Chapter 95: Sugar Frost Skull Ringing

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Lin Jin's pupils were dyed amber by the sugar frost steam, and the boiling coolant underwent a chain reaction with Ling Yue's skull. Those crystal steam jets spraying from the bone seams condensed into polyhedrons on the furnace dome, every facet flashing with the light spots of memory fragments. When he reached out to touch the nearest prism, a sharp pain like a womb contraction suddenly came from his fingertips—the bio-electric signals from when Ling Yue was giving birth twenty years ago were piercing directly into his central nervous system through quantum entanglement.

"Big Dipper... Heavenly Pivot position..." Lin Jin's teeth bit through his lower lip, the bloody taste mixing with the saltiness of amniotic fluid in his memory. His fingertips, turning the bronze compass, burst with electric arcs, and seven indigo light beams suddenly pierced through the sugar frost steam, cutting a Big Dipper pattern into the inner wall of the furnace. The metal plate corresponding to the Yaoguang star position suddenly flipped, revealing half a severed umbilical cord stuck in the gear set inside.

Ao Li's dragon horns were pressed against the furnace gate that was pressing down, her mechanical joints emitting a groan that could not bear the weight. Her mechanical womb blood transfusion pipeline had turned dark red, and the patterns of Ao Zhan's neural network appeared on the surface. "Turn the Heavenly Pivot star!" her residual human vocal cords squeezed out a roar, her left eye suddenly exploding, the dragon blood spraying out vaporizing into bronze mist in the high temperature.

Lin Jin's temples throbbed, and the nano-swarms were crawling out from his ear canal, piecing together a 3D star map on the compass surface. When the seventh beam aligned with the Heavenly Pivot star position, the entire furnace suddenly tilted forty-five degrees. The sugar frost steam condensed into Ling Yue's phantom, and the starlight flowing from the penetrating wound in her abdomen illuminated the dark compartment in the ventilation duct.

"The third wear and tear gap..." The phantom's fingers passed through Lin Jin's heart, and before Ao Zhan's black lightning could strike her, the final ray of starlight pointed to the gear set rotating in the ventilation duct. Lin Jin's retina retained the trajectory of the light, and he saw Ling Yue twenty years ago using a scalpel to carve grooves into the starship fangs, blood seeping into the molecular gaps of the metal along the blade.

Ao Li's mechanical eye suddenly overclocked, the iris splitting into a hexagonal honeycomb structure. She bit off her own dragon teeth and spat out the bronze gears corroded by antimatter: "Jam... the main drive shaft..." The splashing metal debris drew blood on Lin Jin's face, and the nano-swarms immediately lifted his body and rushed into the ventilation duct.

The sugar frost on the inner wall of the duct was vaporizing, and ice crystals formed on the surface of Lin Jin's protective suit. Amidst the roar of the gear set, he touched a sharp protrusion—it was half a baby tooth embedded in the shaft core, the Fibonacci sequence carved on the tooth crown seeping bronze-colored amniotic fluid.

"Mother used my baby tooth..." Lin Jin suddenly had a splitting headache, and the fragmented memory scenes showed the fluorescence of the culture tank. When he embedded the corroded gear into the transmission device, the baby tooth suddenly released a high-intensity electromagnetic pulse. The entire furnace emitted a roar like a prehistoric giant beast waking up, and the sugar frost on the ventilation duct wall began to peel off, revealing the starship structure diagram drawn by Ling Yue with umbilical blood.

Dark red blood-vessel-like patterns spread on the metal surface, and Lin Jin's nano-swarms were parsing the blueprints. At the explosion point marked "Left Eye", he saw his own gene map from infancy—that was the quantum entanglement weakness of the tiger-skull starship.

Ao Zhan's roar caused the duct to crack, and black lightning like a poisonous snake darted into the ventilation duct. When Lin Jin flipped to dodge, his neck was suddenly entangled by bronze chains—Ao Li had dragged him back to the furnace core with her final human consciousness. Her mechanical heart was exposed, and sparks burst from where the gears meshed: "The password is... the frequency of your first breath..."

Lin Jin's nano-swarms suddenly self-destructed, releasing energy that burned a holographic keyboard on the back of the compass. When he entered the breathing waveform map from when he was born, the bronze compass suddenly split into two, revealing the DNA double-helix model rotating inside—every base pair was composed of starship parts.

The sugar frost steam suddenly condensed into physical chains, binding Ao Zhan's energy body above the projection of Ling Yue's womb. Lin Jin saw Ling Yue's phantom appear again, her fingers passing through the left eye of the 3D starship, pressing an invisible button at the explosion point. The entire furnace began to operate in reverse, and the antimatter energy flow was injected into the starship's weakness through Lin Jin's spine.

"No!" Ao Zhan's energy body twisted violently, his neural network being sucked into the DNA helix. Ling Yue's residual body suddenly raised her carbonized arm, making the gesture of holding a baby one last time. When the tiger-skull starship's left eye erupted with supernova-level light, Lin Jin heard his first cry in the delivery room twenty years ago—the frequency of that cry was in perfect resonance with the explosion wave.

Ao Li's mechanical remains vaporized in the intense light, and the last gear fragment was engraved with dragon patterns that had not been corroded. Lin Jin's retina was burned with a permanent residual image of the starship outline, and he felt himself falling into the quantum abyss of Ling Yue's womb. In the instant before his consciousness dissipated, he saw the Primordial embryo devouring Ao Zhan's neural network, those black lightnings turning into umbilical blood that nurtured new life. ===== CHAPTER 96 =====

The sugar frost vapor suddenly condensed into solid chains, binding Ao Zhan's energy body above the projection of Ling Yue's uterus. Lin Jin saw Ling Yue's phantom emerge once more; her fingers passed through the left eye of the three-dimensional starship, pressing an invisible button at the blast point. The entire furnace began to run in reverse, the antimatter energy flow injecting into the starship's weak point through Lin Jin's spine.

"No!" Ao Zhan's energy body twisted violently, his neural network being sucked into the DNA helix. Ling Yue's residual body suddenly raised her carbonized arm, making the gesture of cradling an infant one last time. When the left eye of the Tiger Head Starship erupted with supernova-level light, Lin Jin heard his own first cry from the delivery room twenty years ago—the frequency of that cry was in perfect resonance with the blast wave.

Ao Li's mechanical remains vaporized in the intense light, the last gear fragment engraved with an uncorroded dragon pattern. Lin Jin's retina was seared with a permanent afterimage of the starship's outline, and he felt himself falling into the quantum abyss of Ling Yue's uterus. In the instant before his consciousness dissipated, he saw the primordial embryo gnawing on Ao Zhan's neural network, those black lightning bolts transforming into the umbilical cord blood that nurtured new life.