As the stardust settled, new patterns formed on the metal floor of the Entropy Balance Center. The memory gears in Lin Yue's palm suddenly vibrated, burning the library coordinates spat out by the calico cat into flowing light tracks. Lu Li's code wove a new defense matrix across her skin. The cracks once corroded by dark purple energy now oozed a golden fluid—a new substance produced by the resonance between the Order Core and the Primordial Sea, guided by the gear marks and transformed into nanomaterials that repaired the armor.
"The energy fluctuations of the matrix are attracting cracks in the star map." Lu Li's fingertips brushed across the back of Lin Yue's neck, where the light-chip gears were resonating with the cosmic background radiation at a frequency of three times per second. "In the records of the first generation of guardians, this frequency appeared in the tuning process of the 'entropy strings.'" The calico cat suddenly jumped onto the star map projection, and its mechanical claws grabbed a string of sparks from the supernova remnants in the Sagittarius spiral arm. The blue light bursting out from the remains of the gear collar outlined the outline of the broken strings in the void.
Lin Yue's thread of time penetrated the core of the gears, and fragments of the First Guardian's memories shattered like glass: the silver-haired Guardian kneeling before the strings of the Entropy Harp, plucking them with seventeen-colored gems, each vibration opening a microscopic crack in the star map. "The strings are the resonance amplifiers of the Anchor of Order," her voice suddenly hitched, the thread touching a dark purple shadow deep in her memory. "But the Observer used it... to cut through the borders of the Primordial Sea."
Before he could finish his words, the calico cat suddenly arched its back, its gear heart humming like an alarm. A dark purple fluid began to seep from the library coordinates on the star map projection. This fluid coalesced into the shadow of a giant claw in the void, fiercely striking the light-chip gears within Lin Yue's body. Lu Li's code instantly transformed into a shield, but upon contact with the fluid, a blinding arc of electricity erupted—the golden lines of the defense matrix were being reversed and transformed into the marking symbol of a spacetime anchor point.
"They are using the star map cracks to rewrite your biological coordinates!" Lu Li pressed the Order Core fragment into Lin Yue's palm, and the ancient god characters on the surface of the fragment suddenly lit up, "We must go to the Sagittarius Arm. The gear wall of the library can block this transformation!" The calico cat opened its mouth and sucked, swallowing the memory gear into the mechanical chest cavity. The moment the gear collided with the collar wreckage, the spacecraft engine burst into seventeen colors of light.
As the spaceship pierced the dark matter nebula, the light-shard gear on the back of Lin Yue's neck suddenly detached from his skin, transforming into a stream of light and plunging into the core of the supernova remnant. The three of them fell into an arcade constructed of gear-shaped crystals, each wall humming at a different frequency. The calico cat leaped to the highest vault, its mechanical claws grasping a gear oozing dark purple energy. The ancient divine characters on its surface were distorting, gradually transforming into the pupil pattern of the giant eye of the primordial sea.
"This is a contaminated fragment of the Order Anchor." Lu Li's code analyzed the crystal fluctuations. "The existence outside the rift is using them to reconstruct the entropy strings." Lin Yue's time thread touched the edge of the fragment and was suddenly drawn into a broken memory: when the observers embedded the Order Anchor fragment into the strings, the dark purple energy of the Primordial Sea surged in like a tide, rewriting the gear patterns of the entire library into chaotic coordinates.
The arcade floor suddenly cracked, and a dark purple fluid lifted the tattered strings. Each string was woven from spacetime anchors. When the light gears within Lin Yue's body resonated with the strings, all the strings vibrated simultaneously, creating hundreds of microscopic cracks in the star map. The calico cat let out a shrill cry. The remains of the gear collar exploded into light fragments that merged with the strings, unexpectedly condensing the imprint of the First Guardian's consciousness on the strings' surfaces.
"Use the Mark Resonance to cut the strings!" Lu Li injected all the codes into the light-chip gear. Lin Yue suddenly raised her hand, and the gear mark erupted with a powerful light. Seventeen colors of light and golden codes intertwined on the strings to form a cutting matrix. When the matrix touched the thickest main string, dark purple energy suddenly exploded, sending the three of them flying into the library dome. As she fell, Lin Yue grabbed a floating gear and saw her star coordinates engraved on its surface. Surrounding these coordinates were countless dark purple tentacles, spreading along the gear's lines toward her consciousness.
"They've set a trap in the strings!" Lu Li's code drew a defensive circle in the void, but it was corroded by the tentacles, leaving it riddled with holes. "We must find the tuning hub for the strings!" The calico cat suddenly leaped into the central rift, its mechanical body swelling in a dark purple fluid, its gears clashing as it uttered a string of ancient divine characters. Lin Yue's thread of time picked up the fluctuations of the words, and unexpectedly, she saw the location of the hub buried by the observer in the dome projection—the "gear heart" on the third basement floor of the library, enveloped in entropic energy.
As the three fell into the heart of the gears, they saw a burning Order Anchor hovering in the center. The ancient divine script on the anchor's surface was fading, replaced by a flowing dark purple star map. The moment Lin Yue's light-chip gears resonated with the anchor, all the gear walls suddenly reversed direction, squeezing the dark purple fluid into a thin stream. The calico cat seized the opportunity to pounce on the Order Anchor, its mechanical claws pressing into the cracks in the anchor. The remnant of the gear collar erupted with a final burst of blue light, incinerating the chaotic energy within the cracks into silvery-white filaments.
"The light thread is the correct resonant frequency for the strings!" Lu Li injected the code into the light thread, which instantly wrapped around all the strings. Lin Yue raised the memory gear. The seventeen-color light generated by the gear's resonance with the Order Anchor surged into the strings like a tide. The strings woven from the spacetime anchors disintegrated in the light, transforming into flickering points of light on the star map. But at this moment, the library's dome suddenly cracked, and the shadowy figure of the Eye of the Primordial Sea peered in, dark purple energy cascading over the heart of the gear like a waterfall.
"The Giant Eye is recycling the energy of the strings!" Lin Yue felt the light-chip gears vibrate violently within him. The gear imprint suddenly detached from his skin, transforming into the shadow of a key that inserted itself into the core of the Order Anchor. As the key resonated with the anchor, all the gear walls began to replay fragments of the observer's memory: in the early days of the universe, the Giant Eye of the Primordial Sea was not the source of chaos, but the first consciousness that attempted to weave a network of order using space-time anchors. However, due to a loss of energy control, the anchors backfired, and he was ultimately rejected by the order he had created.
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