Leila's mechanical fingers unconsciously traced the patterns on the Scorch Gear, the stardust patterns on the metal surface shifting under the quantum light—a "Medal of Scars" bestowed upon her by the Mechanical Swarm Civilization. Three months had passed since the collapse of the Observer's Meganet, and Gear City at the edge of the galaxy was under reconstruction. The roots of the Sacred Tree were sprouting metal-textured buds in the soil of Panda Planet, while the Energy Sprites had established a new Spectrum Council near the wreckage of the quantum coffee cup.
"Ice Drip, how is the sector's safety index?" Leila gazed at the Rainbow Bridge floating outside the porthole. The light bands woven from the characteristics of various civilizations occasionally showed a 0.01% color deviation—that was the "cosmic breathing frequency" intentionally preserved by Ice Drip.
"The error rate is within the golden zone, but..." Ice Drip's holographic projection flickered with a trace of pixel corruption, "in the residual quantum crack data of the Sagittarius Beta sector, a periodic gear-meshing sound has been detected. The frequency matches... exactly with the encrypted capsule in Chen Mo's mother's laboratory."
Chapter 121