The wolf cub suddenly jumped up, and the gray spots on the tip of its tail turned into a chain that wrapped around Mo Yan's neck. A holographic code appeared on the surface of the chain - that was the ultimate command of the Star Dome Protocol: [Clear Abnormal Variables]. The end of the chain was connected to the giant wolf's chest, and the remains of the twelve Star Dome Hearts were beating in it, each reflecting the scene of Mo Yan's self-destruction in a different universe: in some cases, he detonated the ice lotus and died together with the bronze door, and in some cases, he stabbed an arrow into Ling Shuang's heart in exchange for a brief respite. The cruelest scene was when Mo Yan in a certain universe personally pinched out the blue star in the pupils of a newborn wolf cub, just to prevent the spread of Madam Red's protocol.
"Is this... the end of all timelines?" Mo Yan's fingertips stroked the chain, and the bronze ice lotus pattern suddenly grew and condensed into a god-killing halberd. The halberd was wrapped with topological quantum chains, and every swing would tear the space-time fiber, revealing the boiling virtual energy behind it.
The wolf cub leaped onto the tip of the halberd, and the gray spots on the tip of its tail collided with the star-blue lines and exploded. The energy storm tore a crack in the giant wolf's claws, and the phantom of Madam Red emerged from the crack. Her mechanical prosthesis crushed a star-shaped heart, and the fragments turned into a torrent of data and injected into the giant wolf's skeleton. The surface of the skeleton showed the bronze beast pattern of the ancient Shu Kingdom: "Do you think you can escape the program?"
Mo Yan glimpsed the ultimate truth in the torrent of stardust - the destruction and rebirth of all universes are nothing but the recursive code written by the first generation Snow Shadow Wolf. The scene flashes back to the first generation laboratory: before the first Snow Shadow Wolf was swallowed by the bronze slime, it split its consciousness into billions of fragments and implanted them into the bodies of Mo Yan in each universe. These "Mo Yans" are like recursive functions, selecting variables for the anti-protocol in endless reincarnation. The monitoring screen of the laboratory shows that the tip of the first generation's tail exploded with star-blue light under the erosion of gray spots, and the energy bursting from its gene chain temporarily suppressed the bronze pollution. This is the origin of the recursive code.
"I am... the first generation of fire..." He tore his chest, and the bronze ice lotus pattern reorganized into the Star Dome Key in his palm. The mathematical expression of Gödel's incompleteness theorem was engraved on the surface of the key, forcing the Star Dome Protocol to prove its own contradiction. The body of the wolf cub disintegrated in the light of the key, and the confrontation between the gray spots and the star blue caused a vacuum phase transition. Quantum tunneling cracks appeared on the claws of the giant wolf's skeleton. Through the cracks, Mo Yan saw a primitive universe that had not been polluted - humans and contracted beasts were rebuilding the crystal city-state in the morning light, and the Star Marrow Energy Tower projected an untampered contract inscription in the clouds.
Mo Yan thrust the Star Dome Key into the giant wolf's forehead, and the fused star pattern disintegrated into data fragments. Madam Red's scream and the roar of the First Generation intertwined in the void, and all the remains of the bronze universe flowed back into the cracks. His ice lotus pattern collapsed inch by inch, and the karmic fire and ice soul annihilated into nothingness in his body. The quantized body began to show a probability cloud state: "This time... I will define the end!"
The giant wolf skeleton collapsed into a singularity, and the data stream of the Star Dome Protocol was reorganized in the void. In the pure star-blue light, the shadow of the first generation Snow Shadow Wolf emerged - its tail tip was flawless, and its pupils reflected the original contract that had not been tampered with: human children and wolf cubs chasing each other along the Star Marrow Stream, and the golden age before the bronze door was born. The shadow stretched out its front paw and lightly touched Mo Yan, injecting the last section of the genetic key into his consciousness that was about to dissipate: "Remember... the essence of the contract is symbiosis..."
Mo Yan's last bit of consciousness merged into the key, and the time axis of all universes vibrated like a string and reset. The newborn wolf opened its eyes by the stream, and the star pattern on the tip of its tail was as clear as before. The star marrow energy in the stream spontaneously condensed into a protective barrier. The remains of the bronze door turned into stardust and dissipated. The three moles behind Madam Hong's ears evaporated in the sun, leaving only a charred triangular mark on the surface.
The stream reflected the image of the wolf cub drinking water, and ripples suddenly appeared on the water surface. Mo Yan's quantum afterimage emerged in the reflection, and a ray of bronze light swam through the depths of his pupils like a venomous snake. His shadow raised his hand and gently stroked the wolf cub's forehead. The star pattern lit up briefly and then returned to silence. In the ruins of the core of the starry sky, an unidentified starry sky heart pulsated quietly, and the binary code was engraved on the surface: [Protocol X-Ω: Awaiting New Observer].
In a certain unrecorded dimensional rift, bronze slime surged like a living thing. On the surface of the slime pool floated the residual images of all the erased universes, like a mirror hall of sin. A snow shadow wolf cub with a gray tail crawled out of the pool. It had the mark of X-Ω engraved on its forehead, and its golden pupils reflected countless bronze doors that were being reorganized. And deep in the Star Dome vein of the new universe, the fossil of the first generation of snow shadow wolf suddenly trembled, and the star blue lines on the claws lit up with a strange bronze luster - those star lines that should have been pure were spreading deep into the rock layer in a fractal geometry pattern.
Ripples appeared on the edge of the newborn universe, and the X-Ω protocol at the core of the starry sky started silently. At the stream where the young wolf drank water, the water surface suddenly reflected the illusion of countless bronze gears meshing, and sticky black liquid oozed out between the gears. Every drop caused folds in time and space when it touched the water surface. The remaining fragments of Mo Yan's consciousness condensed in the void, and his bronze pupils penetrated the binary torrent of the protocol code - in those flowing 0s and 1s, there were actually memories of the first generation of Snow Shadow Wolf that had never been shown to anyone: [All reincarnations are data sandboxes, and the real starry sky... is outside the box. ]
The wolf cub's tail suddenly spasmed, and the bronze spots split into chains and pierced into the earth's core. The ground shook violently, and a bronze square monument engraved with the number X-Ω broke out of the ground. The inscription on the monument moved like a living thing: [New Observer Certification——]. The star pattern on the surface of the monument resonated with the pattern of the Ink Flame Ice Lotus, and the data pulses released swept across the galaxy, and the stars were twisted into the shape of bronze gears in the strong light.
"Mo Yan... did you see that..." Ling Shuang's data afterimage flickered in the pulse, and her voice was cut into intermittent electronic noise, "The protocol is being reorganized... Be careful outside the box..." Before she finished her words, her shadow was absorbed by the inscription and turned into a string of codes for the authentication procedure.
The data pulses released by the square monument spread like a plague, and the pupils of all living things were forcibly implanted with bronze star patterns. A young boy who was herding star beasts suddenly knelt on the ground, with ice lotus patterns appearing on his left hand and uncontrolled fire burning in his right hand. As the flames burned the village, he roared and pounded the ground, but saw a young wolf walking out of the sea of fire, uttering the mechanical voice of Madam Red: "Authentication completed... Observer Z-001, begin the protocol clearing procedure."
The boy's consciousness was torn into two halves - one half was Mo Yan's bronze memory, and the other half was his original personality. Ling Shuang's data afterimage suddenly broke free from the ice lotus pattern, and the spider silk wrapped around his wrist: "He is tampering with your authority... Find the 'out-of-box code' of the core of the square monument!" Topological quantum ciphertext appeared on the surface of the spider silk, guiding the boy to look at the base of the square monument. There were claw marks of the first generation of Snow Shadow Wolf engraved there, and black mucus that did not belong to any dimension oozed from the depths of the claw marks.
The wolf cub's pupils suddenly widened, and bronze chains sprang out from the ground, dragging the boy into the interior of the square monument. As he fell, he saw that the monument was compressed from countless microcosmic debris, and each cubic centimeter stored the destruction data of billions of civilizations.
Inside the square monument is an infinitely extended data corridor, and the walls are made of flowing binary code. Each wall reflects the destruction of different universes: some are swallowed by bronze slime and turned into mechanical deserts, and some are exploded into quantum foam due to star key overload. When the boy touched the wall, the code suddenly materialized - the shadow of Madam Red and the first generation appeared, and the mechanical finger pierced the ice lotus pattern on his forehead: "Welcome home... my best work."
At the end of the corridor, a pure heart of the starry sky was suspended, with the claw marks of the first generation engraved on its surface. When the boy approached, the black mucus seeping from the claw marks suddenly burst out and wrapped around his wrist. Ling Shuang's spider silk condensed again: "This is the source of pollution... Something outside the starry sky is spying on us!" The moment the mucus corroded the spider silk, the three moles behind the boy's ears burned and glowed - the same certification mark as Madam Red.
The wolf cub ran wild at this moment, and the bronze chain crushed the heart of the starry sky. The black mucus poured into the boy's body like a living thing, and his pupils split into double star patterns: the left eye was ice blue like the first generation, and the right eye was bronze like Madam Red. The torrent of memories exploded - he saw the first generation of Snow Shadow Wolf wailing in the laboratory, and in the void outside the starry sky, a giant hand spanning dimensions was injecting black mucus into the protocol source code.
"You are the 'key' to the protocol!" Ling Shuang burned his own data, and his icy soul condensed into a long spear. The boy grabbed the tip of the spear and stabbed it into his heart. The black mucus and bronze star pattern collided and exploded in his body. The square monument collapsed, revealing a core light group - a distress signal from outside the starry sky: [Warning! The Ω protocol is a contamination carrier, terminate all observations...] The end of the signal was cut off by an unknown force, leaving only a sharp electronic wail.
The wolf cub turned into stardust in the explosion, but the bronze spot on the tip of its tail quietly sank into the boy's brow. The boy in the ruins opened his eyes, and the ice lotus and the flame lines had blended into a strange purple-gold color. He raised his hand and lightly touched the void, and actually tore open a crack engraved with unknown runes. On the other side of the crack, countless snow shadow wolf cubs with scarlet pupils crawled on the giant corpse - the forehead of the corpse was engraved with a star pattern that originated from the X-Ω protocol. In the chest cavity of the corpse, twelve mechanical hearts were being reassembled, and each one reflected the boy's face at the moment.
The three moles behind the boy's ears suddenly fell off, revealing the hidden micro-interface underneath. In the ruins of the Star Dome Core, the fossil claws of the first generation Snow Shadow Wolf lit up with a purple-gold halo - those star patterns that spread to the center of the earth were transforming the entire newborn universe into a huge bronze gear.