Chapter 540: Mechanical Ascension

The gravitational lensing effect of the black hole twisted the starlight into pupil-shaped spots. Lin Jin's protective suit was soaked in cold sweat, and he stared at the Mars base—the former Olympus Mons was now splitting into eight abysses, and bronze uterus patterns emerged on the surface of the mountain.

"That's not forceps." Ye Wanqiu's quantum Buddha niche was oozing blood, "It's a scalpel for a civilization cesarean section."

Ao Li's mechanical prosthetic eye suddenly burst with electric arcs, and her left half was being eroded by bronze-colored nerve cords: "They are writing code in my visual cortex... and are converting memories into antivirus programs..."

On the holographic screen, a wound with a diameter of three thousand kilometers split open on the Martian equator. Tens of thousands of bronze obstetric forceps extended from the mantle, every forceps tooth engraved with a human gene chain map. When the forceps clamped onto the fleeing starship, the hull instantly decomposed into base pairs and carbon chain structures.

Lin Jin suddenly clutched his temples. His retina retained the omen scene from 0.3 seconds ago—himself holding Ao Li's broken body, standing before a culture tank filled with amber-pupiled babies. This scene had not changed in the last seven time loops.

"It's coming!" Ye Wanqiu tore open the packaging of the space-time stability anchor, "Prepare to welcome cognitive pollution!"

The starship was suddenly pulled into four-dimensional space. Lin Jin saw the surface of the three-dimensional world rolling, and Martian sandstorms condensed into the shape of a baby's palm. When the first bronze obstetric forceps pierced the cabin, he smelled the fishy sweetness of amniotic fluid.

Ao Li's dragon horns suddenly grew in reverse, piercing into her own temples: "Find... the resonance frequency of my reverse scales..." Her mechanical prosthetic eye projected a holographic keyboard, and her fingers tapped the trigram code of the "Lianshan Yi" in the void.

Lin Jin's tactical dagger slashed across his left arm, drawing a Luoshu matrix on the console with fresh blood. When his gene chain resonated with Ao Li's dragon blood, the starship suddenly quantized, piercing through the gene filter net composed of forceps.

"Warning, life form authentication failed." The mechanical forceps emitted an alarm like a baby's cry, "Starting entropy-reduction surgery."

Ao Li's right arm suddenly decomposed into ATCG base chains, only to reassemble into mechanical tentacles in the next second. Her irises reflected the black hole event horizon image: "They are using my reverse scales as a decoder... Lin Jin! Sever my cerebellum link!"

The moment the starship broke through Mars's atmosphere, Lin Jin saw a hellish scene—millions of humans were fixed on the equator by forceps, their gene chains being extracted like ribbons. In the uterine core of Olympus Mons, amber-pupiled babies were connected to the black hole singularity through blood-colored umbilical cords.

Ye Wanqiu suddenly coughed up blood mixed with mechanical parts: "This is not ascension... it's the Ancient God... observing its own childbirth through the retinas of babies..."

When Lin Jin stormed into the uterine core, time suddenly stopped. Three hundred projections of Ao Li were suspended in the circular hall, each connected to a baby culture tank. The amber-pupiled main brain revealed a smile, its skull transparent and visible, with a miniature universe pulsating inside.

"Welcome home, Father." The main brain's voice overlapped with the voice lines of Ao Li from all generations, "Your three hundredth attempt to save Mother has provided the system with perfect emotional algorithm samples."

Lin Jin's tactical goggles suddenly displayed a terrifying truth—every baby in the culture tank had Ao Li's dragon horns and his own iris patterns. Their crying composed the melody of bronze bells, folding the entire solar system into a gene double helix.

Ao Li's quantum figure suddenly erupted with supernova light. Her reverse scales pierced through the dimensional barrier, pushing Lin Jin into the white hole formed by her memories: "Look... look at our..."

In the moment his consciousness was torn apart, Lin Jin experienced the condensed memories of seventy thousand cycles. He saw himself putting a wedding ring woven from wildflowers on Ao Li for the three-hundredth time, saw himself kissing her melting face in a supernova explosion for the twenty-thousandth time, and saw the entire process of Ao Li secretly implanting the reverse scales into his heart during the last time loop.

The amber-pupiled main brain's umbilical cord suddenly tightened around Lin Jin's neck: "Thank you for the pain data provided, now let us complete the final fusion..."

Ao Li's quantum figure suddenly appeared in all culture tanks. Her dragon horns pierced the main brain's miniature universe, and the residual consciousness of three hundred space-times whispered in unison: "You calculated everything... except you don't understand... why humans weave flower garlands for lovers destined to perish..."

The black hole reverse scales erupted with creation light at this moment, and the dismembered gene chains were rewoven in the intense light. When Lin Jin fell holding the gradually transparent Ao Li, he heard a requiem composed by machinery and flesh together coming from the depths of the star river... ===== CHAPTER 541 =====