The soles of Mo Yan's boots crushed the fragments of the Triassic rock layer, the gravel hissing under the corrosion of Silicon-Based Blood. The wind in the Skeletal Basin carried a scent of rust, reminiscent of the sighs of countless ancient beasts. He looked up at the horizon, where the Reaper's "metal clouds" swirled—a reconnaissance net made up of nanomachines, each speck of metal carrying the erosion code of the Vortex Scripture.
"Where's your mech?" Ye Ling jumped off her modified motorcycle, scanning the cracks in the rock wall with her Carbon Crystal Lens. "Don't tell me Xing Tian can only fire once before it breaks down."
"It's charging in the Mantle Rift," Mo Yan crouched down, his fingertips pressing against the surface of the Rock Layer. Silicon-Based Blood seeped into the stone crevices, instantly activating a vein of Biological Memory Steel buried for two hundred million years. The sound of gears turning echoed from within the rock, and a fluorescent blue pattern spread like veins.
"The gift of the Cambrian... memories of Trilobite fossils." Ye Ling whistled as her Mechanical Prosthetic deployed a laser drill. "So we need to dig through half a mountain?"
"No!" Mo Yan stood up, his chest circuit board suddenly glowing. "We let them crawl out themselves." He thrust his hands into the Rock Layer. At the moment Silicon-Based Blood resonated with Fossil Memory Steel, the entire mountain began to tremble.
The rock wall cracked open like a spider's web, and countless Trilobite fossils floated up from deep within. Their shells melted and reformed in Quantum resonance, ultimately coalescing into a three-meter-long metallic spine—Cambrian Steel Bone.
"Cool!" Ye Ling's eyepiece Data Stream flickered wildly. "How much can we sell this for in credit points?"
Mo Yan didn't answer; a warning flashed across his retina: Silicon-Based Process has reached 21%. The circuit patterns beneath his skin crept toward his neck like a cold mechanical snake. He grasped the Cambrian Steel Bone, its touch chilling to the bone, and on its surface appeared a Holographic Projection of the Cambrian ocean, ancient microbial life swimming in virtual waves.
"Next is Jurassic Fuel," he turned toward the marshes deep within the basin. "Quantum propellant synthesized from Dinosaur Genes."
A strange metallic mist hovered over the marsh, a Gene Pollution Field set by the Reaper. As Ye Ling's motorcycle entered the mist, sparks erupted from the dashboard.
"Damn it!" She slammed the steering wheel, drifting along the edge of the marsh. "This fog will fry our circuits!"
Mo Yan raised the summoner for Xingtian Mecha—a shard embedded in his wrist bone from Zhendan Forge. The Furnace Core emitted a crimson beam, vaporizing the metallic mist in high temperatures and revealing a drilling platform covered in vines. The rusted sign on the platform read: "Jurassic Park 2077: Gene Revival Project."
"A Mechanical Dinosaur DNA storage facility..." Ye Ling squinted. "How much black technology did you guys develop back then?"
"Enough to cause human extinction three times over," Mo Yan sneered.
They crashed open the airlock, and the stench of decaying plants rushed towards them. Inside the cultivation pod floated the embryo of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, submerged in quantum gel, its gene chain glowing with a ghostly blue light. Mo Yan inserted the Cambrian Steel Bone into the control panel, the trilobite patterns on the steel bone meshing with the system interface as the gate of the cryogenic storage slowly rose.
"Warning! Abnormal biomass activity detected!"
Before the electronic voice could finish, the ground suddenly shook violently. The cultivation pods exploded in succession, and from the viscous quantum gel crawled out a deformed mechanical dinosaur—the Reaper's "Metal Zombie King."
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