In the debris pile at the bottom of the space elevator shaft, the alarm of Lin''s protective suit was screaming. She finally finds the mycelium-encased core of the antimatter reactor, only to find her holographic signature engraved on the console - a biometric authentication from her involvement with Project Gaia twelve years earlier.


    "It''s not a weapon." Paul''s voice came from behind, his mechanical prosthesis disintegrating into green mycelium, "the tinder of civilization." A sudden beam of light from the reactor''s core illuminates the inscription on the wall: "When carbon-based civilization is ready to abandon its arrogance, it can continue in a silicon-based universe."


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    In the violent shaking, the entire low-Earth orbit space station began to disintegrate. Wang Ergo rushed into the escape pod holding his daughter, and saw the earth turn into a bright hyphal star ring through the porthole. Xiao Man suddenly released his arms, the star lines in his pupils in perfect sync with the Martian remains: "It''s time for us to go back."