Si had recently been researching the concept of "eternal indestructibility," striving to overcome this hurdle and make it so the race truly would not "die." To that end, it needed some things for experimentation—resurrected civilizations, for example.
That was why Si had proactively asked Huo Gu whether there was a need to revive other civilizations.
Otherwise, how could Si possibly volunteer for something so thankless and burdensome for the race? Huo Gu's concerns had been entirely unnecessary.
"Who's there? Come out! Stop hiding!"
Just as Huo Gu and Si were conversing, Perpetuity suddenly and inexplicably emitted a warning signal. Its gaze locked onto a point somewhere in space. Though it was in Collector form, it had already entered a combat-ready state.
Huo Gu and Ming immediately extended their senses across the region Perpetuity was staring at, but neither radar waves nor gravitational waves detected any information.
[Perpetuity, what happened?] Ming asked.
"An 'anomaly' has appeared near you! Ming, leave your current position immediately! With you as the coordinate origin, the anomaly's coordinates are 00341, 00421, 00235..."
Whether it was true or not, Ming treated it as real and obeyed.
Its celestial-scale body suddenly distorted, then suddenly reappeared several light-hours from its original position.
Ming, Huo Gu, Si, and the other successors continued scanning the coordinates Perpetuity had reported, again and again, yet they still found nothing.
There was only an empty expanse of vacuum. If one insisted there was anything there, it was merely interstellar atoms drifting through space.
[Was it a sensory error? I can't feel anything. What about you, Huo Gu?]
Ming asked Huo Gu, but Huo Gu had sensed nothing either, so he directed the question toward Si.
"No. Si, what about you?"
"I don't know. I'm not combat-specialized. I was focused on explaining things to the