No matter what Hao Ren was planning, the weakling in the jar had no idea what her future held. This little brainless thing remained devoted to her duties as the embodiment of evil forces, enthusiastically wrecking things—tearing a wad of old newspaper to shreds while providing her own sound effects, thoroughly enjoying herself.
After messing around for a while, she started making a fuss. The little thing, whose stomach had shrunk from hunger, slapped at the jar in search of food. Vivian tossed in some minced meat, and the weak little chicken happily began to eat. By then, her changes had become so obvious that even someone as careless as Lily could see them at a glance.
She was especially quiet while eating, and when asking for food, she also knew to actively signal that she was hungry. The latter was a sign that she was gradually learning to "communicate." Even if her method of communication was crude and violent, it showed that she was beginning to understand the importance of expressing her wishes.
While Hao Ren and Vivian cared for the little thing, the Giant Turtle Rock Platform crossed the vast darkness of outer space. After the ship entered subspace, the long journey of 2.2 billion light-years no longer seemed so distant. When the warped darkness around the ship unfolded, a strange and somewhat sparse starry sky appeared before everyone. This was the place discovered by the drone swarm's forward outpost.
Just as the data indicated, this was a region of material vacuum. Within a span of ten thousand light-years, not even an asteroid could be found in space. Yet it happened to lie at the point where the matter of two galaxies converged. As a result, the region beyond the vacuum's boundary was filled with hazy clouds of