Machine Sealed for Three Billion Years

Yue Yuan saw it, and so did the other pilots aboard the Lyra, but seeing was all they could do. They could only watch helplessly as the rhomboid crystal shifted position.

The other scientists aboard the Lyra showed no reaction at all, because aside from those connected to the Consciousness Linking Device, no one else had noticed anything.

The Lyra's detection instruments had found nothing either. Well, no—the crystal's delayed disappearance had been seen on an optical level, an effect much like when they had encountered that rhomboid Drift Bottle.

The rhomboid crystal appeared aboard the Lyra with lightning speed. Unlike the Drift Bottle they had encountered before, it appeared inside the engine room.

Humanity knew its mode of movement was Quantum Macro Tunneling, but to them, its effect was no different from Teleportation. It easily crossed the Lyra's solid barriers, appearing as though it had made a high-dimensional jump.

After completing this action, it simply hovered quietly inside the Lyra's engine room, its purpose unknown.

Just as humanity was puzzled, that signal appeared again. "All right, the item has been delivered to you according to the Creator's settings. Information regarding the Creator's Great Voyage has also been sent to you. If there is nothing else, I will open an exit from the Small Universe and send you away."

What?!

That was it?

"Uh, what exactly did the Precursor Civilization leave behind?" humanity hurriedly asked.

Only after the rhomboid crystal appeared in the Warp Engine Room did humanity realize that the signal speaking to them did not originate from the crystal, but from some crevice within this space.

When the pilots shifted their attention back to the source of the information, they discovered that the crevice's position was not fixed. It seemed to change over time according to a certain