Hunt her

The quantum ripples in the restaurant suddenly solidified into crystals. Yan Xu gently touched the floating fragments with his fingertips, and the entire space fell into an eerie stillness.

Shen's mother's mechanical eyes suddenly went out, and she staggered, grabbing the dining table for support: "This is impossible... that experimental subject from thirty years ago was clearly already..."

Shen Yi's protective force field suddenly turned dark red. As he stood in front of Yan Xu, the outer shell of the quantum processor on his spine began to crack.

"Mother, the secret project you participated in back then, 'Orion Cradle,' wasn't an archaeological excavation at all." Yan Xu's iris patterns suddenly began to rotate in reverse, and the suspended crystal fragments refracted countless identical images of young girls. "You used pulsar radiation to modify human genes in order to create living keys that could open the interstellar gate."

Suddenly, sparks flew from Shen's father's robotic arm, and the warning text in the holographic file materialized and burned in the air in the shape of the Orion Nebula.

As Shen Yi's quantum processor shell peeled off, the crystal fragments suddenly refracted a scene from the laboratory thirty years ago.

Yan Xu's iris pattern completely overlapped with the girl in the holographic image, and the blue electric arc at her fingertips suddenly materialized into the shape of a star key.

"Stop!" Mother Shen's mechanical eyes restarted, but the nano-coating began to peel off piece by piece. "That experimental subject from back then was long ago annihilated in quantum collapse—"

"So you created me again." Yan Xu's voice carried the periodic tremors unique to pulsars, and the suspended star key suddenly pierced the holographic file that Shen's father had retrieved.

The warning text transformed into burning star trails, outlining a complete Orion constellation on the restaurant floor.

Shen Yi's protective force field shattered completely. He staggered and grabbed Yan Xu's wrist: "They used pulsar radiation to reconstruct your genetic chain back then..."

Suddenly, Shen's mother's mechanical eye projected a DNA double helix model, with 72% of the defective segments perfectly coinciding with the coordinates of the star map.

Suddenly, the constellation Orion in the night sky outside the window brightened dramatically, and a gravitational wave pierced through the wall, enveloping everyone in blue stardust.

Yan Xu's fingertips trembled slightly in the blue stardust, and the suspended DNA light spots suddenly formed a quantum bond between her and Shen Yi.

Shen's mother's mechanical eyes flashed a warning red light, and the peeling of the nano-coating revealed the intricate quantum circuits beneath her skin.

"You're not human at all," her voice pierced the frozen quantum field, "the pulse radiation in the lab back then should have destroyed all the test subjects!"

Shen Yi suddenly pulled Yan Xu behind him, and the exposed quantum processor on his spine emitted a defensive purple light.

"Mother, didn't you notice?" He pointed to the still-burning star map on the ground, "Those coordinates of what are called genetic defects are actually the jump portals of the Orion Beta galaxy."

Suddenly, Shen's father's robotic arm went out of control and pointed out the window. The three main stars of Orion in the night sky aligned in a pattern exactly like Yan Xu's iris. Liquid metal began to seep from the walls of the restaurant, forming a 3D projection of the laboratory from thirty years ago under the influence of gravitational waves. Yan Xu's star key suddenly split into countless points of light, each reflecting the image of Shen's mother operating the gene editor years ago.

"So you guys..." Yan Xu's voice suddenly took on a certain interstellar frequency, "have been using pulsar radiation to create containers capable of withstanding interstellar travel." The stardust floating from her hair suddenly materialized into countless miniature black holes, swallowing up the holographic files that Shen's father had retrieved.

Yan Xu's fingertips still held the faint glow of stardust, and she instinctively hid behind Shen Yi. The scanning beams flashing in Shen's mother's mechanical eyes moved back and forth over her, and the tableware on the table suddenly began to vibrate rapidly.

"Is this the person you chose?" The mechanical arm of Shen's father emitted a harsh metallic scraping sound. "Even the basic human gene sequence is incomplete." On the holographic projection he brought up, Yan Xu's DNA strand deviated from the standard model by 72%.

Shen Yi suddenly grasped Yan Xu's icy hand, the quantum processor in his spine humming in protest. "Those so-called flaws," his protective field rippled, "are star marks left by Orion radiation."

Suddenly, a vast starry sky was projected from the restaurant's dome, with the three main stars of Orion hanging directly above Yan Xu's head. Patterns in her irises appeared that perfectly matched the star map, and suspended stardust formed a protective halo around her.

"Enough!" Shen Yi stood between his parents and Yan Xu, a quantum connection flashing between him and the girl. "She's not an experimental subject, she's the key to unlocking a new world." Suddenly, a shooting star streaked across the window, exploding into the constellation Orion in front of the French windows.

Yan Xu's stardust aura trembled slightly under Shen's mother's scanning beam. As she retreated, she knocked over a crystal glass, the liquid vaporizing into blue stardust the instant it touched the ground. "This body even defies the laws of physics in its basic metabolism!" Shen's father slammed his mechanical arm onto the dining table, spiderweb-like cracks appearing on the metal surface. Shen Yi's quantum link suddenly expanded into a purple light screen, freezing the flying metal fragments in mid-air. "Her heartbeat is at a pulsar frequency," he said, tracing the star-like patterns on Yan Xu's neck, "This is precisely the biorhythm needed to traverse a wormhole."

Suddenly, Shen's mother's mechanical eye projected an experimental log from thirty years ago, showing a young Shen Yi's spine being implanted with a quantum processor. "Why do you think we can withstand interstellar radiation?" Her voice was mixed with electrical noise. "The Orion signal back then wasn't a distress call at all—it was a marker!" Yan Xu's star key suddenly beeped, and the three stars of the Orion Belt outside the window began to flash synchronously.

"Are you scared now?" Shen Yi sneered as the processor emitted blue light. "When the container grows self-awareness..." Before he could finish speaking, the stardust in Yan Xu's hair suddenly condensed into a miniature wormhole, swallowing up all the neurotoxins that Shen's mother had shot out.

Shen Yi's quantum processor suddenly emitted a sharp alarm, and the gravitational field of the entire restaurant began to distort. Yan Xu's stardust halo spread into a galactic vortex in the chaotic gravity, and the star pattern behind her ear suddenly projected a holographic image of the Orion Nebula. "What you fear has never been my genetic defects," her voice hummed with cosmic background radiation, "but rather that the container you created will surpass the Creator." Shen's mother's mechanical eye suddenly burst out with a string of sparks, and experimental images from thirty years ago flashed back repeatedly under the wormhole effect—the bottom of the incubation chamber where young Yan Xu was being cultivated was clearly engraved with the totem of the three stars of Orion. Shen Yi's protective force field became quantumly entangled with Yan Xu's stardust, forming a dazzling star bridge between the two. "Do you see it?" He pointed to the ancient characters that appeared on the star bridge, "This is a contract left by the Orion civilization, and she is the true inheritor." Shen's father's mechanical arm suddenly froze in mid-air, and the same star trail patterns as Yan Xu's iris appeared on its metal surface.