Chapter 562: Black Blood Meme

When Su Yaoji's hairpin pierced the temple of the sixth corpse, the surface of the green chalcedony was already covered in blood-thread-like cracks.

Inside the isolation chamber of the Mars crater base, twelve archaeological team members were suspended in the eerie posture of the human-cockroach array, black crystalline plasma surging in their eye sockets. The projection of the ancient stele inscriptions on the holographic screen was slowly deforming; those symbols that should have been dead crawled out of the screen like living cockroaches, etching the "Blood Nightmare Talisman" recorded in the forbidden books of the *Daoist Canon* onto the titanium alloy cabin walls.

"Three inches at the *Kun* position, seven calamities at the *Zhen* palace." Su Yaoji's crane cloak fluttered without wind, nine bronze coins engraved with heart seals flying from her sleeves. When the coins embedded themselves into the Tianmen acupoints of the infected, she saw something even more terrifying emerging from the black plasma—a fine crack had split open on the spine of every archaeological team member, currently oozing neural cords carrying the hexagrams of the *Tui Bei Tu*.

Lin Jin's quantum communication suddenly exploded in her headset: "Those aren't ordinary stele inscriptions! The symbols are in the Λ-crystal frequency band..." The warning stopped abruptly, replaced by the Sanskrit chanting of the Mechanical Buddha. Su Yaoji's compass needle spun frantically; she discovered that the base's ventilation system was gushing black blood, and those blood droplets were condensing in mid-air into Ouroboros-shaped meme encodings.

"Supreme Platform Star, respond without pause!" Su Yaoji bit her tongue and sprayed a mist of blood, drawing the Three Pure Ones Heart Seal in the air. When the forbidden curse touched the first infected, the corpse suddenly opened a star marrow left eye—identical to the dragon pupil Ao Li had awakened when she was annihilated on the moon.

The projection of the black blood stele inscriptions suddenly materialized. Su Yaoji's *Qiankun* mirror reflected a terrifying truth: the so-called ancient civilization ruins on Mars were actually the cabin of a dragon clan observation station that had crashed three hundred years ago. The stele symbols were reorganizing, revealing the face of the Pavilion Master in his youth, and in his hand, he held none other than the gene map of Lin Jin as an infant!

"So you were contaminated long ago..." Su Yaoji's hairpin suddenly pierced her own palm. The heart seal forbidden curse, driven by her life essence, exploded in the void; she saw that the neural cord of every archaeological team member was connected to the bronze star sundial on the chest of the Mechanical Buddha. When the ripples of the forbidden curse touched the star sundial, the base dome suddenly became transparent, revealing the black blood Buddha wheel currently being assembled in Martian orbit.

Ao Li's afterimage flashed in a state of quantum entanglement. Her star marrow left eye streamed crystalline tears, her fingertips brushing Su Yaoji's compass: "Use the *Yellow Court* Void-Chong Chapter to reverse the meme encoding! This black blood is..." The warning was drowned out by a suddenly erupting meme tide, Su Yaoji's retinas covered in Ouroboros hexagrams, and she realized with horror that her own blood was turning black.

The bronze coin array suddenly shattered. The heart seals on the nine coins reflected an even more horrifying scene—a miniature Lin Jin clone was parasitizing the inside of every archaeological team member's skull, those infant-form pollutants using umbilical cords to connect to the black blood Buddha wheel. Su Yaoji's Daoist robe ignited with True Samadhi Fire; amidst the agony of destroying her own three souls, she saw the ultimate truth: the so-called Daoist heart seal was actually a self-destruct program switch engraved into human genes by the First Generation Observer.

When the final forbidden curse pierced the core of the base, the black blood stele inscriptions suddenly collapsed into a Klein bottle. In the dimensional rift, Su Yaoji saw the Pavilion Master's brain suspended in the center of the Buddha wheel, while that black blood flowing with Lin Jin's genes was surging from the seven orifices of every archaeological team member toward the Λ-crystal vertical pupil on the Buddha's forehead......

Just as Su Yaoji was stunned, the Klein bottle emitted an eerie light, the dimensional rift began to twist, and a powerful suction force dragged her toward the depths of the rift. She grabbed the cabin wall beside her, her knuckles turning white. At this moment, the Mechanical Buddha's Sanskrit chanting grew increasingly high-pitched, the runes on the black blood Buddha wheel flickering as if initiating some terrifying ritual. Suddenly, Lin Jin's voice sounded in her headset again, but this time with determination: "Su Yaoji, initiate the self-destruct program; don't let them succeed!" Su Yaoji gritted her teeth and endured the pain to initiate the base's self-destruct. A violent explosion spread through the base, black blood splattering everywhere. Under the impact of the explosion, she was thrown into the air. In a daze, she saw the Pavilion Master's brain emit a burst of intense light, as if trying to break free from the Buddha wheel's restraints. And those miniature Lin Jin clones all turned to ash in the explosion. When everything settled, the Mars base was in ruins, the black blood Buddha wheel teetering, and Su Yaoji's consciousness gradually blurred amidst the chaos…… ===== CHAPTER 563 =====