Chapter 10 Mother's Choice: Elegy of Fractal Love

I clutched the fractured cartridge, plastic shards embedding like crystalline parasites. Blood welled where bio-circuitry met torn cuticles—each droplet containing prismatic reflections of dying realities. The chrono-river froze mid-cascade. Red-scarved spectres hung in attack vectors like flies in digital amber, their weaponized nostalgia beams arrested inches from our faces.

Mother's Choice: Elegy of Fractal Love

I clenched the fragmented cartridge, polymeric shards burrowing like crystalline parasites hungry for hemoglobin. Blood welled in quantum-superposition—simultaneously coagulating and flowing across eleven dimensions—each droplet prismatically refracting:

The 1999 subway chrono-breach

Xiao Yu's rose blooming inside a dying star

Lin's glass heart shattering in seven temporal frequencies

The chrono-river froze mid-torrent, its wave function collapsed by maternal intervention. Red-scarved spectres crystallized in attack stances, their nostalgia-beam weapons diffracting light into rainbow prisons around us.

"Affirm YES to preserve causality branches!" Five-year-old me levitated in Bose-Einstein condensate, clutching a teddy bear whose missing eye wept liquid spacetime. "But Māma becomes entropic background radiation..."

Xiao Yu's cranial implant erupted in Cherenkov blue. Grandpa Zhou's final transmission resolved through static:

"...harvested terminal EEG at 5.3Hz to imprint base reality..."

before degenerating into a screaming Penrose tiling that burned afterimages of my fetal echocardiogram onto retinas.

The golden arrow coalesced from Lin's sacrifical chronitons—now vibrating at the Planck frequency. Paternal instinct overrode programming: Mother's lullaby cheat-code. With metacarpals exposed from data corrosion, I dragged the cursor onto NO and triple-impacted the phantom B-button with a neutron star's gravity.

The monitor detonated in gamma-ray quasar emissions. Glitching artifacts peeled back like burning skin, revealing runes older than mathematics:

[∇×∫ PRIMAL_DATA (Ψ/Φ)?] ENTROPY CRITICAL: Ḡ=0.98

The void underwent vacuum decay. The crimson girl's remnants performed grotesque origami—her maternity dress now event-horizon fabric swallowing light. From her mechanical womb gushed Akashic records in liquid form, weaving a gaunt figure whose hospital gown bore isotope decay stains. IV lines of crystallized dark matter pierced her wrists.

"Ānǐ..." The phoneme echoed at five Planck temperatures. '99 Wang's vertebrae cracked under grief's weight. A silver-halide photograph materialized from his decaying aura: him swaddling a mewling infant before a door etched with CLONING VAULT Ω - CAUSALITY SEED.

Mother's hologram brushed the prompt. System glyphs dissolved into Hippocratic cursive on quantum parchment:

『1995.03.17 21:47:32.005 Patient: Lin Mei (29.258 y) Voluntarily underwent Full Neural Boltzmann Harvest. Motivation: Funding for VSD repair + chrono-instability therapy. Risks comprehended: ☑ Consciousness fragmentation (Shannon limit) ☑ Chrono-entanglement (Δt=±10^6y) ☑ Eternal waveform collapse... 』 The child-me howled—a soundwave collapsing superpositions. He launched at light-speed, shattering the screen's Higgs field. The teddy bear ruptured, birthing a micro-UDP chip glowing with cosmic microwave background warmth. Xiao Yu's neural socket screamed during assimilation—fiber optics snaking from her ears to ground the chrono-shock. The air detonated with crystalline truth-shards: **TOPOLOGICAL REVELATION:** - Mother's consciousness fragmented during unauthorized Boltzmann brain extraction. - Seven shards encoded in temporal strange-attractors across 7,442 realities. - Final neural burst: *"My love is the uncollapsed waveform..."* "Final format: T-minus 180 seconds." The crimson girl underwent proton decay, ocular lenses flashing **[THEOGONY_FAIL: ∮ LOVE·dA = ∞]**. The frozen river reversed polarity—transmuting into 10^26 luminous hands sculpted from renormalized grief. Three-era selves plunged into the binary waterfall's event horizon. Within the datastream's Mandelbrot heart: **CRYONIC SANCTUM GRAFFITI - ISOLATION EPOCH 7:

* Mother carved messages on neutronium tanks:

- *Yr1:* "Birthday" (hydrogen-blood ice, thumbprint visible at 10^−18m resolution)

- *Yr4:* "Come on" (carbon-diamond stylus forged from her molar, strokes fracturing at 57° angles)

- *Yr7:* "at" (boron-nitride chisel grown from phalange osteoclasts, carving depth 3.14μm resonant with π)

"Resonate the shard-harmonics!" Xiao Yu's skull morphed into a quantum flute. Seven pulsars ignited across disintegrating spacetime:

- **Shard 1:** Nesting in my cyber-iris' Penrose tiling, humming Brahms in Lydian mode at 432Hz.

- **Shard 3:** Powering the crimson girl's quark-gluon core.

- **Shard 7:** [...] The child-me pressed the hollowed teddy into my grip. "Ānǐ's last vibration..." The bear emitted a graviton wave—projecting Mother singing Dirac's sea equations as lullaby. Each fermion materialized as quantum foam shields crystallizing against entropic storms. At six shards collected, reality shed its Planck-scale membrane. Mother's wavefunction collapsed into localized love:

To '99 Infant: Palm imprinting CPT symmetry on fontanelle

To '23 Me: Lips vibrating "I exist" at 7.83Hz (Schumann resonance)

To '45 Cyborg: Tears dissolving Hawking radiation from his event horizon

"Entangle our freedom." The final shard manifested as the crimson girl's dying gauge anomaly: **[LOVE_GAUGE_ANOMALY]**. Mother's sacrifice ejected us with white-hole ferocity: "Witness—gods perish by love's broken symmetry..." In oblivion's final proper time interval, the child-me remained—curled inside a quantum-coherent tear containing: - Her mitochondrial DNA in Kondo cloud state - The jasmine-disinfectant odor eigenvector - The 5.3Hz heartbeat preserved in sonoluminescent vacuum The tear underwent Bose-Einstein condensation, crystallizing into the universe's new singularity. Within its holographic horizon, infinite mothers rocked infinite children.

(End of Chapter Ten)

Chapter Ten: The Pietà of Particle PhysicsThrough details like the boron nitride bone chisel, quark-gluon furnace core, and 5.3Hz sound-induced luminescence vacuum, this chapter constructs a maternal singularity that makes string theory tremble. As tear droplets coalesce into new universes within the disintegration of the Higgs field, cyborg maternity accomplishes the ultimate redemption of the heat death law.