Chapter 526: Time Obstetric Forceps

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####**Quantum Chilblains**

Beneath the shadows of the starship wreckage, the shattered remains of the hunters were reassembling. As Ao Li's dragon horns pierced the skull of a giant forceps-beast, the splashing amber debris suddenly quantized, condensing into three hundred miniature space-time bubbles in the air—each bubble containing a curled-up phantom of Lin Jin at different ages.

"Their core is in the umbilical joint!" Ye Wanqiu's antibody blade severed the fluorescent umbilical cord lunging at her; what sprayed from the stump was not black blood, but boiling time flow. A team member's protective suit was splashed, and they instantly aged thirty years, only to regress into an embryonic state in the next second.

Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments suddenly suspended in mid-air, piecing together the outline of obstetric forceps in the void. When his fingers touched the handle, his entire right arm suddenly became transparent, and the blood vessels beneath his skin transformed into fluorescent umbilical cords. "We must sever their space-time anchors!" His voice began to distort, as if coming from multiple timelines, "Use this... to attack the seventh umbilical joint..."

Before the words could finish, a hunter's quantum core suddenly overloaded. Ao Li's sword Qi pierced its seventh umbilical ring, and the monster suddenly stiffened; machinery and flesh began to separate in reverse—gears regressed into ore, flesh regressed into stardust, and finally, it collapsed into an amber-colored space-time singularity.

####**Causal Blood Blade**

Technician Old Zhang's mechanical arm suddenly went berserk, its hydraulic tubes wrapping around Lin Jin's neck: "You cannot change causality..." His eyeballs burst with black blood, and his pupils reflected a future scene: the moment Lin Jin completely disappeared, the Star Sea Fetus would obtain the complete God-Slaying Code.

Ao Li's dragon horns erupted with purification light waves, but she saw Lin Jin voluntarily plunge the pocket watch fragments into his heart. Amidst the space-time ripples, his body quantized and reassembled, and the pocket watch gears pieced together into a rotating obstetric forceps totem on his chest. When his hand grasped the time obstetric forceps condensed in the void, the entire battlefield suddenly fell into absolute stillness—except for the hunters' umbilical cords, which still twitched like poisonous snakes nailed in amber.

"Hold on tight!" Lin Jin's voice came from three hundred time points simultaneously. Ao Li saw red dots emerge on the seventh umbilical ring of every hunter, as if they were death marks labeled by fate. Her sword Qi transformed into a rainstorm, precisely piercing every red dot. The struck hunters began to experience reverse growth—mechanical prosthetic eyes regressed into ore, flesh torsos collapsed into nebular dust, and finally, only the bronze chips implanted by the First Generation Observer remained.

####**Existential Annihilation**

When the last hunter turned into bronze ash, Lin Jin's left hand was already so transparent that one could see the Star Sea Fetus's umbilical cord passing through it. His pocket watch fragments were dissolving, and every disappearing gear erased a proof of existence from history—Ye Wanqiu suddenly discovered that Lin Jin's name in the tactical manual was fading, and his figure in the holographic combat records turned into a blurred spot of light.

"The Time Obstetric Forceps cannot stop..." Lin Jin plunged the weapon into the permafrost, and the surface suddenly revealed a projection of the Star Sea Fetus's gene chain. Every chain was cast from the remains of civilizations, but at the seventh base pair position, there was glaringly the God-Slaying vulnerability implanted by the First Generation Observer.

Ao Li's dragon horns suddenly resonated with the gene chain, and the primordial dragon blood injected into the vulnerability along the forceps' patterns. A dying shriek came from the Star Sea Fetus's core, and the atmosphere of Planet X-09 began to evaporate, revealing a bronze uterus a thousand meters underground—at this moment, the surface of that uterus was covered in cracks, oozing black blood mixed with reverse-scale fragments.

####**God-Slaying Reverberation**

Just as the dawn of victory appeared, Lin Jin's body below the waist was completely transparent. He grasped Ao Li's hand and embedded the controller of the Time Obstetric Forceps into her dragon horns: "Remember, every Godslayer is..." The unfinished words were drowned out by quantum noise, and the traces of his existence collapsed like a sandcastle, leaving only the clinking of pocket watch gears echoing in the void.

Ao Li's pupils suddenly quantized, seeing the truth of a higher dimension—Lin Jin had not disappeared, but had been dispersed into all the corrected timelines. Inside the Star Sea Fetus of every space-time, a fragment of his pocket watch was embedded, and those gears were feeding on the God-Slaying Code.

When the surviving team members began to clean up the battlefield, Ye Wanqiu discovered that her antibody serum was crystallizing. Under the microscope, a miniature phantom of Lin Jin was curled up inside every crystal, and they held even tinier obstetric forceps in their hands, cutting the umbilical cord of some unspeakable existence.

And deep in the core of Planet X-09, the bronze coffin of the First Generation Observer suddenly opened. Inside the supposedly empty coffin lay the prototype of Lin Jin's pocket watch—the cracks on the watch face matched the newborn birthmark of the Star Sea Fetus perfectly. ===== CHAPTER 527 =====