Chapter 119
Laila's Mechanical Heart trembled violently alongside the alarm sounds from Ice Drip, while the wreckage of quantum coffee cups floating in the starry sky refracted an eerie halo. She pressed the Spectrum crystal against her chest, where ripples spread across its surface, resonating with the surviving fragments of the Scorch Gear and projecting a distorted holographic image into the void—it was the vortex of data streams into which Chen Mo's Mother had fallen just before her disintegration. Floating within the data streams were tiny fragments of gears, every single one reflecting the terrified expressions of the Panda Star Engineers.
"Abnormal gravitational fluctuations detected; the source matches the signal frequency," Ice Drip's voice carried electronic static, mixed with the high-frequency screech of grinding gears. "Deep within the Beta Centauri sector, there is an expanding quantum rift, and its internal structure... resembles the cocoon of some data-based lifeform. The scent of tree bark fibers disintegrating in the data stream is polluting the sector's air circulation system."
Chapter 119