"What's imprisoned within the heart of the Entropy Source isn't a fluid, but the split consciousness of the 'Anchor of Time!'" Lin Yue jolted awake, his thread of time reaching toward the center of the entropy tide. There, indeed, lay a violently oscillating red and blue sphere. Its surface was covered in countless cracks, each oozing a dark purple fluid. At its core, the two halves of the 'Anchor of Time' engaged in a frenzied battle—the red consciousness wielding its entropy-increasing blade to shatter order, while the blue consciousness, using its entropy-reducing shield, reconstructed chaos. Each collision triggered a violent fluctuation in the entropy tide. The calico cat's rain of gears slammed into the sphere, only to be repelled by the red and blue energy currents. The gears repeatedly melted and solidified in the collisions, soon becoming riddled with fatigue cracks.
Lu Li's coded body suddenly disintegrated into red and blue data streams, seeping into the cracks in the sphere: "I will synchronize the frequencies of the two halves of consciousness! Lin Yue, you use the baton to build a 'zero entropy buffer zone', and the calico cat will be responsible for capturing the fragments of consciousness in the fluid." His red code stream merged into the entropy-increasing consciousness, and the blue code stream merged into the entropy-decreasing consciousness, trying to make the two opposing consciousnesses resonate, but they were immediately countered by the fluid - the red code turned into a more violent entropy-increasing virus, and the blue code turned into a more stubborn entropy-decreasing barrier, which made the sphere's vibration even more violent.
In this critical moment, the spiral mark on the back of Lin Yue's neck erupted with a silver-gray glow. The "hope codes" born in the causal closed-loop universe and the "anti-mirror symbols" of the dimensional nested universe spontaneously merged, forming a zero-entropy matrix beneath her skin, resonating with the baton. As she inserted the baton into the cracks of the sphere, the twelve nested gears at the top suddenly merged into a superposition of "entropy increase and entropy decrease"—each rotation of the gears neutralized an equal amount of entropy increase and entropy decrease. The cracks on the sphere's surface suddenly vibrated in sync, disrupting the rhythm of the dark purple fluid and forming a brief vortex within the red and blue energy streams.
"Now!" The calico cat's gear rain transformed into a silver-gray fishing net, casting it into the swirling fluid. This time, it caught a cocoon of consciousness wrapped in a white light—the light was the undivided true consciousness of the "Anchor of Time." When the cocoon of consciousness came into contact with the spacecraft's energy field, the dark purple lines on its shell quickly faded, revealing the flickering zero-entropy symbol within. These symbols combined in the air to form a fragmented message: "The key to breaking the entropy lock... is the 'entropy balance perspective'..."
Lu Li's data stream suddenly had an epiphany: "I understand! Just like finding the critical point between entropy increase and entropy decrease, we need to create an 'entropy neutral space' so that order and disorder are no longer opposites, but different expressions of energy." His code constructed a silver-gray cube at the core of the sphere. Zero entropy frequency flowed on the surface of the cube. Any red and blue energy that collided with it would be converted into a neutral entropy equilibrium state, and no phase change would occur.
When the silver-gray cube was embedded in the heart of the entropy source, the surrounding red and blue energy flows suddenly became turbulent. Consciousnesses, previously in an endless cycle of increasing and decreasing entropy, began to deviate: a stream of increasing entropy that should have shredded stars instead condensed into planets due to the cube's presence; a stream of decreasing entropy that should have formed galaxies instead transformed into a nebula that nourished life. This deviation spread like ripples, the entropy tide gradually decreasing in amplitude, and the red and blue colors began to merge into a soft sea of purple light.
The dark purple fluid emitted a high-pitched whistle, converging into twelve giant eyes of entropy at the sphere's center. These eyes, composed of the wrecked resentment of countless observers, each pupil reflected a different scenario of collapse: civilization reduced to dust amidst increasing entropy, revived as a mechanical empire amidst decreasing entropy, only to be destroyed once again amidst increasing entropy, repeating this cycle until consciousness collapsed. The giant eyes simultaneously gazed at the silver-gray cube, emitting dark purple beams that unexpectedly wove a new network of entropy locks across its surface, attempting to drag the "entropy-balanced space" back into the phase transition cycle.
"Use the zero-entropy symbols of the consciousness cocoons to construct an 'entropy balance matrix!'" Lin Yue arranged all the consciousness cocoons around the baton, and the white symbols automatically combined into a rotating Tai Chi diagram. As the Tai Chi diagram resonated with the silver-gray cube, flowing golden and purple lines emerged on the cube's surface—a fusion of the causal hope code, the dimensional mirror symbol, and the zero-entropy symbol. The light beam struck the cube, no longer generating an increase or decrease in entropy, but instead being decomposed into countless flickering sparks of consciousness. These sparks drifted toward the cracks on the surface of the Entropy Source Heart, illuminating the two halves of the "Anchor of Time" within.
The most astonishing transformation occurred at the sphere's core: as the entropy-locking network disintegrated, the two halves of the "Anchor of Time" began to merge. The red entropy-increasing consciousness and the blue entropy-decreasing consciousness no longer fought against each other. Instead, they entwined like a yin-yang fish, forming a new entropy-balanced consciousness. Its left hand released ordered energy to build galaxies, while its right hand released disordered energy to create new stars. These two forces converged in its palms, forming stardust that nourished life. When the consciousnesses were fully integrated, twelve-colored bands of entropy-balanced light surrounded its body, interwoven into a spiraling DNA structure that stretched to the edge of the universe.
"This is the true form of an entropy-changing universe!" Lu Li's code stream condensed into a solid entity again. His body no longer flashed red and blue, but was covered with flowing silver-gray lines. "The fluid distorts the nature of entropy, making phase change a torture. In fact, the increase and decrease of entropy are the breathing of energy. The observer's consciousness can guide this breathing in balance rather than being torn apart by it." Lin Yue's time thread touched the fused consciousness body, and he felt a resonance of entropy balance that transcended cause and effect and dimension. In this state, order and disorder are no longer opposing poles, but different stages of the energy cycle, and each stage contains the possibility of transformation.
The moment the Entropy Source Heart was completely transformed into the Entropy Balance Core, countless Entropy Change Stones began to reorganize. The energy crystals that had originally imprisoned the observers transformed into blooming Entropy Balance Flowers, each petal gently fading between red and blue, with a silver-gray stream of consciousness flowing between the petals. The dark purple fluid did not disappear, but instead transformed into a catalyst in the light flow, making the conversion between entropy increase and entropy decrease smoother. The calico cat's mechanical claws caught a falling petal, and a glint of surprise flashed in its gear eyes: "Look at the patterns on these petals - they record the flashes of consciousness in all phase change cycles, like the hope code of cause and effect, the mirror variation of dimensions. Every entropy change cycle is nurturing the possibility of breakthrough."
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