As the Stardust Train passed through the Coma Cluster, a spiral pattern suddenly emerged on the palm of Arui's Symbiotic Flare — bands of golden light rotated like the spiral arms of a galaxy, each corresponding to the folding frequency of a different spatial dimension, yet revealing a black hole-like collapse singularity at the core. When Ice Drip's algorithmic halo tore through the spacetime curtain on the star map: "Spatial anomaly detected! At a gravitational node in the Virgin Supercluster, there exists a 'Star-Vortex Civilization' composed of pure spatial folds. Its spatial collapse is devouring the dimensional connections of the Symbiotic Network at 0.32 times the speed of light."
Outside the porthole, the previously orderly galaxy cluster was producing a bizarre spatial lensing effect; stars were distorted like kneaded plasticine, and the stardust streams exhibited vortex-like spatial patterns. Auli's Photon Harp String emitted a glass-shattering shriek, and the light particles condensing on the string were stretched into infinitely thin filaments the moment they touched the star vortex: "They are 'folding' space — like crumpling the full score of a symphony into a paper ball, and all dimensional connections are losing their meaning."
Arui touched her mark, and the spiral pattern suddenly extended tendrils, resonating with the star-vortex fissure — her consciousness was dragged into a world made of spatial folds: here, stars were massive spatial whirlpools, planets …
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