### **Part I: Poetry of Decay**
The roses bled equations.
Noah's stolen chrono-glove had become a biological printer, its veins extruding paradox flora that reeked of burning libraries. Each petal contained rewritten laws of physics:
▼ **Gravity's Lament** (Curvature coefficients transcribed as funeral dirges)
▼ **Chronoshock Sonnets** (Time's arrow described in iambic malware)
▼ **Memory Harvest Protocols** (Eleventh-dimensional farming techniques)
The Changed Ones moved through this algorithmic jungle, their chloroplast eyes projecting data-hungry beams. Noah watched his reflection in their gaze—a thousand decaying Noahs, each rotting at different rates.
"Find the original," the molten steel sphere had whispered. Now he understood: this was Ghosthand's last joke.
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### **Part II: Oppenheimer's Orchard**
The stone tablet stood at the garden's heart, its surface a palimpsest of apocalypses:
*Layer 1 (Sanskrit):*
"कालः क्रियते भ्रूणहा" (I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds)
*Layer 47 (Neo-Kyo Slang):*
"All your base are belong to entropy"
*Layer 137 (Vorath's Glyphs):*
A shopping list for cosmic gardening tools
The freshest inscription glowed:
**"P.S. Check your glove's warranty date - GH"**
The numbers matched Mei-ling's birth certificate. Noah's gloves heated up, projecting a hologram of Ghosthand smoking a data-cigarette. "Took you long enough. Now let's prune this damn garden."
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### **Part III: Rootkit Renaissance **
The fight against the garden's operating system unfolded as Baroque code warfare:
▼ Noah's gloves sprouted quantum shears, cutting through firewalls shaped like Medici palaces
▼ Ghosthand's avatar rode a Trojan horse disguised as Bosch's *Garden of Earthly Delights*
▼ Firewall cherubs sang Gregorian chants that deleted entire subroutines
At the core, they found the source code: Mei-ling's DNA double helix intertwined with Vorath's larval form. Ghosthand's laugh echoed through the nucleotides. "Surprise! The original sin was maternal love."