Glitch Sector, Narrative Filter Core Hub, Cosmic Era 1034
Leila gently stroked the root network, which resembled a coffee filter, feeling a faint tremor through her fingertips. Ever since the last crisis, deep brown scorch marks had gradually formed on the surface of these grids, like stubborn stains left behind by boiling coffee. Her Mechanical Prosthetic Eye suddenly caught an anomaly: black mucus was oozing through the gaps in the scorch marks, eroding the filter structure in the spreading pattern of coffee stains. Even more bizarrely, the pores that were supposed to filter narratives began to grow in reverse, compressing the flowing light streams in the star map into neat geometric shapes.
"Cognitive overload detected in the filter!" Mobao No. 4's gear heart emitted the muffled sound of a clogged coffee machine. "The system has misjudged 'difference' as an error code and is initiating the self-purification procedure... All non-standard narratives are being marked as 'coffee residue'!"
Chapter 87