The star projected a star chart onto the threads of the Definition Network. Every thread lit up, forming coordinates of absolute precision.
The coordinates pointed to the edge of the universe. A region that had never been explored. In the Source Definition System's records, that location contained "no definitions."
But the star chart did not lie.
"What is that?" Primordial Origin frowned.
Harmonic Leaping Note studied the star chart, her Thirty-Threefold Harmonics trembling in unison. Not from fear, but because her harmonics had sensed something in the direction of those coordinates-not a definition, not energy, not matter, but an "absence." An absence more absolute than the Annihilation Zone, where even the concept of "absence" did not exist.
But the stars on the cloak pointed there. The last trace Lin Ye had left behind pointed there.
"Go," Harmonic Leaping Note said.
Myriad Faces and Forms did not ask why. It had already split off a thousand scouting mirror images and sent them flying toward those coordinates.
The stars on Primordial Origin's cloak lit up together. The Zero Era Obsessions were saying-we're coming with you.
Harmonic Leaping Note took one last look at the cloak.
Thirty million stars still twinkled steadily, like a lamp that would never go out.
She turned and headed toward the edge of the star sea.
Behind her, the smallest star flickered once more.
As though saying-be careful.
The expedition traveled through the void for ten days.
On the tenth day, Harmonic Leaping Note's harmonics detected the first anomaly-not sound, but the absence of sound. Anywhere in the universe, her harmonics could detect at least a faint tremor of definitions, but when she extended them toward those coordinates, nothing returned. It was like calling into an abyss that swallowed even the echo.
Myriad Faces and Forms' scouting mirror