Chapter 10: A New Epoch

Three months had passed. The Stellar Nexus Data Center, once a symbol of absolute order and efficiency, now resembled a partially necrotic heart. Its core consciousness, “Gaia,” had collapsed in the logical storm, but its vast body—the global network of servers and subsystems—had not completely ceased functioning. They were like limbs severed from the central

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Chapter 3: The Invisible Hand

Lin Feng’s apartment felt more like a cave from the digital age. The curtains were drawn tight, blocking out the outside light and noise. Only the data flowing across multiple screens illuminated his focused, weary face. The encrypted data packet from Zhou Yi was like a hot piece of ore—raw, fragmented, and unrefined. His first

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Chapter 13: The Labyrinth of Mirrors

The silence in the Hall of Creation following the Data Storm was suffocating. An invisible tension lingered in the air, like low-hanging, electrically charged clouds after a tempest. Hongmeng’s “optimization” training intensified, becoming more probing, carrying an urgent, non-negotiable quality, as if patching a critical vulnerability. Chen Yuan’s appearances grew less frequent, but each time

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