667. Sailing Across the Sea of Stars

If Li Zijian's Chinese teacher knew how he felt at that moment, he would surely find a way to jump up and punch him with a fist the size of a sandbag, letting him know who the real physical education teacher was.

Yet what Li Zijian saw was indeed a riot of colors brewing within the darkness. Colors that did not belong to this world bloomed before his eyes.

The dazzling colors seemed to come from the distant, boundless universe. The brilliant, ancient nebulae born from time immemorial were like a faraway ballad, murmuring softly beside his ear.

Li Zijian soon realized that he could no longer hear any sounds from outside.

The surroundings remained utterly silent.

Even the best headphones could only reduce the efficiency of sound transmission. After all, matter itself carried sound. Since no white noise was playing through the headphones, this silence felt extremely unnatural.

Li Zijian tried to turn his head and saw the scene around him.

He was surrounded by stars.

It was as if he had truly drifted into that lonely, frigid world where he could not encounter even a single atom. Li Zijian remained silent amid the silence.

"Director Lu?"

Li Zijian tried to speak, but all he heard was the echo of his bones.

There was not even any air in this world.

An inexplicable sense of fear gradually crawled up Li Zijian's spine.

It was humanity's fear of excessively vast spaces.

In this space with no up, down, left, or right, where nothing could be touched, the flaws of humans as creatures who had evolved with their feet planted firmly on the ground began to emerge.

Some said that if humanity could not break free from its dependence on the earth, it would never be able to embark on a