Chapter 93: Mechanical Amniotic Fluid

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Lin Jin's ribs were trembling violently, those bronze fences growing in his chest cavity burning his internal organs. The gear sound from Ao Li's chest cavity formed an eerie resonance with his bones, every metal friction causing blood droplets carrying the smell of rust to seep from between his teeth. The Primordial embryo floating deep in the syrup sea suddenly opened twelve pairs of compound eyes, and the fingertips sticking to the transparent fetal membrane shot out ten thousand blood-colored silk threads, emitting the sound of harp strings snapping when they pierced the clone brain array floating above.

"Bronze... is rewriting our gene encoding!" Ao Li's mechanical hand suddenly plunged into her own abdominal cavity, the gear-meshing womb exposed amidst flying sparks. The "Primordial God-Slaying Scripture" book pages that were missing were burning in her pelvic cavity, and Ling Yue's scene of being locked in the gene editor appeared in the indigo flames—the woman's umbilical cord was connected to the fuel pipeline of the tiger-skull starship, dark red energy pulsing along the umbilical cord.

When the nano-frost mist sprayed by the centipede's mouthparts enveloped them, memory fragments suddenly flashed in Lin Jin's retina: twelve-year-old Ao Li standing in the center of a circular gene editor, her mechanical right hand inserting a chip into the culture tank console. The Taotie pattern on the white-coated man's chest glowed with blood streaks in the blue light of the low-temperature tank; that was Ao Zhan—Lin Jin's biological father—who should have died in Star Calendar 978. The dark red birthmark on the back of the embryo floating in the test tube in his hand perfectly matched the mark below my collarbone.

Ao Li's dragon horns pierced Lin Jin's scapula without warning, and the liquid mixed with dragon blood and syrup formed a mirror surface above the clone brain array. The reflection showed the laboratory twenty years ago: Ao Zhan extracted not Chaos Qi from her spinal cord, but a residual page of the "Primordial God-Slaying Scripture" wrapped in a sugar coating!

"So we are all culture dishes..." Ao Li's electronic eye suddenly burst with sparks, her mechanical heart pulsing in sync with the Primordial embryo. The scene in the mirror began to distort, and Lin Jin saw his own clone from infancy soaking in a culture tank, thirty-six data catheters inserted into his spine.

The Primordial embryo let out a shriek, and the umbilical cord end's syringe pierced into the Heavenly Workshop Master's skull. The clone brain array went berserk instantly, and thousands of mechanical placentas rose in the syrup sea, every one connected to the tiger-skull starship's weapon system. When dark matter light orbs condensed at the muzzle, Lin Jin saw the earth veins of Medicine King Valley turn into scarlet targets in the holographic projection.

Lin Jin's spine suddenly broke autonomously, and the bronze fences turned into swimming snakes to entangle Ao Li's mechanical heart. Amidst the sharp wails of the nano-swarms, they were dragged into the core of the mechanical womb—Ling Yue's hollowed-out body was floating in the center of the antimatter furnace, her abdominal cavity being a precisely operating starship engine, the scratch marks on the furnace wall forming four blood words: God-Slaying Pregnancy.

"It is time to give birth, my dear living launcher." Ao Zhan, composed of black lightning, gripped Ling Yue's cervical spine, his neural network spreading along the clone brain array. A roar of starship engines starting came from deep within the furnace, and the holographic projection of Medicine King Valley's earth veins unfolded beneath their feet, every spiritual vein turning into a cannon barrel coordinate aimed at the heavens and gods.

Ao Li's mechanical heart suddenly projected a holographic data stream, and the 49% synchronization value pulsed on the surface of the antimatter furnace. Her missing left hand suddenly plunged into her own chest, pulling out three bronze blood vessels entangled with nerve lines: "Lin Jin, modifying the coordinates requires the Heavenly Workshop Master's brainwave authentication..."

The nano-swarms were building a temporary control console at Lin Jin's broken spine, and blood-colored interfaces floated with memory files that needed to be sacrificed. He saw the scene of himself peeking at Ling Yue tuning the starship engine when he was seven, the memory of activating the nano-swarms for the first time at fifteen, and the data stream from three days ago when he discovered Ao Li's true identity.

"God-Slaying strike entering the final activation stage!" The Primordial embryo's compound eyes suddenly exploded, and thousands of cannon muzzles split open on the surface of the mechanical placenta. Lin Jin's fingers hovered over the confirmation key for memory sacrifice, and the energy of Medicine King Valley's earth veins was frantically converging through Ling Yue's body.

Ao Li suddenly pierced her dragon horns into her own mechanical heart, and the splashing gear fragments composed a temporary gene key in the air: "Use my memories..." Her voice began to distort, "Father hid... in the starship core cabin back then..."

The roar of the antimatter furnace stopped abruptly, and Lin Jin saw the hidden instruction layer suddenly pop up on the control interface. Below the confirmation key for memory sacrifice appeared a star map drawn by Ling Yue with blood—that was the coordinate pointing to the energy nodes of the heavens and gods.

The mechanical womb suddenly contracted violently, and the Primordial embryo's wreckage was reorganizing into a starship main cannon. Lin Jin's pupils reflected two choices: follow Ao Zhan's God-Slaying program, or enable the backdoor left by Ling Yue. The nano-swarms began to gnaw at his memory cortex, and the first childhood image was dissipating.

"Mother..." Lin Jin's blood-stained fingers pressed on the star map coordinates, and the broken spine suddenly grew bronze nerve cords. The entire mechanical womb began to operate in reverse, and the energy flow of Medicine King Valley's earth veins wove into a giant jump matrix in the air. He saw Ao Li's residual body merging into the antimatter furnace, and the last thing her mechanical heart flashed was the maternal program deleted twenty years ago.

When the sacrifice progress reached 100%, Lin Jin completely forgot the existence of "himself". But he accurately entered the coordinates left by Ling Yue, and the starship main cannon transformed from the Primordial embryo turned its direction. In the instant before his consciousness dissipated, he heard a baby's crying coming from deep within the mechanical womb—that crying sound was resonating with the roar of the heavens and gods collapsing. ===== CHAPTER 94 =====