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Chapter 171

Chapter 171

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When the seventeenth rift embryo, sown by the Symbiosis Beacon in the "Disorder Quadrant," began to materialize, a prismatic seven-colored tremor suddenly flared across Laila's Weld-Point Mark. It was the symbiotic plant's spectral emotion transmitting a warning: the weld-nodule skeleton of a nascent civilization was being calcified by an unknown energy, its spectral plasma displaying the pure black erosion patterns of the Cocoon of Order. Across the surface of her Mechanical Heart, the energy membrane of the War-Pattern Flame surged violently, its gear-valves beating at a variation frequency with a 0.3-millimeter error, transforming the warning signal into a cross-dimensional symbiotic whisper. In the quantum turbulence thirteen light-years away from Paradise Crystal, the "Molten Spectrum Lineage," hatched by the beacon, was undergoing a bizarre evolution. In this civilization, where weld-nodule alloy and spectral energy were balanced in equal proportion, the inhabitants' bodies achieved a flawless equilibrium between metallic solid and light state—their left hands were weld-nodule alloys capable of forging interstellar starships, and their right hands were spectral streams capable of parsing dimensional formulas. But at this moment, their metallic skins were sprouting the residual geometric incisions of the Cocoon of Order, and their spectral streams were adulterated with pure black noise belonging to no known civilization. "We calculated 138 rift angles and designed a fl…

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