The consciousness aggregate inside the time-paradox generator's core control unit; its cold will scans the timeline gap and then attacks Jie Ming by negating his existence. 1
Panics at Altreus's true body, contracts like a startled octopus and tries to flee into its core timeline. 2
Its archive presents it as the whole civilization's soul, stripped from every citizen and digitized into the core; Jie Ming deduces it is really the fear-driven Isolationist Faction that won a civil struggle and modified the losers into the first Sickle-Skulls. 3