Chapter 96: Womb Star Map

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When Lin Jin's fingertips were half an inch away from the holographic projection, the nano-swarms suddenly sprayed from his pores. Those metallic-lustered mechanical creatures drilled into his nasal cavity, etching a 3D coordinate grid on the surface of his optic nerve. Every intersection point flashed with scarlet light, projecting the quantum weakness of the tiger-skull starship onto his retina.

Ao Li's residual left hand was carving on the floor, the mechanical knuckles rubbing against the alloy floor to produce deep blue sparks. The liquid mixed with dragon blood and syrup flowed along the grooves, autonomously calculating within the Fibonacci sequence grooves. When the third golden ratio line was completed, the entire equation suddenly floated in the air, turning into a proliferating superstring model.

The furnace suddenly emitted a roar like a prehistoric giant beast waking up, and the gravitational field generated by the ninety-degree tilt threw the two toward the vertical shaft formed by Ling Yue's pelvis. Lin Jin's back hit the sticky amniotic fluid crystals on the shaft wall, and holographic images were sealed within those amber crystals—the infant version of him was lying on an operating table, a four-centimeter-long wound cut into the back of his neck, and a glowing neural chip was being implanted into his medulla oblongata.

"Cognitive blocker... it's actually a starship positioning beacon!" Lin Jin's pupils contracted violently, and he saw Ao Zhan in the image adjusting the star map instrument on the side of the operating table. The silver liquid injected into the baby's blood vessels was carving the structure diagram of a miniature jump engine onto the gene chain.

Ao Li's fully mechanical right arm suddenly jammed into the bronze ring protruding from the shaft wall, her electronic eye shooting out scanning beams. In the reflection of a certain crystal, she saw her appearance twenty years ago—a young researcher in a white coat, secretly swapping gene editing drugs outside Ling Yue's delivery room.

Lin Jin suddenly gouged out the lens modified by the nano-swarms in his right eye, and the artificial iris automatically disintegrated into bronze particles upon leaving the eye socket. Those particles reorganized in the air into an anatomical diagram of the starship fangs, and a distress signal carved in Morse code by Ling Yue appeared at the base of the third fang. The signal wavelength resonated with the vertical shaft, and the amniotic fluid crystals on the shaft wall began to seep black mucus.

"Mother was already... when giving birth!" Lin Jin's throat was suddenly locked by a quantum entanglement force field, and Ao Zhan's neural network appeared at the top of the vertical shaft. Black lightning poured down like a rainstorm, but was diverted elsewhere the instant it touched Ao Li's mechanical body—she suddenly leaped up, her fully metallized right hand plunging into her own throat, tearing out the vocal cords entangled with nerve catheters.

The contaminated vocal cord tissue fell toward the abyss and mutated, nano-level "Primordial God-Slaying Scripture" characters crawling on the surface. When it touched the black mucus at the bottom of the shaft, it actually emitted the lullaby Ling Yue recorded twenty years ago. The melody formed infrasound waves after being amplified by the vertical shaft, and hundreds of bronze pillars entangled with fetal hair rose from the mucus, every pillar surface displaying an encrypted gene map.

Ao Zhan's energy body flickered between the pillars: "You actually dare to awaken these failures!" Black lightning shattered the nearest bronze pillar, releasing the sealed memory mist. Lin Jin saw the panoramic view of the laboratory twenty years ago: Ling Yue was restrained in a delivery bed by thirty-six nerve cords, her abdomen inserted with an umbilical cord connected to the starship engine, using her last conscious awareness to carve an escape program onto the baby's baby teeth.

Lin Jin's tongue licked his own missing teeth, and the nano-swarms suddenly condensed deep in his gums. Those mechanical creatures gnawed at the alveolar bone, forging a biological key with calcium and blood. When he inserted this "living key" carrying body temperature into the shaft wall equation, the gene encoding on the surface of the key produced quantum entanglement with the superstring model.

The entire vertical shaft suddenly began to rotate in reverse, and Ling Yue's carbonized pelvis emitted a tooth-aching friction sound. The amniotic fluid crystals peeled off due to centrifugal force, revealing the bronze gears arranged in a spiral inside. Lin Jin's protective suit was scratched by the gears, and fluorescent patterns identical to the starship fangs appeared on his exposed skin.

"Cognitive blocker is dissolving!" Ao Li's mechanical voice suddenly recovered its function, and her electronic eye projected Lin Jin's brainwave map from infancy. Those memories that had been sealed flooded in like a flood—the star map carved by the scalpel on the inner wall of the uterus when Ling Yue had the cesarean section; Ao Zhan mixing the Primordial embryo genes into the starship fuel; and his own first consciousness awakening in the culture tank...

The bottom of the vertical shaft burst open, and half a starship fang hung in the dark room revealed. The surface of the fang was covered with sugar frost crystals, every crystal sealing one of Ling Yue's memory fragments. When Lin Jin reached out to touch it, the sugar frost suddenly activated, spreading along his fingertips to his whole body, reconstructing the scene in his neural network:

In the dark starship cabin, Ling Yue injected blood from her lactation period into the console. She used her baby teeth to pry open the safety valve before falling into a coma, carving the escape program into the inner wall of the starship main cannon's cooling pipe. Those carvings carrying breast milk components were the only biological key that could disintegrate the God-Slaying program.

Ao Zhan's energy body suddenly materialized, and black lightning condensed into a palm covered in scales, grabbing toward the fang. Lin Jin's living key suddenly acted autonomously, and the nano-swarms carried his consciousness into the interior of the fang. On the battlefield at the quantum level, he saw his own gene chain fighting with Ao Zhan's neural encoding, every pair of bases spraying antimatter sparks.

"You are just a part of the starship!" Ao Zhan's roar shattered three layers of memory crystals. Lin Jin's pupils suddenly turned into mechanical structures, and he saw his own bronze nerve cords in his spine connecting to all the starship cannons. But the escape program carved on the baby teeth by Ling Yue suddenly activated, uploading his consciousness to the abandoned partition of the starship's main brain.

Ao Li detonated her mechanical core at this moment, and supernova-level energy temporarily froze the time flow of the vertical shaft. Lin Jin took the opportunity to insert the living key into the fang core, and the sugar frost crystals instantly vaporized into a nebula. The sealed dark room suddenly expanded into a battlefield of cosmic scale, and countless wreckage of civilizations destroyed by Ao Zhan floated in the void.

Ling Yue's phantom emerged from the nebula, her abdominal penetrating wound flowing with the Milky Way: "Child, use the Primordial Fire to ignite the escape pod..." The residual starship fang suddenly fissioned, revealing a jump engine woven from mammalian genes inside. Lin Jin's living key began to melt, and his DNA was rewriting the quantum code of the engine.

When Ao Zhan's black lightning struck again, what the escape pod ejected was no longer flames, but the lullaby Ling Yue had not finished singing twenty years ago. The sound waves congealed into biological pulses in the vacuum, precisely hitting the gene weaknesses of all starships. In the instant before his consciousness dissipated, Lin Jin saw Ao Li's mechanical remains piecing together a smiling expression, and the projection of Ling Yue's phantom gently closing her womb.