Alpha Cygni System, Minimalist City "Bitburg", Cosmic Era Year 37
Chen Mo's Data Stream Cloak emitted a piercing compression alarm the moment it touched the spiritual qi of the Minimalist Universe. The retinal interface showed that the multiverse code fragments on the cloak were being forcibly streamlined: the Twin Butterflies pattern was reduced to a single-line outline, and the Recursive Sword pattern was compressed into a single line of text: "return1".
Zhu Qing's holographic projection flickered with static: "The 'Occam's Razor Cult' of this universe believes that 'Glitch equals redundancy, and redundancy equals original sin.' All cultivators' spiritual roots are sliced into the most basic code..." The screen switched to a street in Bitburg, where cultivators expressionlessly repeated a monotonous "0101" breathing pattern, their spiritual root fluctuations as synchronized as mechanical gears.
Chapter 17