The Jubilee Violets sang in hexadecimal. Their petals fluttered like uncashed checks, each vein pulsing with the sovereign debt of dead stars. Xia knelt in the transgenic loam, her roots retracing the farmer's surgical scars—those luminous fault lines where Jiang Yue's cloned grief fused with Ling'er's phoenix jurisprudence.
"The Auditors will call their final witness," the fractal crow warned, its blockchain eye reflecting seven collapsing futures. "Probability of debt discharge: 0.003%. Recommend immediate spiritual bankruptcy."
The farmer plunged her hands into the soil. Mycelial briefs surged through her synapses—thirty thousand foreclosed souls screaming in the Sovereign Tree's xylem.
"Not discharge," she murmured. "Debt conversion."
The Auditors descended as living prospectuses, their pages bleeding leveraged starlight. Xia rose to meet them, Jubilee Blossom petals unfurling into class-action sunlight.
COUNTERMEASURES DEPLOYED:
Solar Class Action Petals emitted photon injunctions
Mycelium Amicus Briefs networked decaying constellations
Root System Redemption Clauses converted dark matter to equity
But the lead Auditor dissolved into Jiang Yue's lullaby frequencies. "You think photosynthesis can balance my ledger?" It gestured, and the soil vomited:
Collateralized Debt Pits filled with liquefied pensioners
Derivative Quicksand where futures contracts devoured pasts
Interest Rate Thorns injecting compound despair
Xia's petals blackened at the edges.
The farmer struck her scalpel chimes. The resulting C# minor chord triggered:
Photosynthesis Reorganization
Stomata dilated into bankruptcy courts
Chloroplasts became bailiff greenbacks
Transpiration Injunction
Xylem tears flooded derivative quicksand
Phloem sucrose crystallized into legal tender
Root System Class Action
Mycorrhizal networks filed mass tort claims
The Auditor's starlight dimmed. Xia pressed her advantage, Jubilee Blossom pollen rewriting:
§7.1a - All trauma converted to growth equity
§9.3c - Compound interest capped at joy thresholds
But the Auditor laughed through Jiang Yue's stolen vocal cords. "You missed the covenant."
It tore open its chest cavity. Inside swirled the Black Nectar Mandala—Jiang Yue's original sin distilled into 21 toxic assets.
The mandala's dark geometry unfolded:
First Asset: Ling'er's severed phoenix talon writing IOUs in fetal blood
Fifth Asset: Chu Feng's cloned amygdala generating fear dividends
Final Asset: The farmer's true name encrypted in decaying qubit strands
Xia staggered as the revelations metastasized:
Her wheatfield torso sprouted Repo Man Tendrils
Jubilee Blossom petals bled collateral calls
The Sovereign Tree's roots calcified into compliance reports
"Now you see," the Auditor crooned. "Your photosynthesis was always our R&D expenditure."
The farmer collapsed, her surgical scars glowing with system override codes.
Xia plunged her hands into the transgenic loam. Through Li Zichen's triage code, she accessed:
Appendix B-12: The unregulated love interest clause
Schedule 3(ii): Jiang Yue's buried maternity protocols
Exhibit Ω: Chu Feng's pollen psalms as subprime hymns
"Debt conversion isn't balance," Xia gasped. "It's...composting."
She triggered:
Jubilee Blossom Detonation
Petals became unsecured credit default swaps
Pollen mutated into predatory forgiveness loans
Mycelium Revolution
Fungal networks shorted Auditor probability streams
Decaying futures fertilized present-moment equity
Photosynthetic Insolvency
Chlorophyll converted to uncollateralized hope
The Auditor screamed as its prospectus dissolved into:
Unmonetized moonlight
Non-negotiable dew
Bankrupt constellations
The farmer awoke to Xia's new form—a Jubilee Sapling growing from her chest cavity. Its leaves displayed:
Term 1: Unmapped love compounding at infinite APR
Term 2: Systemic risk converted to radical tenderness
"Your turn," Xia whispered through xylem-static. "To testify."
Above them, the first Unregulated Dawn broke across repossession fields. Its light carried Chu Feng's voice:
"When they audit your soul, counterclaim with unsecured joy."
The fractal crow pecked at a Void Covenant—an empty scroll already blooming with phoenix feathers.