Chapter 23: The Galactic Broadcast and the Singularity Bypass
The black "Quarantine Wall" around Valoria was no longer a mere barrier; it had become a collapsing sphere of absolute destruction. Under the command of the High Arbiters, the space-time coordinates of Sector 7-G were being "compressed." To an observer outside, the planet would appear to be shrinking into a microscopic dot. Inside, the pressure was monumental. The very atoms of the atmosphere were being forced together, and the silver grid of the New Genesis was groaning under the strain of a "Logical Squeeze."
[System Notification: Sector Compression at 65%.]
[Warning: Structural Integrity of Valoria is failing.]
[Alert: Reality-Density reaching critical mass!]
"Master! You have to leave now!" Li Xiao's voice crackled through the interstellar link, distorted by the collapsing space. "The Arbiters are deleting the entire sector's directory! If you stay, your Source Code will be lost in the singularity!"
Li Ming stood in the center of the Valorian refinery plaza, his feet anchored into the metallic soil. His platinum aura was flared to its absolute limit, his hair glowing like a silver star against the encroaching darkness of the black walls.
"If I leave, Kael and these millions of souls become 'Null-Data'," Li Ming whispered, his voice resonating with a frequency that countered the crushing pressure. "I didn't forge the New Genesis to be a coward's sanctuary. I forged it to be a Universal Standard."
He looked at Kael and the miners, who were huddled together. They weren't screaming; they were looking at him with a silent, divine trust. To them, Li Ming was the one who had given them names, faces, and wills.
"Xiao! Zhao!" Li Ming roared into the link. "Activate the 'Galactic Backbone' on Kang Qiang! I am going to use the compression as a 'Signal Amplifier'!"
"A signal amplifier?" Zhao's voice came through, confused. "Master, that's insane! You're talking about using a black hole to broadcast a message!"
"Exactly," Li Ming's eyes flashed with a dangerous brilliance. "The Arbiters are providing the energy. I'm just going to change the 'Output Channel'."
[Executing Protocol: 'Galactic Broadcast'.]
[Method: Singularity Resonance.]
Li Ming plunged The Nullifier into the heart of Valoria's planetary core. He wasn't trying to stop the compression; he was 'Optimizing' it. As the black walls closed in, Li Ming began to 'encode' the entire history of the New Genesis—the memories of his struggle, the awakening of Aethelgard, and the liberation of the miners—into the very energy of the collapsing sector.
[Singularity Reached in T-minus 60 Seconds.]
"Kael, grab my hand!" Li Ming commanded.
He linked his consciousness with every soul on the planet. Through the 'Master Key', he turned the entire population into a 'Distributed Data-Packet'. He wasn't saving their bodies; he was saving their 'Source Code'.
As the black walls finally touched the surface of the planet, the pressure reached infinity. In any other circumstance, Valoria would have vanished into a silent black hole. But Li Ming triggered the 'Bypass'.
"SEND!"
Instead of a silent implosion, the singularity erupted in a colossal 'Data-Burst'. A beam of pure platinum information shot out from the collapsing sector, traveling at a speed that ignored the laws of light. This beam hit the universal 'Backbone'—the network of ancient star-gates and relays that the First Order used to control the galaxy.
The Arbiters in the Central Processing Cluster watched in horror as their screens turned silver.
"What is this?!" the High Arbiter screamed. "He used the compression energy to 'Ping' every sentient being in the galaxy! He's... he's uploading his life protocol to the entire multiverse!"
Across a million worlds—from the water-planets of the Outer Rim to the crowded city-worlds of the Core—every living soul suddenly felt a 'Notification' in their mind. They saw the truth of Valoria. They saw the face of the Architect. They saw that the 'First Order' was not a god, but a faulty administrator.
[System Notification: Broadcast Successful.]
[Target Reach: 85% of the Galactic Population.]
[Result: 'Freedom_OS' Boot-Loader installed in the 'Cache' of every sentient soul.]
But what of Valoria?
In the place where Sector 7-G once stood, there was now a shimmering, translucent 'Ghost-Node'. Li Ming had used the 'Master Key' to move the entire planet into the 'Buffer Memory' of the Universe—a place between existence and non-existence.
Li Ming stood on a floating shard of the planet, suspended in a white void. Kael and the miners were there, unconscious but safe. Their bodies were now made of 'Hardened Data'.
[Warning: Host Power Levels at 2%.]
[Status: Sovereign Architect in 'Emergency Hibernate' Mode.]
Li Ming looked at the fading platinum light of the broadcast. He had done it. He had 'Leaked' the Source Code of freedom to the entire galaxy. The First Order could delete a planet, but they couldn't delete a thought that had been shared by a billion minds.
"The seed... is everywhere now," Li Ming whispered, his eyes finally closing as he drifted into the white void.
Far away, on Kang Qiang, Li Xiao watched the holographic map. The silver spots were no longer just on Valoria. Small, flickering silver lights were appearing all over the galaxy—on a thousand different worlds, the 'Users' were starting to wake up.
The 'Great Fork' was no longer a local rebe
llion. It was a **Galactic Revolution**.
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End of Chapter 23.