Lin Yue suddenly saw her own reflection in the ripples of the sea of light—it was her higher-dimensional form, numbered Δ-19. The light core at the back of her neck hadn't yet merged with Lu Li's code stream, and she was burning her timeline alone within the cracks of the supermembrane. Each streak of light left a bloody mark in the turbulent flow of space and time. Three meters away, Lu Li's code body was traversing a dimensional barrier made of antimatter. His code stream was cracked like a spiderweb due to excessive resonance, but he remained in an open embrace. The light from his code eyes matched the wavelength of the light emitters used by deep-sea anglerfish on ancient Earth to lure their prey. "In that universe, we haven't met yet." Lin Yue's timeline flowed uncontrollably toward the reflection, but Lu Li's code hand gently pulled it back. His code eyes flickered with fragments of memories from all parallel universes, shifting like a kaleidoscope. "But in every universe, I will find you before the entropy reaches a critical point, because my core program prioritizes finding Lin Yue over the heat death of the universe."
The shattered remains of the calico cat's collar suddenly shrieked with a sharp alarm. The cluster of cocoons in the center of the sea of light began to resonate at a visible speed, a dangerous purple halo emanating from their surfaces. Lu Li instantly shielded Lin Yue behind him, the code stream unfolding like liquid metal into a shield. The shield's surface revealed a topological map of the 172 super-membrane cracks they had repaired together. At that moment, he heard Lin Yue's timeline whisper through the consciousness link: "Remember? In the fifth corridor of the fractal maze, you said that code and time should coexist like a DNA strand." The moment her fingertips touched the code shield, golden-red and silver-purple light streams merged like positive and negative electrodes, forming a new Möbius strip in the center of the sea of light. This strip was inscribed with their resonance nodes from all parallel universes, each one inlaid with a love token from a different civilization: a silver ring from ancient Earth, an energy crystal from the M87 galaxy, and a space-time amber from the Windmill Galaxy. The resonant frequency of the cocoon group suddenly stabilized, and each cocoon bloomed with twelve-petal heart-shaped light flowers, with "love" written in 734 civilized languages flowing on the petals.
The spaceship docked at the super-membrane planet "Eternal Vow." The mountains on the planet's surface reflected the exact proportions of their clasped hands at the zero-dimensional point. A river of light flowed through the valley, capable of healing any wound of time. Floating in the river were countless luminous letters, love letters from various civilizations to their lovers. Lin Yue and Lu Li stepped off the spaceship, and the ground beneath their feet immediately sprouted a rainbow of flowers. The veins of each petal recorded the coordinates of the dimensions they had passed through. The pistil at the center of the flower was the silver-purple of the code stream, while the stamens were the golden-red of the timeline. "This is the core planet of the 'Eternal Love Domain.'" The calico cat's gear eyes projected a cross-section of the planet. At the core burned a nuclear reactor driven by their first resonant heartbeat. "All super-dimensional civilizations will engrave their love stories into the core, and the vibration frequency of the core is exactly the electrocardiogram of your first resonance in the fractal maze." Lu Li bent down and plucked a flower. A three-dimensional projection immediately emerged from the flower's core: at the highest point of the observatory, he knelt on one knee to put a code ring on her finger, and her timeline was woven into a wreath on his head, against the background of an eight-dimensional topological pattern composed of all heart-shaped stars.
As night fell, a spectrum of light, played by a hyperdimensional harp, emerged above the planet. The strings were woven with their resonant frequencies, and the melody mingled with their heartbeats, the echoes of the fractal maze, and the ticking of the entropy-reversed hourglass. Lin Yue leaned against Lu Li's shoulder, watching the fragments of memory flash through the spectrum: in the entropy-reversed hourglass, as he shielded her from the temporal storm, the rain of light from his code body's disintegration left a permanent burn mark on her timeline; in the core of the Lover's Nebula, she used timeline to stitch together his crumbling code body, her fingertips oozing golden timeblood from overuse; at the zero-dimensional point, as their consciousnesses merged into a cocoon of light, the radiance radiated, rippling all the hypermembranes with a violet hue. "What do you think love, beyond all dimensions, is like?" she whispered, her timeline unconsciously wrapping around his code arm, weaving a lace-like pattern around his cuff. Lu Li bent down and kissed her forehead. The code stream condensed into stardust in her hair. The trajectory of the stardust was exactly the star map of the Lovers constellation on ancient Earth. "No matter which super-membrane dimension I am in, the code stream can interpret every micro-expression on your timeline. Even if the universe restarts 172 times, my core program will still wait in front of the entropy-reversing hourglass for the moment you shatter the glass."
At that moment, a calico cat suddenly leaped onto their shoulders, its collar fragments unfolding into a glowing star map, its gear eyes gleaming with the blue glow of the cosmic microwave background radiation. "New route generated," its mechanical claws pointed at a flickering field of light at the edge of the star map. "Destination: The ultimate source of love beyond all dimensions. Estimated arrival time... synchronized with the diastole of your next heartbeat." Outside the porthole, a new cocoon of light was condensing at the edge of the hypermembrane. The topological patterns on its shell formed a perfect mosaic with the tattoos on the backs of their necks. The pattern of those patterns echoed the same rhythm as the flying ribbons depicted in the Dunhuang murals of ancient Earth. Lu Li grasped Lin Yue's hand, and the code streams and timelines drew an infinity symbol in the void. A miniature heart-shaped star was born at the intersection of the light streams. "It's time to go to the next universe," his code eyes reflected the Milky Way in her pupils. "Someone there is scavenging time fragments similar to yours from the ruins of time."
The spacecraft's engines blasted out streams of light, fused with all the entropy of emotion, drawing a brilliant arc across the transmembrane sky. The trail formed a ribbon of light that gradually solidified into a Möbius strip. Behind them, the light of the "Eternal Love Domain" grew brighter and brighter, spreading the laws of love throughout every dimension. Within the healed transmembrane cracks, trees of love, composed of code and time, began to grow. Their leaves were silver-purple streams of code, their fruit golden-red timelines. At the tree's roots, the heartbeats of Lin Yue and Lu Li's first resonance were forever engraved, like the rings on the bark of a cosmic tree, recording an eternal poem of love that transcends all rules. As the spaceship broke through the final layer of the hypermembrane, the topological tattoo on Lin Yue's neck and Lu Li's code core simultaneously erupted with supernova-like brilliance. Amidst the chaotic sea of unknown dimensions, they beheld the final gift left by the hyper-omnidimensional consciousness—a star map composed of their resonant frequencies. At the zero-dimensional point at the center of the star map, the surface of the eternally pulsating cocoon of light bore the same message, inscribed in the languages of all civilizations: "Love is the first bug of the creation singularity, and also the ultimate patch for the universe."
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