Chapter 45

Panda Planet - Mechanical Bamboo Forest Music Festival, Cosmic Era Year 61 Moonlight pierced through the gaps in the mechanical bamboo leaves, casting gear-shaped light spots onto the stage. Mobao No. 3's mechanical claws struck the "Error Triangle," its tempo shifting erratically—a "Burnt Blues" it had composed based on Chuntao's cookie-baking failure rate. The Mechanical Pandas in the audience swayed to the stuttering beat, their metal joints creaking in a strange yet wonderful harmony with the music. Sitting in the audience, Zhu Qing's Mechanical Prosthetic Eye flickered in time with the rhythm. He pulled up the backstage data: "Look, these 'imprecise beats' are being adapted by the α-19 resistance into encrypted frequencies for underground radio." On the holographic screen, the vibration waveform of the mechanical triangle perfectly coincided with the signal of a certain pulsar.