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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7:Return of the Stars: The Choice of Ashes

Liquid metal condensed into a star map control panel on the throne armrest, and the shadow of the Snow Shadow Wolf cub was suspended in the empty space of the Canglang star. Those gray-white star patterns were like parasitic vines, climbing up along the shadow's tail. Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Silk faded as soon as it touched the control console, and the energy was drained and shattered into glass-like nerve fibers.

"Cognitive reconstruction program started." Madam Hong pressed the second gear of the inhibitor, and Su Ye's eyes suddenly turned white, and the first-generation star pattern constructed a Klein bottle-shaped corridor entrance on the retina.

In the memory maze constructed by neurotoxins, the embryonic culture chamber was cut into countless pieces by the star pattern. The first generation leader rose from the blood pool, and Qing Lan's voice came out from the cracks in the bronze mask: [What you thought was fetal movement was just the sound of the current of my consciousness migration. ]

The shadow of the Snow Shadow Wolf cub tore open the memory barrier, and the bloody truth film was thrown out between its sharp teeth-the circular blood pool of the first generation laboratory was 30 meters deep, and 100,000 experimental subjects were suspended in the star pattern solution like jellyfish. Their umbilical cords gathered into biological cables, connecting to the 100-meter-long beast at the bottom of the pool. When the lens penetrated the turbid liquid, Su Ye saw the contract pattern on the forehead of the first generation of the Snow Shadow Wolf, which was producing quantum resonance with the barcode on the back of his neck.

"The cognitive synchronization rate is 99.3%." The hand of the first generation phantom penetrated Su Ye's chest, and the star pattern hyphae bloomed into a mechanical lotus in the coronary artery. "You are the 1997th genetic code I rewrote." When her robe faded, the biological code of the Ω clone emerged from her waist and abdomen, and those glowing lines were absorbing the photons of the memory corridor.

The ground suddenly collapsed, and the Snow Shadow Wolf in reality was burning the altar with the Pure World Blue Flame. The pain of the dual time and space overlapped in Su Ye's nerve center. He saw the gray spot at the tip of the first generation original body's tail growing in the mother beast's skull - the consciousness embryos of all the clones were curled up in that gray spot.

The moment the Star Embers wolf body exploded, the pale flames melted the bronze altar into red molten iron. Every hair of the Snow Shadow Wolf turned into a gamma-ray burst, and the claws tore through the flesh cocoon with the first-generation quantum scream. Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Silk wrapped around the wolf's neck to try to stop it, but was melted into charged neural dust in a thousandth of a second.

"Let it complete its mission!" Mo Yan compressed the Red Lotus Karma Fire into a particle beam, which collided with the Star Embers wolf body to cause a miniature supernova explosion. The afterimage of the sister emerged in the flames, and engraved the laboratory key from 20 years ago into the wolf's eyes - that was Qing Lan's last operation code before destroying the files.

The Snow Shadow Wolf's ultimate attack was accompanied by a storm of star corpses. The moment the claws pierced Su Ye's heart, golden blood splashed in a spiral on the forehead of the first generation corpse. The flesh cocoon collapsed in a vacuum, and the mother body pattern on the altar star map overloaded and exploded. The gravitational waves bursting from the collapsed core tore the bronze components within a radius of 100 meters into elementary particles.

Sister Ling Shuang suddenly let out a high-frequency hissing like an insect, and the spider eggs in her chest collapsed and exploded as the flesh cocoon collapsed. The larva that crawled out had Su Ye's star pattern imprinted on its forehead, and six pairs of compound eyes flashed the quantum glow of the first generation leader. The limbs were densely covered with energy-eating runes of the same type as the bronze coffin.

When the embers of the Blue Flame cooled into stardust in the vacuum, the Snow Shadow Wolf shrank back to its palm-sized cub form. The gray spots on the tip of the tail faded into star blue, but the binary code of the mother beast remained deep in the pupil. At the edge of the hole at the position of Su Ye's heart, the first-generation star pattern was growing a crystal replacement organ along the ribs, and each beat caused the curvature of space to oscillate.

"The secondary container was successfully cultivated." Madam Hong locked the larva with a ring restraint, and the Ω symbol was beating on the surface of the ancient jade energy shield. Ye Wuhen's broken blade suddenly pointed to the abyss - in the collapsed cocoon wreckage, the first-generation bronze coffin was intact. The star marrow seeping out of the coffin surface condensed into a new cipher: [Only after shedding the cocoon can you know immortality].

Qian Shisan's remaining projection reassembled in the radiation cloud, and the mechanical voice trembled with madness: [The container is broken, the star remains will last forever]. The holographic star map shows that the Canglang star position is being eroded by the first generation lines, and Su Ye's shadow is separated from the body and walks under the moon, and the star pattern on his forehead beats at the same frequency as the coffin.

The snow shadow wolf licked the hollow heart of Su Ye, and the cub's golden eyes reflected the ultimate truth-in the quantum cloud, countless clones of Su Ye are waking up. They embraced the snow shadow wolf cubs with faded gray spots, and each pair of contract patterns pointed to the rotating star pattern cocoon inside the bronze coffin, and the cry of the first generation leader was heard from the cocoon.

Su Ye's consciousness floated in the star pattern void, and the surrounding darkness was cut into pieces by countless flowing starlight. The charred black hole in the heart was like an abyss, swallowing every ray of light that approached. The bronze coffin of the first generation corpse was suspended in it, and the energy-eating runes engraved on the coffin were flickering with his breathing, like the pulse of some ancient creature. The sound of the coffin lid sliding was like the friction of rusted gears. When the fingertips of the first generation corpse penetrated the brow of Su Ye's phantom, he felt his consciousness penetrated by the touch of cold metal - it was not human skin, but the product of the fusion of bronze and star pattern.

"The cicada shell will eventually return to the cicada molt." The voice of the first generation seemed to come from the superposition of countless parallel universes, and each syllable shook the void barrier to collapse. In reality, Su Ye's body twitched violently on the experimental table, the pupil of his left eye split into the pattern of the Canglang constellation, but the right eye was covered with a layer of gray, and the frequency of the mother beast swam in it like a venomous snake. The Snow Shadow Wolf cub jumped out of the shadows, and the bronze box fragment in its mouth suddenly burst into blue light. The star-blue pattern on the tip of the tail and the gray spots of the mother body intertwined into shackles, which tightened Su Ye's neck and burned his skin.

The alarm in Madam Red's laboratory sounded as sharp as a blade. The mother larva in the culture chamber had expanded to five meters. The star patterns of Su Ye and the first generation twins on the shell were like living circuits, flashing with a faint green light. She stood in front of the control console, and the data stream of the mechanical prosthetic eye intertwined in the air into a holographic star map: "The mother nest rebirth protocol is activated-all secondary containers, activate!" The floor cracked, revealing the incubation pool below that was a hundred meters deep. Tens of thousands of spider eggs were floating in the sticky nutrient solution, and the countdown on the surface of the egg membrane was beating in sync with the numbers on the back of Su Ye's hand.

The moment Mo Yan's Red Lotus Blade split the alloy door, a gust of air mixed with the smell of preservatives and blood hit him in the face. Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Silk pierced into her sister's chest, and the peeled spider egg fragments were covered with blood, and the fragments were embedded with the DNA sequence of their sisters. "They use blood as a bridge..." Ling Shuang's voice trembled, "Your star pattern is becoming the embryonic nutrient of the mother!" She turned to look at Su Ye, but found that under the skin of his right arm, the star pattern was spreading along the blood vessels to the heart, like a parasitic vine absorbing the life of the host.

The spider eggs in the incubation pool burst one after another, and the shells of the newborn larvae burned black lines the moment they came into contact with the air - that was an enlarged version of the countdown on the back of Su Ye's hand. Every time a line was formed, the hollow in Su Ye's heart cracked a little, and black crystal-like star skeleton crystals seeped out from the cracks, emitting a high-frequency hum, shaking the bulletproof glass of the laboratory with spider web cracks. The Snow Shadow Wolf howled and jumped into the pool, and the cub's body swelled in the blue flames. The gray-white flames swept the entire space like a tsunami, melting the metal walls into molten iron.

However, when the flames touched the mother larvae, they were sucked into the carapace star pattern like a backward waterfall. Madam Hong's mechanical prosthetic eyes projected a holographic image of the first generation's notes, and a bloody annotation appeared on the yellowed paper: [The contract is a shackle, and power is bait]. "Don't you understand yet?" She sneered, inserted the tungsten steel prosthetic limb into the console, and activated the ancient jade energy core buried in the laboratory. "The blue flame originated from the first generation star pattern, and the mother is the real host!"

Su Ye knelt on the ground, the maternal frequency of his right eye cut his vision into overlapping afterimages. Through his distorted vision, he saw quantum threads extending from the star pattern on the abdomen of each larva, the other end of which was connected to the bronze coffin in the void. The corpse of the first generation in the coffin was extracting his life energy through the threads, and the Canglang star position in the star map above his head gradually dimmed, as if it was wiped out by an invisible giant hand.

"Su Ye, catch it!" Mo Yan threw the Red Lotus Blade at him. The blade was entangled by Ling Shuang's Ice Soul Spider Silk during flight, and was covered with a layer of extremely cold shell. The moment Su Ye grasped the handle of the blade, low temperature and blazing flames exploded in his palm, and the severe pain ran through his body like an electric current - the blade reflected the face of the first generation corpse, and that face overlapped with his face, as if reflected in a mirror.

"Tear off the shackles... otherwise we will all become nutrients for the mother nest!" The Snow Shadow Wolf's thoughts pierced Su Ye's mind like a sharp arrow. He turned his hand and stabbed the Red Lotus Blade into his chest. The star pattern shackles broke under the blade, and the bronze box fragments were inserted into the heart cavity along with the gushing star pattern blood. The severe pain made his consciousness clear instantly, and the memory of the embryonic period erupted like a volcano--

**Memory flashback**: In the constant temperature incubator, the wolf cub's pink tongue licked his glassy fingertips, and the star pattern purified the ancient jade toxins through the saliva backflow. The first generation leader outside the cabin wore a bronze mask, and the date on the recorder was July 15, 1997. Her hand stroked the bronze box, and the embryo beating in the box was Su Ye's original cell.

The picture suddenly twisted, and the shadow of the first generation of Snow Shadow Wolf appeared in the blue flame. The hundred-meter-tall giant star wolf howled to the sky, its claws piercing through the core of the mother larvae, and the shock wave shattered the metal support of the laboratory into powder. Su Ye's blood condensed into red gold chains, entangled the first generation corpse in the bronze coffin, and the star wolf body bit the throat of the corpse, and the pure blue flames flowed into the core of the mother nest along the star veins.

"With blood as a covenant, with soul as a lock--" Su Ye roared, and a black diamond-like star crystal collapsed from the flesh cocoon. The first generation's roar shook the void and shattered it: "How dare you use my power to bite me back!" The blast of air blew everyone away, and Sister Ling Shuang floated in the air. The spider egg fragments on her chest reassembled into an Ω-type biological key. The pattern on the surface of the key perfectly matched the energy-eating runes on the bronze coffin.

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