Chapter 539: God-Slaying Closed Loop

Star remains burned into a ring-shaped wall of fire in the void, and Ye Wanqiu's fingernails dug into the seams of the Dayan stone bricks of the observation platform. The holographic star map was staging a terrifying regression—the M51 galaxy, 0.3 light-years away, saw the advanced civilization on its spiral arm regress into primitive tribes within seven minutes.

"Not destruction, but formatting." She projected the readings of the quantum Buddha niche into the air, and three thousand blood-colored veins pierced through the Milky Way, "Every dragon-horned fetus's gene chain is a compressed package for the reboot program."

Lin Jin's tactical gloves brushed over Ao Li's broken dragon horns, and the nano-sensors showed that her gene entropy value was increasing at a rate of 3.7% per second. Those golden blood droplets contained bronze-colored pheromones, perfectly in sync with the fluctuations emitted by the embryonic eggs on the altar.

Ao Li suddenly clutched her temples, blood light flaring from her dragon horns amidst her pale blue hair. Her irises split into compound eye structures: "It's the seventh time... are you going to watch me die again?" Her voice overlapped with the reverberations of hundreds of space-times, and dense God-Slaying incantations emerged beneath her skin.

Ye Wanqiu's quantum Buddha niche suddenly burst with electric sparks. In the Klein bottle image curled up in three dimensions, she saw three hundred Lin Jins in parallel space-times all performing the same action—reaching out to catch Ao Li's falling hair ribbon, and the ending of every space-time was the girl turning into a blood-colored star map on the bronze altar.

"Causality law weapon!" She tore off the bronze key from her neck and inserted it into the console, "The Purifiers have written your meeting into physical constants!"

The starship suddenly vibrated violently. Outside the porthole, the octagonal mirror matrix of the Purifier fleet was unfolding, every mirror reflecting a collapsing civilization. The mechanical octopus swarm sprayed reverse-entropy torrents, and the star fortresses hit instantly regressed into campfires in meteorite craters.

Ao Li's dragon horns began to grow crystal clusters, her long hair scattering into quantum clouds: "When they extracted stars to manufacture embryonic eggs... they were actually collecting civilization entropy..." She curled up in pain, bronze-colored nerve cords piercing out from her back, "I am that... Holy Grail filled with poison..."

Lin Jin's tactical goggles suddenly displayed terrifying readings—the golden blood in her body was floating with bronze-colored information elements, completely in sync with the fluctuations emitted by the embryonic eggs on the altar. He remembered finding her in the bronze coffin at the Betelgeuse ruins seven years ago, and the girl curled up in the bronze coffin was also covered in unknown characters.

Ye Wanqiu suddenly threw a bronze clapper: "Strike her Tanzhong acupoint! That is the resonance cavity of the gene lock!"

The moment the bronze clapper touched Ao Li's skin, the entire cabin was pulled into high-dimensional space. Lin Jin saw countless versions of himself standing on a Möbius strip, every loop repeating the destiny of "meeting-saving-losing." At the center of the loop, a dragon pupil with mechanical patterns was chewing on the broken timeline.

"See it clearly?" Ye Wanqiu's voice came from a four-dimensional rift, "You are the pistons of the God-Slaying closed loop; every struggle is helping the Purifiers compress civilization residue!"

Ao Li suddenly let out an inhuman shriek. Her ribs pierced through her skin, transforming into twelve bronze pillars, with the nuclear explosion scenes of the Earth era emerging on the pillar bodies. Lin Jin saw the mushroom cloud of Hiroshima in 1945 encoded into a gene chain, and the discovery site of the Higgs boson in 2012 inscribed into sacrificial inscriptions.

The flagship of the Purifier fleet shot out a scarlet beam of light, and the star field hit began to play rewind footage: the supernova explosion retracted into a white dwarf, the interstellar colonial fleet regressed into dugout canoes, and humanity curled up in the ocean like a uterus once again.

"They don't want destruction..." Ye Wanqiu tore open her protective suit, revealing the same God-Slaying incantations as Ao Li on her chest, "They want the entire universe to return to an embryonic state!"

Lin Jin's right hand suddenly quantized. He realized that his existence was being swallowed by the closed loop, but when he looked at the painfully mutating Ao Li, his tactical dagger had already pierced his left eye—the intense pain exempted him from 0.3 seconds of causality law erosion.

"Listen!" His dagger stained with eye blood carved an anti-entropy equation onto Ao Li's dragon horns, "When I sever your seventh rib, use the reverse scales to absorb my memory entropy!"

The moment the mechanical octopus's tentacles pierced the cabin, Lin Jin's dagger precisely severed the rib Ao Li was currently bronzing. The girl's reverse scales bloomed with supernova light, compressing Lin Jin's life memories into a singularity—that was the only loophole in the closed-loop program, using love destined to be erased to counter absolute rationality.

The dragon pupil deep in the altar suddenly bled. Amidst the roar of three hundred space-times collapsing simultaneously, Ao Li's scream turned into the bell of creation: "Behold... the truth..." ===== CHAPTER 540 =====