The sheer volume of the firmware decompilation caught Lin Tao fully unprepared.
When you inject a sixty-four-peta-rune memory reallocation script into the root partition of an active world-size running system, the bus doesn’t wait for user convenience. The Precursor test screen carried out an immediate, bidirectional state proof. Dumping thirty thousand years of uncommitted transaction traces straight through the test metal pen.
And because Lin Tao possessed a 0-byte Dantian Buffer—the Null-Bus Defect—he had no internal spiritual organ to absorb or cushion the raw data flux.
The energy had nowhere to go except straight through his body nervous system.
BOOM.
An explosion of white light blew up behind his eyes.
Lin Tao’s vision washed out into blinding static. The heat of his physical body spiked with horrifying speed—rising from thirty-seven degrees to thirty-nine, forty, and forty-one point two degrees within the span of three heartbeat cycles.
Acute brain hyperthermia, Lin Tao’s SRE test mind tracked coldly, observing his own living failure from behind a wall of cold, calm focus. Tiny blood-vein walls in the nasal mucosa and conjunctiva are rupturing under extreme blood-vessel pressure. Nerve feedback loop started. If core temp hits forty-two degrees, the brain proteins will begin to denature.
