As the Stardust Train traveled through the causal pathways of the Symbiotic Nirvana Realm, the double-helix nirvana totem in Arui's palm suddenly dimmed—its golden lines flickering like a dying candle flame, while a fractured cosmic pendulum totem materialized at its core. Ice Drip's alarm halo collapsed in concentric circles, outlining an expanding domain of silence on the star map: "Cosmic anomaly detected! At the ultimate boundary of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'Torrent of Returning Silence' is devouring the sounds, colors, and energies of all dimensions at a rate of 0.32%, attempting to freeze the cosmos into eternal stillness."
Outside the portholes, the dynamic balance sustaining the multiverse cracked like fragile glazed glass. The roar of the War-Pattern race's lava mountains halted abruptly, freezing into pitch-black sculptures; the photon lighthouses of the Spectrum race lost their brilliance, transforming into cold dark matter; the poetry, songs, mechanical roars, and even the chirping of insects and birds of Earth Civilization were all erased into nothingness within the torrent of returning silence. Arui's photon harp strings emitted a final tremor, the light particles condensing on the strings shattering into dust in the silence before they could form: "All vibrations are vanishing," his voice was as raspy as sandpaper, "this is not ordinary stillness; it is meant to completely reduce the 'traces of existence' of the entire universe to zero."
Arui's consciousness…
Chapter 356