As the Stardust Train crossed the Antlia constellation, the symbiotic mark on Arui's palm suddenly revealed Marrow Core-like patterns—golden bands of light intertwined like neural pathways of life, every node corresponding to the heartbeat frequency of a living planet across the universe, yet their center displayed the fading shadow of a black hole. Ice Drip's algorithmic halo burst into crimson alerts on the starmap: "Origin of life anomaly detected! At the life core of this supercluster, there exists a 'Star-Marrow Civilization' composed of pure life energy, and its life resonance is collapsing into lifeless quantum foam at a rate of 0.32%."
Outside the porthole, nebulae once brimming with the halo of life were condensing into withered dust, countless translucent filaments of life snapping like withered nerves, dissolving into fluorescent powder the moment they touched the stardust. Ori's Photon Harp Strings emitted a near-death trill, the light particles condensing on the strings losing their living luster the moment they touched the star-marrow turbulence: "They are 'extracting' the origin of life—just like uprooting a forest entirely, all living planets are losing their symbiotic lifeblood."
Arui touched her mark, and the Marrow Core patterns suddenly extended tendrils, resonating with the star-marrow rift—her consciousness was dragged into a world made of flowing light of life: the stars here were beating hearts of life, the planets were breathing lungs of life, and t…
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