Deep in the liquid methane oceans of Tau Ceti b, a school of glowing symbiotic jellyfish suddenly altered their swimming trajectories. The star-trace patterns on their bodies flickered in unison, piecing together the exact design of the mark on Arui's palm, resembling a giant musical score surfacing in the deep sea. Meanwhile, thirty thousand light-years away on the terrestrial planet Ethel, a child of a Primitive Tribe wrapped in animal skins was using charcoal to copy similar geometric symbols onto a rock wall—unaware that these very lines were the projection of a Symbiotic Ballad from the distant Stardust Train echoing through his dreams.
As Arui fell into a deep sleep within the Stardust Train's stationary pod, her consciousness was suddenly sucked into a chaos composed of light and mist. She saw countless glowing doors suspended in the void, each carved with the totems of different civilizations: the lava colossus of the War-Marked Civilization, the photon prism of the Spectrum Civilization, and the DNA double helix of Earth. Ice Drip's algorithmic halo lit up deep within her consciousness, projecting a line of fluctuating text: "Symbiotic dreams are a quantum entangled state transcending space and time."
When she pushed open a door engraved with the pattern of the Tree of Memory, she found herself in a meadow woven from stardust. Every blade of grass here sang a different melody, and the dew clinging to their tips reflected the dreams of children from various civiliza…
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