As the Stardust Train sailed away from Symbiosis and The Other Realm, the Taiji Totem of Sameness and Difference on Arui's palm still retained the tactile sensation of that thread of void dark pattern. On the star map of Ice Drip, the milky-white and colorful halos of The Other Realm were slowly calming down, but at the edges, fine stardust inexplicably dissipated—as if its trajectory had been erased by some invisible force. "Abnormal energy residue detected," ripples appeared in Ice Drip's Data Stream, "but no known fragmentation stream characteristics matched." Arui stroked the shattered stardust remnant; it had once borne the initial memories of old and new iterations, but at this moment only a cold void remained, as if it had never existed at all.
Just then, the train violently trembled. The totem on Arui's palm burst into a halo intertwined with silver-gray and ink-black, the golden patterns breaking apart link by link like a fractured chain, and the core imaged a broken "continuity and discontinuity" totem. Ice Drip's alarm system emitted a harsh buzzing sound, and spiderweb-like cracks surfaced on the star map: "Discontinuity anomaly detected! Within the existence essence of the Symbiotic Universe, a 'discontinuous fragmentation stream' has appeared, stripping away 'continuity' (existence continuity) and 'discontinuity' (existence intermittency) at a rate of 0.34%, attempting to dismantle the universe into an absolutely continuous pure continuous domain and a thorough…
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