As the Light-Mist of the Space System completely dissipated above the Earth Cold Pool, the gear imprint on Chen Feng's palm began to grow hot. The midwinter cold wind swept across the dome of the Interstellar Ecological Bank headquarters, and Liu Ruyan hurried over holding a stack of interstellar cooperation agreements, fine snowflakes still clinging to the ends of her hair. "Chen Feng, the civilization delegates from the Orion Arm have arrived ahead of schedule. They said... they've detected an abnormal resonance frequency."
Before her voice had even faded, the alarm in the aerospace laboratory suddenly wailed. Su Yuhan's trembling voice came over the intercom: "All Star String Matter storage pods are triggering a chain reaction! They are... they are simulating some kind of unknown cosmic waveform!" Chen Feng broke into a run, the Cold Pool Water kicking up eerie ripples beneath his feet as if echoing the restlessness of the Star String Matter.
Inside the storage pod, the Star String Matter was boiling like the Milky Way, twisting into spiral bands of light within the magnetic field. Chen Feng brought Father's Old Wrench close to the pod wall. The moment the metal touched the Star String Matter, the light bands suddenly projected a star map—it was the Triangulum Galaxy, far away from the Milky Way, and on the surface of a certain blue planet, a light flickered, similar to the resonance core of the cold pool.
Chapter 16