Lujiazui Glitch Flower Domain, Hai Hour
Glowing vines blanketed the ruins like a neural network. Chen Mo stepped over dandelions grown from "regret glitches," every wisp of down carrying an unspoken apology from some user. Lin Xiaoman's code wings flashed a warning blue: "These flowers are absorbing the spiritual net's 'emotional garbage,' but the spiritual qi fluctuations in the core area... feel like a womb."
Passing through an archway made of "unsent love letters," Chen Mo saw the hundred-meter-wide "Consciousness Tree." Its trunk was the virtual persona code of Su Qing, and its branches hung with countless cocoons of light, each sealing within it a "glitch possibility" from a parallel universe. Enthroned at the tree's peak sat a materialized Su Qing. Her body was forged of transparent code, and beating where her heart should be was his past life's employee ID number.
Chapter 20