As the Stardust Train swept past the Sculptor Galaxy, the symbiotic mark on Arui's palm suddenly bloomed with hourglass-shaped patterns—golden bands of light oscillating back and forth like a quantum pendulum, with each swing corresponding to the collapse frequency of a different timeline. When Ice Drip's algorithmic halo tore through the spacetime curtain on the star map, it announced, "Time-domain anomaly detected! At a temporal node in the Sculptor Supercluster, there exists a 'time-domain civilization' made entirely of pure time fragments. Its pendulum resonance is devouring the time connections of the symbiotic bedrock at 0.32 times the speed of light."
Outside the porthole, the once-stable galaxy cluster was producing a gravitational time-lensing effect. Stars were twisting like melting wax, and the stardust streams displayed spiral-shaped temporal grain. Auli's Photon Harp String emitted a shrill sound like rubbing clockwork gears, and the light particles condensed upon the strings scattered like the hands of a shattered pocket watch: "They are 'rewriting' time—just like playing a symphony's recording backward and then editing it at will."
Arui touched the mark, and the hourglass pattern suddenly sprouted tendrils that resonated with the time-domain rift—her consciousness was dragged into a world made of pendulums: here, stars were colossal pendulum clocks, planets were rotating hourglasses, and the forms of the time-domain civilization were like flowing temporal sca…
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