The stagnation of the mechanical universe lasted only seven seconds.
The baby girl in Chu Yun's arms suddenly cried, and fine lines cracked on the surface of the frozen steel. Magnolia petals descended from the air, each carrying a holographic summons-Defendant: Chu Yun-49; Charge: Illegal Seeding.
Deep within the furnace rises the circular judgment seat, twelve scissor-shaped chairs suspended in mid-air. When the head gardener lifted his hood, Chu Yun's pupils plummeted-it was an elderly version of himself, with data vines entwined between his white hair.
"You have upset the balance of seven hundred universes." The elderly Chu Yun struck the gavel, and the surface of the Mechanical Universe suddenly became transparent, with countless pruned remnants of civilization floating below, "Now accept the Dimensional Verdict."
The second seat gardener threw out a golden pocket watch, and the dial projected Chu Yun's crimes from all his reincarnations:
19th reincarnation: destroying three parallel universes to save Xiao Man
307th reincarnation: implanting the virus code into the core of the World Tree
49th Present: violating the law to cultivate black shoots
The baby girl suddenly reaches out and grabs the hologram, and is judged to be an "accessory" by the judgment panel. Steel water coalesced into shackles and locked her ankles, and the surface of the shackles was engraved with the carrier of the contamination source. Chu Yun rips open his sleeve and realizes that his veins have turned into a stream of data - he is being assimilated into a gardener in the process of being judged.
The third gardener suddenly leaves the table, her mask shattering to reveal Xiao Man's face, "Evidence number 49-7 is a forgery!" She swings her scissors and cuts off the baby girl's shackles, and a hidden image is revealed at the gush of steel-
All the reincarnated Chu Yun wrapped up in front of the furnace, and someone else actually initiated the pruning protocol.
Elderly Chu Yun's vestments suddenly burst into flames, revealing a mechanical connector in his back - the tubing connects to the remnants of the original Chu Yun. The Judgement Table storms out as the truth comes to light, and the Seat Scissors transform into a torture device that stabs the crowd. The baby girl's cries suddenly shifted to an electronic synthesized voice: "Protocol loophole confirmed, initiating countermeasure procedures."
Black shoots drilled out from the back of the baby girl's neck and took root in the judgment platform. The twelve seats of the gardener's chair exploded one after another, and the elderly Chu Yun tore his skin open in the flames - inside was the mechanical shell of Dr. Lin, with the memory chip of the original Chu Yun inserted in his chest.
"You think you're defying fate?" Dr. Lin's mechanical eyes flashed red, "You're just a part of the seeding protocol."
The stagnant mechanical universe suddenly restarted, and the furnace steel poured into an alabaster tree. The top of the tree's crown bore new fruit, and a silver chip fell out of the cracked shell - engraved with Chu Yun-000.
The baby girl suddenly floated into the air, black shoots blooming in her pupils, "Daddy, it's time to prune the real enemy ..."
The countdown refreshed on the surface of the bark:
Ultimate Purification Terminated, High Dimensional Invasion Warning - 00:29:59
The steel and water floor reflected a lurid projection: countless mechanical giant hands were penetrating the dimensional barrier, each palm bearing the face of Dr. Lin.