Chapter 527: Final Contractions

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####**Blood Star Fall**

Venus's sulfuric acid clouds suddenly condensed into fetal membranes, and the entire planet collapsed into a fist-sized tumor within forty-two minutes. When Mars's Olympus Mons burst into blood mist, the space station in Earth's synchronous orbit transmitted the final image—a thousand-meter-high cervical mountain range rose in the center of the Pacific Ocean, and the Statue of Liberty in New York mutated into towering obstetric forceps, tearing at the atmosphere.

Ao Li's starship wreckage was stuck in the permafrost of Planet X-09, and the alarms inside the cabin had long since gone silent. Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum boiled in the test tube, reflecting a holographic projection of the solar system: the Ancient God's umbilical cord was piercing through dimensions, transforming the sun into a beating embryonic heart, and every pulsation caused the Earth's tectonic plates to shift ten kilometers.

"We only have seven minutes!" Technician Old Zhang's mechanical arm projected a model of Earth's gene chain, and all city nodes had turned into birth canal folds, "When the core is transformed into a fetal head..."

Before the words could finish, the starship wreckage was suddenly uprooted. Nine hundred fluorescent umbilical cords wrapped around the ship's hull, dragging everyone toward a mysterious ruin at 37 degrees north latitude on the planet. When the permafrost cracked open, what was revealed was not rock, but a cluster of bronze uteri cast from the remains of civilizations.

####**God-Slaying Stele Forest**

The surface of the ruins' steles flowed with black blood seal script, and every stele was embedded with a beating mechanical heart. Ao Li's dragon horns pierced into a certain stele, but what she read was the confession of the First Generation Observer:

**"All Godslayers are bricks for the birth canal; this stele is our coffin."**

The stele inscriptions suddenly activated, and the bronze surface oozed amniotic fluid-like substances, wrapping around everyone's ankles. Ye Wanqiu's antibody blade severed the mucus, only to find that a phantom of the Star Sea Fetus was curled up in every drop of liquid.

"Look here!" Old Zhang's mechanical arm shattered the ice layer, revealing an underground altar. The altar surface was carved with a rune array completely opposite to the Ancient God's umbilical cord, and a broken half of the Time Obstetric Forceps was inserted in the center—it was the very weapon Lin Jin used before he disappeared. When Ao Li grasped the handle, the entire ruin suddenly quantized, and the phantoms of three hundred First Generation Observers rose from the stele forest; the star-pattern birthmarks on their abdomens resonated with Ao Li's.

"The final chapter of God-Slaying requires a triple sacrifice." The phantoms whispered in unison, and the altar split open to reveal a bronze coffin. Inside the coffin was not a corpse, but an anatomical chart of the Star Sea Fetus pieced together from three hundred reverse scales, with Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments inserted in the heart position.

####**Birth Canal Anchor Point**

Earth's wailing came through quantum communication. Ao Li saw her own clone standing on top of the obstetric forceps transformed from the Statue of Liberty, casting the gene chains of New York citizens into an umbilical cord. The cervical mountain range at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean erupted with a black blood tsunami, and the Hawaiian Islands were reassembling into fetal fingers.

"Activate the reverse-birth procedure!" Ye Wanqiu injected the antibody serum into the altar, and the bronze coffin suddenly erupted with supernova-like intense light. Ao Li's dragon horns fused with the Time Obstetric Forceps, drawing a Klein bottle trajectory in the void. When the forceps pierced into the anatomical chart of the Star Sea Fetus, a cracking sound came from the core of Planet X-09, and those umbilical cords binding the Earth suddenly pulled taut.

The tumor transformed from Venus's wreckage suddenly burst, and what erupted from inside was not stardust, but Lin Jin's quantized figure. His body was composed of pocket watch gears and the God-Slaying Code, and his hands grasped the Time Obstetric Forceps magnified ten thousand times, the forceps' mouth biting into the heart of the solar embryo.

####**Final Cry**

The Star Sea Fetus's death throes tore through the space-time structure. Mars's blood mist condensed into the ripples of His cry, and wherever it reached, metal regressed into ore, and flesh regressed into amino acids. Ao Li's starship wreckage vaporized in the ripples, and she grabbed the last reverse scale and leaped toward the bronze coffin.

When the reverse scale pierced into the anatomical chart inside the coffin, the entire ruin began to grow in reverse. The stele inscriptions regressed into primitive rock paintings, the bronze uteri melted into nebular dust, and the birth canal folds on Earth suddenly stiffened—the clone under the Statue of Liberty's forceps was dissolving, and the cervical mountain range at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean disintegrated into a submarine volcanic cluster.

Lin Jin's quantized figure suddenly appeared in Earth's synchronous orbit, and the Time Obstetric Forceps severed the last umbilical cord. The sun embryo's heart burst between the forceps' mouth, and the released energy wave blew Mars's blood mist away into stardust. However, deep in the light, the phantoms of the First Generation Observers were reassembling, and the pocket watch prototypes in their hands pieced together into a new birth canal totem...

**Final Chapter Foreshadowing**

When Ao Li took the pocket watch fragments from the bronze coffin, she discovered that the cracks on the surface formed the new coordinates of the Rosette Nebula. Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum suddenly crystallized, and a miniature Ancient God embryo was curled up inside every crystal. And Earth's gene chain monitoring showed that tiny birth canal emblems had appeared at the ends of all survivors' chromosomes... ===== CHAPTER 528 =====