The Bessel Open Star System had no planets, only a single small star.
On the dim red dwarf, which had only a tenth of the sun's mass, countless black spheres bobbed in and out of sight on the surface of a churning ocean of plasma.
These floating-island-like black spheres numbered eighteen thousand. Even the smallest was as large as Mercury, while the largest rivaled Earth.
That sounded like a lot, but on a star, they were still mere specks. Even more than ten thousand of them together occupied little space.
The black spheres were hollow and filled with buildings. Some of the larger ones even housed ecosystems.
These black spheres were the open star system's main population centers.
One of the smaller spheres housed the Lingzhu Life Science Center, where the renowned doctor Fanny was repeating experiments in a special research institute.
She had incited Halogen and the people from Myriad Eyes to fight, causing countless casualties, but Lingzhu's boss had covered it up for her.
No one knew anyway, and the Myriad Eyes Special Kill Squad were all dead, leaving no witnesses. Moreover, Fanny had confidently claimed to have discovered the so-called Seven Stars Medical Skill, so Lingzhu's boss had instead poured enormous funding into her research.
But since returning, Fanny had tried more than a thousand different gel purities and solidified over a thousand test subjects. Even after long waits, none had shown any results. Varu's self-healing remained the sole exception.
"Where did it go wrong? Experiments 998 and 999 were already extremely close to Varu's condition. Could even the slightest difference make it fail? But when I solidified Varu, I never imagined anything like this would happen. I didn't record his condition at the time..."
"I can only keep trying, little by little..."
"There must be some