The Stardust Train traveled through the intermittent threads of the Symbiotic Disconnection Realm. The intermittent Taiji Totem in Arui's palm still retained the chill of a miniature black hole. On Ice Drip's starmap, the silver-gray light bands and ink-black bands of the Disconnection Realm alternated regularly, like the breath of the cosmos.
Yet, upon closer inspection, wisps of light at the edges of the dark bands could always be seen inexplicably "stagnant"—resembling frozen currents, maintaining a flowing posture yet devoid of all vitality. "The energy fluctuations of the Primordial Intermittent Memory Solder Joint are tending toward stability," Ice Drip's data stream stabilized, "but..." It paused, pulling up a set of comparative spectra, "the 'kinetic-static symbiotic force' readings for the past three stellar sectors are abnormally low, as if sucked away by something."
Before the voice faded, the train suddenly plunged into an eerie "tremor"—not a physical shaking, but a state where all objects switched between "solidification" and "wild frenzy": the console buttons were at times completely motionless, failing to respond even when pressed (static yet losing motion), and at other times went wildly out of control on their own without needing to be touched (dynamic yet losing control). The totem in Arui's palm burst into a halo interwoven with indigo and ocher. The golden patterns, like frozen waves, half-maintained a surging arc (motion), while the other half transfor…
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