On the Nth Floor, the "roof" of The Crossroads, the most extraordinary observation deck in the Special Operations Bureau headquarters building—even after seeing countless incredible sights through those doors, Yu Sheng was still deeply shaken by the small island floating in nothingness and the magnificent streams of light spanning the sky above it. The nothingness and the radiance at its end even stirred certain associations in him, making him think of... the end of the world.
But perhaps that association had not come from the scenery before him, but from the topic at hand.
Yu Sheng shook the ice in his glass, watching the translucent cubes collide again and again in the water. After a long while, he finally spoke. "I've heard that the world outside The Crossroads is vast. On the other side of those 'doors,' I really have seen many distant sights. Li Lin and the others told me that even with the Special Operations Bureau's influence, they still couldn't reach the end of the world. Beyond Star River, no one knows how many more sights there are in the vast universe."
"You're right. This world is indeed very large. Although most people living in The Crossroads have never considered such things, people like us still need to think in the long term," Baili Qing said unhurriedly. "Even so, we still have more than an eighty-percent certainty that we can determine 'Huli' came from 'outside,' rather than from some distant, undiscovered place in this universe."
Yu Sheng could not help frowning. "Why?"
"The reason is comprehensive," Baili Qing said patiently. "We analyzed samples of her hair, and some of their components exceeded our understanding. We assessed the level of civilization in the 'hometown' from her memories. If a civilization of that level truly existed, then this universe should