As the Stardust Train crossed the residual pulse of the Crab Nebula, the symbiotic mark on Arui's palm suddenly took on the pattern of a memory chip. Those golden bands of light were no longer static totems, but rolled like a Data Stream, with every ripple reflecting the discontinuous history of an unfamiliar civilization. Ice Drip's algorithmic halo marked an abnormal zone on the starmap: at the gravitational equilibrium point between the Milky Way and neighboring dwarf galaxies, there existed a "Styx Nebula" composed of memory particles, its entropy fluctuation forming an eerie mirror resonance with the frequency of Arui's mark.
"Quantum tunneling effect of memory particles detected." Ice Drip's halo projected a translucent stream of memories onto the porthole, each particle wrapped in faded images—the War-Pattern clan's lava war banners fluttering in the void, the Spectrum clan's photon libraries turning to flying ash, Earth's Great Wall collapsing into dust. Ori's Photon Harp String let out a mournful sound, and the light particles condensed upon the strings shattered one after another: "These are civilization memories forcibly stripped away, undergoing gradual entropy increase within the Styx Nebula."
Arui touched the porthole, and the memory particles suddenly converged into a vortex, revealing the outline of a crystal-like civilization. Its architecture was constructed from memory crystals, its urban veins formed by flowing rivers of memory, but at this moment the ri…
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