Lin Yue closed her notebook. The light of the seventeen-colored gemstone gradually dimmed, yet a perpetual spark shone in her eyes. The air in the liquid time garden still vibrated, and the Möbius-strip-shaped flowers swayed gently, weaving the twilight of dawn into a flowing poem. The calico cat leaped onto her shoulder, its broken gear collar still emitting smoke, but it nuzzled her cheek affectionately, as if silently expressing its gratitude for surviving.

"This victory is but a brief respite." Lu Li's data remained distorted, the golden code drawing unstable arcs in the air. "The quantum fluctuations deep within the archives haven't completely subsided. I've detected trace amounts of narrative contamination remaining, like a time bomb lurking in the darkness, ready to detonate again at any moment."

Lin Yue nodded, her gaze darting towards the Resonance Outpost. The sky there still clung to bloody scars, like wounds gnawed by the Entropy Demon. She knew full well that Lu Li's words were true. While the Entropy Demon had dissipated, the seeds of destruction it had sown might have already taken root and sprouted throughout the multiverse.

At this moment, the quantum communicator suddenly began to buzz rapidly, and distress signals from countless civilizations poured in like a tide. The representative of the steampunk universe sent another message, his mechanical prosthesis completely corroded by the black crystal clusters, and his voice was filled with despair: "The memory haze has mutated again! Our city is being engulfed by an unknown narrative. Every mechanical device has begun to rebel, writing its own doomsday script!"

The representatives of Cybertron's metal life forms also fell into chaos. The split and deformed parasites proliferated wildly. In the data stream of the core of the Spark Source, the "return to zero" command spread like a virus. The entire planet was shaking, as if it would fall apart at any time.

Lin Yue's brow furrowed as she realized the remnant of the Entropy Demon's influence was more profound than she had imagined. Those contaminated narrative genes, like a deadly virus, were spreading crazily through the veins of civilization across the multiverse.

"We must find the root cause and fundamentally cut off the spread of pollution." Lin Yue clenched the Origin Time Thread in her hand. Although the golden lines on the surface of the thread had not yet fully recovered, she could feel that the power contained in it was slowly recovering.

The calico cat jumped off his shoulder and paced back and forth on the ground, its tail flicking restlessly. "I remember ancient texts mentioning that in the cracks of the multiverse, there exists a place called the 'Source of Narrative.' It's the birthplace of all narrative power. Perhaps the source of Entropy's pollution lies there."

Lu Li's golden code flashed rapidly, as if performing complex calculations. "If such a place really exists, with our current technology, trying to cross the cracks in the multiverse is extremely risky. Moreover, no one knows what dangers await us there."

"But we have no choice." Lin Yue's eyes were firm and resolute. "If we allow narrative pollution to spread, all civilizations will be destroyed. Even if there is an abyss ahead, we must brave it!"

After a brief preparation, Lin Yue, Lu Li, and the calico cat embarked on an adventurous journey to the "Source of Narrative." As they journeyed through a twisting tunnel of time and space, the surrounding landscape constantly shifted, sometimes transforming into a desolate ruin, sometimes into a fantastical dream world. With every step forward, they felt a powerful pressure from the unknown, as if the entire universe was preventing them from reaching that mysterious place.

Finally, they arrived at a rift in the multiverse. It was a chaotic space, filled with countless fragments of narrative, each carrying the memories, hopes, and despair of a civilization. At the center of this chaos, a vast vortex emanated an eerie light, a light that held both a terrifying darkness and a glimmer of hope.

"That's the 'Source of Narrative'." The calico cat's voice trembled slightly, "But I can sense that the narrative power there has been severely polluted, and the breath of the entropy demon is everywhere."

Lin Yue took a deep breath and led her companions toward the vortex. The closer they got, the greater the resistance they encountered. Countless threads of tainted narratives entwined themselves like tentacles, attempting to devour them. Lu Li used his remaining energy to construct a shield, while the calico cat used its reassembled gears to emit resonance waves, attempting to dispel the evil threads. Lin Yue, holding aloft the original thread of time, infused it with the power of her own memories and those of the multiverse empath. The thread suddenly burst into a dazzling light, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

When they finally broke into the vortex, the sight before them astounded them. The core of the "Source of Narrative" was a massive crystal, sealed within it were the narrative seeds of countless civilizations. However, at this moment, most of these seeds were shrouded in black pollution, with only a few still flickering faintly. At the top of the crystal, a wriggling black mist hovered, the remnant of the Entropy Demon's will.

"You think you can stop me?" The Entropy Demon's voice was filled with sarcasm. "At the source of this narrative, I am the master! The fate of all civilizations will end in my melody of destruction!"

The black mist transformed into countless sharp blades, hurtling towards Lin Yue and the others. Undeterred, Lin Yue activated her notebook's emotional resonance to its limit. Seventeen-colored gems burst forth with brilliant light, illuminating the entire "Source of Narrative." Within this glow, countless empaths from across the multiverse reappeared, channeling their faith, courage, and hope into strength, passing it on to Lin Yue.

Lin Yue fused these powers with the original threads of time and the chains of memory, weaving a vast web of hope that enveloped the will of the Entropy Demon. Lu Li and the calico cat also fully cooperated. Lu Li transformed the final data energy into a dazzling arrow, while the calico cat used gear resonance to trigger a powerful energy fluctuation.

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