As the Stardust Train sped through the dark matter mists of the Spitzer Cloud, the Symbiotic Flare in the palm of Arui's hand suddenly began to ripple like the tide—golden light bands diffused layer upon layer like the ripples of cosmic microwave background radiation, yet each crest abruptly collapsed upon touching the edge, revealing a shattered light-cone totem at the core. The warning halo of Ice Drip distorted into a spiral, sketching an eerie Klein Bottle projection on the star map: "Retro-light anomaly detected! Within the residual field of the cosmic origin singularity, a 'Retro-light Civilization' composed of pure creation embers has been found. Its source energy is undergoing entropic backlash at a rate of 0.32%, devouring all symbiotic connections."
Outside the porthole, the dark energy threads sustaining the galaxy's operation snapped like blown fuses, stars dissolved into scattered light dust amid gravitational imbalance, and even stardust particles decomposed into pure energy noise the moment they touched the retro-light turbulence. Auli's Photon Harp String emitted a shrill screech like fingernails scraping against crystal; the light particles condensing on the string had barely formed before disintegrating into quantum foam within the primordial tide: "The polarization directions of those light streams are completely disordered," he pointed to the distorted nebula, "the Retro-light Civilization is using creation embers to scorch all non-originating forms of ex…
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