Dying ten thousand times was surprisingly boring after the first eight hundred.
In the total silence of his mental sandbox, Lin Ke floated in a void that smelled of burnt ozone and copper filings. He had cranked his internal execution clock to twenty times real-time speed. He pushed his mind to the total edge of heat mental delirium.
Run full rebase pipeline, Lin Ke commanded.
The mental set unrolled like an artillery barrage.
Iteration One: At commit 0042, during the shift between the old Iron Marrow chelation and the new diamond-cubic lattice, his simulated automatic nervous system suffered a fatal desynchronization. His simulated heart forgot how to beat without the hardened stone reflex.
Fatal: Asystole in 1.4 seconds. Branch ended.
Iteration Three Hundred and Twelve. During commit 0188, as the Nine-Fold Crimson cooling loop was being hot-swapped into the Shaoyin channel, a micro-second race condition left his heart-sac unshielded for four split seconds.
Fatal: Heart-sac flash-boil. Branch ended.
