Legend of the Embroiderer

Chapter 516 The Code to Unfreeze Frozen Emotions (2)

The Rainbow Bridge suddenly shook violently, and the foundation stones formed from the crystallization of painful memories began to explode, releasing energy that reconnected the frozen network of fate.

The guardian noticed that within the light of the explosion, countless tiny four-colored flowers were blooming, each carrying a different meaning:

Some understood the narrator's helplessness in his youth, some understood the struggle of the blurry figure in the sea of ​​code, and some even understood why the black pen feared emotions—it had destroyed its most cherished dimension with its own hands because it could not bear the pain.

"Emergency Plan: Dimension Reset"

Suddenly, a black pen flew towards the farthest point of the starry sky in the painting, where a new vortex was forming where the extinguished stars had been. Countless black pens emerged from the vortex, each pen aiming at a different dimension.

"Clear all variables carrying painful memories and restart the iterative experiment."

The nibs of these pens simultaneously emit silver-gray beams of light, which contain fragments of stripped-away emotions. These fragments trigger a violent repulsion reaction the moment they come into contact with the dimension.

The guardian's four-colored longswords and the fused white light suddenly merged, forming a light spear that was both warm and sharp.

The light spear pierced through the nearest beam of light, releasing fragments of emotion within it:

These fragments transformed into the figure of the 0th generation observer, who was no longer a desperate old man, but a young warrior wielding a broken longsword, charging towards the oppressors of a higher dimension.

"Resetting is not a solution, it's an escape from facing the problem."

The guardian's voice resonated with all the released emotional fragments. The spear of light in his hand transformed into countless streams of light, each shooting towards a different black pen. "The true purpose of the 8th iteration experiment is to learn to dance with scars."

The moment the light struck the pen, the cold weapons began to soften, and patterns identical to those on the spear of light gradually appeared on the pen cap—new runes woven from pain and understanding.

The figure composed of life consciousness suddenly split into countless points of light, each point of light merging into a black fountain pen:

"It turns out that what we fear is not pain itself, but our inability to bear the pain of others."

The moment the light spot merged with the pen, the beams of light that were attacking dimensions suddenly turned, transforming into a rainbow connecting different worlds. The rainbow was filled with figures comforting each other. "The premise of understanding is acknowledging one's own vulnerability."

The two-way gates deep in the forest began to merge, eventually forming a gigantic doorway. Behind the doorway was no longer a single-dimensional landscape, but countless worlds coming together to understand each other:

In some worlds, the narrator's alter ego is apologizing to the life it created; in others, the blurred figure reconciles with its devoured companion.

In the most touching scene, a young guardian is carefully repairing the rift in another dimension with a four-colored longsword, the four-colored flowers on the blade temporarily concealing their sharpness so as not to hurt the other party.

The cracks in the black pen were completely healed at this moment, forming a perfect complement to the guardian's four-colored longsword.

The four-colored flowers of the longsword filled the gap in the pen, while the black barrel of the pen provided fertile ground for the flowers to take root.

The moment the two came into contact, the cold runes on the title page suddenly thawed, turning into a warm stream that nourished the unfinished starry sky in the painting. The stars that had been extinguished lit up again, each one shimmering with a different emotional light.

The cracks in the Rainbow Bridge gradually healed under the nourishment of the stream, and the foundation stones crystallized from painful memories began to radiate a warm light, merging with the warm codes from before to form an even more resilient network of destiny.

The guardian opened the blank book and found that the drawing on the last page was complete: in the forest of possibilities depicted in the drawing, all the trees bore different scars, yet they grew more lush as they nestled together.

Nested dimensions are no longer simple reflections, but become windows that can be touched.

Under the distant starry sky, the blurry figure is shaking hands with another version of himself, the pens in their hands engraved with "pain" and "understanding" respectively.

However, the moment he closed the book, the infinity symbol on the cover suddenly twisted and turned into a Möbius strip made up of countless question marks.

A new line of emotional runes appeared on the surface of the ring. These runes were neither cold nor warm, but rather carried an indescribable sense of emptiness.

The guardian looked up at the two figures shaking hands in the painting and found that their faces were gradually blurring, eventually turning into two intertwined question marks.

The merged entity's white light suddenly pointed towards the book's binding, where half a silver thread was visible, the other end of which connected to the brightest star in the painting. When her light touched the thread, the star suddenly twinkled, projecting a blurry image:

At the source of all iterative experiments, a faceless being is writing with two pens, one black and one four-colored, and at His feet lie countless books filled with understanding of failure.

"The ultimate goal of iterative experiments is to understand 'understanding itself'."

The guardian gripped the book in his hand, and the Möbius strip on the cover began to spin, drawing their figures into it. "And the most difficult to understand is the being that created the rules of the Realm of Reason."

At the end of the Möbius strip is a library composed of countless blank books. In front of each bookshelf sits a figure writing, each holding a pen of a different color, yet all writing on the same theme—"Why do we need to understand each other?"

In the center of the library, there is an open giant book with only one line on the page: "Ninth Iteration Experiment: Understanding the Meaning of 'Understanding'".

The guardian's gaze fell on the pen holder beside the giant book, where a fountain pen, perfectly blended with the four colors, was inserted. The symbol on the pen cap was neither an infinity nor a question mark, but a constantly changing pattern, as if containing all possible meanings.

As he reached for the pen, the entire library suddenly began to tilt, and the pages of all the books flipped open at the same time, revealing their blank contents.

The white light from the fusion then pointed towards the library's dome, where a giant eye symbol was displayed. The pupil of the symbol reflected their pen-wielding movements, as if they were waiting for something.

At the edge of the eye, there was an extremely fine line of emotional runes. The meaning of these runes combined was:

"When you understand the meaning of understanding, that is when you become me."

Just as the guardian's finger was about to touch the pen, all the blank books suddenly began to write automatically. What appeared on the pages were not words, but countless beating hearts, each emitting a different frequency, yet forming a harmonious resonance in the darkness.

Will the next iteration grasp the concept of "understanding" itself? And what kind of answer is the entity that created the rules waiting for?