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The scenery outside the window gradually became familiar, and the warm pulse of the river of light began to transmit through the resonance network, like the breath of home brushing over a weary traveler. freewёbnoνel.com
Inside the bridge, Qingniao finally relaxed her tense shoulders, the thunderous light lazily intertwining and dispersing at her fingertips.
"Finally back. That place, the Validation Field, feels like you'll be sucked in by those data streams if you stay a moment longer."
Zi Yuan's mechanical prosthetic eye closed its high-precision scanning mode, returning to its daily ghostly blue glow.
She looked at the book of commonality in Bai Cheng's hand, where a gold and silver glimmer was flowing steadily between the pages. "Is the data complete?"
"Complete." Bai Cheng gently stroked the pages with her fingertips, feeling the ancient information sealed within and the newly added resonance marks. "The theoretical framework of the Old Observers, the core principles of the Stripping Plan, and..."
"The proof of our existence. These are enough for the Archives to analyze and formulate corresponding defense strategies."
She looked up at the main screen. In the distance, the silhouette of the Starfire Archives was clearly visible; the vine pillars stretched out new branches, the rainbow windows flowed with warm light, and the light of the keystone shone quietly in deep space like a gentle heartbeat.
Compared to when they left, the Archives seemed a bit more lush, as if new stories had grown during this brief separation.
"Communication incoming." Leng Ningxue's voice sounded, and an ice-blue image appeared stably.
"Welcome back. Everything is normal at the Archives; the heart tree resonance in the Faith Nebula is stable. The World Government fleet is still stationed seven light-years away, with no new movements."
Bai Cheng nodded slightly. "We brought back key data. Prepare the resonance Analysis Array; we need to understand the underlying logic and rules as soon as possible."
"Ready." Beside Leng Ningxue's image, a real-time view of an Annular Analysis Room inside the Archives appeared, where countless mirrors and resonance crystals formed a complex three-dimensional network.
"Chi Yan and Huang Yu are maintaining the perimeter alert. Lu Duo and Yu Nian are still stabilizing the heart tree remotely, but they have reserved part of their attention and can participate in the analysis."
The dawn slowly slid into the Archives's spaceport. When the hatch opened, a familiar scent rushed toward them.
It was the warmth of countless interwoven echoes, the peace of settled stories, the taste of home.
Bai Cheng stepped onto the keystone platform, a gentle resonance tremor coming from beneath her feet, as if the Archives were greeting her silently.
She looked back at Zi Yuan and Qingniao walking out of the ship; all three had brightness in their eyes after the dust of travel had been washed away.
"Rest for two hours first," Bai Cheng said. "Then gather in the analysis room. We need to seize the initiative before the next wave of conflict arrives."
Everyone dispersed. Bai Cheng did not head to the rest area immediately; instead, she carried the book of commonality and walked slowly toward the Mirror Corridor.
The long corridor was still composed of countless ice-blue mirrors, each reflecting real-time scenes from different corners of the Star Abyss.
She stopped in front of the mirror corresponding to the Faith Nebula.
In the mirror, the light of that heart tree was more solid than when they had left, its roots reaching deep into the veins of the nebula mist clearly visible. The dreams of seventy-three civilizations surrounded the tree crown like stars, emitting a firm and soft halo.
In another mirror, seven light-years away, the silver fleet of the World Government hung in the darkness like cold metal mountains, the Infinite Emblem flickering faintly, as if waiting patiently for something.
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The dark gray sphere composed of chains was still slowly rotating, runes on its surface flickering, appearing no different from when they left. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
But she could feel that deep within that river of data, beside the modified static vault, the point of light condensed by the Starlight Mark was emitting an extremely faint but incredibly clear resonance.
It was a seed.
A seed belonging to a new era, planted in the Experimental Field of the old days.
She reached out and touched the mirror surface with her fingertips. The light of the oath of starlight flowed, creating a resonance across the sea of stars with the glimmer of that distant seed.
No information was transmitted, no language exchanged.
Only the silent confirmation of one existence by another.
We once left traces there, and the traces themselves have become a new possibility.
Bai Cheng withdrew her hand and turned to leave the Mirror Corridor. Her figure blended into the flowing light of the Archives as she walked toward the annular room waiting for analysis.
Two hours later, inside the analysis room.
The book of commonality was suspended in the center of the annular space, gold and silver data streams pouring down from the pages like waterfalls, flowing, dismantling, and reorganizing among the surrounding mirrors and crystals.
Lu Duo and Yu Nian had connected through remote resonance; the halos of the Emerald Network and the pure heart vine loomed within the Analysis Array, helping to stabilize the emotional foundation of the data stream.
The images of Chi Yan and Huang Yu were projected on both sides, responsible for monitoring the rule ripples that the analysis process might trigger.
Lan Xiaoyu quickly adjusted the backup frequency of the Medical Resonance Unit. Zi Yuan and Qingniao stood on either side, their blade intent and thunderous light restrained, yet ready to respond to any unexpected disturbances at any time.
Bai Cheng stood at the core of the array, her silver eyes reflecting the flowing data runes. She submerged her consciousness into the oath of starlight, guiding the analysis process.
The theoretical framework of the Old Observers was the first to be unfolded.
It was a cold and rigorous model of rules, defining faith as the resonance crystallization of collective consciousness in a specific rule environment, and quantifying rule adaptability as the deformation threshold and recovery rate of the echo structure under external pressure.
A large amount of experimental data emerged, showing the collapse points and survival limits of echoes from different civilizations under various extreme conditions.
Among them, an abnormal record of a flame of faith burning persistently in absolute nothingness was highlighted.
"This part of the data is key," Leng Ningxue's voice came through the resonance network, as ice-blue data streams outlined the key points in the array.
"The Old Observers recorded the phenomenon of maintaining faith and mental bonds across rule resonances, but they failed to fully understand its essence. Their Stripping Plan was precisely an attempt to cut this maintenance at the rule level."
The array showed an overview of the principles of several interference schemes: using specific frequency resonance to gradually dilute the strength of the bond;
Inducing faith transfer by simulating the original mental environment; even constructing a rule vacuum to force the faith structure to self-dissociate...
Each scheme was logically self-consistent and theoretically feasible.
"But they missed one point." Lu Duo's Emerald Network fluctuated slightly as she joined the analysis.
"These schemes are all based on the premise that faith is an object external to the mind."
"But true faith is never an external thing. It is the branches and leaves grown from the mind itself; stripping it away is like asking a tree to voluntarily cut off its own roots."
Yu Nian's pure heart vine shed a warm halo. "In the Old Observers' experimental records, those faiths that were successfully stripped had actually been distorted and alienated during the experimental process, losing their original essence."
"True faith, symbiotic with the mind, has never been truly stripped in the records—that flame burning in the void is the proof."
Bai Cheng nodded, the light of the oath of starlight guiding the data stream into the next stage.
