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Long Qi felt the specialized vehicle's incessant vibrations and replied offhandedly, "It's been moving all along." Yuan Wuwei sneered. "That's amateur talk. You think I mean that bird? I mean the entire Space-Time Structure driven by that bird... You can see all this now because you're inside this Space-Time Structure. Otherwise, all you'd see would be those grains of sand that would instantly erode you away."
"Snake Language Lady and Auntie Kui already told me that."
"Mm-hmm. But now, the structure supporting this stretch of space-time is moving too. It isn't as stable as before." After a pause, Yuan Wuwei kindly offered the "amateur" a simpler analogy. "Think of the Relay Station, its satellites, and all of us drifting through this space-time as being aboard a ship—and that ship has already weighed anchor. The question now is, where does Captain Ronan intend to take us?"
Long Qi answered as though it were obvious. "Straight at that thing."
Yuan Wuwei clicked his tongue. "But there's another possibility. It might not be him taking us there. He might be getting dragged over too."
"Uh?"
"Not sure whether gravity and all that still applies in this special space, but if the difference in scale between the two sides is big enough..."
Before Yuan Wuwei could finish, Long Qi, who had been staring out the porthole, blurted out:
"Fuck!" At that moment, in the outer region of the Relay Station—which had already become unrecognizable, transformed into more than half of a monstrous bird—the ever-expanding, increasingly brilliant light was no longer anything like the pearl or stars people had initially imagined. It abruptly swelled, and before its radiance could reach its limit and take on any distinct outline, it silently shattered. The light vanished, and there was no sound, yet the powerful impact instantly