Chu Yun stood in the center of the pure white flower room, the roots of the white magnolia in his palm piercing through the ground. There were glass spherical microcosms suspended around them, the same scene playing out inside each sphere - Dr. Lin implanting a chip into the back of a baby girl's neck. Data vines dangle from the dome of the flower room, with a tag hanging from the end: sample #000, status: awakening anomaly.
"Pruning excess emotion." A mechanical synthesized voice came from the Magnolia tree. The trunk of the tree cracked open with a human face, which was actually a fusion of Chu Yun's appearance from all the reincarnations. Vines suddenly wrapped around Chu Yun's limbs and hoisted him towards the fruit at the crown of the tree - with an embryo frozen inside, the label read Chu Yun-Ω.
The embryo suddenly opens its eyes, its pupils shooting out holographic images:
Five-year-old Chu Yun planting the Magnolia Seed in an orphanage
Young Chu Yun debugging a baby girl embryo in the lab
Older Chu Yun stabbing scissors into Dr. Lin's heart
"You're my backup." The embryo's voice makes the flower house tremble. Vines stab Chu Yun's temples, forcing synchronization of memories. The phantom of baby girl Xiao Man suddenly flashed and the photon blade cut through the vines, "He's lying to you! The core is at the root!"
As Chu Yun crashed to the ground, the white magnolia in his palm suddenly grew exponentially, and its roots lifted the floor tiles - a blood-colored crystal was buried below, with the true Baby Girl Xiao Man's original body sealed inside.
Dr. Lin's replica surged out of the crystal, his mechanical arm holding golden scissors, "You were supposed to awaken at the 79th reincarnation!" Chu Yun swung the white magnolia branch to counterattack, the petals turning into sharp blades to pierce the replica body. A countdown appeared on the surface of the crystal where the black blood sprayed: 00:07:30.
The baby girl's original body suddenly awoke, her silver pupils shedding tears of blood, "Daddy, let me be free..." Black shoots drilled out from the back of her neck, entangling with the white magnolia in Chu Yun's palm. The bower began to crumble, the miniature universes exploding one after another, and silver chips flew out of each wreckage - engraved with the same Omega symbol.
Chu Yun leaps into the last intact micro-universe with the baby girl in his arms. This was the reset 2023 laboratory, and the Magnolia tree had just sprouted. The baby girl's silver pupil suddenly dimmed, "Plant me... Plant me under the tree..."
When Chu Yun buried the black shoots into the soil, the data flow of the entire flower house surged into this universe. The magnolia tree instantly rose into the sky, and the fruit cracked open to reveal a mechanical core - it was actually a fusion of Dr. Lin's frozen brain and Chu Yun's genes.
The countdown refreshed in the bark of the tree:
Progress of Ultimate Matrix Awakening - 99%
Outside the lab window, shadows from higher dimensions were gathering. Before the baby girl's last ounce of consciousness dissipated, she wrote in Chu Yun's palm:
"Kill me when I blossom..."
There was a rustling sound from the treetops, and the first Magnolia was blooming - the Omega symbol was engraved on the back of the petals, and at the stamen sat a smiling embryonic Chu Yun, holding blood-stained scissors in his hand.