Cold. Viscous. Absolute nothingness.
Pei Du - the incomplete information stream that carried the final imprint of his existence and activated the fragments of the starry sky core - was like a firefly thrown into the ink bottle of the universe, sinking towards an unknown source in the depths of the all-consuming entropy black tide.
There was no direction, no sense of distance. Only the activated dark golden light within the core fragment of the starry sky, like a built-in magnetic needle, locked onto an ineffable "point" deep in the darkness, conveying a cold, clear, and unquestionable sense of "direction" and "belonging." This light was faint but tenacious, the only source of light in this boundless darkness, and the last barrier that prevented this flow of information from completely dissolving into "nothingness."
Sinking.
In the sticky ultimate darkness that denies all laws and existence, one sinks towards the only gravity.
Perception was compressed to its limit. Time lost its meaning. Only the faint glow of the fragments of the Star Core shimmered. As the "depth" of its descent increased, as if bearing increasing pressure, the light struggled to flicker and sway in the viscous darkness. Each flicker was accompanied by a subtle tremor in the structure of the information flow, like the groan of a fragile ice crystal at absolute zero.
[External... entropy concentration... rises exponentially...]
[Corrosion intensity... exceeds... the Starry Sky Fragment's... resistance threshold...]
[Structural stability... continues to deteriorate...]
[Expected...complete annihilation...time...unknown...]
A cold, alarming tone, emanating from the fragments themselves, reverberated within the information stream, sharper and more desperate than it had been at the edge of the Ark's core. The surroundings were no longer a battlefield of black tides and raging flames, but rather pure, ultimate "entropy." Under the erosion of absolute disorder, the imprints of the laws, the energy signatures, the information structures that constituted the information stream were losing their "color" and "character" at a speed visible to the naked eye (if perception still existed), sliding towards a chaotic gray dust.
The light from the fragments of the starry sky's core struggled to resist, the activated structure of laws struggling to maintain its order, like a last spark of fire in a raging storm. But in this absolute darkness, resistance seemed futile. The area covered by the light continued to shrink, and the brightness continued to dim.
The entropic shadow—that dormant remnant of pollution—felt like it had returned to its mother's womb in this highly concentrated entropic environment. No longer needing to clamor and attack, it simply lay dormant in the deepest corners of the information flow, greedily absorbing the pure chaotic forces of its surroundings, silently growing and spreading. Like a thickening layer of cold silt, it covered the radiance of the star fragment, accelerating its dimming. Every flicker of the star fragment's light was accompanied by the subtle creeping and encroaching of the entropic shadow.
Sinking.
Sinking towards annihilation.
I don’t know how long I have been sinking.
The light from the starry sky fragments had dimmed like a candle in the wind, barely covering the core imprint of the information flow. The shadow of entropy, like a thick layer of ice, threatened to completely freeze and cover this glimmer of light. Large patches of grayish-white "snowflakes" had appeared at the edges of the information flow's structure, like a collapsing data stream, foreshadowing complete dissolution.
At this critical point where consciousness is about to completely return to nothingness——
Buzz!
A faint, yet extremely clear ripple of law with a specific "frequency", like starlight passing through billions of light years, extremely accurately... once again penetrated the sticky darkness and touched the dying glow of the core fragment of the starry sky!
It was the call of the source that led it out of the Ark's core and into the darkness! Its frequency changed again! No longer the activation key from before, but... a more essential, purer... resonant invitation! A voice of law calling for its "kind" to return!
The touch of this faint ripple was like throwing a spark into a dying charcoal fire!
Buzz——!!!
The fragments of the starry sky core, on the verge of fading completely, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, dazzling dark golden light, as if injected with a shot of adrenaline! This light, brimming with a rage and resistance rooted in its essence, fiercely broke through the entropic shadow "ice layer" that covered it! The suppressed law structure instantly became extremely active!
[The source... is approaching...! ]
[The laws resonate...the intensity...increases sharply...!]
[Starry Sky Origin…Calling…Confirm…! ]
The cold alarm instantly turned into a loud declaration!
The speed of sinking seemed to suddenly accelerate! It was as if the source of the call was actively approaching! The light of the star fragments was brighter and more stable than ever before, and the directionality was clearer and stronger than ever before!
finally!
In the absolute darkness ahead, an indescribable "scene" penetrated the sticky entropy and forcibly reflected into the perception core of Pei Du's information flow!
Not a light source.
Not an entity.
That was a... "crack".
A huge space crack suspended in pure darkness, composed of countless broken, twisted chains of laws burning with dark golden and grayish-white flames...
It resembled a hideous wound on the crystal wall of the universe! The edges of the crack were extremely irregular, as if torn apart by immense force! The "barrier" of the crack was formed by countless chains of laws dancing frantically, annihilating each other and then reborn. Along these chains flowed flames of dark gold (representing order and creation) and gray-white (representing entropy and destruction). These two forces eternally and brutally clashed and mingled at the edge of the crack! Each collision silently annihilated vast swathes of spatial structure, only to be painstakingly reborn under the self-healing power of the laws, repeating the cycle over and over again!
Inside the rift lay not darkness, but an indescribable, seething sea of chaotic light, a tangle of dark gold and grayish-white. It was the frontier of law's annihilation and creation! It was the embodiment of the ultimate clash between order and chaos! Destructive energy turbulence and violent fragments of law roared and collided within it!
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