Chapter 530: Amber Pupil

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####**First Cry Shock**

The first cry of the newborn baby on Earth tore through the dawn. In the delivery room, the obstetric mechanical arm suddenly went out of control, and the needle pierced the protective cover of the culture tank. Ao Li's gene fragments vibrated inside Lin Jin's pocket watch; when he rushed into the delivery room, he saw the baby's pupils fading from azure to amber—the left eye was the cold light of mechanical gears, and the right eye flowed with the black blood of the Ancient God.

"The gene lock has collapsed!" On Ye Wanqiu's holographic screen, the baby's DNA chain was going berserk. In the supposedly pure new human genes, a spiral-shaped code twisted like a poisonous snake—that was the reverse-entropy program left behind before the Star Sea Fetus's annihilation. The baby suddenly raised its tiny hand, and the pulse wave erupted from its fingertips melted the detector into molten iron, the metal solution condensing into miniature obstetric forceps in the air.

Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments suddenly suspended, and black-gold substances oozed from the cracks on the watch face. When he tried to freeze the baby with time ripples, the quantum isolation wall of the delivery room suddenly collapsed. Screams came from outside the corridor; seventeen newborn culture tanks burst simultaneously, amber-colored liquid sprayed out wrapped in mechanical remains, and the pupils of every baby were mutating in synchronization.

####**Cradle of Riots**

The alarm sound of the nursery center and the baby's cry intertwined into a death symphony. Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments sliced open the void, glimpsing a terrifying truth—those amber-pupiled babies were not independent individuals, but terminals of some quantum hive. Wherever their gaze reached, metal twisted into cervical folds, and the spines of synthetic nurse maids cracked open to extend fluorescent umbilical cords.

"This is not a mutation, it's an awakening!" Ye Wanqiu's antibody blade severed the mechanical tentacles lunging at her. Black blood oozed from the inner layer of her protective suit, and gene testing showed that she was being assimilated by the baby's pupil frequency. Lin Jin's pocket watch suddenly erupted with intense light, reflecting Ao Li's phantom in the void: "Go to the underground laboratory... the gene bank of the First Generation Observer..."

Before the words could finish, a certain baby suddenly suspended in mid-air. His mechanical left eye shot out the war memories of the Star Sea Fetus, and the black blood in his right eye condensed into a birth canal totem. The entire nursery center suddenly quantized, the walls oozing the texture of a bronze uterus, and the survivors screamed holding their heads—the Ancient God Code was being engraved on their retinas.

####**Godslayer's Grave**

The alloy door of the underground laboratory was smeared with bloody palm prints; when Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments melted the door lock, the burnt smell was mixed with the rotten-sweet scent of amniotic fluid. Ao Li's gene bank was sealed in three hundred amber crystals, with a reverse scale embedded in every crystal. When Lin Jin touched the first crystal, the babies' shrieks suddenly pierced through the strata:

"Fa... ther..."

The laboratory's quantum computer suddenly started autonomously, and encrypted logs of the First Generation Observer scrolled on the holographic screen. Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum dripped onto the console, activating the forgotten truth—these amber crystals were not a gene bank at all, but a prison for Godslayers. A fragment of the Star Sea Fetus's consciousness was curled up inside every crystal, and Ao Li's reverse scales were the locks suppressing them.

"We've been used!" Ye Wanqiu's pupils reflected a horrifying scene: the First Generation Observer had sealed the Ancient God's consciousness into amber, deliberately letting new human genes carry incomplete codes as the ultimate weapon to control civilization. And at this moment, the babies on the ground were using pupil frequency resonance, trying to shatter these prisons.

Suddenly, an explosion sound came from overhead, and a giant crack split the laboratory's dome. A certain amber-pupiled baby pierced through the strata and suspended downward, his umbilical cord connecting all the mutated newborns. When his fingertips touched the crystal, three hundred amber blocks cracked simultaneously, and the Ancient God's war memories poured out like a flood.

####**Reverse Light Choice**

Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments suddenly plunged into the baby's glabella, and two futures emerged in the space-time ripples: in the space-time bubble on the left, he destroyed all amber crystals, and the Ancient God Code dissipated, but Ao Li's gene fragments also completely vanished; in the space-time bubble on the right, he let the code spread, and Ao Li was reborn through the newborn's quantum network, but Earth would be reduced to an Ancient God uterus.

"Choose..." The mockery of the Star Sea Fetus echoed in the baby's reverberation. Ye Wanqiu suddenly injected the antibody serum into her own heart, her gene chain disintegrated into a light net, temporarily imprisoning the rampaging amber crystals: "Is there no third way?!"

Ao Li's phantom suddenly materialized, and the dragon horn fragments pierced into Lin Jin's pocket watch. In the moment of quantum entanglement, they simultaneously saw the secret deep in the laboratory—in a certain unsealed amber crystal, a gene map not belonging to this universe was sealed. That was the "Innocent" code stolen by the First Generation Observer from a higher dimension, sufficient to overwrite the Ancient God's pollution.

"Use this..." Ao Li's phantom grasped Lin Jin's hand, "but you must pay the price..."

Her phantom suddenly dissipated, and in the intense light erupted from the pocket watch fragments, Lin Jin saw the essence of the price—activating the Innocent Code required sacrificing all life carrying the Ancient God genes, including those crying babies on the ground.

####**Final, Blood-Colored Dawn**

When the first ray of sunlight pierced through the laboratory crack, Lin Jin's pocket watch had been embedded into the console. The activation interface of the Innocent Code emerged in the void, and the Star Sea Fetus's cold smile was engraved on the position of the confirm key. More violent vibrations came from the ground, and the baby legion of mutants was breaking through the final line of defense.

Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum suddenly crystallized, and she stuffed the crystal into Lin Jin's hand: "Inside... is Ao Li's last..." Before the words could finish, her body quantized and dissipated, and Ao Li's complete memory emerged inside the crystal—years ago, she had voluntarily let the Ancient God Code infect her, just to become the final weapon for God-Slaying at the critical moment.

Lin Jin's fist smashed the crystal, and Ao Li's gene chain scattered like fireflies. In the center of the light, he saw the ultimate truth: the so-called Innocent Code was nothing more than a birth canal control program of a more ancient civilization. But at this moment, he had no other choice.

The moment the confirm key was pressed, a mournful cry came from the earth veins of the newborn Earth. All amber-pupiled babies suddenly froze, their mechanical eyes streaming blood and tears, and the black blood evaporated from their seven orifices into stardust. And in the dawn where stardust danced, a certain baby who had not been infected suddenly opened his eyes—deep in his pupils, the phantom of Ao Li's dragon horns was rotating... ===== CHAPTER 531 =====