Chu Yun held the miniature universe model in his palm, and the magnolia trees on the reconstructed 2023 street suddenly oozed silver resin. The baby girl was folding paper boats by the lab window, and with each fold, a piece of the corresponding building in the model metallized. The countdown to the cluster of tombstones **∞** flickers at her feet, each second proliferating new tombstones inscribed with the date of death from a different timeline.
Xiao Man's leaf-veined face emerges from the roots of the tree, "Your presence is polluting all timelines." She pointed towards the crack in the sky - where the mechanical eyes of countless observers hovered, their pupils reflecting every choice Chu Yun made. As Chu Yun attempts to repair the rift, the baby girl in the model suddenly turns her head, her mechanical blue eyes piercing through the dimensions to look directly at him, "Daddy, it's time for you to stop."
The lab's magnolia petals spontaneously combusted without wind, the ashes spelling out an escape route on the model's surface. Chu Yun followed the guide into the time crevice and found it littered with the remains of successive generations of himself-each body holding a broken model of the universe. Zero's mechanical heart was embedded in the wall, pumping out a torrent of black code instead of silver liquid.
Xiao Man's leaf veins wrapped around Chu Yun's wrist, "These codes are evidence of your guilt." The moment he touched the codes, Chu Yun witnessed the truth of what happened eight hundred years ago: he was not the savior, but the culprit who implanted the virus into the Primordial Universe. The baby girl in the model suddenly materialized, and the origami ship transformed into a dagger and stabbed, "You killed your mother seven thousand six hundred times!"
Chu Yun held the dagger with his bare hands, and after the blood seeped into the model, the metalized building began to recover. Pieces of the baby girl's mechanical shell peeled off, revealing Xiao Man's face. Zero's heart suddenly burst, releasing the imprisoned primordial fire - a leaping cloud of photons in which lay dormant the untainted timeline.
When Chu Yun injected the photon cloud into the model, all the tombstones lit up simultaneously. The mechanical eyes of the observers collectively focused, and silver chains descended from the glare. Xiao Man's leaf veins suddenly grew wildly, forming a protective net, "Hurry up! They're going to recycle the experiment!" The baby girl is reborn into her maiden form in the cloud of light, and a new cosmic seed emerges in her palm.
Chu Yun crushed his own cosmic model, and the fragments turned into stardust wrapped around the fire seed. The observer's chains are corroded and broken by the stardust, and the mechanical eye turns into a meteor shower in the explosion. The teenage girl Xiao Man buried the seed into the space-time rift, and billions of unspoiled cosmic shoots blossomed in an instant.
The countdown of the tombstone cluster suddenly collapsed to 1. The last tombstone revealed Chu Yun's name, but the date of death was blank. The Magnolia tree was reborn in the void, each petal reflecting a peaceful universe.
The tree suddenly cracked open at the roots, and a mechanical synthesized tone was emitted:
"Quality experiment detected... Activating ultimate seeding protocol..."
The smile of the young girl, Xiao Man, suddenly froze, and the symbol of the Observer flickered in the depths of her pupils.