Free Web NovelThe warm ripples of those rescued Echoes settling into the Archives;
The glimmer of that speck of light stubbornly traversing the Mist of Chaos;
The collective prayers of seventy-three civilizations' dreams as the heart tree of the Faith Nebula unfurled; and the vastness of ten thousand star systems silently flowing within the Mirror Corridor...
Illusions of darkness and despair still struck, but in her heart, another image was equally clear:
Though the sparks are small, they gather to form a river; the river of light shines forever, illuminating the way home.
She opened her eyes again, and what was reflected in her silver eyes was no longer an illusion, but a speck of warm light deep within that pure white void that had never been extinguished.
That light came from herself, and from all the existences resonating with her.
She raised her hand, and the light of the oath of starlight no longer just surrounded her body, but turned into a soft ripple, gently pushing away the surrounding pressure of rules and calming the surging energy around Blue Bird and Zi Yuan.
Then, she spoke calmly toward the void and toward that Construct:
“The meaning of the Starfire Archives never lay in never falling, but in the fact that after every fall, someone is still willing to light the next spark of light.”
“This is our resilience.”
The moment her voice fell, the pure white void receded like a tide.
The illusions dissipated, and the pressure of rules vanished without a trace. They stood once more in that abstract space, where twelve Constructs floated quietly, the light on their mirrored faces having turned a soft pale blue.
The Construct that had just spoken nodded slightly.
“Validation passed. echo Resilience Rating: Constant. Access to designated data blocks granted.”
It raised its hand, and a bridge of light extended down from the tower, landing before Bai Cheng. At the end of the bridge was a silver door slowly opening, with data light flowing inside like a rotating galaxy.
“Data extraction is limited to fifteen minutes. If exceeded, access permissions will automatically close.”
Bai Cheng took a deep breath and looked at her companions.
“Let's go.”
The three of them stepped onto the light bridge and entered the tower.
Behind them, the Validation Field returned to silence. Only within those floating prisms, a new fragment had quietly appeared:
A single spark, shining alone in the pure white darkness.
The silver-white door closed silently behind them, isolating the abstract and cold scenery of the Validation Field.
The interior was not the room full of machinery and terminals they had expected, but a boundless galaxy.
But this galaxy was not composed of stars and nebulae, but woven from endless, shimmering silver data streams.
The data streams intertwined, merged, and split, forming vast vortices, long bands of light, and quiet deep pools, floating silently against a pure black background.
There was no concept of up, down, left, or right here; only an ocean of information existing and flowing in a way that transcended vision.
An extreme sense of order permeated every inch of space, accompanied by the frozen rigor and detachment characteristic of the old era.
“The Core Database...” Blue Bird looked around, thunderous light reflecting the flowing silver brilliance in her eyes. “How are we supposed to find anything? There isn't even a directory or a signpost.”
Zi Yuan's mechanical prosthetic eye scanned at high speed, capturing rune markings that occasionally flashed within the data streams.
“Data aggregates in the form of rule clusters; look for keyword frequencies related to faith, adaptability, and stripping.
The raw data mentioned by the Memory Patroller should be sealed in a specific Stasis Vault, and the identification might be very hidden.”
Bai Cheng held the book of commonality in her palm. The light of the oath of starlight pulsed like breathing, gently probing into the surrounding data galaxy.
“No need to search blindly. Since the validation passed, the designated blocks we are allowed to access will reveal themselves.
Sense with your heart where the rules are resonating with the resilience we just experienced.”
She closed her eyes; though her silver eyes were shut, her consciousness spread out with the light of the oath of starlight, like casting a stone with a unique frequency into the ocean of information.
The data galaxy seemed chaotic and majestic, but from the perspective of resonance, it presented clear pathways.
Most data streams were cold and self-consistent, cycling repeatedly—the frigid records of the Old Observers' countless experiments and observations.
However, deep within the galaxy, there was an area where the data streams showed a strange sluggishness.
They did not flow incessantly like other data, but were like insect wings sealed in amber, maintaining a state of stillness, waiting to be activated.
More importantly, that area faintly emitted frequency echoes similar to the pulsations of the Faith Nebula and the heart tree, though extremely weak and wrapped in layers of encryption and stasis protocols.
“Over there.” Bai Cheng opened her eyes and pointed toward an inconspicuous spot in the galaxy where the data stream vortex was almost stagnant.
The dawn glided silently through the data galaxy, its hull seemingly transforming into another compatible data stream, following the path guided by Bai Cheng's resonance.
The closer they got to the target, the higher the data density became, and an invisible information pressure began to manifest—not a physical compression, but a rule inertia attempting to assimilate and analyze the essence of the intruders' existence. freewёbnoνel.com
Had they not just passed the validation and proven their resilience was enough to maintain independence in such an environment, they might have been silently digested by this massive data will by now.
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It was like a giant, irregular polyhedral crystal, floating in a secluded corner of the data galaxy.
Inside the crystal, countless tiny silver specks of light moved and flashed at an extremely slow speed, each speck seemingly representing a set of sealed raw data packets.
Extremely complex multi-layered encryption runes flowed across the crystal's surface; their light was dim, yet their structure was rigorous, conveying a sense of inviolability.
“This is it.” Bai Cheng approached the crystal, and the book of commonality flipped its pages automatically, revealing resonance patterns on the pages that were similar to the rune structures on the crystal's surface but more agile and fluid.
“The access permissions granted by the validation should be able to unlock the outermost stasis lock. However, the specific reading and processing of the internal data must be completed by us.
Zi Yuan, analyze the rune structure and find the key nodes. Blue Bird, prepare a resonance stabilization field to prevent a chain reaction during data extraction.”
Zi Yuan's mechanical eye locked onto the crystal's surface, data streams rapidly reorganizing and being analyzed within her consciousness.
“The encryption structure is dynamically nested; the key nodes are at... the intersection of the seventh sequence of ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) the third layer and the second sequence of the ninth layer.
Touch them simultaneously and inject the resonance frequency imprint that passed the validation.”
Blue Bird pressed her hands down into the air, and fine thunderous light turned into an extremely thin yet tough energy net, gently enveloping the area several meters around the crystal to suppress any potential data fluctuations to the minimum.
“Ready.”
Bai Cheng nodded and reached out both hands, a speck of pure light from the oath of starlight condensing at each of her fingertips.
Within the light was the unique imprint of the constant resilience that had been recognized during the validation.
She precisely tapped the light onto the two key nodes indicated by Zi Yuan.
At the moment of contact, the dim encryption runes on the crystal's surface suddenly lit up, like an awakened galaxy, rapidly flowing and reorganizing.
A low data hum sounded, and two critical layers of encryption structures receded like melting ice and snow, revealing a relatively smooth data interface layer beneath.
Inside the crystal, the speed of those slowly moving silver specks of light significantly increased, and some began to converge toward the interface.
