At first, the Unknown Civilization had been too far away to see Dream Lyra in full. Now Dream Lyra was right in front of them, close enough to feast their eyes on—but none of them had the mind to look, because they had discovered that the originally calm Calabi-Yau manifold had developed a slight abnormality.
At the same time, the exterior of the warship before them also sped up its writhing. Its surface became even more creased; from a distance, it was like countless membranes rippling in water with the current, while up close, it resembled an endlessly churning Cthulhu scene, leaving one bewildered, terrified, and entranced.
Clang...
It was as if they had heard a note from deep within their consciousness, a note that seemed to linger in this microscopic world for a long, long time.
An auditory hallucination.
But at the very moment that auditory hallucination appeared, the distorted exterior of the warship before them seemed to be stirred by an invisible force, and that twisted surface spread outward in all directions like an illusory shadow.
The scene made it seem as if a real sound had rippled out from inside the warship.
Thump...
Immediately after, another hallucinatory sound appeared, and just as before, the warship once again sent its distorted exterior rippling outward in the form of an afterimage.
Clang... twang...
Inside the Positive Triangular Warship, before this group of life-forms from the Unknown Civilization could figure out what was going on, those auditory hallucinations appeared one after another.
And as each hallucinatory note appeared, that warship continuously sent afterimages rippling out in all directions, while its own body rhythmically expanded and shrank like it was breathing.
That definitely was not sound. Sound could not exist in the Microscopic Quantum World.
"Look at this—what's going on?" a