Chapter 532: Reverse-Scale Echo

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####**Whisper of the Event Horizon**

The gravitational tide of the black hole tore at the alloy shell of the probe, and Lin Jin's breath condensed into ice crystals on the protective mask. Suddenly, the Ao Li reverse scales suspended outside the cabin erupted with blinding blue light—those cracks that had once been polluted by the Star Sea Fetus were now flowing with pure starlight. The energy readings on the holographic screen jumped wildly, and the chaotic light halo around the black hole event horizon suddenly arranged into a spiral shape, like a giant dragon coiling around the horns of the universe.

"The gravitational wave frequency has resonated with the reverse scales!" The mechanical prosthetic eye of the co-pilot, Ye Wanqiu, split into a compound eye structure, her gene lock beginning to disintegrate due to intense radiation, "This... this is dragon language!"

Bronze-colored patterns suddenly emerged on the probe's outer shell, echoing the inscriptions on the surface of the reverse scales. When Lin Jin pressed his hand on the console, the pocket watch fragments floated out from his chest cavity, and the cracks on the watch face matched the stellar array around the black hole perfectly—the dragon horn totem composed of three hundred and sixty-five stars was pointing toward the graveyard of the First Generation Observer's fleet.

####**Skeleton Star Map**

The moment they crossed the event horizon, a dragon roar sounded in the quantum communicator. A holographic star map was engraved on Lin Jin's retina: every star cluster in the new universe was a projection of a gene chain, and the black hole was the final link missing from the reverse scales. The probe suddenly went out of control, crashing toward a certain dead pulsar following the guidance of the dragon horn totem.

"This is not an accident..." Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum crystallized in the test tube, reflecting the horrifying structure inside the pulsar—a metal skull three thousand kilometers in diameter, with an antimatter vortex rotating in the eye socket. When the probe pierced through the skull, they saw the laboratory of the First Generation Observer: countless bronze coffins suspended in a vacuum, with star patterns identical to Ao Li's reverse scales engraved on the coffin lids.

Lin Jin's pocket watch fragments suddenly plunged into the console, and amniotic fluid-like mist filled the cabin. Ao Li's quantum phantom emerged in the mist, her fingertips lightly touching a certain coffin, and black blood oozed from the seams to condense into a gene map: "They used my ancestors as carriers... and engraved the God-Slaying Code into the chromosomes..."

####**Living Experiment**

The laboratory's quantum computer suddenly awakened, and the holographic screen played forbidden images: the First Generation Observer nailed dragon warriors onto bronze obstetric beds, replacing their spines with the umbilical cords of the Star Sea Fetus. When the first dragon warrior mutated into a half-mechanical monster, his reverse scales suddenly went berserk, tearing open a miniature black hole in the laboratory.

"So the reverse scales can sense the Ancient God..." Ye Wanqiu's mechanical arm analyzed the gene data, "because they are of the same origin!" Her pupils suddenly bled, and pregnancy lines emerged on the inner layer of her protective suit—the laboratory's defense system had been activated, and the Ancient God cells floating in the air were infecting all living things.

Lin Jin's pocket watch erupted with space-time ripples, but was countered when it touched the bronze coffin. The coffin lid suddenly burst, and what extended was not a corpse, but a dragon warrior spine wrapped in machine oil. Those bones automatically pieced together into Ao Li's outline, the hollow eye sockets staring at Lin Jin: "You finally came... key..."

####**God-Slaying Legacy**

When Lin Jin embedded the reverse scale into the dragon bone chest cavity, the entire laboratory suddenly collapsed into a singularity. Three hundred coffins melted into a bronze torrent, condensing into a giant gene lock in the void. Ao Li's phantom fused with the dragon bones, and the dragon horns pierced through the dimensional barrier, revealing the ultimate weapon inside the lock core—a pair of obstetric forceps forged from the reverse scales of successive Godslayers, the forceps' mouth biting into a mass of boiling primitive nebula.

"This is the First Generation Observer's confession..." Ao Li's voice was mixed with the sound of metal friction, "and also the final God-Slaying Code."

Ye Wanqiu suddenly screamed, her gene chain was being assimilated by the laboratory, and her mechanical prosthetic eye projected a terrifying prophecy: when the forceps took out the nebula, all life carrying the Ancient God Code would be annihilated, including those amber-pupiled babies on the ground.

A shriek from the nebula uterus suddenly came from outside the black hole, and Lin Jin's hand grasping the forceps trembled. Ao Li's dragon bones suddenly wrapped around him, and the reverse scale fragments pierced into his spine: "The new universe... needs thorough purification..."

In the moment before his consciousness dissipated, Lin Jin saw the pocket watch completely shatter, the gears piecing together into Ao Li's complete gene chain—and deep in her pupils, the phantom of the Star Sea Fetus was sneering. ===== CHAPTER 533 =====