"Material from the homeland?"
It sounded like a rather hard-to-understand statement. I looked curiously at Tawell. "Where? The former Fifteenth Celestial Region?"
Tawell and Siweisi both revealed helpless expressions. "Your Majesty, what do you think?"
I gave an awkward chuckle. "Wasn't I just trying to lighten the mood... All right, no more nonsense. What exactly does that mean?"
Siweisi took a deep breath and adjusted her mood. It was the first time I had seen such extreme agitation—and even a faint look of doubt in her own worldview—on the face of this female adjutant who always remained calm in any crisis. She seemed to have trouble believing what she was about to say herself. "Your Majesty, every civilization should have a place of origin. Even the God Race and the Shilin Apostles had worlds where they first originated. You understand that, don't you?"
I nodded. "Mm, everything returns to the womb..."
Siweisi said, "...Your Majesty's summary is fairly intuitive. That's right. Inside this meteorite's core is a piece of material from the homeland. The deep analysis has not yet been completed. It is very possible that it merely appears to have similar properties, but... theoretically, matter from every world carries the 'registration information' of its place of origin. Everything in existence belongs to a registry. Even identical things from two separate worlds—say, the same element of iron—can have uniquely identifiable feature codes. Once that code is confirmed, we can determine where the unknown substance in the meteorite came from. At the current rate of progress, the probability that it came from the Homeland World is extremely high."
I nodded. I knew about this. Every fundamental particle in every world bore the imprint of its own world. Even if such particles were equally widespread in other worlds, they could still be