Recursive Armory: Iridium Core Virus

(Philosophy + Sci-Fi + Transmigration + Mystery)

Three years after the Bronze Vessel Blood incident, dark golden blood seeps from Lin Weiguo's fingertips, the result of his struggle against the iridium-core virus. As the only human capable of stopping ICV-9 from turning people into metal, he feels his military ID, "0723," grow hot each time he receives an antibody injection, as if reminding him that his blood contains the embryo key Chen Xue gave her life to protect. Deep in the Rust River, Zhao Tiezhu's work badge, numbered 4066 and recovered from the river in Chapter 3 of the first book, starts buzzing. Half his body flows with liquid iridium alloy. At midnight, he always uses a welding torch to trace the name on his badge, until the virus rewrites the lettering into the vessel markings seen in the first book. This proves that ICV-9 is not merely a destroyer: it is also trying to rewrite the human genome in a "metal prologue." Su Li, Chen Xue's student, inherits the scent of gardenias from the lab, the fragrance used to mask the smell of blood in Chapter 22 of the first book, but has rebuilt her spine into an "iridium-core resonator." A distress signal from the Nine Cauldrons of King Yu is discovered beneath the Pacific. The oracle bone script Chen Xue once deciphered crawls along Su Li's neural synapses, and the signal's endpoint points to the embryo number "20250425," which was destroyed in the first book. When the infection rate reaches 12%, three crises erupt: the infected gather at the deep-sea bronze temple mentioned in the first book, their heartbeats resonating with Lin Weiguo's antibodies and awakening the spirits of the Shang and Zhou dynasties inside the Nine Cauldrons; gardenia scent emerges from Zhao Tiezhu's alloy body, becoming a scent beacon that helps the virus locate humans; and Su Li's iridium core displays the only solution... The story begins amid dangers on every side, as ancient bronze, futuristic technology, and a mysterious virus intertwine in a struggle that will determine humanity's fate.