The Paintbrush Emerges: Battle of Definition Overwrite

[We... are willing!] Their thoughts were resolute. [Our "change" once brought us to the brink of destruction. Now, we are willing to merge this power of change into the "order" that protects the multiverse, becoming its keen "senses" and "veins"!]

The connection was officially established.

The remaining consciousnesses of the Many-Faced Shapeshifter Tribe began integrating with the depths of the network. They did not return as countless independent individuals, but existed instead as a "Distributed Resonance Mirror Array," scattered across key network nodes and forming a living monitoring web capable of sensing abnormal fluctuations in definitions.

At the same time, Coordinator Xuxi reported a new discovery. "Tuner, while analyzing the information from 'Summary C' provided by the Shapeshifter Tribe, I attempted reverse resonance simulations using the prototype. I discovered that its 'absolute smoothness' characteristic undergoes an extremely brief, nearly imperceptible phenomenon of 'resonance softening' when dealing with a certain frequency of 'existential self-referential fluctuations.' This may... be a theoretical weakness."

A sharp gleam flashed through Lin Ye's eyes.

Clues to a weapon, the outline of the enemy, a potential weakness... new puzzle pieces were gathering.

Just then, the newly joined "mirror array" sent its first proactive warning—

At a distance of 270,000 standard jump units from the network's core region, the emotional civilization known as the "Dreamweavers Alliance," which had just applied for the network's protection, had detected an extremely faint abnormal fluctuation at the edge of its definition field. It was highly similar to "Summary B," the overwrite beam!

The enemy had not given them much time to catch their breath.

The warning rang out like an icy alarm bell, shattering the brief calm.

The Dreamweavers Alliance was a civilization composed of multiple races whose dreams could interconnect, using collective dreams to construct their perception of reality. Its