The moment he saw the humanoid figure made of starlight, Liu Zhi immediately thought of the Star Spirit from E-96. Its situation looked much the same as the Star Spirit's.
The next instant, Liu Zhi guessed that this might be the Plane Consciousness trapped here.
But he quickly dismissed that guess.
That was because he saw that the figure was actually being projected between the ground and the ceiling by a machine below.
The machine didn't look very large. It was a square, silver object, about ten meters long, wide, and tall. In this enormous space, the humanoid figure occupied nearly a third of the room, and the machine beneath it was almost impossible to see.
The reason Liu Zhi noticed the machine at all was that he heard its stuttering mechanical noises.
Following the sound, Liu Zhi spotted a machine that looked like little more than a pile of wreckage, struggling to make its way toward the square silver machine.
Unlike the machine set up in this Mysterious Space, the one making the stuttering mechanical noises below had been smashed beyond recognition.
From a distance, Liu Zhi could make out that it had originally been some kind of Drilling Machine. He could even see something resembling a drill bit at its front.
But only the front third of the machine remained. Behind the drill bit lay a mess of gears and parts. In places, wires poked out from inside the machine, with faint sparks of electricity flickering at one end.
Every step the machine took sent more gears and parts tumbling from its body.
Yet after the fallen gears and parts hit the ground, they kept running on their own. Liu Zhi had no idea how that worked.
Looking more closely, Liu Zhi noticed that parts of the machine