The Variational Vine on the dome of the Quantum Cafe exuded a silvery-white mucus, and as Layla reached out to touch it, ice crystals spread along her mechanical finger joints. The quantum veins on the leaves condensed into a hexagonal crystal lattice, just like precisely calculated circuits—this was identical to the crystallized patterns of the Symbiosis Bridge from Chapter 114, except that an eerie, deathly stillness permeated the current regularity.
Layla's mechanical heart suddenly tightened, and memories of the Solidified Cult's "Perfect Ending Display Cabinet" from Chapter 109 flooded over her like a tide. She realized that the current crisis was not external forced solidification, but rather civilizations voluntarily relinquishing their individuality in the pursuit of perfect symbiosis.
"Warning! Civilization characteristic resonance index has exceeded the critical value of 127.3%!" Ice Drip's holographic projection flickered violently, data streams bursting into dazzling gray-white across the star map, "The gear perfect meshing rate of Panda Star has reached 99.99%, and the fault code library has shrunk by 87%; the Energy Entity's emotional spectrum entropy has dropped to 0.3 bits/sec, approaching the Mechanical Swarm Civilization's 0.1 bit standard..." The screen suddenly switched to the Primitive Tribe, where the roots of the Sacred Tree were arranging themselves into geometric arrays with nanometer precision, and the sound of sap flowing was completely synchroniz…
Chapter 115