The moment the Xingyuan Holy Sword struck the space-time anchor point, 299 white lights exploded on Ryan's retina. He heard the metal roar of the gears biting counterclockwise, and then he was hit on the back by a Victorian gas street lamp - the streets of London in the 19th century were seeping out of the quantum cracks, and the steampunk-style mechanical guards were holding flintlocks, but the muzzles were spewing energy beams from the Holy Light Cannon of the Church.
"Damn it! Is this... time turbulence?!" Selina's mechanical prosthesis got stuck in the axle of the steam train, and her crystal tail split the flock of mechanical crows that were swooping down on her. When the birds exploded, they released the screams of Misha's consciousness.
Raine's holy sword was stuck in the wreckage of the anchor point, and the "Raine-ω" code on the hilt was flowing in reverse. He saw his reflection split in the street window - his infant self was tied to the chimera cabin, the young Gray had his reverse scales cut out in the Vatican laboratory, and the fish tail of the Lyria embryo slapped against the wall of Elena's uterus.
(Black mucus seeps out of the gill slits——The space-time collapses in the 299th reincarnation——Gray's ice claws are engraved with "Don't trust the clock"——)
"Three o'clock!" Irene's remaining chip suddenly screamed, "The Holy Light Cannon Core is in 1852!"
Ryan crashed through the bakery window, and the steam mechanical guard's flintlock rifle blasted a penetrating wound on his left shoulder. When the blood flowed onto the holy sword, the sword's tip suddenly oscillated quantumly, folding the entire street into a steel plant during the Industrial Revolution - on the assembly line, the young version of Elena was pressing the star chip into the spine of the first judge.
"Mom...?" Ryan's symbiote's gears got stuck and the holy sword slipped from his hand.
Elena's phantom suddenly turned around, and her mechanical fingers burst out with the Holy Seal of the Church: "Container No. 001...Return to the Protocol..." Her voice had the frequency of a lullaby, and the entire steel plant was instantly crawling with mechanical centipedes with the "III" type mark.
Selina's crystal dragon wing fragments cut off the centipede group, and the black blood splashed on the steam boiler and condensed into the Vatican's encrypted file: "Matrix Protocol v0.1 - Space-Time Anchor Point Testing Phase". She grabbed Ryan's ankle and dragged him back: "Wake up! That's a historical ghost!"
It was too late. The holy sword suddenly flew to the assembly line on its own, and the code on the hilt split into "Lyria-α". Elena's phantom caught the blade and stabbed it into the judge's spine. The space-time anchor in reality suddenly went berserk, and the mechanical guards of the 19th century and the future Holy See's dragon cavalry appeared at the same time. Their weapons were quantized due to the overlap of time and space, and they emitted the cry of the Lyria embryo.
"Cut that steam valve!" Selina's mechanical prosthesis was torn apart by the turbulence of time and space. She used her teeth to tear off the Vatican's optical cable and wrapped it around Ryan's waist. "My blood can't sustain two time and space jumps!"
Ryan's holy sword split the valve, but an even more terrifying scene emerged from the gushing steam - twenty-year-old Elena was burning the maternal agreement on the star chip, and next to her operating table were floating the culture chamber of Liria's embryo and Gray's ice claw design.
"Mom...why..." Ryan's reverse scale scar suddenly tore, and the mucus that sprayed out condensed into the baby form of Lyria in the air.
Elena's phantom suddenly materialized into quantum form, and her mechanical fingers pierced into Ryan's scar: "To give you true freedom..." Her tears dripped onto the holy sword, activating the hidden protocol - Ryan's clones in all time and space fragments suddenly stopped, and their reverse scale scars synchronously shot out star abyss coordinate beams.
(Gray is pressed on the operating table——Liriya's fish tail entangles the demon's tentacles——Misha's consciousness fragments scream in the data cage——)
The turbulence of time and space reached its peak at this moment, and 299 historical fragments rotated like broken mirrors. Ryan saw Elena of the Industrial Revolution implanting a chip into his temple, Selina of the 21st century cutting out the reverse scale on the throne of the vampires, and Liria of the future time and space aiming the holy light cannon at the abyss channel.
"Ryan! Focus!" Selina used the last crystal scale to refract the beam and burn a path in the space-time vortex. "The anchor core is in the steam engine boiler!"
The moment the holy sword pierced the boiler, the entire industrial revolution fragment collapsed. Ryan fell into the core area and saw the mechanical spine of the first judge being implanted into the space-time anchor point - and the person in charge of the operation was the young Elena with a teardrop mole on the corner of her eye.
"Xiao En... I'm sorry..." Her phantom suddenly turned around and the star chip slipped from her hand.
Ryan's holy sword penetrated the core of the anchor point, but it triggered a chain reaction - Elena in all historical fragments raised the scalpel synchronously and stabbed her mechanical spine. In the severe pain, Ryan's scar sprayed out 299 gene chains, binding the turbulence of time and space into a huge quantum cocoon.
"Brother... catch it..." The baby phantom of Lyria suddenly emerged from the cocoon and stuffed the broken "III" type brand chain into his hand.
Time and space completely collapsed at this moment, and Ryan fell back into the battlefield of reality. The holy sword in his hand had a Victorian-style pattern, and the hilt code became "Timeless ω". Selina's body was lying not far away, and the remains of her mechanical prosthesis formed a bloody warning: "The Matrix Protocol has been activated."
Branch Undercurrent:
The remains of Gray's ice claws fell from the cracks in time and space, engraved with the date "July 23, 1852". On the other side of the abyss, Liria's intact body was sewing a steampunk-style mechanical centipede into a fishtail, and the mark on her forehead showed the face of Elena when she was young...