seared the Zhengtong, and a three‑dimensional projection of the X-09 planet materialized in the air. At the planet's core, three hundred Ao Li clones were thrusting Godslayer daggers into each other's abdomens, their blood converging on the Bronze Birthbed to form Earth's coordinates.

####**Dual Sacrifice**

When the emergency repair reached the Jump Engine, Lao Zhang found an even more lethal sabotage on the surface of a superconductor—nano‑scale God‑Slaying Code etched into the cooling system, which would detonate the Antimatter fuel if the engine were restarted. The encryption method of the code matched exactly the Burial Coffin Sacrifice records on the Bronze Birthbed.

"This isn't sabotage..." Ao Li's dragon horn suddenly burst forth with purifying light waves, projecting the code onto the ceiling, "It's a pre‑emptive sacrifice ritual." The projected image showed that the location of the damage corresponded to a coordinate of an extinct civilization on the Birthbed, and the Earth coordinate beside it was slowly revealing the outline of a Starship.

The medical officer suddenly broke free of her restraints, her abdomen exploding outward, ejecting a mechanical fetus wrapped in an amniotic membrane. The monster, bearing Lin Ran's face, lunged at the main console and completed the final protocol before the Antibody Blade could pierce it— the navigation system locked onto the precise location of Earth's coordinates on the Birthbed.

####**Birthbed Reflection**

The Starship completed the jump amid violent shaking, and outside the viewport a bronze Birthbed magnified ten thousandfold loomed. The civilizations that had been sacrificed writhed across the bed surface like a placenta about to be delivered. Earth's coordinates flickered at the foot of the bed, and the Starship's projection was already etched onto it.

"We are the offerings!" Lin Ran tore open his protective suit, revealing a body etched with Antibody runes. His spine was sprouting a luminous umbilical cord, resonating with the Birthbed. Ao Li swung her sword to cut the umbilical cord, but found the blade tip captured by the Birthbed's gravity, and the Inverse Scale of the Dragon‑Song Sword was melting into sacrificial bronze liquid.

Amid the uncontrolled alarm, the Starship's hull began to peel away. An ancient god's umbilical cord protruded from the surface of the Birthbed, coiling the Starship into a fetal shape. Through the semi‑transparent bulkhead, everyone saw their own genetic strands being drawn out, flowing along the cord into the Earth coordinates on the Birthbed— the continental plates of that azure planet gradually assembling into the palm‑print of a Star Sea fetus.

The bronze Birthbed suddenly emitted a reverberation from the First Generation Observer: "Every Godslayer was once a midwife." As the Starship fully merged with the Birthbed, Ao Li saw the truth in the quantum echo: Earth had been sacrificed three hundred years ago, and the universe they now inhabited was merely a uterine illusion fabricated by the Birthbed.