Legend of the Embroiderer

Chapter 272 Quantum Umbilical Cord

Li Zhao's eyes widened, veins popping out on his forehead. His right hand tightly grasped his left wrist, while the fingers of his left hand were deeply embedded in the quantum code in his palm that was flashing with a faint blue light.

These liquid light bands seemed to have life. They squirmed freely under Li Zhao's skin like nimble snakes, bringing a strange tingling sensation wherever they passed.

Li Zhao could clearly feel that these light bands were reconstructing the bone structure of his palm in an indescribable way.

There was a slight "click" sound, and the joints of his left fingers began to emit a slight sound of crystal growth. His skin gradually emitted a strange blue light, making the whole scene look particularly eerie and terrifying.

Su Mengyao, who was standing by, was already terrified by the shocking scene before her. When she saw the changes in Li Zhao's palm, she couldn't help but scream.

The scream was like an invisible hand suddenly pinching the throat, and it instantly became intermittent and was eventually distorted into a harsh electronic noise.

At this time, twelve "Li Zhao" of different ages were reflected in the mirrored walls around.

They all stood there expressionlessly, blinking in unison, at exactly the same frequency.

This strange scene is creepy, as if you are in a nightmare.

"Gene assimilation rate 89.7%." A cold and emotionless voice suddenly sounded, and this voice, accompanied by bursts of rustling electric sounds, echoed in the empty room.

Then, a noose woven from datura flowers slowly descended from the dome.

The noose was dim at first, but in the blink of an eye it emitted a dark red fluorescence, dyeing the entire space blood red.

"When you attempted to modify the experimental parameters, you triggered the second stage of evolution of the gene lock."

The voice continued, its tone full of warning and threat.

Just as everyone was astonished, the spiritual master suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled the silver pendant off the neck.

The small piece of metal shot out like a flash of lightning, leaving an extremely strange zigzag trajectory in the air that completely violated the laws of physics.

Li Zhao widened his eyes and looked at everything happening in front of him in disbelief.

He saw clearly that as the pendant moved rapidly, a creepy image gradually emerged on its surface - in the image, he was holding a baby that looked like it had just been born.

What was even more terrifying was that an extremely complex twelve-dimensional coordinate system projection was rotating in the baby's pupils, as if it wanted to suck people's souls into it.

In the blink of an eye, the pendant hit the ground heavily with lightning speed.

In an instant, all the mirrors around seemed to be ignited, and at the same time, they burst out with dazzling binary waterfalls that were bright enough to blind people.

These data streams, composed of billions of "0"s and "1s", poured down like a surging flood, quickly converging into an extremely huge DNA double helix structure.

The scarlet digital code "7206" flashed on each base pair, and the whole scene looked both spectacular and terrifying.

"Is this... is this the embodiment of the legendary time anchor point?"

Su Mengyao on the side exclaimed in surprise.

The originally indestructible ice crystal arm armor on her body suddenly began to crumble and disintegrate. Countless crystal clear fragments fluttered in the air and quickly combined into a constantly turning Möbius strip.

Su Mengyao's condition was not optimistic at the moment. Black code liquid had begun to seep out of her left eye and was slowly flowing down her cheek.

She endured the severe pain and shouted in a trembling voice, "Quick! Insert the crystal fragment into the center of the ring quickly. Only in this way can we cut off that damn quantum umbilical cord!"

At that moment, the originally extremely solid building suddenly began to tremble violently as if it was shaken violently by an invisible giant hand!

Along with this heart-pounding tremor, a crisp cracking sound was heard from above the dome, and countless fine cracks spread rapidly like a spider web.

Li Zhao raised his head in astonishment, his eyes fixed on the dome above his head which was becoming shaky.

At this time, the sky outside had already been shrouded in darkness, and the heavy rain was pouring down like a waterfall.

Each drop of rain seems to have life. They fall rapidly in the air, flashing strange light.

When these raindrops fell on Li Zhao's face, he was shocked to find that each drop of rain was actually a miniature parallel world!

Through the crystal clear surface of the water droplets, he saw completely different scenes and images:

In one of the raindrops, he was holding tightly a baby covered in dazzling bands of light, tears streaming down his cheeks uncontrollably from his eyes.

In another raindrop, Su Mengyao held a sharp ice blade and stabbed the ferocious-looking spirit user with the force of thunder. The ice blade instantly penetrated the spirit user's quantum heart, splashing a burst of gorgeous blood.

The raindrop closest to his brow showed an even more shocking scene - the "selves" from twelve different dimensions actually raised the gleaming daggers in their hands at the same time and stabbed them into each other's hearts without hesitation!

As blood splattered, it intertwined and entangled in the air, eventually forming a mysterious and complex mandala formula...

"Cognitive contamination warning!" The spirit user's staff suddenly pierced his left eye, and what gushed out was not blood but a silver-white quantum stream. These fluids condensed into a honeycomb barrier in the air, isolating the rainstorm. "They are covering the truth with false memories!"

Li Zhao clutched the crystal shard and charged toward the Möbius strip. The mirror beneath his feet suddenly flipped ninety degrees. Hundreds of mirrors surged from the vertical wall. One, armed with an antimatter cannon, suddenly opened fire. A scorching beam of light grazed his ear, burning a charred hole in the quantum barrier.

&34;These are real possibilities!&34;

A black mandala vine suddenly sprouted from Su Mengyao's right arm, and a baby's cry could be heard from the buds blooming at the tips of the vines. "Don't be touched by the mirror images! They will trigger dimensional resonance!"

The moment the crystal fragments touched the Möbius strip, the entire space began to expand in four dimensions.

A superposition of vision emerged on Li Zhao's retina - he saw Su Mengyao's gene chain being entangled by black flower vines, the spirit messenger's quantum code being reorganized at a speed of trillions of times per second, and the baby floating in the center of the building, the crystal fragment on the forehead was absorbing the death data streams of all parallel worlds.

The most terrifying thing was that the baby's face was changing into that of twenty-year-old Li Zhao at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Father." The baby suddenly opened his iris-less eyes, and the projections on the twelve walls simultaneously stretched out arms wrapped in light bands, "You have finally come to witness my birth."

Li Zhao felt as if his heart was being gripped by an invisible hand, and liquid light bands flowed into the ventricle along the coronary artery.

The crystal fragments hummed in the blood, and the faint blue light was weaving new circuits between the synapses.

He suddenly understood - this was not parasitism, but some kind of quantum symbiosis that went beyond the scope of biology.

&34;Warning, the family affection variable has exceeded the threshold. &34;

建筑内部响起刺耳的合成音，冻结的冰晶表面渗出沥青状液体，&34；因果律框架崩溃倒计时：18...17...16...&34；

The spirit user suddenly thrust his staff into his chest, and a quantum nebula as bright as the Milky Way gushed out from the withered wood texture.

Li Zhao saw the suffocating truth in the bright light - all the spirits in the parallel worlds were repeating this action, and their death data were constructing a huge recursive function, and the end point of each function was the crystal fragment on the baby's forehead.

"Sever the emotional connection!" The spirit user's vocal cords have been quantized, and the sound is like the Morse code of an old telegraph machine. "What the observer wants is not the experimental results... but the vacuum zero-point energy generated by the emotional paradox!"

Su Mengyao suddenly grabbed Li Zhao's wrist, her fingertips breaking down into glowing particles: "Remember those reverse-rotating baby palm prints?"

Her left eye suddenly projected a holographic image, and thousands of genetic maps rotated in the air. "Every palm print is a biological key left behind by us in seven thousand reincarnations!"

The building began to collapse towards the center, and the direction of gravity switched wildly between the twelve dimensions.

Li Zhao saw the most terrifying scene in the state of weightlessness - each mirror fragment reflected himself holding a baby, and the crystal fragments on the baby's forehead were gathering the reflected light into a deadly beam of light.

When the screams from seven hundred and twenty dimensions resonated in his eardrums, he realized that this was the real "family variable" experimental field.

"Cognitive contamination has reached critical mass!" The observer's voice was filled with sickening joy, "Begin recording the dimensional fission process."

Just when his consciousness was about to fade away, Su Mengyao suddenly kissed him on the lips.

This action, which was completely inconsistent with the experimental records, caused the liquid light band to pause for 0.01 seconds - enough time for the blood-stained staff to pierce the crystal fragment between the baby's eyebrows.

Absolute silence fell.

Li Zhao felt that his memory was being quickly erased by some force, and those fragments of him and Su Mengyao in the lavender field were being replaced by cold experimental data.

But when he was about to be completely quantized, a piece of ice crystal fragment suddenly reflected the spirit messenger's last lip language - that was clearly the lip shape when Su Mengyao taught him Morse code in the laboratory twenty years ago.

In the bright light produced by the dimensional explosion, Li Zhao saw the quantum core of the spirit messenger transform into stars in the sky.

Before dissipating, the stardust spelled out three shimmering letters: SOS.

When Li Zhao opened his eyes again, the scent of lavender gently enveloped him.

Morning dew shimmered on the leaves. Su Mengyao smiled and handed the ice blade to him: "What are you daydreaming about? Didn't we agree to detect the energy fluctuations in the flower field?"

But the moment she turned around, Li Zhao saw the fluorescent green "Subject-1" code appear on the back of her neck.

On the distant horizon, black mandala flowers are reorganizing the new formula of causality.

The paths of the falling petals form the shape of a baby's palm.