In the 118th year of the Star Dome Calendar, the navigation system of the Forgefire Embryo Starship suddenly began to hum. In the dark zone at the edge of the holographic star map, countless tiny specks of light were pulsing at an eerie frequency. Su Yuhan stared at the spectrum analysis screen, her fingertips tracing ghost images in the air. "Captain, these points of light are... the weeping of energy entities. Each one is a fragmented symbiotic echo."
Chen Feng tightened his grip on the jar of Prism Honey gifted by the Spectrum Federation; the light drops inside began to spin rapidly. "Locate the area with the strongest signal. Liu Ruyan, prepare the Mist Clan's water-curtain communication waves; we are going to use low-frequency resonance to soothe these echoes."
As the ship pierced through the dark zone, a "Star-Ring of Echoes" made of shattered light bands appeared outside the viewport. Tens of thousands of translucent energy entities drifted within the ring, their bodies like torn-apart lute strings, each fragment emitting a piercing, single-frequency scream. In the center, a massive energy entity—evidently the civilization's leader—was using a fractured "frequency-band arm" to strike a hovering "frequency-band furnace," sending sparks cascading onto the broken symbiotic veins.
Chapter 171