The test chamber of the Xingyuan core was like a skinned mechanical heart. As soon as Ryan's spine was connected to the gene synchronization device, those "III" type tentacles came alive and drilled into the gill slits. Irene's remaining chip screamed in the scar, and the star code warned him that every nerve was being violently calibrated.
"The synchronization rate is 71%... and it's still rising..." The blood clan engineer's voice trembled, and the observation window was blurred by the mucus. "Damn it... His symbiote is rewriting the furnace protocol in reverse!"
Ryan's right eye suddenly quantized, and a scene from twenty years ago exploded in his vision - Elena's mechanical fingers were implanting the embryo of the furnace key into the baby's reverse scale. The baby's cry was not his own, but the frequency of Liria's voiceprint when she was born.
(Gray's ice claws pierce the incubator - Misha's fragments of consciousness scream in the slime - Serena's reverse scales shatter into stardust -)
"Hold on!" Ryan's symbiote grabbed the console with its left arm, and the gears crushed the control lever. "Direct the energy to..."
The alarm drowned out his words. The core of the furnace suddenly went berserk, spewing out not magma but Lyria's tear mucus. The mucus rained down on the observation window and condensed into a Vatican encrypted document: "Matrix Protocol v7.5 - Container Fusion Completion 99%".
Selina's last words burned in Ryan's chest, and crystal lines climbed up his neck: "Warning...Gene lock is broken..."
It was too late. The moment the synchronization rate broke through 90%, Ryan's reverse scale scar suddenly fissioned - the flesh and blood rolled into mechanical lines, and 299 quantum tentacles burst out of his spine, each of which was precisely inserted into the furnace control node. His retina emerged with the energy map of the entire Xingyuan, and Liria's "III" type brand was suspended in the center of the map, perfectly fitting with his new scar.
(Young Liria's fish tail entangles Elena's mechanical spine——Gray's ice claws drip with mucus——The Judge's mask shows Selena's reverse scale pattern——)
"I see..." Ryan's voice mixed with the low-frequency vibration of the furnace, "Mom made us into keys and locks..."
The Church's surprise attack arrived three seconds before the alarm. Twelve dragoons carrying Lyria's embryonic cores crashed through the dome, their holy light cannon barrels flashing the "III" code that originated from Ryan's scar. The first shelling evaporated half of the control room, and the remains of the vampire engineer stuck to the wall, forming the shape of the Church's holy seal.
"Welcome to the graduation ceremony..." The leading dragon cavalry's abdomen split open, revealing the beating Lyria embryo inside, "The mother is waiting for you..."
Ryan's quantum tentacles fought back autonomously, entangled the barrel of the dragon cavalry and charged it in reverse. When the holy light cannon hit the embryo of Liria, he saw the truth of the key - the internal structure of the embryo's "III" type imprint was completely complementary to his scar, like two broken gene mirrors.
"Brother...it hurts..." All the dragoons cried out in unison, mucus flowing back from the barrels into their cores.
The left arm of Ryan's symbiote suddenly carbonized, and the furnace's energy overload burned through his shoulder blade. In the severe pain, he tore off the quantum tentacles with his bare hands and inserted them into the main console. The key that the scar mutated into burst out amber radiation. The entire furnace emitted the roar of the first generation of dragon kings, and wherever the energy wave swept through, the dragon knight's armor melted like butter.
"Synchronization rate 100%...Gene lock released..." Irene's chip released the final farewell pulse, "Goodbye, brother..."
The core of the furnace was completely awakened at this moment, and Ryan's vision was split into 299 fragments of time and space. Each of them swung the holy sword in a different era, and each Liria cried in the corresponding time and space. The real horror emerged from the quantum foam - the mechanical spine of the first judge was wrapped around Selina's reverse scale, and was rewriting the furnace key into the execution terminal of the mother body protocol.
"You...don't even think about it..." Ryan's scar key suddenly folded quantumly and inserted into the judge's spine with his bare hands.
In the bright light of genetic resonance, he touched Elena's ultimate secret - the so-called furnace was actually the quantum womb of Liria's embryo. And he and his sister have always been the two sides of the same key.
(Elena's mechanical fingers stroked the two incubators at the same time—Gray's ice claws carved blood marks on the observation window—Misha's fragments of consciousness spelled out "Run"—)
The judge's spine disintegrated into astral dust, but Ryan's new scar began to erode his body in the opposite direction. On the furnace control console, the holographic projection of Liria's body suddenly materialized, and the fish tail wrapped around his wrist: "Brother... It's time to go to bed..."
Branch Undercurrent
The remains of Gray's ice claws rose from the ashes of the furnace, engraved with the fluorescent code "The key is contaminated". On the other side of the abyss, Selina's reverse scale pattern was emerging from the surface of the first generation dragon king's skull, oozing with Elena's DNA mucus...