"Oh, Senior Zhou Xuan is here too." Xiao Zhonglin's tone was somewhat more restrained than usual, though he still carried that easygoing air unique to young people. He gave the phantom a slight bow in greeting, then walked to an empty spot beside the console and glanced at the star map data spread across its surface.
"You called me over to analyze Sasha's traversal trajectory?"
"Yes," Xu Wuyi said. "There are warning signs. The last time I fought him in the residence, the spatial fluctuations before he appeared were different from an ordinary tear.
An ordinary tear simply rips open a gap. His method of traversal produces an extremely faint Ridge-pattern Resonance at some point before he arrives. The signal is so small that conventional warning systems cannot catch it, but I can sense it."
"Because your Inner Landscape Tree absorbed its logic?" Xiao Zhonglin asked.
"Yes," Xu Wuyi said. "His skeletal structure contains spatial positioning ribbing. Before every traversal, that ribbing resonates faintly before his physical body does, leaving a shallow trace in the spatial structure near the target coordinates. I sensed it once during our previous fight, and I've memorized the waveform of that trace."
As he spoke, he pulled up all Spatial Disturbance records from the Northern Boundary Line over the past month on the console. The data was compressed into a continuous waveform stretching across the entire display. Its fluctuations varied in amplitude—some rose sharply like mountain peaks, while others were merely faint tremors, almost imperceptible.
Most of the peaks could be matched against the existing database to known causes—celestial fragment impacts, the natural dissipation of energy storms, and the small-scale movements of secondary Star Beast populations. But several places on the waveform shared the same subtle, easily overlooked characteristics.
Xu Wuyi enlarged those highly similar