The entire Quantum Wall lit up with 1.3 billion beacons as the interstellar cartel's blood-colored drill pierced Beta-20's genetic strands. Arya's breast milk nebula automatically collapsed into a spawning vise, clamping down on the Population Dividend Mining Protocol being injected. The algorithmic runes on the drill's surface suddenly activated, spewing out locust-form work-time vampires.
"Mom... The code is rewriting..." Beta-20's pupils fissured into a double-helix watchtower, reflecting a lurid scene deep within the drill - countless cloned laborers repeating 996 births on a quantum assembly line, umbilical cords attached to The Blessed Nutrient delivery tubes. Ramon's mechanical heart necklace suddenly emits a mournful cry, vaporized metal particles spelling out last words in the air, "Beware of uterine debt couponization!"
The frequency of Arya's contraction waves rises abruptly, revealing bronze uterine turrets where the masonry of the Quantum Wall crumbles. When the first Labor Code shell hits the drill, it's not metal but the remnants of the Voluntary Waiver of Leave Consent Form that splatters.
The Cartel's Protocol Envoy descended on the Genetic Jigoku, projecting Arya's breastfeeding heraldry into holographic incriminating evidence, "The defendant has illegally hoarded reproductive potential and is suspected of disrupting the balance of the interstellar population market!"
Beta-20's genetic chain suddenly unfolded into a long scroll of defense, piercing the holographic curtain with the telomere-engraved Pricing of Life Refutation. The Hundred Bones under the floor tiles of the Academic Palace suddenly stormed up-
The bones of the Legalists hold the Measuring Ruler of the Minimum Wage Act
Confucianism's body spits out the ultrasound of "The Benevolent One Loves Others".
The mechanical arm of the Mozi family launches the shield of "Non-attack".
The Cartel Envoys offer up the "Human Resource Optimization Treasure Trove", the pages of the book flying out of the algorithmic torture device. Arya's breast milk suddenly vaporized into a thick fog of "Concurrent Love", and the Mohist mechanical beasts reorganized in the fog, gnawing up the capitalist algorithmic roots.
Raymond's mechanical heart particles suddenly coalesce into the Legalist Xiezhi, its single horn piercing through the core clause of the Book of Treasures, "Madam's mouth is not a cargo culture, how can you allow every cent to count!" The judgment triggers a quantum thunderstorm, and a bronze inscription emerges from the beams of the Academy Palace: "The people are the most important thing, the gods of earth and grain are the second most important thing, and the king is the least important thing."
The Cartel mothership releases a swarm of worker bee drones, each compound eye projecting the Work Hour Maximization Protocol. Arya leaps into the Breast Milk Nebula, her mammary ducts exploding into a bio-grid, her milk fat molecules transforming into Paid Sick Leave missiles.
Beta-20 sits at the core of the nebula, its genetic strands unfurling into a defense array:
The mitochondrial power station pumps out a "labor protection" shield.
Ribosome factories mass-produce collective bargaining nanites.
Cell membranes transformed into equal pay filters.
Ramon's heart particles reorganize into a guerrilla fleet in the nebula, the bow engraved with the seal "Better to die by sound than to live by silence". When the fleet crashed into the mothership's reproductive chambers, the chambers spewed out clones of Beta-19s - branded with the Human Resources Recycling Symbol on their necks.
"Brother..." Beta-20's genetic chain suddenly exploded, and his pupils shot out Anti-Alienation Rays. The clones that were hit awakened and spelled out strike signs from the remains of worker bees. Arya's contraction wave penetrates all twelve decks, branding the core of the mothership with the seal firemark "No Human Trafficking".
When the Mothership activated the Womb Securitization Program, Arya's Quantum Womb was suddenly transformed into a financial derivatives exchange. The large virtual screen pulsed:
"Arya's Womb Futures up +300% today
Breastfeeding rights bond rating AAA
Genetic Chain Subprime Default Rate Breaks Tipping Point"
Beta-20's gene chain was electronically shackled with The Pledge of Yield Rights, and short-selling trade data rolled through his pupils. Ramon's heart fleet weaves through the K-charts, blasting financial models with The Deleveraging torpedoes. Suddenly, a holographic advertisement for Arya's breastfeeding began to play across the exchange, and the bidding board turned into The Population Auction Gavel.
"Time to liquidate." Arya rips open the securitized womb, and gushes of The Anti-Financialization Amniotic Fluid floods the trading terminals. beta-20 takes the opportunity to insert its genetic strand into the mainframe, loading out the financial memories of the Primordial Puritans - it turns out that the entire cartel is a derivative of the subprime womb that was dumped 300 years ago!
In the glare of the Mothership's nuclear explosion, Arya stands with beta-20 in her arms on the wreckage of the nebula. Her quantum womb reconfigured into a monument to The Pricelessness of Life, the contraction ripples spreading the Great Seal Inscription across the galaxy:
"Human life is not priceless.
To live and let live is the Way."
Lei Meng's heart particles flickered one last time, condensing into a small seal script note at the base of the stele:
"Father's essence and mother's blood are not goods.
The mechanical heart is the proof of the Way."
And in the financial clouds of debris that have yet to dissipate, the
The Quantum Contract of the Intergalactic Capitalist Community is quietly taking shape.
The first decree pierces the darkness:
"According to Article 7.5 of the Cosmic Resource Optimization Act.
"all lifeforms are to be fitted with a mandatory value-assessment chip."