As the Stardust Train crossed the Perseus galaxy cluster, the Symbiotic mark on Arui's palm suddenly distorted into a spiderweb pattern—golden bands of light peeling away like gradually rusting chains, every node corresponding to a critical point of cosmic entropy values, while a shattered hourglass totem materialized at the core. Ice Drip's warning halo diffused in a grayish-fog pattern, outlining a continuously collapsing vortex on the star map: "Ruin-Realm anomaly detected! At the edge of cosmic heat death, a 'Ruin-Realm civilization' composed of pure entropy-increase energy exists, and its Entropy-Silence wave is devouring all ordered structures at 0.32 percent the speed of light."
Outside the portholes, the stars that sustained the galaxy's operation winked out one after another, transforming into cold black dwarfs. Dark matter filaments disintegrated into disordered dust under the erosion of the Entropy-Silence wave, and even space itself began to ripple with distortions. Auri's Photon Harp String emitted a near-death lament, the light particles condensing on the strings plunging into the entropy-increase vortex the moment they formed, decomposing into foundational quantum noise: "Those gray fogs are deconstructing all order," Auri said, his voice carrying a rare tremor. "The Ruin-Realm civilization is dragging the universe toward final heat death with the power of Entropy-Silence."
Arui's consciousness was dragged into a chaotic dimension: there were no physical enti…
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