Earth, New Bamboo Forest Tribe Spaceport, Cosmic Era 1003.
Laila gazed at the starship Scorch assembled by the mechanical pandas. Its hull was pieced together from primitive pottery shards and mechanical gears, and the bow was embedded with the handle of a Human Era coffee machine, still bearing Chuntao's signature. Mobao No. 4's mechanical claw tapped against the navigation console, and what popped up on the screen was not a star map, but a random route composed of countless coffee grounds.
"According to the resonance frequency of the Narrative Spores, these coffee grounds can point to every universe that contains glitches." Mobao No. 4's gear heart projected a holographic route, where every single grain corresponded to an "unfinished story"—a millisecond-level error in the rotation period of a certain neutron star, or the dust distribution of a certain nebula forming an imperfect heart shape.
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