All the raw data sent back by the Clear River Delegation soon appeared before Saine.
Inside the mechanical laboratory in Evil Swamp Time-Space.
The vast light screens originally used to display the Evil Swamp Node Project parted to either side. Skynet projected the hollow rule veins, samples from dead, silent stars, and every image the Clear River Delegation had recorded in the ruins of that lost civilization, one after another.
The Clear River Delegation was using only a Sky Net Sub-unit.
Limited by its processing core, data access permissions, and cross-dimensional transmission conditions, the mechanical forces there could perform only the most basic trace identification. Saine's own ability to discern truth, the computational scale of Skynet's main system, and the high-dimensional rule samples sealed within the Magic Cube were all far beyond anything a single delegation could match.
Saine did not immediately draw a conclusion.
First, he reviewed the Clear River Delegation's entire investigation.
From the first Mechanical Probe entering the gray-blue Dead Star, to the activation of the hollow rule veins, to the unexplained disappearance of the probe's energy and mechanical rules, the Magic Cube broke every image down into finer fragments of rules.
Saine then brought up the source-devouring remnants from the Dead Silent Dimension.
They formed a gray-white fracture in the rules that had fallen completely dormant.
The essence and life that had once belonged to that entire dimension had long since vanished, leaving only a drained shell. Even when Saine stimulated it with the Magic Cube, he could draw out only the faintest response from the past.
The source-devouring remnants from Final Silence Time-Space were in a different state.
They still retained a little activity, but the rules of the Lord of Final Silence and the Final Silence Royal Court held them firmly in check. Whenever