Lord of the Stars
Chapter 1921

Dream Beyond the Veil (Part One)

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Newly acquired information was ultimately limited. Even a short segment of someone's life could not possibly present the full course of that "Fugitive."

Ronan had added a considerable amount of analysis and speculation before roughly sorting out the clues.

He did not dare claim that this was exactly what had happened more than a decade ago, but these were the only pieces of information he had to use as reference.

Based on the intelligence currently available, however, he could derive one extremely troubling possibility: those outside the "Tattered Divine Cloak" might know—or at the very least, strongly suspect—that a spacetime plane existed beyond their range of perception.

Whether it was the "Thirteenth District" or the "Abandoned Mine Isolation Zone," the identities and origins of those "Fugitives" who appeared and disappeared out of thin air were the greatest mysteries. Memory-reading technology was nothing remarkable to the "Thought Star Cluster," and their brutal "dismemberment modifications" of the "Fugitives"—splitting one person into two or even three parts for use—could not possibly be for the sake of controlling costs, could it?

"Patrolling" and "pursuing" were of little significance. With the "Thought Star Cluster's" "Cybernetics" technology and production capacity, they could casually dispatch an entire legion and fill every inch of the "Thirteenth District," inside and out, until not even a needle could get through.

Therefore, the true foothold of the "outside" was most likely "message transmission," especially cross-boundary transmission.

Ronan tried to consider matters from the "outside's" perspective: Since they could not figure out why these targets appeared or how they disappeared, they marked them and established connections, then waited to see where they would ultimately end up and in what state. Ronan did not know the specific technical details, but he could guess the basic design. It was to use one half

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