An icy darkness, as thick as the coagulated blood of the universe, eternally enveloped this graveyard of laws. Time lost its scale here, and only the heavy, slow "dong...dong..." sound, like the pulsation of the universe's skeleton itself, was the only existing coordinate, an unyielding beacon that pierced the eternal silence.
Pei Du—or rather, the fragmented stream of information that carried the final imprint of his existence—was suspended in the gruesome clash between the burning star "Origin Heart" and the dark tide of entropy. Like a relatively bright speck among billions of floating "stardust," it was captured and held together by the weak gravitational field and ordering force field emitted by the burning core.
It is composed of complex and contradictory marks:
Starry Sky Reverberation: Like the cooling embers of a star, dim and shattered, yet imbued with a lingering sense of the profound and vastness of the Laws. It instinctively repels the encroaching entropy of its surroundings, faintly resonating with the dark gold flames burning within its core.
Frost Brand: The final, icy mark of Xu Shuangyao's existence, like a precise crystal key, stable and clear, resonating directly and strongly with every beat of the "Heart of Origin." It is the anchor that prevents this information flow from being completely assimilated or torn apart.
The Shadow of Entropy: A lingering trace of contamination, borne from the Creator's will, like a maggot on the tarsal bone. Like a cancer within the information stream, it fears light (Core Flame) and order (Frost Mark). Yet, in absolute darkness, it instinctively stirs and spreads, attempting to corrode other marks and drag the information stream into the abyss of nothingness.
Igniting the Embers: That final resolve to ignite itself and reignite the fire is like a deep burn mark, engraved on the bottom layer of the information flow. It gives this information flow an almost tragic "existential weight" that transcends its current fragile form.
It no longer possessed the complete self-awareness of "Pei Du." Thoughts were a chaotic vortex, a delicate balance, resonance, and conflict between imprints. It was more like a passive "receptor" and "recorder," passively perceiving everything on this eternal battlefield, guided by the heavy heartbeat of its core.
Boom…Boom…Boom…
Every time a beat comes, a ripple is created within the information flow.
The Frost Brand lit up, cold and firm.
The reverberations of the starry sky resonated, creating faint ripples of glow.
The shadow of entropy and silence curled up and retreated in pain like a scalded poisonous insect.
The burning embers gave off a slight warmth, as if the moment of sacrifice had been briefly awakened.
This recurring resonance became its sole form of "existence." It couldn't "see," but it could "feel" the magnificent spectacle of the immense dark-gold fireball struggling agonizingly against the viscous black tide—each burst of flames a roar against the darkness; each erosion by darkness caused a subtle ripple in the force field of order that sustained it. It could also "feel" the presence of billions of other "stardust" floating around it: those cold points of logic, the shattered fragments of mechanical consciousness, and even the possible existence of even thinner motes of life-consciousness from ancient battlefields or asteroid wastelands... Like nebulae surrounding a star, they flickered and drifted to the rhythm of a heartbeat, drawn by the gravity of the core.
[The scale of the era...passes...]
[External entropy field…intensity…fluctuation…mean stability…]
[Core Energy Reserve… consumption rate… in line with predictions… Reserve remaining: 73.4%…]
[Entropy pollution penetration…core area…0.011%…outer buffer zone…17.42%…rate of change…below the threshold…]
[Related Information Status [Tag: Pei Du]…Stable…Entropy pollution is latent…No signs of spreading…Symbiotic maintenance…Continued…]
A cold, precise, emotionless stream of information, like the timekeeping of a cosmic pendulum, regularly streamed from a nearby blip of advanced AI logic units, composed of countless geometric runes. This was the cold steward of the "Heart of Origin," the watcher of this hopeless prison. Its reports, using the most rational data, painted a picture of an eternal prison: the fire burned, but like a flame frozen in amber, unable to spread, it could only slowly consume its limited reserves, fighting against the eternal and powerful darkness. 1.7 cosmic epochs—a despairing countdown so vast that it surpassed the imagination of all carbon-based life.
These data flow into Pei Du's information flow. The Echoes of the Starry Sky will instinctively analyze and deduce, conveying a sense of cold despair; the Mark of Frost is calm, it only anchors the heartbeat; the Shadow of Entropy will take the opportunity to spread slightly, conveying the tempting whisper of "it will eventually return to nothing"; the Igniting Embers will burst out a brief and burning resistance in despair.
Balance. A dynamic, fragile balance. Suppressed by the core's eternal heartbeat, anchored by the frost mark, the shadow of entropy was held tightly in place. But this balance, like walking a tightrope, was endless.
I don’t know how long it took.
Perhaps it took billions of heartbeats.
Perhaps in the data report, the external entropy field has undergone several tiny tidal fluctuations.
Buzz...
An extremely weak ripple, but with a frequency completely different from the core's beating frequency... suddenly penetrated the sticky darkness, penetrated the roar of the burning core, and extremely accurately... touched the mark of "Echoes of the Starry Sky" in Pei Du's information flow!
This ripple wasn't a physical wave, but rather a resonant call... at the level of laws, carrying a specific "frequency"! It was so faint that it was almost completely drowned out by the core's heartbeat, yet like a stone dropped into stagnant water, it stirred an unprecedented, violent tremor within the imprint of the reverberating starry sky!
[Detecting...unknown...resonance of laws...! ]
[Frequency...Analysis...Matching...Starry Sky Origin...Fragments...!]
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