The memory mucus that erupted from the Star Abyss rift was as thick as asphalt, and Ryan was dragged into a fantasy world as soon as he stepped on it. He saw fifteen-year-old Gray tied to the operating table with iron chains, and Elena's mechanical fingers were inserting the star chip into his spine. Tears mixed with engine oil dripped onto the "Lyria-α" label.
"Mom...don't..." The scream of the young boy Gray suddenly quantized and turned into the cry of Liria's baby.
In reality, Gray's ice claws pierced through the mucus layer, and his body crawled out of the crack. His mecha's chest cavity split open, revealing a beating mechanical heart - the surface was engraved with genetic patterns that were the same as Lyria's "III" brand: "Dear brother... now you know who is the failure?"
(Misha's fragments of consciousness beg for help in the slime - Selina's reverse scales shatter into stardust - the judge's mask drips slime -)
Ryan's holy sword split the memory slime, but the blade was bitten by Gray's ice claw. A holographic picture exploded in the sparks of the collision - Elena was holding the baby Liria covered in blood, and the young Gray was stabbing his ice claw into the incubator: "Mom said... to protect my sister..."
"Liar!" Ryan's symbiote gears crushed the ice claws, and a genetic test report appeared where the black blood splattered - Gray and Liria's genes were 99.9% similar, and the only difference was the coding sequence of the reverse scale scar.
Gray's body suddenly folded quantumly and appeared on the other side of the crack. He tore off his mechanical spine, and the end was connected to the fish tail fragment of Liria's embryo: "She should have been my sister... You took her away..."
The memory black tide reached its peak at this moment, and 299 clones of Elena crawled out of the mucus. They raised their scalpels and stabbed Ryan at the same time, and their voices overlapped to the frequency of the chief judge: "Container No. 001...return to the mother body..."
(Young Ryan slaps the glass in the incubator—Elena's tears corrode the star chip—Gray's ice claws are engraved with blood—)
"Shut up!" Ryan's holy sword swept across the clone cluster, and the "Timeless ω" code on the hilt burst out ripples in time and space. The chopped clones did not bleed, but what spurted out was Elena's memory data stream - the log video twenty years ago showed that she was forced to use Gray's genes as the basis for Liria's embryo.
Gray's ice claws suddenly pierced Ryan's abdomen, nailing him to the genetic map made of memory slime: "Look at this... Mom's gift..."
The mucus surged into a holographic projection - Elaina implanted her own reverse scale into Gray's heart on the operating table, and the star chip was engraved with "Prototype Raine". The log of the culture chamber of Liria's embryo showed that her original genetic code was actually a failed product stripped from Gray.
(Liriya's fish tail wraps around Gray's wrist——Misha's fragmented consciousness screams——The Judge's mask shows Selina's reverse scale pattern——)
"So... you are the original?" Ryan's symbiote's right arm carbonized into ash, but his left hand grabbed Gray's mechanical heart, "Then why did you let me live?!"
Gray's chest suddenly split into a quantum vortex, pulling the two into the core memory area. Here, the dying image of Elena was suspended - her body was full of Vatican optical cables, and the mechanical fingers were engraving Ryan's genetic key into the "III" imprint of Liria's embryo.
"Because mom... needs a more perfect container..." Gray's ice claws pierced into his heart and pulled out the sealed star chip, "such as you who can withstand the radiation of the Star Abyss..."
The black tide of memory suddenly went out of control, and the quantum projection of Liria's body descended from the vortex. Her fish tail smashed Gray's body, but the mark on her forehead split into the gene chain of Ryan and Gray: "Brothers... it's time to merge..."
Branch Undercurrent
Misha's fragments of consciousness seeped out from the remains of Gray's ice claws, spelling out "Gene Pollution Warning". On the other side of the abyss, Selina's reverse scale was absorbing the Judge Mask, and the palm prints of Liria's infancy appeared on the surface...