"Something spectacular might happen later..." Xiao Xue said mysteriously as she grabbed my hand. The mysterious look all over the brat's face made me intensely curious. I knew she must have "seen" something through those special eyes of hers, but I didn't ask. This kid had the same problem as her mother: what she knew, she never said; what she said, she never said in full; and whenever she did say something complete, vivid, and grammatically sound, she was basically bullshitting people.
The engineering ships began deploying probes with jump capability throughout the space. These probes instantly reached the edge of this tiny "universe," only tens of thousands of kilometers in radius, and formed countless symmetrically distributed Space-Time Distortion Generators. The purpose of these generators was to "invert" space. Space Inversion sounded like one of those things that sounded impressive even if you had no idea what it meant, but in reality... it really was something that sounded impressive even if you had no idea what it meant. The simplest explanation was this: suppose space was a Rubik's Cube with countless layers, and the observer was a creature capable of understanding only orderly images. If the side of the cube facing the observer was scrambled, that side became incomprehensible to the observer. Normal space was orderly, like a neatly arranged Rubik's Cube, while observers were conscious beings within that space. Under normal circumstances, all information was presented to observers on the same level: mass, light, gravity, size, and all those familiar adjectives used to describe external objects. Normally, they all existed on the same "level," allowing you to perceive them. That was the Rubik's Cube's orderly state. The inversion process scrambled that orderly state. Once an entity was inverted, it became like a scrambled side of the cube. All its