Laila's Mechanical Prosthetic Eye captured an anomalous quantum flicker in the center of the Rainbow Bridge, and the solder point frequency of the Scorch Gear suddenly formed an eerie resonance with the "Rust-Red Sector" on the edge of the galaxy. When she magnified the monitoring feed, she discovered that space there was being sliced open by some kind of non-material fissure. Floating at the edge of the sector were "memory ghosts" composed of residual Observer data; they were mimicking the wings of Spectrum Creatures and the gears of the Mechanical Swarm, yet their details betrayed a perfection so distorted it felt like an artifact—the edges of their solder points were overly smooth, the angles of their War-Patterns were precise to 0.01 degrees, and the fear spectrum looked like a standard color chart rendered by a computer.
"Ice Drip, these ghosts are copying civilization traits." On Laila's mechanical arm, the symbiont of the Sacred Tree suddenly sprouted new branches, yet silver grain patterns appeared along the edges of its leaves—an abnormal fusion of the Observer Formula and the Sacred Tree's genes. "They're using background radiation from the fissures to create the perfect trap of pseudo-defects."
"Scans show that the indigenous people of the Rust-Red Sector are the 'Prism Civilization,' who have never contacted the outside world," Ice Drip's holographic projection was sliced apart by countless fragments of artifacts. "Simulation 131: copying 99.9% of defects achiev…
Chapter 130