The tremors of the quantum Rift Resonance field had yet to subside when the "Chen Mo's Scar" on the Rainbow Bridge suddenly twisted into a spiral gravitational vortex. The Mechanical Prosthetic Eye of Lyra blared with alarms, and silver-blue patterns resembling the Observer Formula surfaced across the surface of the Scorch Gear, though the edges of every symbol bristled with jagged cracks.
"Ice Drip, anomalous harmonics detected in the cosmic microwave background radiation." Through Lyra's mechanical arm coursed the violent vibrations of the Sacred Tree Symbiote, its golden tree sap coagulating on the metal surface into patterns resembling the entropy-increase formula. "The signal source... is the 'Entropy-Silence Star Region' at the edge of the universe, where the flow of time is ten thousand times faster than in other regions."
Ice Drip's holographic projection was torn apart by turbulent spacetime ripples, the data interspersed with old recordings from Chen Mo's Mother's laboratory: "When entropy increase becomes an accomplice to perfectionism, the rift is the final line of defense against heat death." In the footage, she was tuning a device capable of reversing entropy increase, its core component unexpectedly pieced together from countless gear cracks.
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