In the 81st year of the Star Dome Calendar, the Forgefire Embryo Starship plunged toward the Orion Arm like a moth to a flame. In Chen Feng’s palm, the Bee-Pattern Gene Core vibrated violently. Outside the porthole, the "Forgefire Symbiotic Furnace," a million kilometers in diameter, exhaled brilliance like a galaxy. Twelve stars rotated at high speeds around the central Quantum Forge; the genetic patterns flowing across the furnace’s surface aligned perfectly with the spectrum of the Earth Cold Pool minerals, yet at the furnace mouth, eerie, Pure Quality black flames churned—the "Gene Entropy Annihilation Agent" left behind by the String Breakers, burning the symbiotic life embryos fed into the furnace into nothingness.
"Chen Feng! The furnace’s quantum forge-patterns are disintegrating," Su Yuhan said, her monitor flashing red. "The oscillation frequency of the Entropy Annihilation Agent is resonating with the Pure Quality gene core left by the chain-annihilation, and the 'Cold Pool Gene Fireseed' at the furnace core... is being reverse-refined!" On the tactical screen, the spectral lines of the twelve stars twisted abnormally, as if pulled by an invisible giant’s hand.
A shrill screech came through Liu Ruyan’s transmission, barely piecing together the String-Weaver Civilization’s warning: "The furnace has been... converted into a gene incinerator! Every symbiont attempting to enter... will be burned into a single gene sequence!" A fleeting glimpse of the furnace interior…
Chapter 66