"The Soul Weaved in the Red Dust and the Mystery of the Stars"
In the cycle of seventeen parallel mirror realms (worlds), brother and sister Yang Zhen and Yang Miaomiao repeat the same fate: whenever a crisis comes, the brother always uses his mechanical body to protect his sister from fatal injuries, and the tremor in the core of the gear becomes a lingering pain in her memory. As experimental subjects of the "Reverse Time Sect", they are trapped in a closed time loop fueled by "sacrifice". Only the red rope bracelet and metal rose left behind by their mother hide the password to escape from the loop.
When the eighteenth cycle started, the two broke into the Gear Library outside of time and discovered that the moment of death in each mirror realm was woven into a protective net by red ropes - those unspoken thoughts were the key to reconstructing the laws of the universe. They replaced the old sacrificial logic with the "bond entropy field" and turned the star map weaver into a container for collecting love: metal roses bloomed in the ruins of the Mirror Realm, the counterchronic mechanical tower collapsed into a mechanical butterfly carrying "Don't be afraid" and "I am here", and even the afterimages of the gear cemetery were reborn in the golden streamer.
Eventually, the red rope shed its mechanical gears and turned into an ordinary cotton thread embedded with seventeen memory crystals. The brother and sister chose to return to the original Qingyu Town, turning the data life partner into a mechanical orange cat with silver fluff, and the quantum data Chen Zhen into an electronic watch. Under the locust tree, they are no longer cogs to save the universe, but ordinary people who can freely choose their ordinary time. Deep in the universe, the stamen of every golden locust flower says: "When you need me, I will be in a certain cyclic gear." This emotional resonance spans time and space.
Reader comments
The plot is quite exciting. Come on, author [laughing]
The plot is quite exciting. Come on, author [laughing]