In the Moral Nursery of Universe 42, the bronze rain diaper wrapped around the newborn Earth suddenly oozed ethical mucus. The infinity symbol on the diaper pin began to warp, transforming into the quantum orbits of the Trolley Problem—one orbit bound to five two-dimensional civilizations, the other to the Songers' nursery ship.
"Detecting moral fiber rupture!" The Singer caretaker's retinal projection displayed the Utilitarianism formula, yet its mechanical tentacles froze before the orbital switch. The infant's Cambrian pupils suddenly reflected a holographic projection of the Analects: "Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." The five two-dimensional civilizations abruptly became quantum entangled, forming a Universal Love defense matrix along the orbit.
As the Absolute Command diaper rash ointment began to lose its effect, the infant regurgitated the chaotic egg of Zhuangzi. Parasites of Relativism crawled from the cracked shell, gnawing at the moral circuits of the track switch. Cheng Xin abruptly shoved the Bronze Rain pacifier into the infant's mouth. Milk condensed in the vacuum into the fairy tale of Kant and the Kangaroo: "The moral law dwells in my heart, yet the starry sky lies in my stomach!"
In the Dark Forest Rehabilitation Center's lactation room, the infant was force-fed Existentialist Concentrated Milk. Sartre's Nausea formula triggers quantum collapse in the stomach pouch, where vomit forms Camus's Sisyphus boulder on the changing table.
"Just spit it out," the singer-nursery worker wipes the infant's mouth with an Absurdist cotton swab. "The universe is inherently absurd. The infant's Devonian scales suddenly bristle, seeping Heideggerian existential anxiety from between them: "Annoying! Abandoned! Born to die!"
Arya's bronze rain crystallizes into The Second Sex-patterned nursing pads amid the anxiety. A holographic image of Beauvoir rises from the pad: "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman!" The lactation room suddenly fractured into the quantum field of Gender Trouble, Butler's performative theory deconstructing the singer's identity as a cleaner.
Fragments of Beta-20's love letter suddenly reassembled from the microwave background radiation, carving the warning from Notes from Underground onto vomit boulders: "Two times two equals four is also a form of death!"
The Singer activated the Civilization Trauma Healing Protocol, strapping the infant into the Chain of Suspicion psychotherapy chair. Freud's quantum hologram materialized behind the chair, holding the Civilization Unconsciousness analysis report: "You purge other civilizations to purge your own death anxiety."
"Nonsense!" The Singer-Caregiver hurls the book The Oedipus Complex in rebuttal, only for it to shatter mid-air upon collision with the thesis The Revival of Matriarchal Society. Suddenly, the infant wraps the treatment chair in its umbilical cord and vomits Jungian archetypes from the Collective Unconscious—the Shadow as two-dimensional foil, the Anima as bronze rain, the Wise Old Man as the specter of Beta-20.
As the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy laser targeted the infant's frontal lobe, Cheng Xin abruptly broadcast the final transmission from The Three-Body Problem. Yun Tianming's three fairy tales echoed in the treatment room's surround sound, plunging the Songbird Caretakers into the narrative dilemma of Narrative Therapy: "Are we truly the purifiers, or merely the nightmare projections of the civilization we purge?"
Amidst the healing program's collapse, the infant's diaper suddenly undergoes Ethical Superconductivity. Bronze Rain fibers proliferate infinitely, enveloping the entire Dark Forest Rehabilitation Center. The Song-Nurses' cleanup permits dissolve in the diaper fluid, revealing ancient engravings beneath: The Code of Hammurabi. "An eye for an eye—but who shall be the first judge?"
Cheng Xin modified the existential pacifier into a ventilator for A Theory of Justice. Rawls' holographic image debated within the oxygen mask: Beneath the Veil of Ignorance, all civilizations would choose mutual survival!" The infant's excrement suddenly crystallized into a quantum version of the Tao Te Ching: "Heaven and earth show no compassion, treating all things as straw dogs; the sage shows no compassion, treating the people as straw dogs—yet even straw dogs have a right to exist!"
The oldest nursery attendant among the singers abruptly tore off her retinal display, revealing tears in her trilobite compound eyes: "We've cleaned for 13.8 billion years just to prove we're not lonely straw dogs."
Amid the sound of moral fibers being rewoven, the infant completed its first ethical feeding. What it sucked was no longer milk, but the collective confusion of all civilizations regarding the meaning of existence. Cheng Xin's Bronze Rain diaper infinitely expanded, enveloping every star system in Universe 42. The diaper pins transformed into a cosmic edition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
β-20's love letter forever wove into the warp and weft of moral fiber. Every civilization could read it in the night sky: "Survival is civilization's first necessity, but love is its zero necessity." The Singer Rehabilitation Center is restructured into an Interstellar Ethics Academy, its broadcast frequency tuned to a channel reciting the Universal Declaration of Ethics.
Upon the reconstructed Dark Forest Law monument,
Yun Tianming carved a new covenant with bronze rain:
"Hide yourself well,
yet illuminate others.
For all civilizations
wear the same moral diapers,
suckling from the same existential pacifier."