Chapter 531: Uterine Nebula

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####**Deep Space Fetal Movement**

The alarm sound of the quantum telescope pierced the dead silence of the observation station. On Lin Jin's holographic star map, eerie nebula clusters emerged at the end of the Orion Arm—they were curled up like fetuses, and the sound of metal friction was mixed in the pulsating glow. Ao Li's gene fragments vibrated inside the pocket watch, refracting the nebula images into even more terrifying forms: every nebula fold was a cervical texture, and the black hole event horizon in the center was oozing amniotic fluid-like dark matter.

"The energy reading is exactly the same as the quantum tide during the Ancient God's annihilation." Ye Wanqiu's successor, Yang Li, pulled up the spectral analysis, his fingertips trembling, "These nebulae... are self-replicating!"

Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments suddenly suspended, and black-gold mucus oozed from the cracks on the watch face. When the mucus touched the star map, the entire observation station suddenly quantized. Through the semi-transparent walls, everyone saw that they were standing in the bronze uterus of the First Generation Observer, and the war memories of the Star Sea Fetus were wrapping around their ankles like poisonous snakes. A certain mechanically synthesized fetal phantom suddenly opened its eyes, its pupils pieced together from pocket watch gears and reverse scales.

####**Living Starship**

When the dispatched probe transmitted the final image, all screens burst with blood-colored noise simultaneously. In the interference waves, people saw the probe's hull covered in fleshy fungal mats, and the moment the lens was torn apart by mechanical tentacles, it captured the truth inside the nebula—tens of thousands of mechanical uteri were suspended in dark matter amniotic fluid, every uterus connected to fluorescent umbilical cords, and the life forms in incubation possessed both metal skeletons and flesh organs simultaneously.

"This is not a revival..." Yang Li's antibody serum boiled in the test tube, "it's evolution!" The serum suddenly condensed into a double-helix structure, with a holographic model of the nebula embedded at the top. Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments plunged into the model, and the encrypted logs of the First Generation Observer emerged in the space-time ripples: **"When the God-Slaying Code fails, the nebula uterus will gestate a more perfect God-Child."**

Suddenly, the sound of metal tearing came from the apron. When everyone rushed out, they saw the starship of the vanguard team mutating—the thrusters transformed into obstetric forceps, amniotic fluid flowed from the portholes, and the crew's distress signal suddenly transformed into the frequency of a baby's cry. When Lin Jin tried to freeze the mutation with the pocket watch, the starship's quantum core suddenly overloaded, and the erupted energy wave overturned the entire observation station.

####**Gene Resonance**

Ao Li's gene phantom emerged in the explosion, and the dragon horn fragments pierced into Lin Jin's spine. His pupils quantized instantly, seeing the operation mechanism of the nebula uterus: every mechanical uterus was receiving gene signals from the newborn Earth, and the brainwaves of those amber-pupiled babies were providing an evolutionary blueprint for the God-Child through quantum entanglement.

"Go to the Rosette Nebula..." Ao Li's residual consciousness whispered in the pocket watch, "The confessional furnace of the First Generation Observer is hidden there..." A star coordinate was suddenly engraved on Lin Jin's retina; near a certain forgotten black hole, the remains of three hundred Buddha Kingdom warships were pieced together into a uterine shape.

Yang Li suddenly screamed, and metal birthmarks grew on the inner layer of his protective suit. Antibody serum testing showed that the pulse waves released by the nebula were rewriting the gene chains of the survivors. The walls of the observation station oozed bronze textures, and the sticky sound of flesh proliferation came from the ventilation ducts; the spine of a certain researcher suddenly burst open, and what extended was not a nerve cord, but an umbilical cord wrapped in machine oil.

####**Furnace of the Godslayer**

When Lin Jin's starship pierced through the dust belt of the Rosette Nebula, the pocket watch fragments suddenly erupted with supernova-like intense light. The remains of the Buddha Kingdom warships reassembled in the light, melting into a bronze furnace spanning the star sea. The furnace walls were engraved with the deathbed confessions of Godslayers, and Ao Li's complete reverse scales were suspended in the black blood rolling in the furnace heart.

"This is a gene furnace..." Lin Jin's mechanical prosthetic eye analyzed terrifying data, "They are using the remains of Godslayers to cultivate antibodies!" The black blood in the furnace heart suddenly boiled, condensing into three hundred Ao Li clones. Their abdomens bulged with nebula birthmarks, and fetuses where machinery and flesh blended were tearing open the uterine walls.

Suddenly, the tentacles of the nebula uterus pierced through the hull. A certain clone grasped Lin Jin's hand, pressing his pocket watch against her abdomen. In the moment of quantum entanglement, Lin Jin perceived an even deeper conspiracy—these clones were living bait, and the nebula uterus was drawing the God-Slaying Code through them, evolving an immune system.

####**Blood-Colored Childbirth**

When the first reverse scale plunged into the furnace, the entire Rosette Nebula suddenly contracted. The tentacles of the nebula uterus convulsed collectively, spraying out not amniotic fluid, but blood rain mixed with metal fragments. Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments reassembled in the blood rain, piecing together into the complete Time Obstetric Forceps. But when he tried to sever the main umbilical cord, he discovered that what the forceps' mouth bit into was Ao Li's quantum phantom.

"You are the final birth canal..." The reverberation came from the core of the nebula uterus, and Lin Jin's gene chain suddenly went berserk. His skin became transparent, revealing the bronze blood flowing in his body—that was the Godslayer brand buried by the First Generation Observer. The true target of the nebula uterus was never to revive the Ancient God, but to transform the Godslayer into a placenta for a new god.

Ao Li's reverse scales suddenly melted, condensing into the war form of the Star Sea Fetus in the furnace. But this time, Lin Jin's pocket watch gears were rotating in His pupils, and the umbilical cord end was connected to the hearts of all survivors. When the nebula uterus completed its final contraction, the stars of the entire universe lit up with delivery room warning lights simultaneously, and three hundred billion babies' cries came from the direction of the newborn Earth... ===== CHAPTER 532 =====