Lord Orange crouched amidst quantum catnip on Everest's peak, its tail flickering like a dying neon sign. Below, primal tribes' campfire smoke twisted into DNA helixes, mingling with the scent of roasted mammoth. When it batted the bronze key for the ninth time, the keyhole oozed dark red sludge—notherring stench or Golden Ear residue, but congealed blood.
The tribe's shamans danced around a fire, their chants hurling sparks that crystallized into Orion's Belt. Lin Feng, cloaked in quantum stealth, touched a floating ember—his fingertips suddenly glowing with mech-circuitry. "This isn't fire… It's Golden Ear's ashes!"
The totem pole split open, revealing a quantum forge. The young shaman leader raised a flint knife—its blade reflecting Su Wan's mechanical face. As the blade plunged into a mammoth's heart, blood congealed midair into a hologram of Grey Sparrow's Cookbook.
"Awaken the slumbering god with flesh!" The chant warped gravity. Everest's snow began quantum-vaporizing. Lord Orange's catnip patch mutated, leaves sprouting micro-landscapes of Lin Jianguo's lab—each stoma replaying memory shards from dead timelines.
Lin Feng charged downhill as quantum snow devoured half the tribe. Grabbing the shaman leader, he froze—the child's pupils mirrored the bronze key. "What are you summoning?!"
"The Dark Matter Mother stirs…" The child grinned, revealing mech-teeth. Wu Li's voice rasped from its throat: "Surprise, Inspector? Grey Sparrow's source code is woven into life itself!"
At the Mariana Trench's depths, dark matter coiled into a colossal womb pulsating with culinary sigils. Bioluminescent anglerfish had become living ovens, giant squid wielded neutron-star skewers, and hydrothermal vents spat molecular gastronomy mist.
Lord Orange pounced into the womb chamber, fur bristling as dark matter corroded its quantum form. "This embryo's draining Our power!" Its nine tails—each linked to a universe's feline divinity—were siphoned by dark matter veins feeding the fetus.
Lin Feng scanned with the bronze key. The hologram data choked him—the embryo's DNA was 89.7% identical to his, every helix braided with Grey Sparrow code and Golden Ear.
"You're the ultimate cooking vessel," Wu Li rose from a vent, dark matter fluid tailoring a chef's uniform. "Grey Sparrow coded life's origin. Even cosmic reboots can't erase us!"
The womb shrieked ultrasonically. The trench cracked open, exposing a 4-billion-year-old kitchen factory: trilobites molded into cutlery, archaeopteryx feathers woven into sieves, Cambrian shrimp assembling antimatter grills.
"Welcome to Life's Kitchen." Wu Li's mech-arms unfurled a holographic menu. "Today's special: primordial soup aged 4 billion years."
Diving into the embryo's core was a crash course in evolution. Lin Feng's quantum form flickered between fish and reptile. Dark matter veins floated civilization scraps: Atlantis' recipe scrolls, Mayan star-map griddles, even charred asteroid spices from the dinosaur extinction.
At the heart, the bronze key stabbed into the dark matter placenta. The green eye's light revealed cosmic horror—every particle in the new universe had culinary properties:
[Quark Flavor: Spicy]
[Gravity Setting: Simmer]
[Electromagnetic Wavelength: Caramel]
"Grey Sparrow's endgame…" Wu Li's eye projected the universe's culinary corruption. "Physics rewritten as cooking laws!"
Lord Orange's tails were chained by dark matter, its essence draining into the fetus. "Nine lives… for nine chances…" It flickered like a dying bulb.
Lin Feng tore open his quantum flesh, exposing a black matter chrono-stove embedded in his ribs—Lin Jianguo's final gift. "If we're rewriting laws… LET'S COOK WITH CREATION ITSELF!"
He rammed the key into his heart. Boiling primordial soup replaced his blood.
The dark matter womb convulsed. Quarks lost their spice, gravity reverted to violent fusion, electromagnetism turned icy. Wu Li's mech-shell shattered, exposing Grey Sparrow's source code—a program encrypted with Lin Feng's childhood doodles of owls.
"Gege…" Lin Yu's stardust form materialized. "Remember my homework doodles?" She input the owl sketch—the code disintegrated.
Lord Orange detonated its nine tails. The blast rebirthed the universe—dark matter became galactic amniotic fluid, kitchen factories dissolved into stardust.