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As I opened the chest cavity of the last mechanical guardian, the Symbiotic Vine suddenly let out a mournful cry. The glowing tendrils entwined within the gears were rapidly degenerating into ashes, as if a furnace lay hidden deep within the underground laboratory.
Chu Xiyue's holographic projection hovered at the mouth of the ventilation duct, her gradient pupils swirling with a galaxy star map. "Welcome to the Human Instrumentality Project Core Area," she said, her skirt dissolving into streams of data. "Guess how large a biological computer can be formed from the neural networks of one hundred thousand Oxygen Slaves?"
The Titanium Alloy Door at the bottom of the elevator shaft slowly opened, and the sight before me caused my Symbiote to momentarily freeze. In a spherical space three kilometers in diameter, one hundred thousand Life Pods were arranged in a DNA Double Helix Structure, each pod extending Nano Conduits that converged into a light column piercing the dome—this was the Oxygen Star Link base station powered by human brain bioelectricity.
"Designed with the Yongle Dadian," Chu Xiyue's voice echoed from all directions. "These brains can compute seventy trillion times per second, just enough to sustain the Atmospheric Repair Program..."
I threw out my vines to ensnare the nearest Life Pod. The elderly man inside suddenly opened his eyes, ink swirling in his pupils like that of Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie. His throat moved as he emitted a synthetic voice: "Unauthorized Symbiote detected; initiating cleanup protocol."
The Nano Conduits throughout the spherical space abruptly contracted, and the light column twisted into a Klein Bottle shape. My temples felt as if they were pierced by a red-hot iron rod, and torrents of data flashed across my retina—this was the agony of one hundred thousand consciousnesses being torn apart and reassembled.
"Warning! Brain Cells loss rate has exceeded critical value!" The System Light Screen shattered into crimson shards as I staggered towards the control panel.
The moment my fingertips touched the remnants of the Yongle Dadian, bronze patterns erupted from beneath my skin, forming a projection of the Ming Dynasty Astronomical Observatory's Hunting Sphere in midair. The Hunting Sphere's star map suddenly focused on the far side of the moon.
Magnified a thousandfold, a black Obelisk at the center of a crater became visible, its surface etched with symbols identical to those of the Symbiote. More terrifyingly, thousands of Oxygen Transport Capsules floated around the Obelisk, their human occupants visibly transforming into silicon-based forms.
"The Chang'e Seven that crashed three years ago actually succeeded in bringing this back," Chu Xiyue's main body emerged from the light column, her left half transformed into crystalline structure. "Do you know what material the Obelisk is made of? It’s 100% pure Silicon Dioxide... or rather, Glassified Humanoid Biological Remains."
Suddenly, I recalled Stele Spirit resurrected in the museum. When the remnants of Yongle Dadian resonated with the Hunting Sphere, one hundred thousand Oxygen Slaves began to chant in unison: "Tian Gong Kai Wu, all things are but fodder..."
Chu Xiyue's crystalline fingers pierced her own chest, extracting a pulsating piece of jade-like obsidian. "This is a Quantum Core refined from an authentic copy of Lantingji Xu; implanting it within you will allow you to..."
The Symbiotic Vine autonomously surged forth and shattered the obsidian. The splintered fragments coalesced in midair into an ethereal image of Wang Xizhi, who swiftly wrote down a bloody character: "Escape."
The entire laboratory began to collapse, and the neural beams in the Life Pod converged into Chu Xiyue's scream: "They're coming!" The Lunar Obelisk cast a shadow of death across my retina.
I charged through the emergency passage, carrying the remnants of the Yongle Dadian, with the walls of the laboratory crystallizing behind me. The Nano Conduits surged like living veins, spewing forth a viscous Quantum Foam—any substance that came into contact with it randomly leaped along the timeline.
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