As the spaceship broke through the edge of the dimensional nested universe, red and blue frost suddenly formed on the porthole glass. The spiral mark on the back of Lin Yue's neck alternated between strange hot and cold patterns—half of the golden lines burned like a star, half was frozen like dark matter, outlining the star map of the entropy-changing universe beneath his skin: the "Entropy Tidal Universe" numbered 777 appeared as a boiling ocean of energy, the red and blue entropy tides rising and falling like breathing, each ebb and flow tearing galaxies apart and reassembling them. The calico cat's mechanical claws suddenly burst out with arcs of ice and fire, and the remains of the gear collar projected an oscillating entropy curve on the console: "Warning! Detected the chaotic impact of entropy-increasing and entropy-decreasing force fields. All matter here will undergo a forced cycle of 'order-disorder'!"

Lu Li's code body was undergoing an even more intense entropy tearing: his left half continuously disintegrated into elementary particles (entropy increase), while his right half automatically reorganized into a crystalline structure (entropy decrease). The two states alternated in milliseconds, leaving behind red and blue quantum afterimages in the air. When he spoke, his voice was a blend of the crackle of particle collisions and the hum of crystal growth: "Look at those floating nebulae—they are not naturally formed, but 'entropy change stones' left behind by the repeated washing of entropy tides. Each fossil contains an observer civilization locked in entropy."

Lin Yue gazed out the porthole and saw countless twisted energy crystals suspended in the void, their interiors shrouded in interwoven bands of red and blue light. In one crystal, a galaxy was collapsing into a black hole (entropy decreasing), while in a neighboring crystal, the same galaxy was exploding into a nebula (entropy increasing). In the central crystal's core, a dark purple fluid coiled around the observer's consciousness like a blood vessel. Their minds were forcibly split into two opposing personalities: "Creation" and "Destruction," locked in eternal conflict amidst the tide of entropy. As the spacecraft passed over one of the crystals, Lin Yue's reflection in the porthole suddenly split in two: the red-eyed version of herself was disassembling the baton (entropy increasing), while the blue-eyed version was reassembling it (entropy decreasing). The two actions formed an unsolvable paradox in the mirror.

"The core of the entropy tide is the 'paradox of thermodynamics.'" Lu Li pressed his code hand against the porthole, and the entropy equation appeared where his fingertips touched. "The increase and decrease of entropy here aren't natural processes, but rather an 'entropy lock mechanism' distorted by the dark purple fluid. It's like having a perpetual motion machine output work and absorb heat at the same time. Once the observer's consciousness is caught up in it, it will exhaust its energy in the cycle of creation and destruction. The memory fragments of the original observer, the 'Anchor of Time', show that the fluid is exploiting the irreversibility of the law of increasing entropy to transform this place into a 'meat grinder of order and chaos.'"

Before he could finish his words, the spaceship was suddenly engulfed in a swirling red and blue vortex. The entropy surge was so violent that the ship's hull rapidly rusted and peeled away in the increasing entropy field (disorder), only to be instantly crystallized and repaired in the decreasing entropy field (order). This repeated phase transition caused the metal to groan in pain. The calico cat's rain of gears crashed into the entropy surge, only to split in two upon contact: the red gears accelerated and disintegrated (increasing entropy), while the blue gears slowed down and condensed into ice (decreasing entropy). The two halves chased each other through the entropy surge, forming an endless cycle of destruction and rebirth.

"We must find the 'entropy core'!" Lin Yue's thread of time plunged into the vortex of entropy, her consciousness instantly hurled into a torment of ice and fire. She saw countless versions of herself struggling between increasing and decreasing entropy: Lin Yue in the red mist was disintegrating into atoms (extreme entropy increase), while Lin Yue in the blue mist was coalescing into a ball of energy (extreme entropy decrease). The two forms alternated every seven seconds. In the interim, her consciousness was torn into countless fragments of "creative desire" and "destructive desire." These fragments attacked each other, leaving her unable to distinguish whether she wanted to build a starship or destroy the universe.

Lu Li's code stream suddenly turned into a red and blue buffer layer that wrapped around her: "Don't be contaminated by the consciousness of entropy change! Each entropy tide cycle has a 'zero entropy critical point', just like the equilibrium state between the crest and trough of a wave. Look at those dark purple fluid lines - they are stitching the gap between entropy increase and entropy decrease, trapping the observer in the 'perpetual motion paradox'." Lin Yue looked along the code light stream, and sure enough, she saw the dark purple fluid tying the red and blue poles of the entropy tide like a chain. Every time the tide rose and fell, the chain would tighten, dragging the consciousness of more observers into the cycle of creation and destruction.

The calico cat's mechanical claws suddenly unfolded into an entropy neutralizer, and a silver-gray neutralization frequency burst out between the gears: "An abnormal entropy change pulse has been detected! At the core of the entropy tide, something is creating both entropy increase and entropy decrease at the same time, just like the heart of the universe pumping chaos and order." The spacecraft's engine fell into an even weirder state - when the entropy-increasing force field hit, the engine fuel quickly decayed and became ineffective (disordered), but when the entropy-decreasing force field came, the waste fuel was reversed into high-purity antimatter (ordered). This repetition caused the engine power to jump wildly between zero and overload, and it could explode at any time due to phase change stress.

Lin Yue raised the Star Track baton, only to find the twelve nested gears at its tip flashing wildly between red and blue. When she attempted to mobilize the "anti-mirror frequency" of the dimensional nested universe, the entropy surge decomposed the frequency into a "wave of creation" and a "wave of destruction" as soon as it left the baton. These two waves canceled each other out, leaving the baton in a state of energy idleness. "No! The rule here is 'existence is phase change'. Any stable state will be forcibly altered by the entropy surge!" She felt the spiral mark on the back of her neck resonate with the core of the entropy source, and another memory left by the "Anchor of Time" emerged before her eyes.

In this memory, the original observer, the "Anchor of Time," stands at the heart of an entropic universe—a red and blue sphere suspended in space, known as the "Heart of Entropy." His consciousness is forcibly split in two. The red consciousness sows chaos on the sphere's surface (increasing entropy), while the blue consciousness fosters order within (decreasing entropy). The two consciousnesses clash, plunging him into an eternal cycle of self-tear. A dark purple fluid grows within the sphere's cracks, absorbing the energy generated by the clash of red and blue consciousnesses. Gradually, it forms an "entropy lock network" that encircles the entire universe, each node imprisoning a fragmented observer's consciousness.

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