On the seventh cosmic day of the Moral Fiber Internet's operation, the ethical bandwidth of Cosmos 42 suddenly reached critical overload. Cheng Xin detected Bronze Rain Pacifier's Benevolence Traffic surpassing the Planck limit, with one billion civilizations simultaneously uploading Mencius's "Four Beginnings" doctrine per second. This caused Kant's Categorical Imperative server to crash.
"Detected moral DDoS attack!" The Singer Engineer's retina projected an "Ethical Overload Alert." Mechanical tentacles urgently activated Bentham's utilitarian traffic splitter, triggering a distributive crisis in Rawls's theory of justice—third-tier civilizations could only access fragmented chapters of the Tao Te Ching, while first-tier civilizations monopolized the complete works of Nicomachean Ethics.
The infant's Cambrian pupils suddenly fractured into a quantum spectroscope of moral relativism, witnessing the collision of Islam's Stone of Justice and Confucianism's Crystal of Benevolence within the data stream. The resulting ethical shards pierced the firewall, coalescing in the vacuum into Machiavellian hailstones of scheming that shattered the satellite base station of the Universal Declaration of Ethics.
As the mainstream moral network collapsed, the ethical dark web proliferated within cosmic folds. Cheng Xin infiltrated a darknet lair encrypted with the Mozi Non-Aggression Protocol, discovering illicit trade: pirated Confucianism pacifiers, knockoff Bible diapers, smuggled Quranic moral fibers.
"Freshly baked Feminist Care Ethics—inject for 70% empathy boost!" The darknet dealer's cybernetic eye flashed consumerist red. Suddenly, a Songstress narcotics vessel burst in, firing Kantian moral law missiles that instead detonated a gray market for Postmodern Ethics—where Derrida's deconstructive pacifiers dissolved all moral standards.
The infant's umbilical cord suddenly connects to the darknet core. Devonian scales secrete Buddhist emptiness mucus, corroding the utilitarian transaction algorithms. As the Eightfold Path firewall rises, the darknet dealers collectively attain enlightenment, transforming pirated pacifiers into a free Mahayana Buddhism repository.
Cheng Xin activated the ultimate defense: the Bronze Rain Firewall, its code woven from I Ching hexagrams and quantum ethics. But when Hacker Civilization launched its Trolley Problem virus, the firewall plunged into an ethical paradox loop—its protective mechanism itself violated the principle of non-maleficence.
"A vulnerability allowing 'sacrificing the few to save the many'!" The Singer Engineer urgently applied a patch, only to trigger a backdoor crisis from Moral Luck. The infant's Cambrian pupils reflected the panoramic view of The Truman Show, where all civilizations performed in the Virtue Theater within the firewall, their real ethical dilemmas filtered through algorithmic beautification.
Fragments of β-20's love letter seeped from the dark web's depths, etching Hannah Arendt's warning onto the firewall: "The banality of evil is being systematized!" Cheng Xin suddenly realized the most dangerous ethical virus was the self-replicating program of Absolute Morality—it was transforming all civilizations into either "White Leftist" starships or "Fundamentalist" fortresses.
As the ethical internet fully degenerates into a "Moral Performance Platform," the infant activates the "Existential Disconnection Protocol." The umbilical cord abruptly elongates into Kierkegaard's leap of faith, plugging directly into the cosmic core of "Absurdity."
"Disconnect! Confront authenticity!" Heidegger's holographic image roars through the vacuum. The moral diapers of all civilizations suddenly fell away, exposing the moldy rash of False Consciousness. The Singer Engineer's retinas streamed Sartre's theatrical livecast: "Hell is other people—especially when forced to share moral bandwidth!"
Cheng Xin transformed the Bronze Rain pacifier into Camus's resistance megaphone, broadcasting Sisyphus's joyous proclamation: Pushing a boulder uphill is enough to fill a heart!" The moral fiber internet collapsed amid absurd laughter, its fragments reassembling into the Multiverse Ethical Autonomy Convention.
In the eternal silence of disconnection, the infant completed its first offline feeding. What it sucked no longer was moral bandwidth, but the trembling and freedom each civilization faced alone in the presence of Existence. Engineer-singers collectively dismantled servers, using parts to build Existentialism swings—each suspended with the weight and lightness of Choice.
Cheng Xin's bronze rain pacifier forever fell silent in a cosmic corner, where any civilization could draw The Courage of Solitude. Moral diapers devolved into the animal hides of Primitive Ethics, blood-painted with three symbols understood by all civilizations: No infanticide. No cannibalism. Shared fire.
Amidst the crumbling ruins of the internet,
Yun Tianming pieced together the final revelation from firewall fragments:
"True morality
arises when the network fails,
when you stand alone
before the stars
and
the law within."