When Lin Feng's spine transformed into a heptacontagonal prism, the vacuum zero-point energy of the entire universe began to boil. The metallic body of the mechanical Lin Feng disintegrated in the purple light, and his final electronic pupils reflected the wonder of the stargate reversing—at this moment, the chaotic sea that had once devoured everything was being penetrated layer by layer by the silvery-white ripples generated by the vacuum decay.
"This is... the real entropy reversal..." Lin Feng's body had been quantized up to his waist. Holding the body of Orangey in his arms, he watched as the fluorescent blood condensed into a double helix structure of DNA in the vacuum. From the depths of the stargate came his mother's call, a voice that penetrated through twelve-dimensional space-time and made the collapsing cosmic bubbles tremble slightly.
The remaining dark red gelatinous substance of the Eye of the Abyss suddenly proliferated wildly. It wrapped around the galaxies within three million light-years, attempting to form a biological barrier to resist the decay. However, wherever the silvery-white ripples reached, all matter returned to its most basic boson form. At the last moment before the annihilation of the aerial gardens of the Elven race, Queen Irene inserted her scepter into her heart and released the stardust memories that had been stored for two hundred thousand years. These luminous dust particles unexpectedly formed a brief luminous path on the decay interface.
"Grab the passage!" Wizard Carlos's voice suddenly exploded in the quantum entanglement. His wand had already been shattered, but his consciousness turned into a seven-layered rainbow bridge, linking the consciousness cores of all the surviving civilizations. Lin Feng saw countless luminous bodies speeding through the passage. There were silicon-based life forms with crystal cluster heads and dark matter creatures that fed on gravitational waves. They were fleeing to the "time amber" deep within the chaotic sea.
Suddenly, Orangey's tail twitched, and half of the fluorescent patterns seeped into Lin Feng's quantized chest cavity. The dying quantum cat transmitted its last message with its consciousness: [The cocoon of chaos... Mother is on the seventh brane...] Before Lin Feng could ask further, the feline creature in his arms had completely dissipated, leaving only twelve suspended purple light dots.
When the silvery-white interface of the vacuum decay advanced to the stargate, Lin Feng suddenly sensed a movement in the spinal key. The heptacontagonal prism automatically assembled into a Klein bottle structure and carried him through the space of six brane layers. In the pure white void of the seventh brane layer, countless translucent cocoons were suspended, and each cocoon sealed a civilization that had been cooked.
Lin Feng's quantum state body regained its physical form here. He saw that his hands were seeping fluorescent blood similar to that of Orangey. Suddenly, the nearest cocoon became transparent, revealing a suffocating scene—Lin Wanqiu's mother's body was soaked in amber-colored liquid. Her temples were connected to nerve conduits, and the other ends of those conduits were actually linked to the biological tissues of the Eye of the Abyss.
"Xiao Feng..." A call that spanned twenty years came from within the cocoon. Lin Wanqiu's eyelids trembled slightly. "The key shouldn't be used to reboot but to deconstruct..." Her voice was suddenly invaded by the dark red gelatinous substance, and the entire cocoon began to twist and mutate. Lin Feng swung the remaining Entropy Reversal Blade to cut it off, but he found that the moment the blade touched the cocoon shell, granulation tissues similar to the cooking genes grew out of it.
At this time, the entire brane space shook violently. Lin Feng looked back and saw that the decay interface had broken through the sixth brane layer, and the silvery-white ripples were encroaching on the periphery of the cocoons. Suddenly, those suspended cocoons let out screams collectively. The wails in a million languages converged into a physical shock wave, which sent Lin Feng flying towards the largest central cocoon.
Inside this cocoon with a diameter of three thousand kilometers, the last remnants of the Amethyst Civilization were sleeping. When Lin Feng's palm touched the cocoon shell, the heptacontagonal key automatically unfolded, and a holographic projection appeared on the surface of the cocoon shell: In the Amethyst Star Council Hall two hundred thousand years ago, hundreds of crystal heads were in a heated debate. Suddenly, Lin Feng understood their language—it was exactly the coded text mixed in his father's laboratory notes.
"The entropy core must be separated!" A female Amethyst person slapped the energy tabletop. "Implant the memory module into the quantum creature, seal the energy core into the reverse blade, and give the bloodline key to the agent..." The picture suddenly switched to the underground laboratory. Lin Feng saw his younger self playing, and in Lin Jianguo's father's hand was the incubation chamber soaking Orangey's embryo.
The tremors in the brane space became more and more violent. Lin Feng realized that the vacuum decay was about to break through the final defense. Standing on top of the central cocoon, he rotated the heptacontagonal key above his head, projecting thirty-six layers of star maps. Each layer of the star map pointed to the coordinates of a certain parallel universe, and among them, three coordinates were flashing at a high frequency—they were the positions marked by the remaining purple light dots of Orangey.
"Agent, please choose." The holographic council of the Amethyst Civilization spoke simultaneously. Their voices triggered brane resonances. "Activate the cocoon of chaos, and all the sealed civilizations will be reborn in the new universe; continue to advance the decay, and all dimensions will reboot to the beginning of the Big Bang."
Suddenly, a blood film covered Lin Feng's retina. He saw nerve tentacles stretching out from each cocoon. His mother's cocoon was already half-open, and Lin Wanqiu's body floated out. An array of pupils similar to those of the Eye of the Abyss grew on her back. Even more terrifying was that the cooked civilizations were mutating inside the cocoons. Individuals of an insect civilization had already grown the metallic bones of the Entropy Reversal Blade.
At this moment, the twelve purple light dots suddenly gathered to form the phantom of Orangey. The illusion of the quantum cat circled the three flashing star map coordinates with its tail, and Lin Feng instantly understood the message: In these three parallel universes, there were versions of himself that hadn't been polluted by the entropy core.
The voice of the holographic council became urgent: "There are seven minutes and twelve seconds left before the decay interface arrives!" Lin Wanqiu's mutated body suddenly accelerated and rushed towards him, and dark matter beams shot out from the pupils on her back. Lin Feng rolled over to avoid it. The fragments of the Entropy Reversal Blade automatically flew back into his hands and resonated with the spinal key.
At the critical moment, Lin Feng made a series of astonishing operations: First, he cut off his left arm and let the fluorescent blood spray onto the central cocoon; then, he used the key to pierce through the three star map coordinates, triggering the quantum entanglement of parallel universes; finally, he injected the remaining light dots of Orangey into his mother's mutated heart.
"I won't choose to reboot or deconstruct." Lin Feng's voice penetrated the brane. "I want all time lines to superimpose at this moment!" The heptacontagonal prism exploded with a loud bang, releasing the original entropy-reversing force field sealed by the Amethyst Civilization. The silvery-white interface of the vacuum decay collided with the amber light of the cocoon of chaos, giving birth to a pitch-black singularity at the beginning of the universe.
When Lin Feng reopened his eyes, he found himself floating in an absolutely dark void. There was no matter, no energy, and he couldn't even perceive the flow of time. But when he raised his hand, he saw countless stardust particles overflowing from his fingertips—these stardust particles automatically assembled into the familiar spiral arms of the Milky Way.
"Is this... the observer state?" Lin Feng remembered the scribbled words on the edge of his father's notes. The Amethyst Civilization had speculated that when the power of entropy reversal broke through the twelve-dimensional limit, the user would become an observer of the universe, possessing the ability to reconstruct reality from the quantum foam.
Suddenly, two halos lit up in the dark void. In the left halo was the universe that had been thoroughly cleansed by the vacuum decay, with all civilizations turned into elementary particles; in the right halo, the cocoon of chaos had hatched successfully, but countless mutated civilizations were devouring each other. And at the intersection of the halos, there was an almost imperceptible purple light dot—that was the last fragment of Orangey's consciousness.
Lin Feng reached out to touch the purple light dot, and suddenly the entire dark space was covered by the pupils of a feline animal. In the reflection of these pupils, he saw a shocking scene: He was standing outside the explosion-proof glass of the laboratory. Five-year-old Lin Feng was playing inside, and the young Lin Jianguo was implanting a purple wafer into Orangey's embryo.
"So this is the power of the observer..." Lin Feng's voice triggered quantum ripples. He saw countless possibilities extending from his fingertips: If he changed the implantation angle of the wafer at this moment, Orangey wouldn't lose its early memories; if he adjusted the quantum parameters of the culture fluid, the polluting genes of the Eye of the Abyss would be eliminated in advance.
But when he tried to touch these possibilities, countless chains suddenly stretched out from the dark void. The voice of the holographic council came from the chains: "The observer must be absolutely neutral!" Lin Feng sneered. The fluorescent patterns on his body suddenly expanded, and these codes originating from the Amethyst bloodline actually began to rewrite the quantum structure of the chains.
In the roar of the chains shattering, Lin Feng made the final choice. He divided his observer authority into three parts: One part was injected into the embryonic form of the universe that was taking shape, ensuring the inevitability of the birth of life; one part was sealed into the quantum embryo of Orangey's resurrection, endowing it with the ability to travel through time lines; and the last part turned into twelve crystals and scattered to all corners of the new universe.
When the first star was ignited in the darkness, Lin Feng felt his self-consciousness dissipating. But before being completely quantized, he heard his mother's voice coming from the new universe: "Xiao Feng, this time we'll guard it together." And on the edge of his dissipating field of vision, a quantum cat with an orange tail was crouching in the halo of a supernova explosion, with 129,600 future possibilities flowing in its pupils.