Liu Di slowly nodded.
Little Bottle Cap seemed to smile only at two people: Gu Fan and Liu Di.
She came to the Sun Shark's side, her expression returning to calm.
She extended her palm and gently touched the shark's skin.
The Sun Shark, which had been incomparably violent moments ago, suddenly grew quiet.
The crystal on Little Bottle Cap's forehead flickered as she softly said, "All things have life. You too are a wondrous creation born of this ecosystem. Don't worry. I will let you endure forever."
As soon as Little Bottle Cap finished speaking.
Countless ripples appeared across the liquid methane lake.
Silently, white cylindrical flowers bloomed upon the water, glowing from within like lanterns filled with fireflies.
The lake reflected the sky, dotted with countless stars.
It was exceptionally magnificent.
The next moment.
Countless white threads emerged from those cylindrical flowers, swaying in the wind as though they possessed life.
The countless threads grew longer and longer, attaching themselves to the unusually calm Sun Shark.
Then.
The threads seemed to release some sort of dissolving substance.
The skin on the Sun Shark's surface began to be divided piece by piece, then lifted into the air by the white threads.
Beneath the skin were the shark's red, still-wriggling muscle fibers.
The white threads continued their dismantling.
They stripped away chunk after chunk of the Sun Shark's muscles, removed its mountain-sized internal organs, and separated strand after strand of shark nerves from the flesh and fat.
Then, together with the nerves, they plucked out the shark's enormous eyeballs one by one.
They removed its nearly countless teeth, then separated its skeleton piece by piece.
The entire process was utterly silent.
Even so, in a daze, one could seemingly hear Angels singing a hymn, their melody slow and their voices