Chapter 534: Time Abscess

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####**Suppurating Star Field**

The space-time at the edge of the Rosette Nebula suddenly bulged into an abscess-like distortion, and a star field with a diameter of three light-years curled up into a birth canal form. Lin Jin's pocket watch remains suspended in the abscess core, every gear spraying black-gold pus—that was the tampered time flow, corroding the surrounding stars into organic tissues like cervical cells. Ao Li's gene phantom wandered on the surface of the abscess, dragon horn fragments constantly piercing into the suppurating areas, but only triggering more violent space-time spasms.

"Quantum pollution index exceeds the threshold!" Ye Wanqiu's mechanical prosthetic eye split into fine cracks, oozing a mixture of antibody serum and machine oil. On the holographic star map, the K-712 star system swallowed by the abscess was undergoing terrifying metamorphosis: rock planets grew fleshy fungal mats, the cores of gas giants pulsated into fetal hearts, and all civilization remains reassembled into forceps-like killing weapons.

Suddenly, the sound of metal tearing exploded from the communicator; the surviving reconnaissance ship transmitted the final image: a fleet of mechanical Buddha Kingdom remains was surging out from the abscess, the hulls covered in pregnancy lines, and the muzzles flowing with amniotic fluid-like energy beams. When the image was drowned by pus, Lin Jin's spine suddenly stung—the pocket watch remains were summoning the host.

####**Clone Frenzy**

The abscess suddenly contracted, erupting three hundred Ancient God clones. These monsters, where machinery and flesh blended, had pocket watch gears embedded in their torsos, and their spines extended into fluorescent umbilical cords shaped like obstetric forceps. When the first clone lunged at the new Earth's defense line, Ye Wanqiu discovered that their gene maps were evolving in real-time—every destroyed clone would transmit combat data back to the abscess core.

"Their weakness is the seventh vertebra!" Ao Li's phantom hissed in the quantum communication. Lin Jin's mechanical arm ejected the Time Obstetric Forceps, the forceps' mouth biting into the cervical vertebra of a certain clone. When the seventh bone joint shattered, the clone suddenly stiffened, pocket watch gears burst from its eye sockets, condensing into a miniature abscess in the void.

But these victories were fleeting. The remains of the defeated clones suddenly quantized, reassembling in the depths of the abscess. Ye Wanqiu's antibody serum monitored terrifying data—every abscess cell carried Lin Jin's gene characteristics; this battle was essentially an infinite mirror-image slaughter between the Godslayer and himself.

####**Uterine Corridor**

When Lin Jin drove the assault ship into the abscess, the scene outside the cabin made the most determined warrior feel nauseated. The inner walls of the space-time folds were covered in pulsating blood vessels, and the memory remains of successive Godslayers floated in the dark matter amniotic fluid. A familiar figure suddenly blocked the way—an Ao Li clone condensed from pus, her dragon horns stuck with pocket watch gears, and her abdomen bulging with a nebula birthmark.

"You finally came to keep me company..." The clone's voice carried the electronic noise of delivery room instruments. Her fingertips shot out fluorescent umbilical cords, piercing the assault ship's quantum shield. The moment Lin Jin's Time Obstetric Forceps touched her skin, they suddenly failed, and the pocket watch remains resonated in the depths of the abscess, dragging him into a deeper uterine corridor.

At the end of the corridor, the truth of the abscess core was suffocating—the bronze furnace of the First Generation Observer was boiling, and what was being boiled in the furnace was not metal, but the memory plasma of Lin Jin's existence traces scattered across all timelines. A certain Ancient God body the size of a baby was suspended in the furnace, His pupils pieced together from three hundred pocket watch gears, and the umbilical cord end was connected to the spines of all clones.

####**Autophagic Cycle**

Ye Wanqiu's antibody fleet was trapped in a bitter battle on the periphery. Her mechanical prosthetic eye suddenly quantized, glimpsing the terrifying connection deep in the abscess—every destroyed clone was strengthening the Ancient God body's control over the timeline. When she shouted to stop the fire on the public channel, the Ancient God clones suddenly knelt collectively, their forceps-umbilical cords inserting into the ship hulls, beginning to reverse-transport evolutionary data.

"Lin Jin! The abscess is evolving through us!" Ye Wanqiu's warning was drowned in space-time tremors. The bronze furnace at the abscess core suddenly burst, and Lin Jin's pocket watch remains pieced together into the complete birth canal totem. The Ancient God body opened three hundred compound eyes, every eye reflecting the scene of the new Earth's destruction—the amber-pupiled babies were mutating, their mechanical eyes streaming pus, transforming the entire planet into a secondary abscess.

Ao Li's gene phantom suddenly materialized, and dragon horns pierced into Lin Jin's chest: "It's time to end the cycle..." In the moment before his consciousness dissipated, Lin Jin finally understood—to end the abscess, he must sacrifice his own existence, using the pocket watch remains to create a paradox at the source of space-time.

####**Paradox Childbirth**

When Lin Jin plunged the Time Obstetric Forceps into his own heart, the Ancient God body emitted a cry like a newborn. Pocket watch gears burst from His pupils, piecing together into a gene lock in the shape of a Möbius strip in the void. The abscess began to collapse in reverse, every clone regressing into primitive stardust amidst screams, and the secondary abscesses on the surface of the new Earth suddenly solidified into amber crystals.

But the price of victory far exceeded expectations. Ye Wanqiu's fleet evaporated in quantum radiation, and in the final image transmitted by her mechanical prosthetic eye, the traces of Lin Jin's existence were being stripped from all timelines. When the abscess completely dissipated, only floating pocket watch gears remained in the universe—a miniature Ancient God embryo was curled up inside every gear, and Ao Li's dragon horn fragments were reassembling in a more distant star field, foreshadowing a new childbirth transcending dimensions... ===== CHAPTER 535 =====