Mechanical Heart: Foxfire Essence and the Time Paradox
Sparks of gears burst out from the Mechanical Queen's chest, and Xiaodou's gear tail got stuck in the core of her heart, which actually triggered the fox clan's master recognition ceremony in the demon world. The fox fire essence in the heart suddenly turned into the shadow of Bai Yan's mother. Her fingertips brushed across Bai Shenyuan's cheek, and the last snow in the demon world was reflected in her eyes.
"Abyss," the shadow whispered, "What lies beneath the Food Cliff is not the throne, but the core of the Rat Tribe's creation that we sealed with foxfire."
Tears welled up in Lin Shen's steam goggles—this was the first time he, as Bai Yan's reincarnation, had heard his mother's voice. Ling Yuan's candy revolver fell to the ground, and his usually cold and hard shoulder armor trembled.
For the first time, the three soul patterns of Bai Shenyuan completely overlapped, forming a complete fox clan star mark. Xiaodou saw his memory flash back:
- In the Demon Realm, Bai Yan sneaked out to pick osmanthus flowers for Xiao Dou, and his mother secretly put a wolf-fox-fire talisman in his pocket;
- In the interstellar chapter, Ling Yuan's tactical belt always has half a cake baked by Foxfire hidden in its inner layer;
- In the modern story, Lin Shen's laboratory journal begins with the following: "If there is an afterlife, I want to be a gear that can protect him."
"So you've known for a long time that I'm a concept mouse..." Xiaodou's gear tail wrapped around Bai Shenyuan's wrist, "Since my first life."
Bai Shenyuan chuckled softly, and the voices of his three personalities merged into a gentle torrent: "From the moment you chewed my marriage certificate, my three souls were destined to move for you."
The Mechanical Queen's mechanical claws suddenly clamped around her throat. A voice mingled with the blue phoenix's cry and the grinding of gears. "Kill me! Tiandao has programmed a self-destruct sequence in my heart, or you'll never get out!"
Ling Yuan's personality quickly picked up the revolver, but at the moment of aiming, he saw the pain flashing in the queen's eyes - that was the look in Qingluan's eyes when she was threatened by Tiandao in the demon world.
"She was implanted with a mechanical brain by Heaven," Lin Shen's personality quickly analyzed, "The Fox Fire Essence in her heart is her only emotional anchor!"
Xiaodou suddenly remembered the letter from Future Tanggao and resolutely inserted the gear tail deeper into his heart: "Bai Shenyuan, use the power of your three souls to rescue the Fox Fire Essence!"
Bai Shenyuan nodded, and foxfire spread along Xiaodou's gear claws, weaving a protective net shaped like osmanthus cake inside the heart. The queen's mechanical brain burst into the Heavenly Dao Rune, but the moment it came into contact with the foxfire, it transformed into edible chocolate letters, spelling out: "I'm sorry, Master Bai Yan, I was forced..."
Qingluan's shadow overlapped with the queen's. She looked at Bai Shenyuan, her eyes oozing with mechanical oil. "Heaven said that as long as I use the starlight fragments of the Concept Mouse as a heart, I can revive the Phoenix Clan..."
"But the starlight fragments are Xiaodou's tears." Bai Yan's personality finished for her, "Just like my parents, they were imprisoned by the Heavenly Dao under the pretext of 'saving the tribe'."
The Foxfire Essence was successfully extracted, transforming into an ice crystal osmanthus flower that fell into Xiaodou's palm. Meanwhile, the letter from Future Tanggao suddenly ignited, revealing new words within the ashes: "Mom and Dad, don't go to the Food Cliff! It's a Heavenly Dao trap!"
The robot cat's chip suddenly issued a shrill alarm: "Space-time paradox detected! The source of the signal from the future guardian is..."
Before he could finish his words, the dome of the Steam Castle suddenly collapsed, revealing the Concept Mouse Research Institute suspended in the sky—an aerial prison constructed of gears and chains, with a giant banner hanging on the outer wall: "Capture the Concept Mouse alive, and exchange it for three souls of eternal life."
Xiaodou's gear tail spun uncontrollably, unexpectedly resonating with the core gear of the research institute. He saw behind the glass windows of the institute, countless mechanical mice gnawing on the trapped starlight fragments. And on the throne in the center sat a figure in a white coat, his back identical to the three souls of Bai Shenyuan.
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