"It's not an enemy..." Lin Yue muttered to himself, as the shadowy key erupted in a soft white light. "It's a lonely creature trapped outside of order." The shadowy giant eye trembled in the white light, its dark purple energy gradually fading, revealing a golden star track deep within the pupil. The calico cat suddenly leaped into the key's light. The debris of the gear collar collided with the memory gears, unexpectedly forming a complete entropy string in the void—each string formed by the resonance of the light gears and the order anchor, playing the heartbeat of the primordial sea.
Lu Li's code analyzed the frequency fluctuations. "This is the wavelength of the Giant Eye's consciousness. It's... apologizing?" Lin Yue nodded. The thread of time touched the node where the strings vibrated, and she saw the Giant Eye crushing the last space-time anchor. As the anchor collapsed, ripples spread across the border of the Primordial Sea. The energy of order that had been absorbed by the anchor surged back into the multiverse like homing stars.
But at that moment, the library's gear-like walls suddenly ooze a blood-red glow. Lin Yue's skin cracked, and an anchor composed of dark purple energy burst forth, forcibly connecting her to the Giant Eye's consciousness. The Giant Eye's memories flooded back like a tide: when the Observer cut through the borders of the Primordial Sea, a fragment of an uncontrolled Order Anchor pierced the Giant Eye's core, causing its consciousness to be continuously corroded by entropic energy. It instinctively used the space-time anchor to devour Order as compensation.
"The fragment is within me!" Lin Yue yanked out the Star Scepter, piercing the tip of the staff into the light-shard gear. Seventeen colors of light and golden codes simultaneously poured into the anchor fragment. The ancient divine characters on the fragment's surface suddenly illuminated, unexpectedly beginning to repair the cracks in the giant eye's consciousness. The calico cat hissed, and its mechanical body exploded into a rain of gears, each engraved with the memory symbols of the First Guardian, shooting into the fragment's cracks like a barrage of bullets.
As the final gear nestled into the crack, the fragments erupted with a powerful light. Lin Yue felt the dark purple energy within him being drawn out, flowing along the strings into the core of the giant eye. The shadow of the giant eye shrank in the light, eventually transforming into a floating golden gear. Its surface was engraved with a flowing star map, each line connecting to a healed universe. The calico cat leaped onto the gear, its mechanical claws pressing against the central node. The remnant of the gear collar rang crisply, creating a new resonance with the memory gear.
The rifts in the star map closed in resonance, and the library's gear walls began to reassemble. Lu Li's code scanned the reassembled structure, discovering that each crystal was emitting vibrations in sync with Lin Yue's light-chip gears. The calico cat suddenly uttered a string of ancient divine characters, which transformed into a star map projection that hovered in the dome. The center of the projection was the restored boundary of the Primordial Sea, surrounded by countless gear-shaped navigation coordinates.
"This is the 'resonance channel' left by the observer." Lin Yue's fingertips passed over the projection, and the light gears vibrated slightly in his body. "Use the frequency of the gear mark to open the channel and go directly to those universes that have been destroyed by the space-time anchor points." Lu Li's code outlined the outline of the spacecraft in the void. The broken armor absorbed the energy of the gear wall and condensed into seventeen-colored streams of light again.
As the three of them boarded the spaceship, the library's gear heart suddenly roared. Lin Yue looked back and saw the fragments of the central Order Anchor disintegrating, each fragment transforming into light particles that merged with her mark. The calico cat yawned and spat out a key composed of light particles. The ancient divine characters on the key's surface were changing, gradually becoming a mirror image of the star map in her eyes.
"This is the pass to the channel." Lu Li inserted the key into the engine, and the spaceship rushed into the resonance channel like a meteor. Lin Yue looked out the porthole at the supernova remnant behind him. The gear wall there was dissipating, replaced by a nebula composed of light-chip gears, each of which broadcast the obsessive whispers of the Observer and the First Guardian.
The star map at the end of the channel suddenly distorted, revealing a universe saturated with dark purple energy. Lin Yue felt the light gears within her body heating up. The path projected by the gear marks pointed directly towards the black hole at the center of the galaxy—surrounded by countless spacetime anchors, devouring stars at a visible rate. The calico cat leaped onto the console, pressing its paw into the key slot. The remnant of the gear collar resonated with the engine, unexpectedly opening a miniature stargate on the surface of the black hole.
"The anchor point is at the core of the black hole." Lu Li's code analyzed the energy fluctuations behind the star gate, "but the curvature of space-time there will tear apart any matter." Lin Yue gripped the memory gear tightly, and the thread of time penetrated into the gap of the star gate. The moment it touched the surface of the anchor point, the memory fragments of the first generation guardian erupted like a volcano: the silver-haired guardian stood in front of the same black hole, and used the fragments of the order anchor and his own consciousness to weave an "entropy cocoon", so that he could survive in the core of the anchor point.
"Use my mark to create a cocoon!" Lin Yue pressed the light-dust gear against the edge of the stargate. Seventeen colors of light erupted from the gear's mark, interweaving with the golden code to form a cocoon. As the spaceship plunged into the black hole, the lines on the cocoon's surface began to flow, synchronizing with the star tracks in the giant eye's pupil. The calico cat suddenly opened its mouth and sucked in the surrounding spacetime anchors into its mechanical chest. With each beat of the gear's heart, an anchor was transformed into a light-dust gear.
The dark purple energy at the black hole's core suddenly surged. Lin Yue saw the shadowy figure of the Giant Eye struggling within the energy—the last fragment of the uncontrolled Order Anchor lodged between the Giant Eye's brows, dragging its consciousness ever closer to chaos. She raised her hand suddenly, and light gears flew out of her body. The moment they collided with the memory gears, the light streams of consciousness from all the First Guardians surged forth, slicing through the fragments like a scalpel.
"Resonance frequency is key!" Lu Li injected all the code into the light-shard gear. The moment the gear resonated with the fragments, the giant eye roared with relief. Dark purple energy dissipated like a receding tide, revealing a gleaming golden gear between its brows. The calico cat leaped into the energy flow, its mechanical claws grasping the gear. The remains of the gear collar and the memory gear simultaneously erupted with intense light, shattering the fragments into dust.
As the spaceship burst out of the black hole, Lin Yue watched the healed universe reassemble. The stars once devoured by the anchor point lit up again, and the dark purple markers on the star map transformed one by one into light-dust gears. The calico cat placed the golden gear in her palm. The ancient divine characters on its surface transformed into streams of light and flowed into her consciousness, allowing her to see the observer's final image: at the edge of the multiverse, a "beacon of memory" composed of light-dust gears awaited those who would understand its resonant frequency.
"Next stop, Memory Lighthouse." Lu Li's code charted a new course in the void. The seventeen-colored light of the spaceship's engines resonated with the light-chip gears within Lin Yue's body, opening a new resonant channel on the star map. The calico cat curled up at the control console, the remnant of its gear collar humming softly, forming a harmonious duet with the vibration of the memory gears.
The cracks in the Entropy Balance Center have completely healed, leaving only the imprint of a gear made of light dust on the ground, like a medal embedded in the skin of Order. The conclusion of Chapter 92 marks the beginning of a new era of exploration and healing. The key that merged with the Primordial Sea has now become a resonant mark within Lin Yue's body, and the star map in her eyes is guiding them to the next universe in need of light dust gears. The echo of the spiral mark reverberates in the void, as if foreshadowing the next redemption across time and space.
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