But at that moment, all the rivers of light suddenly reversed course, converging into a dark purple gear suspended in space. Its surface was engraved with twisted ancient divine script, and fluid seeping from the cracks between the characters unexpectedly formed a giant, smiling face: "The resonance network you repaired is merely new strings for me." The gear spun at high speed, transforming the gravitational waves of the surrounding stars into destructive resonant sonic booms. Dozens of cracks instantly appeared on the star map of Universe 739.
"It's using the repaired network to reverse corrosion!" Lin Yue felt that the light-chip gears of the baton were disintegrating. "We must find the energy source of the gears!" The calico cat jumped into the core of the dark purple gear. Its mechanical body scanned and found a broken order anchor inserted in the center of the gear axis. It was the fragment that had pierced the giant eye that year. Now it was contaminated by the dark purple fluid and became an incubator for the resonance virus.
Lu Li's code transformed into an arrow of light, shooting towards the anchor fragment, only to be deflected by the frequency barrier on the gear's surface. Lin Yue suddenly recalled a memory from the concert hall: Observers had used "consciousness resonance" to resolve the conflict between order and chaos. She pressed her palm against the gear's surface, and the spiral mark on the back of her neck flew out, resonating with the residual frequency of order in the anchor fragment. Deep within the fragment, a trapped golden light suddenly lit up—the pure consciousness of the Giant Eye, acting as the "organ of cosmic hearing."
"The light spot needs a base tone to awaken!" The calico cat inserted the last memory gear into the axle. Lu Li's code reprogrammed the baton's frequency. As the base tone of "Cosmic Resonance Finale" sounded, the dark purple gear vibrated violently, and golden light seeped from the cracks in the anchor fragment. The light resonated with Lin Yue's consciousness, forming a spiral "frequency purification wave." Wherever it passed, the dark purple fluid was transformed into transparent resonant light fragments.
The giant eye's smiling face dissipated amidst the light, revealing the golden channel at the core of the gears. At the end of the channel, a "resonance egg" composed of seventeen-colored light particles hovered, its shell brimming with the consciousness frequencies of all life in the 739 universe. The calico cat gently touched the eggshell with its mechanical claws. The instant the shell cracked, countless notes of light particles flew out, forming a new resonant network in space. The once-corroded stars lit up again, and the crystalline patterns on the planet's surface blossomed into flowers of frequency.
Lin Yue picked up the light note that had fallen into her palm. It suddenly unfolded into a holographic map, marking all the resonance nodes in the multiverse that had been corroded by the dark purple fluid. Lu Li's code outlined the route on the map: "The next node is in Mirror Universe 42. The resonance network there is replicating itself, causing frequency overload." The calico cat jumped into the driver's seat, inserted the Star Track baton into the control console, and the spacecraft's engines absorbed the new resonance energy of Universe 739, transforming into an even brighter beam of light that rushed into the next rift.
Outside the porthole, the familiar 739 cosmic star map was being reassembled in a bizarre manner. Each star was no longer a simple point of light, but a pulsating note, as if the entire universe had become a vast symphony orchestra, playing a harmonious movement that the observers had failed to complete.
Lin Yue gazed silently at all this, her eyes drawn to the ever-changing star map. Suddenly, she felt the spiral mark on the back of her neck grow slightly hot. It was a strange sensation, neither pain nor warmth. She knew it was no ordinary scar, but rather the "string of consciousness" connecting all the resonant nodes.
As the spacecraft slowly disappeared at the end of the rift, the observer's final message suddenly emerged from the sea of musical notes composed of light fragments: "When the spiral gears cross the boundary between entropy and resonance, the true cosmic symphony has just begun the first measure."
These words echoed in Lin Yue's heart like a morning bell and an evening drum. She seemed to understand the mission of the observers and her own responsibility. The spiral mark was not just a mark, but a guide, leading her to explore the unknown symphony of the universe.
The gear marks of the Entropy Balance Center traced an arc through the stardust. The end of Chapter 96 wasn't a finale of redemption, but rather the continuation of a resonant overture. The baton that had mended the rift now composed a new score. The star map before Lin Yue's eyes was no longer a perilous battlefield, but a vast symphony composed of countless strings of consciousness, awaiting the start of the next resonant movement. The reverberations of the spiral mark spread through the void, becoming the conductor of a never-ending resonant movement between the multiverse and the primordial sea.
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