At the outer edge of the supermassive black hole "Entropy Eye" at the center of the Milky Way, Galactic Era 37.
Chen Mo's Data Stream Cloak was stretched into bands of light by the black hole's gravity, while Lin Xiaoman's code wings transformed into helical quantum anchors. Su Qing's projection appeared fragmented against the fluctuating spacetime background: "According to calculations by the Vulnerability Council, the singularity inside the black hole is the code origin of all parallel universes..." Her voice was suddenly twisted by gravity into a sharp shriek.
Zhu Qing's panda mask had been pressed paper-thin, yet he was still operating his bamboo-slip terminal: "The black hole's 'Law of Entropy Increase' is devouring all orderly code! Look at this—" He pulled up a monitoring screen showing the spirit net of a certain parallel universe being dismantled into disordered qubits. "If the singularity collapses, all universes will degenerate into chaotic data streams."
Chapter 18