Lord Orange's tail carved charred fissures in the void, its quantum fur shedding like burning stardust. Lin Feng lay sprawled on the illusionary floor of his childhood kitchen, nostrils filled with scorched cosmic ash, eardrums shredded by the screech of Golden Ear flames. Through the viewport, Sagittarius A*'s super grill had collapsed into a micro-singularity, twelve spiral fire tendrils crawling along galactic arms—reforging nebulae into grotesque dishes.
"This isn't combustion…" Lord Orange's pupils narrowed into quantum fissures, fluorescent particles from its tail crystallizing into text within the flames. "The universe's laws are being rewritten as recipes!"The words were fragments of Grey Sparrow's Ultimate Culinary Codex, each stroke devouring spacetime itself.
Lin Feng crawled toward the console, slamming his palm onto the bronze key's emerald eye. The key oozed icy slime, yanking his consciousness into a memory maelstrom—
The Orion Nebula boiled as Golden Ear flames consumed it at superluminal speeds. Ionized gases churned into molecular broth, stars popping like oil droplets. The Crab Nebula congealed into crème brûlée, pulsar beams morphing into silver forks. Worst of all, M87's supermassive black hole twisted into spaghetti, its event horizon dripping marinara-red.
"Alert! Perseus Arm fully culinaryized!" A mechanical TA sobbed. "Trisolaris is candied fruit skewers! Alpha Centauri became grilled kidneys!"
Lin Feng jammed the bronze key into the star map projector. Dark matter sand trickled from the keyhole. The hologram's entropy readings froze his blood—the universe's heat death accelerated by 120,000x. Along the Milky Way, Lin Jianguo's phantom danced madly in the flames, each step scorching recipes into spacetime.
"Gege!" A Lin Yu clone crawled from a pod, her skin pulsing with Grey Sparrow code. "My DNA's resonating with the flames!" She ripped her arm open, revealing quantum bones identical to the super grill's alloy.
Lord Orange pounced, tail constraining the clone: "Your father turned her into a living stove!" Its claws dug into her neck, extracting a bronze key duplicate. "This is the true utensil!"
Wu Li's consciousness oozed from a skewer tip, her mech-skull fused to an antimatter core: "Surprise! Every clone is a Grey Sparrow furnace!"
Lin Feng activated the key's time-reverse function. Quantum ripples unveiled the childhood kitchen again:
Six-year-old Lin Feng watched his father inject glowing serum into a birthday cake. The vial's Grey Sparrow logo matched the inferno outside. Baby Lin Yu hugged her father's leg: "Daddy… no glowy cake…"
The memory warped. Adult Lin Jianguo's voice rasped from the oven: "They took real Xiao Yu…" Rusty doors creaked open, revealing thousands of clone pods. "Every clone has a quantum lock. I had to…"
The vision burned away. Lin Feng glimpsed a metal box labeled [Original Recipe: Redemption]. It quantum-leaped into reality, clanging onto the console.
"Your father's confession," Lord Orange scanned it, projecting bloody text. "He discovered Xiao Yu's abnormal genes when you were three…"
The text revealed the real Lin Yu had been swapped as an infant. Lin Jianguo injected Golden Ear into his son to counter Grey Sparrow—the bronze key was meant to activate Lin Feng's god-slaying code.
Lord Orange's wail snapped Lin Feng back. Golden Ear flames had charred half its body, fur dulled to ash. The Cat God's nine tails thrashed across dimensions, each linked to a parallel universe:
Medieval Lord Orange in holy armor, slashing a roast pig-shaped castle with a scripture-etched sword.
Cyborg Lord Orange planting its antimatter heart into data-stream stew.
Cultivation Lord Orange shattering tribulation lightning into stardust.
"To stop this…" All versions thundered in unison. "We must annihilate across all realities!"
Lin Feng's finger hovered over the confirm button. The hologram reflected childhood Lin Yu's smileoverlapping with clone-code. He suddenly stabbed the key into his own chest: "The sinner paying… should be me!"
His DNA helix glowed, Golden Ear code squirming like maggots. Leaping into the super grill's singularity, he let entropy fire consume him. His quantum flesh vaporized into nebula mist, atoms screaming:
"If the cosmos must burn… LET SINNER'S BLOOD BE THE KINDLING!"
Lord Orange's 99 incarnations howled. Quantum entanglement fused them—holy sword with mech-arm, cultivation core with warp drive—into a chaos cat spanning galaxies. Its tails coiled twelve Milky Ways, claws tearing dimensions to fish Lin Feng's remains from the singularity.
"Foolish human…" The Cat God's tears detonated as supernovae, painting jade trails. "You think martyrdom atones?" It swallowed the Golden Ear flame, fur blackening, a third eye blazing. "You'll be Our litter-bearer… FOR ETERNITY!"
Aftermath:
The cosmos froze in eerie silence. Golden Ear flames crystallized into an amber star-core floating at the reborn solar system's heart. Earth survivors saw moon carvings of Lin Feng and Lord Orange, the bronze key's eye now the North Star.
In Sagittarius BBQ Academy's ruins, Wu Li's consciousness stirred on a skewer. She picked up Lin Feng's discarded herring can, its surface reflecting Grey Sparrow's 10D coordinates.
"The game…" Her mech-eye glowed red, claw etching dark-matter equations into the can. "...just began."
Lin Yu's voice echoed from the newborn star-core, each word triggering supernova pulses: "Gege… I'll wait in the Chaos Sea." Her quantum silhouette dissolved into a nebula arrow pointing beyond the universe.
Lord Orange crouched on Mars Cat Café's rubble, tail brushing the bronze key. The keyhole seeped herring stench mixed with dying flames. As dawn lit its mangled ear, it whispered to the void:
"Time to collect debts… litter-bearer."