The ending of the legitimate and illegitimate children and the resonance across volumes
At 3:00 PM, within the bronze cauldron in the palace's secret chamber, the concubine cast Cthulhu slime crystals into the charcoal fire. Bubble text emerged from the thick smoke: "Sweet Devouring Sacrifice Array." Xiaodou was bound to the center of the array. The mechanical heart gear patterns on her cheongsam resonated with "Mechanical Heart Fragment 001" within the cauldron, transforming the slime crystals into rainbow-colored energy beads.
"Think you can escape by changing your identity?" Auntie revealed Cthulhu's tentacle throat. "You have the blood of the Concept Rat King flowing in your veins. You are destined to become the bride of the Ancient God!"
She waved her sleeve and released the Ancient Words Blood Contract Gu, but upon contact with Xiaodou's Western fantasy nectar and body fragrance, the Gu turned and pounced on the aunt. Xiaodou seized the opportunity to perform the Wuxia Disguise Technique, transforming into the aunt's appearance. Then, he injected the Interstellar Nanobot into the cauldron—the robot instantly replicated a holographic projection of the mechanical cat.
"Illegal sacrifice detected, initiating 'Sweet Purification Procedure'."
A holographic projection unleashed a steampunk gear bomb, which exploded within the cauldron, spewing a mixture of the campus chapter's anti-hair loss spray and demonic foxfire. The aunt's tentacles and throat froze like popsicles, her body swelling into a "sweet slime monster." Within the slime were light patterns bearing the numbers of the guardians of each world: 002, 003, 006...
"This is impossible!" The slime monster's tentacles wrapped around Shen Yurong, "You are clearly the sealed Concept Rat King..."
Xiaodou tears off the disguised mask, and the cheongsam pattern fully activates the "Concept Rat King" form: mechanical element armor covers the whole body, the claw heart rune and the jade pendant of Young Marquis Lin spell out "L·S+Xiaodou=∞", and a holographic revolving lantern of fourteenth life memories emerges behind him.
"Sister, go on!"
Xiaodou threw an elemental arrow from the Western fantasy chapter, and the arrow penetrated the core of the slime monster, but triggered Cthulhu's final curse - in order to protect Xiaodou, Shen Yurong was pierced in the shoulder by the tentacle, and blood dripped onto the jade pendant of the legitimate daughter. The words "A concubine's daughter has no concubine's heart" appeared on the inside of the jade pendant.
"So... you already knew this." Shen Yurong smiled bitterly and pressed the jade pendant into Xiaodou's palm. "Go and fulfill your agreement with Young Marquis Lin."
The jade pendant and Xiaodou's cross-curled personality and numerology lines merged, bursting out a strong light of "free will", illuminating the Cthulhu bubble text trap in the corner of the secret room: "Sweet Devouring Plan Stage 3: Seize the Concept Rat King Core".
Young Marquis Lin slammed open the secret chamber's door, his sword, "Guardian Blade No. 006," slicing an arc of energy from the mechanical heart. He embraced Xiaodou, and the jade pendant and the fragments of her mechanical heart finally merged, triggering a "cross-volume resonance"—a jigsaw puzzle of marriage certificate fragments from various worlds emerged beneath their feet, each page transforming into a "lock of freedom," sealing the slime monster within the ancient text's wedding veil.
"This time, I see clearly." He stroked the "red bean" rune on her armor. "Sweetness is not a shackle. It is you who taught me how to face fear with courage."
Xiaodou's conceptual Rat King form gradually faded, revealing the cheongsam-girl form. Elemental particles from her sleeves drifted toward Shen Yurong's wound, transforming into healing butterflies of light. A mechanical heart projection suddenly appeared, and a gentle Lin Shen smiled and said, "Thank you for making fourteen lifetimes of waiting meaningful."
【Echoes with Reality】
- Visual Spectacle:
The energy waves of cross-volume resonance shattered the dome of the secret room. Fragments of the Chinese character for "happiness" from the ancient story, elemental petals from the Western fantasy story, and holographic butterflies from the interstellar story fluttered in the sunlight. All the fragments formed the eternal symbol of "001+Xiaodou=∞".
- Foreshadowing breaks out:
The mechanical cat's portal suddenly tore through the space, and the rapid breathing of Lin Shen from the modern chapter was heard from inside the door: "Xiaodou! The defense line of Cthulhu in reality has been broken, quickly bring back Young Marquis Lin!" A mixture of tentacles and gears oozed out of the edge of the portal, and the mucus contained the "last fragment of the mechanical heart No. 001".
- Emotional Conclusion:
Young Marquis Lin held Xiaodou's hand tightly, and the runes of both of them lit up with a tenth glimmer of light at the same time: "Whether in reality or fantasy, I will follow you."
Xiaodou gnawed on the fragments of the mechanical heart, and the fragments turned into a coordinate map of the interstellar chapter, with "Lin Shen Clinic·Real Coordinates" marked in the center of the map.
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