Xiao Man is curled up in the wreckage of an electromagnetic pulse bomb, and the holographic star map projected by the bracelet is spinning wildly. She finally understood the true meaning of those bloody Mandrake matrices - not navigational coordinates, but genetic codes from Gaia consciousness to human civilization. Satellite images show similar mycelium light cocoons suspended above all nuclear facilities around the world, and even gargoyles growing out of human hands inhabit the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

  "The memory reset has begun." Lin's voice comes from the encrypted channel, the deep-sea probe she controls is carrying Wang Ergou through the Mariana Trench, "We found samples of primitive mycelium on the seafloor, they can directly rewrite DNA strands..."

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  In the violent shock, Wang Ergou saw the jade species larvae in the culture cabin collectively split. The mycelium carries the green flame toward the deep ocean, boiling the water into liquid metal in its path. When he reached out to touch the escaping strands of mycelium, ancient cuneiform letters immediately appeared on the surface of his skin - symbols he had glimpsed in his father's charred notebook at the scene of the laboratory fire twelve years earlier.

  "We are Gaia's immune cells." The juvenile's voice resonates directly in the nerve center through the symbiotic mycelium, "when human civilization deviates from the ecological balance, it initiates the cleaning protocol."