Laila's Mechanical Prosthetic Eye was filled with the blinding red glare of The Furnace, the desperate battle cries of various civilizations echoing in her ears. She gripped the Scorch Marks compass tightly, coffee energy surging through her veins as the hum of metal gears resonated with her heartbeat. The holographic projection of Chen Mo's Mother hovered beside the "heart," the inner side of her silver ring faintly revealing the formula of the Observer Data Stream, carving a cold arc through the data.
"You think differences are a civilization's badge of honor?" The woman's voice mixed with the roar of The Furnace. In her projection, a shattered planet of the Mechanical Swarm appeared, twisted gears planted like tombstones in the lava. "They devour each other's cores with mutated gears, just to prove their uniqueness. The Observer's data stream long ago predicted—diversity will ultimately lead to the doomsday of entropy increase."
Laila suddenly drove the compass into the ground. The moment the scorch patterns made contact with the metal conduits of The Furnace, the entire Bridge Core trembled violently. "Entropy increase is the universe's inevitability, but isn't the meaning of civilization to create unique light within disorder? The order you speak of is nothing more than a cage of death woven by the Observer using the data stream!"
Chapter 118