As the Star Dust Train traveled through the hyper-dimensional veins of the Symbiotic Network, the infinite-faced polyhedron totem in Arui's palm suddenly emitted a glaze-like halo. Golden lines diffused like ripples, and a shattered mandala totem materialized at its core. Ice Drip's warning halo collapsed in a topological structure, tracing a continually twisting cognitive vortex on the star map: "True-Suchness anomaly detected! At the cognitive origin of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'countercurrent of falsehood' is eroding the consensus foundation of all civilizations at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to collapse pluralistic cognition into a single concept of nothingness."
Outside the portholes, the cognitive ties maintaining civilization's consensus peeled away like a fading scroll. The War-Pattern Clan's faith in strength and guardianship began to waver, cracks appeared in the Spectrum Clan's photon philosophy system, and Earth Civilization's concept of "the Tao generating all things" blurred into a chaotic phantom. Arui's Photon Harp String emitted a mournful sound akin to a guzheng overtone. The light particles condensing on the strings barely formed civilization symbols before decomposing into meaningless spots of light within the countercurrent. "These cognitions are losing their meaning," her harp string turning frosty white, "the countercurrent of falsehood is destined to reduce all symbiotic wisdom to mere empty talk amidst cognitive collapse."
Arui's consciousness was …
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