The wolf cub's golden pupils reflected the holographic projection of the first generation laboratory: Madam Hong put the baby Su Ye into the incubator, and the blood splashed when the ancient jade pierced its spine condensed into star patterns in the void. The wolf cub's tail tip swept across the projection, and the bronze mucus wrapped around the Star Dome vein like a living snake: "It's time to harvest new nutrients." The moment the mucus touched the vein, the negative entropy energy was reversely extracted and transformed into a boiling chaotic flow. Mo Yan's ice lotus pattern suddenly stung, and Ling Shuang's phantom peeled off from the crystal. The quantized voice was mixed with the noise of electric current: "Its core... is the original code of the Star Dome Protocol!"
The remaining energy of the Star Marrow condensed into a long bow in Mo Yan's palm, and the tip of the arrow burst into an icy cold light. The wolf cub grinned, and the mucus condensed into an illusion of Su Ye. The bronze figure raised his hand to recall the fragment of the Star Key, and his voice was as hoarse as sandpaper: "Mo Yan... Can you bear to kill 'him'?" The chest of the illusion was beating with the same frequency of Star Marrow cracks as Su Ye, and even the tremor of breathing was perfectly reproduced.
The tip of the arrow trembled in the void, and the fire pattern burned along Mo Yan's arm. Ling Shuang's shadow screamed in his consciousness: "Shoot at the heart... there is the real anchor point!" Memory flashbacks suddenly - Ling Shuang engraved the Bingpo algorithm into Mo Yan's spine before self-destruction, her fingertips pierced through her chest and dug out the star marrow core: "Survive... rewrite the ending!"
The wolf cub's claws suddenly pierced the ground, and the bronze roots spread like blood vessels. The Star Ruins Gate burst open, and the giant mechanical claw of the first generation leader stretched out from the gate. The star pattern in the claw's heart resonated with the X-000 mark. Mo Yan retreated half a step, and the moment the arrow left the string, Su Ye's phantom chest split open - at the core was a beating ancient jade, and the jade contained the uncontaminated fragments of Madam Hong's consciousness. The arrow pierced through the ancient jade, and the fragments of the first generation's notes emerged in the strong light of the explosion: [The Star Dome Protocol needs to be restarted with a pure white heart].
The wolf cub's roar shattered the dimensional barrier: "You destroyed her last bit of humanity!" The bronze slime rushed over like a tsunami, but was frozen by the Ice Soul Domain before it touched Mo Yan. Ling Shuang's shadow dissipated in the light, and the last stream of data was injected into the longbow: "Use me... to rewrite the protocol!"
The timeline twisted in the trajectory of the arrow, and the annihilated timeline fragments reorganized into a bronze giant tree. Countless cultivation chambers were hung in the tree canopy, and the bronze wolf cubs in each chamber opened their eyes at the same time, with the X-000 mark on their foreheads hanging like a blood moon. The wolf cub's true body emerged from the tree roots, with Star Key fragments inserted into its spine, and mucus condensed around its body into the armor of the first generation leader: "The starry sky needs chaos... and I am perfect entropy!"
Mo Yan's ice lotus pattern broke, and the fire flowed back along his blood. He broke his longbow and stabbed the star marrow crystal into his heart. Ling Shuang's data stream and the fragments of Madam Hong's consciousness were quantum entangled in his body. The star dome veins of the new universe suddenly rioted, and negative entropy energy was injected into the arrow like a torrent. The tip of the arrow was entangled with the ice soul algorithm and the fire pattern, and time and space collapsed into the Dirac Sea in its trajectory.
"This arrow... is for all the tampered contracts!" The red-gold meteor pierced through the wolf cub's forehead, and the X-000 core exploded into light dust. The bronze giant tree collapsed in the wailing, and the incubator fell into the void like a teardrop. The wolf cub's body turned into star-blue light particles, and his voice turned back to the whimper of the Snow Shadow Wolf: "Father is waiting for you... outside the starry sky..."
The void fell silent, and Mo Yan knelt in the wreckage. A fragment of the incubator pierced his palm, and the inner wall was engraved with unfamiliar star patterns - perfectly matched with the X-000 number. In the reflection of the fragment, countless Mo Yans stood with bows in different dimensions, and at the edge of each universe, a bronze wolf cub opened its pupils.
And at the core of the collapsed star dome, the remaining pages of the first generation notebook suddenly ignited, and the ashes condensed into a new line of inscriptions: [Observer has intervened]. The star marrow crystal on Mo Yan's chest suddenly beat, and the frequency was synchronized with the sound of gears in the distant void - the mechanical body of Madam Red 2.0 was being reorganized, and her spine evolved into a star pattern exoskeleton, and her fingertips gently stroked the new clone in the incubator: "Let's start... the twelfth round of experiments."
Mo Yan's fingertips gently stroked the star pattern on the fragments of the culture chamber. The bronze pattern glowed coldly in the void, like the code of some ancient civilization. Suddenly, the darkness around him collapsed into countless prism-like mirrors, and each mirror was a bloody reflection - he saw his bow-holding arm torn by the bronze wolf cub, his star marrow heart pierced by claws, and the ice lotus fire shattered into powder in the void. The "Mo Yan" in those mirrors reflected the same picture in the depths of their pupils just before death: the roots of the bronze giant tree penetrated the dimensional barrier, twisted and entangled like blood vessels, and the ends pierced deeply into the steel surface of a mechanical planet.
"Is this... all the possible endings?" He whispered, and the ice lotus pattern on his chest oozed silver-white blood beads. The blood beads were suspended in the air, and the residual image of Ling Shuang's data flickered in it. Her voice was filled with the noise of quantum interference: "Find the Heart of the Starry Sky... That's the only loophole in the agreement!"
Before he finished speaking, the fragments suddenly burned, and the star pattern projected a holographic image - the roots of the bronze giant tree squirmed like a living thing, and the ends pierced into the metal shell of a mechanical planet. The surface of the planet was engraved with flashing X-000 numbers, like some strange interstellar coordinates. At the core, the star key chain was wrapped around a body like a venomous snake, and Su Ye's body was suspended in it. In the wound on the chest, the star core was beating with a faint blue light.
The dimensional barrier was torn apart by Mo Yan's ice lotus fire, and he fell like a meteorite on the steel surface of the mechanical planet. The ground was covered with honeycomb-like metal pores, and every breath was filled with the pungent smell of electrolyte. In the distance came the roar of gears biting, and bronze wolf cubs poured out of the cracks, their pupils reflecting the destruction of the universe: stars collapsed into black holes, star dome veins were swallowed by mucus, and countless Mo Yans turned to ashes on the timeline.
"Father... is waiting for you..." The leading wolf cub grinned, mucus dripping from its fangs, condensing into the shadow of Madam Red. Her mechanical visor cracked a gap, revealing her uncontaminated right eye: "He volunteered to be the sacrifice of the Heart of the Starry Sky! For the... balance of all universes."
Mo Yan rushed to the core of the planet, and the Ice Lotus Karma Fire burned black cracks behind him. Su Ye's body, which was entangled in chains, suddenly raised his head, and the Star Key chain broke into a data stream. His chest cracked, revealing the beating Starry Sky Core - in that ball of dark blue energy, the shadow of the Snow Shadow Wolf was being eroded inch by inch by the bronze mucus.
"Destroy my heart!" Su Ye's voice was mixed with electronic noise, "The core is connected to all the computing nodes of the Starry Sky Protocol!"
The afterimage of Ling Shuang's data was extracted from Mo Yan's spine and condensed into an ice spear. The spear was engraved with a hexadecimal purification code, and the absolute zero cold current froze the bronze wolf cub that pounced on it. Mo Yan wrapped the fire around the tip of the spear, and the flame and ice intertwined into a red and white light band: "This strike... is for all universes!"
The moment the spear pierced Su Ye's heart, the core of the starry sky exploded into billions of light dust. The mechanical planet fell apart, and the bronze wolf cub turned into ashes in the wailing. Mo Yan fell in the aftermath of the explosion, holding a wisp of Su Ye's remaining star marrow energy in his hand. Su Ye's last whisper came from the light dust: "There is more than one heart of the starry sky..."
Deep in the collapsed core, twelve mechanical hearts were suspended in the void, each connected to a pure universe through a quantum pipe. Those universes have not yet been polluted by bronze, the starry sky veins flow like the Milky Way, and the contracted beasts and humans have concluded an equal covenant in the morning light.
Mo Yan grabbed the nearest heart, and the ice lotus pattern suddenly reversed. His pupils split into countless star pupils, and he saw the birth and death of all dimensions - some universes were ruled by the mechanical army of Madam Red 2.0, some time and space collapsed due to the loss of control of the Star Key fragments, and in a certain uncontaminated corner, Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Algorithm was guarding the last piece of pure land.
"Become an observer... or a puppet of the new agreement?" The shadow of Madam Red and the first generation emerged from the bronze slime. Her left half was a mechanical shell, and her right half was rotten flesh and blood. "Choose... Mo Yan!"
He crushed his heart, and the pure energy and bronze pollution collided in his body. The void solidified at this moment, and his body turned into a translucent star pattern. His left hand was as blue as the absolute zero of Lingshuang, and his right arm was as red as the antimatter annihilation of the fire of karma. The coordinates of the twelve hearts flickered in his consciousness, and finally converged into a beam of light, pointing to the edge of a new universe——
The stream shone like broken silver under the starlight, and a wolf cub with a star-blue tail tip was drinking water. Its fur had not yet been stained with bronze spots, and its pupils were as clear as an unaltered contract. In the shadow of the ancient tree behind it, a bronze door engraved with the number X-000 quietly opened, and a "false color" that was neither light nor dark seeped through the crack of the door. The wolf cub suddenly raised his head, and his ears trembled slightly, as if he heard the sound of gears turning outside the starry sky.
The stream rippled like silver scales under the starlight. The wolf cub's tail lightly touched the water, and the star-blue lines flowed like fireflies. Mo Yan's translucent body emerged from the void. The moment his fingertips touched the stream, the X-000 number on the bronze door suddenly twisted, and mucus seeped out from the cracks in the door, dyeing the stream a turbid copper-green color. The wolf cub retreated vigilantly, and the stardust phantom of the dying Snow Shadow Wolf flashed in his pupils - the giant wolf turned into dust in the light explosion, and the last ray of star-blue at the tip of its tail sank into the darkness.