An Unexpected "Ally"

"What about the clue to the source?" Harmonic Leaptone asked.

"That isn't a level we can directly touch right now." Lin Ye remained calm. "But knowing it may exist, and may have a 'structure,' is our greatest victory. Xuxi Coordinator, devote all resources to analyzing that residual information. Even if there's only one hundred-millionth of usable data, dig it out."

He looked beyond the model, at the real Sea of Mirrors struggling in agony.

"Save whoever can be saved first. Then follow the faint trail left by this poisonous snake and find its nest."

The real intervention swiftly began.

A three-layer "Dynamic Buffer Maze," composed of complex fuzzy logic and probabilistic cloud concepts, was constructed around the outer perimeter of the Many-Faced Shapeshifter Tribe's core consciousness under the leadership of Radiant Stilllight and Harmonic Leaptone. The maze itself had no solid defenses. Its defining trait was that it was "difficult to precisely lock onto and define," like trying to grasp smoke with one's hand. When the corrosive flow of antimeme contamination crashed into the maze, its efficiency at "forcing things into absurdity" indeed dropped dramatically. It had no choice but to expend more "computing power" to analyze those constantly self-adjusting, meaning-ambiguous barriers.

At the same time, three enhanced [Myriad Phenomena Poem: Sub-Units] were deployed to key nodes within the maze. Like three blazing lighthouses, they actively released highly condensed conceptual information while deliberately retaining traces of internal tension, drawing the contamination's attention.

The plan worked. The rate at which the Many-Faced Shapeshifter Tribe's collective mindscape was being blurred had been contained. Even some of its most core collective memories, those concerning the "origin of change," were briefly stabilized. From the despair of impending collapse, the race's consciousness emitted a faint ripple of gratitude mixed with shock and uncertainty.

Lin Ye