Juvenile Chu Yun knelt in the memory node, the Magnolia Seed on his mechanical shovel dripping black blood. Dr. Lin's head suddenly cracked open, revealing a throbbing mechanical brain core - with the protocol core engraved on its surface. Chu Yun attempted to snatch the seed, but he was entangled in countless neural synapses, each of which had Xiao Man of a different age hanging from the end.
"Every time you resist, they die." The voice of the infant Chuun mixed with Dr. Lin's electronic voice. The baby girl Xiao Man's awakened body suddenly tore through the data chain, her silver pupils shedding tears of blood, "Daddy, find the hourglass!" Her fingertips stabbed into the ground, digging out half of a broken timepiece-the remnants of the Genesis Hourglass.
The moment the hourglass fragment touched Chu Yun's palm, the Mechanical Universe began to flow against time. Furnace steel flowed backwards into Magnolia Seeds, and the remains of the mechanical giant hand reorganized into a Gardener's Golem. Baby girl Xiao Man's silver pupils suddenly went out of focus: "The hourglass is in... Dr. Lin's brain core..."
The infant Chu Yun suddenly stormed up, and the mechanical shovel pierced through the awakened body's chest. Where black blood splattered, the silhouette of an hourglass surfaced in Dr. Lin's brain core - all the restarted universe models were sealed inside. Chu Yun severed the neural synapses and realized that each of the Xiao Man's clones was connected to the hourglass's quicksand pipeline.
The remnants of Zero's body suddenly resurrected from the data stream, and the mechanical arm transformed into a key inserted into the brain core. The moment the hourglass materialized, Chu Yun saw the horrifying truth: the flow of time in each universe was regulated by Dr. Lin, and the regulator was actually a pill that his infant self took daily.
"This is the real protocol core!" Zero ripped out the golden pill inside the hourglass and swallowed it, causing blood vessels to ripple throughout his body. Baby girl Xiao Man's awakened body suddenly quantumized and wrapped around the hourglass, "Dad, break it!" When Chu Yun swung his shovel at the hourglass, the infant Chu Yun blocked the attack with his body and his mechanical heart was pierced, "I... Don't want to be a gardener ..."
In the golden light of the hourglass exploding, the mechanical universe began to descend in dimension. Chu Yun holds his dying infant self and sees the pill clutched in his palm engraved with Chu Yun-000.The awakened body of baby girl Xiao Man smiles before dissipating, "Go to the true Sower ..."
The countdown warps through the collapsing dimension:
Master protocol collapsed, underlying command activated-
Formatting countdown: ∞
Dr. Lin's mechanical brain core suddenly rises into the air and cracks open into an observation hole. Magnolia branches protrude from the hole, wrapping around the Hourglass debris to reorganize into a new species. The remnants of Zero's voice came from the ground, "Be careful... There's ... in the hourglass."
Chu Yun caught the falling new seed, and a frightening image was reflected on the surface -
Somewhere in an unknown universe, the elderly Chu Yun was handing the same seed to the five-year-old Dr. Lin.
Deep within the observation holes, countless pairs of eyes from higher dimensions opened at the same time.