Chapter 120

Lin Mo’s fingertips still retained the quantum warmth from when the infant had converted the Dark Star members into childcare AIs. On his retinal display, the System interface pulsed with DNA-shaped patterns. He looked down at the sleeping baby in his arms, watching the flickering gene chains dim and glow in rhythm with the child’s breathing, like strings of micro-code flowing through the darkness. "The materials for the Board of Directors..." Su Yuqing’s voice arrived suddenly, refracted from the eleventh dimension. Her quantum body split into seven translucent versions within the living room, each leafing through the same document from a different angle. The one on the far left looked up abruptly, blue arcs of electricity dancing through her hair. "They are demanding an explanation for last week’s Spacetime Mirror event." The baby smacked his lips in his sleep. The Mobius Strip toy hanging over the crib suddenly unfolded into a four-dimensional structure, folding the seven versions of Su Yuqing back into one. She stumbled and braced herself against the sofa, a few ginkgo leaves falling from her fingers—leaves that were currently growing backward in age, the same ones she had brought home from the office that morning.