Deep in the trench, the alarm sound of the Youlan diving module is gradually synchronized with the resonant frequency of Wang Ergou's consciousness. The mycelium of the young jade species in the culture chamber is swallowing the inner wall of the titanium alloy at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the neural network emerging on the surface of the bacteria produces quantum entanglement with the code of the chip on his back neck. When the first blood moon rays penetrate the cracks in the seafloor, the larvae suddenly open six pairs of compound eyes, their pupils dancing with the same green glow as the hot springs of the deep sea.

  "Gaia is accessing your memories." Paul's voice came through bone-conducting headphones, his robotic hand pressed against the boy's cracked temple. "You think you've escaped the lab, but you've been in its petri dish for 12 years."

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  Wang Ergo's tactical eyepiece suddenly projects multiple world lines: In one space and time, he personally detonates a nuclear power plant; In the other dimension, Xiao Man is a genetic engineer in a white coat; And in the most dazzling picture, Father Paul is kneeling in the center of the altar, with half a jade seed in his chest.

  The red tide is now at its peak. The wave of the mutant swarm suddenly swerved, pushing the deep-sea probe that Wang Ergou was in toward the ice capsule. When a searchlight illuminated the surface of the cabin, he saw his own face slowly emerging from the titanium alloy in a molecular recombination. The moment the quantum cutter sliced open the capsule, clouds of spores exploded in the frozen air of liquid nitrogen - which contained not alien creatures, but tens of thousands of "selves" soaked in nutrient solution.

  "Welcome to the eternal cycle." "Every choice will give birth to a new world line, and we will all converge in the womb of Gaia."