Because this was the Expedition Team's first "permanent personnel reduction," Xi Fu and Gu Qiao, the team's leader and deputy, both took it very seriously and came to the scene together.
Perhaps because so many people had gathered, they quickly reached a conclusion.
The victim had died horribly, burned directly to ash, yet the surrounding objects had suffered almost no damage. This proved that the process of "burning to ash" had been exceptionally swift and violent.
Gu Qiao reached into the ashes and sifted through them twice, then shook his head. "Doesn't look man-made."
Xi Fu agreed. "Even if I struck with full force, I could turn someone to ash while they were unarmed, but I couldn't do it this cleanly. Not to mention that we're in 'Hyperspace.'"
Acting inside "Hyperspace" required the resolve to turn to ash yourself. Moreover, the Collective Interference Pattern formed by the four hundred people aboard had warning and control functions of its own. It would immediately lock onto and suppress energy or Spiritual Pressure fluctuations that exceeded the standard.
Once the two highest-ranking members of the Expedition Team set the tone, things became simpler afterward.
"He most likely accidentally triggered some taboo of 'Hyperspace.'"
"There really was colored light outside the porthole before he died."
"Before leaving Hyperspace earlier, he adjusted his circulation of blood and qi."
Those close to the deceased offered these speculations, and they quickly won the agreement of most people.
After being cooped up in "Hyperspace" for twenty or thirty weeks, everyone would take advantage of the brief return to normal spacetime to circulate their blood and qi, adjust their condition, or even seize the chance to do some cultivation exercises.
But if they had gotten too accustomed to doing it smoothly, then continued the same practice after returning to