Chapter 298

As the Stardust Train passed through the Crab Nebula, Arui heard the singing. It was not a sound transmitted through the air, but a direct vibration within the symbiotic mark on her palm—resembling the low-frequency roar of flowing lava from the War-Pattern tribe, mixed with the crisp high-frequency chime of photon refraction from the Spectrum Civilization, while deep within lay the gentle, winding rhythm of an Earth folk song. She pressed her hand against her wrist, and the silver light of her stardust bracelet flickered in response, casting the vines of the Tree of Memory to stretch out in the void, every leaf transforming into a musical note, weaving into a flowing score among the stellar orbits. "This is the 'Symbiotic Harmonic'." Ice Drip's halo projected a waveform on the train window, with the peaks and troughs flashing symbols from different civilizations. "The native language of every civilization is an unfinished melody; only when they resonate can we hear the primordial harmony of the universe." Arui leaned in closer, discovering that the amplitude coefficient of the waveform was precisely 0.32—the numerical value running through all memories, which now transformed into the beat of the song.