Chapter 23

Vulnerability Black Market - Entropy Ruin Star, Midnight Chen Mo's Data Stream Cloak issued a warning amidst the "entropy-reduction smog," every breath tasting of the stinging pain of data erasure. Lin Xiaoman's code wings crystallized, and the panda gear patterns along the edges were being sanded smooth by the black market's "perfection filter." "The rule here is that 'vulnerabilities are commodities.' Our spiritual root fluctuations are being priced." Zhu Qing's Mechanical Prosthetic Eye projected a map of the black market. The streets were lined with brick walls built from "regret vulnerabilities," and vendors hawked "anxiety compressed packages," "procrastination slow-release agents," and some stalls even sold simulated spiritual roots of "parental matchmaking pressure." Most ironically, the currency consisted of "happy memory fragments" that cultivators voluntarily deleted.