Chapter 599: The Dimensional Collapse of the Fuel Veins

The cabin walls of the starship "Nirvana" were oozing golden blood.

Lin Jin's black blood dagger carved a fiery trajectory on the console, and what jumped on the holographic screen was not a data stream, but disintegrating dimensional parameters. He reached out to catch the seepage from the ceiling, and the golden fuel condensed in his palm into the shape of a Klein bottle, with a miniature universe in the shape of an infant curled up inside.

"This isn't a leak; it's a dimensional vein hemorrhage!" Ao Li's mechanical pupils split into Mandelbrot fractals, and the data storm formed a tornado on her retinas. "The fuel system is liquefying the Riemann surface; we are becoming a blood transfusion pipeline for hyper-dimensional beings!"

Su Yaoji's Udumbara flower suddenly grew in reverse and pierced into the fuel pipes; the moment the roots touched the golden blood, the entire bridge echoed with a roar mixed with Sanskrit chanting and binary scriptures. Her spine arched into a reverse-curvature arc, and ancient memories exploded across her retinas: in the bronze furnace of the virtual number space, the First Generation Star Sea Pavilion Master was forging the Riemann hypothesis into liquid fuel, and the forging hammer was actually the prototype of Lin Jin's black blood blade.

"The fuel veins connect to the nine-fold dimensional umbilical cord..." Su Yaoji's vocal cords vibrated with the echoes of the multiverse, "every leak point is delivering a space-time fetus!" As if to confirm her words, the cracks in the cabin walls suddenly expanded into the shape of birth canals, and what gushed out was no longer fuel, but nebula clusters wrapped in fetal membranes.

Ao Li's phase probe pierced into the dimensional rift, and the feedback data stream caused ice crystals to form on her mechanical arm: "The fuel is flowing backward! The Star Sea Pavilion Master from seventy thousand years ago is extracting energy from the current reality through us!" The holographic screen suddenly projected a terrifying image: the First Generation Pavilion Master Ao Li on the bronze throne was driving an IV line into the temples of some Lin Jin clone, while Su Yaoji's past life knelt beneath the throne, weaving dimensional veins with Udumbara roots.

Lin Jin's black blood suddenly boiled, drawing non-Euclidean geometric totems in the void. When he slammed the totems into the main engine, the Nirvana let out a wail like a dying giant beast, and the ship unfolded into a four-dimensional hypercube structure. The senses of the three of them split instantly—Lin Jin saw both the past and future of the fuel pump, Su Yaoji touched the past and future of every mechanical part of Ao Li, and Ao Li's quantum core was experiencing the deaths of all possibilities.

"Switching to four-dimensional drive will tear the cognitive barrier!" Ao Li's warning carried the hoarseness of metal fatigue, and neural synapses were growing out of her ceramic joints. "But we have no choice..." Before she could finish, a dimensional fetus was suddenly born prematurely, and the nebula cluster sprayed from the fuel pipe instantly aged into a black hole, beginning to devour the stern.

Su Yaoji's roots went berserk in four-dimensional space, the Udumbara flower blooming into a hypercube form. Every opening and closing of the petals repaired a piece of the dimensional membrane, but the tips of the roots began to crystallize—she was becoming a living bridge connecting the current reality to the virtual number space. When the roots touched a leak point, they suddenly dragged out memory fragments of the bronze furnace: Lin Jin's past life was injecting black blood into the Riemann surface, while Ao Li's First Generation body screamed in the furnace.

"So we are the raw materials for the fuel..." Lin Jin's black blood blade suddenly softened, and the liquid dripping from the blade tip resonated at the same frequency as the golden fuel. He tore open the blood vessels in his right arm, and the gushing black blood mixed with the fuel into a rainbow-colored vortex, in the center of which appeared the bronze door of the Star Sea Pavilion.

Ao Li suddenly tore her mechanical heart from her chest cavity, and the intense light erupted from the quantum core froze the arrow of time. She completed a shocking operation in absolute stillness: she forged her own logic circuits into a Klein bottle, inverting it over the rampaging dimensional veins. When time restarted, all leak points suddenly began to flow in reverse, and the golden fuel carried the black hole fetus back into the void.

"Cognitive synchronization rate 99.3%!" Ao Li's mechanical voice was near collapse, her titanium alloy skeleton showing Lin Jin's genetic helix. "But the four-dimensional drive is rewriting the essence of our existence..." The warning was interrupted by violent space-time tremors, and the three of them witnessed their own corpses floating in different dimensions—in one four-dimensional slice, Lin Jin's skull was secreting fuel, while in another, Su Yaoji's roots had become a component of cosmic strings.

Su Yaoji suddenly let out a scream that pierced through dimensions, and the Udumbara flower core erupted with creation-level intense light. In the absolute light, the three of them witnessed the truth: the so-called dimensional collapse was actually a reincarnation device set up by the Star Sea Pavilion Master. Every time the fuel veins rampaged, it was to store energy for the birth of a new universe, and they were merely the catalytic enzymes within the device.

When the Nirvana fell from four dimensions back to three, the star-filled sky outside the porthole was no longer the one they were familiar with. A network of golden veins grew on the Orion Arm, with every node connected to the civilization graveyards they had experienced. On Ao Li's broken body, Riemann surface patterns were flowing slowly; in Su Yaoji's Udumbara flower slept a black hole fetus; and in Lin Jin's black blood, the bronze door of the Star Sea Pavilion was opening.

"Cognitive contamination clearance rate 67%, but..." Ao Li wiped the fuel-blood seeping from her mechanical lips, "we have become part of the reincarnation device." She pulled up the surveillance footage that had just been restored; at the climax of the four-dimensional drive, three versions of themselves in a superposition state were smiling inside the bronze door—that smile was identical to the expression the Star Sea Pavilion Master wore when she activated the reincarnation. ===== CHAPTER 600 =====