Long Qi almost thought he was about to fall into that deep, boundless starry sky.
For a time, that starry sky had clearly been drawing closer to them, moving toward Earth Local Time-Space amid endlessly surging Grey Matter Miasma.
Or perhaps Earth Local Time-Space was sinking into that starry sky?
Although Long Qi had yet to touch a single star, beneath the radiance of the stars, he felt an especially cold, penetrating clarity wash over him.
Every one of those stars was like an eye, coldly watching this side with an exceptionally critical gaze, as if they wanted to strip away every meaningless embellishment from this time-space and find a fitting place for themselves instead.
Hiss... was this some fucking hallucination?
Long Qi shuddered. He had no idea why that thought had suddenly come to him... The doubt lingered in his mind for only a few seconds before the familiar buzzing sound rang out.
If Long Qi had guessed correctly, it was the sound of Magneto-Optical Mica's "Manipulation Thread" applying force to perform "Segmentation" on this world.
Long Qi looked up, but what he saw was no different from before.
He did not know whether this was Raven's doing or Zhang Yingying's idea. But when he lowered his head again and looked at the constantly approaching starry sky, he was shocked to discover that those still somewhat blurry, flickering starlights—or at least the closest cluster—had clearly changed shape again.
They had become brighter "Star Pellets," looking especially clear and lively. Each one seemed active, throbbing, constantly stirring and shaking the "Sensing Chain Network" spread around it.
Long Qi froze for half a second, then quickly turned to look toward the Hurricane Mosquito Pillar. It was probably the best "reference point" he could catch for both vertical and horizontal comparison.
Sure