The golden sand sea is boundless, and heat waves visible to the naked eye are steaming under the blazing light of G-type stars. The air is distorted by the high temperature, turning the distant sand dunes into shaking mirages. There is no temperature difference between day and night here. No matter how the climate changes, there is no rustling of life activities, only the sound of Eternity's wind blowing sand grains. It is monotonous and boring, but it is the ultimate tranquility that Xiao Han pursues.
He was half-buried in the warm sand, like a part of the desert itself, with billions of pores stretched open, greedily swallowing the torrent of photons pouring down. The pure star energy, uncontaminated by any atmosphere or traces of civilization, was converted into power deep in his cells with an unprecedented efficiency, repairing the subtle losses caused by being in a "noise" environment for a long time, and slowly but surely improving his biological energy base.
This feeling of contentment and tranquility has been absent for a long time.
Time has lost its meaning. Maybe a few days have passed, or maybe a few months. He is completely immersed in the joy of energy absorption and absolute loneliness. His consciousness is empty, no longer thinking, just existing, like a stone absorbing sunlight in the desert.
However, absolute silence itself is also an ultimate sensory experience. When this silence becomes the only background sound, any tiny trace of disharmony will be infinitely amplified.
At first, it was just an extremely weak, almost imperceptible vibration. It was not a sound transmitted through the air, but acted on the deeper space structure itself, as if someone was tapping the "membrane" of the universe very slightly from a very far away place.
Xiao Han's brows moved almost imperceptibly, but he did not open his eyes. Perhaps it was the aftermath of the super Nova explosion in a distant galaxy, or it might be geological activity (although he did not sense active crustal movement on the planet under his feet). Ignore it.
But the vibration did not disappear. Instead, it continued with a fixed, slow rhythm. Boom... boom... boom... It was like the heartbeat of a sleeping giant, weak but persistent, penetrating the barrier of space and accurately transmitting to his highly sensitive perception field.
The irritability, like tiny grains of sand, begins to accumulate again.
He tried to shield it and completely focus his perception around himself. But the vibration seemed to act directly on his nerve endings and could not be completely isolated.
Boom... boom... boom...
The rhythm remains unchanged, and the intensity seems to increase extremely slowly.
Finally, Xiao Han opened his eyes suddenly, his golden pupils flashing with cold displeasure.
Endless!
He just wants to find a quiet place to bask in the sun! Why is there such inexplicable noise everywhere?!
He sat up and scanned the desert with his eyes as if they were real. Super-Senses locked the direction of the source of the vibration with unprecedented precision - it did not come from the planet under his feet, nor from the stars above his head, but from... the depth of the thin interstellar gas cloud that enveloped part of the star field!
There is something there.
A thing that continuously creates regular spatial vibrations.
Whatever it was, it made noise.
That's enough.
He didn't even bother to analyze whether it was a civilization relic, a natural wonder, or some kind of cosmic phenomenon.
His body leaned forward slightly, and the next moment--
Boom!!!
A Heat Vision that was pure to the extreme, condensed to the extreme, and contained unparalleled kinetic energy and will, burst out from his eyes. It was not a broad scattering, but condensed into a blazing white ray as thin as a hair, but as bright as a super-new explosion. It tore the space in an instant, spanned a long distance, and shot with incomparable precision to the source of vibration deep in the Nebula!
He didn't retain any power. This time, he wanted to completely and permanently eliminate this source of noise!
Wherever Heat Vision passes, space itself seems to be slightly distorted, and the thin interstellar dust is instantly ionized and vaporized, opening up a short, pure vacuum path.
In the depths of Nebula, a forgotten "Star-Core Stabilizer" left behind by a civilization too old to be verified is operating silently. It is not a weapon or an energy source, but more like a huge "gyro", fine-tuning the gravitational constant of a small nearby star field through regular space vibrations to prevent Nebula from premature collapse or dissipation. It has been running like this for millions of years, silently, and even the civilization that built it has been reduced to cosmic dust.
Today, it is still sending out the next regular space pulse according to the established program.
Just one microsecond before the pulse is about to be sent--
That destructive white ray crossed the starry sky and hit the core energy hub of "Star-Core Stabilizer" accurately and without deviation!
No explosion, no debris.
Under the crushing force of the absolute power and energy level, the entire stabilizer, together with a small space around it, was like an ice sculpture thrown into a steel-making furnace. It was completely evaporated, ionized, and returned to its most basic particle form in an instant, leaving no trace of its past existence.
That regular space vibration that lasted for millions of years--
Stopped abruptly.
Deep in Nebula, true, deathly silence returns.
The Heat Vision in Xiao Han's eyes goes out.
He stood there and Super-Senses carefully scanned the area to confirm that the annoying vibration had completely disappeared without any residue.
The world is clean again.
The irritability in his heart slowly subsided and was replaced by satisfaction again.
He sat back down in the sand dune, adjusted his posture, and prepared to continue his sunbathing.
However, he didn't know how far-reaching the impact his random attack had just now.
The ancient stabilizer was destroyed, and the microgravity balance it had maintained for millions of years was instantly broken.
Centered on that piece of Nebula, a silent great change began to occur--
The interstellar gas cloud, which originally rotated slowly and remained relatively stable, lost its subtle but crucial regulating force, and its internal gravitational distribution began to get out of control.
The gas cloud begins to accelerate and collapse inwards!
Matter further away is pulled by gravity and gathers like a snowball!
A process of Nebula collapse and the birth of new stars that originally took millions of years or even longer to occur has been greatly accelerated in a violent and sudden way!
A new stellar breeding ground was brewing crazily in front of him because of his impatient wave!
Xiao Han seems to sense the violent changes in the gravity of Nebula and the accumulation of energy in the distance, but he has no interest in it. As long as it does not produce noise that directly disturbs him, it does not matter to him whether the piece of Nebula turns into a star or completely dissipates?
He closed his eyes again, enjoying the hard-won tranquility.
And at the extreme edge of his perception range, some weak signals that were originally undetected due to Nebula's shielding and the presence of the stabilizer were also vaguely exposed due to Nebula's violent activity and the disappearance of the stabilizer...
It seemed like... something very, very ancient, deeply hidden...
... the energy residue of artificial creation?
Super-Senses of Xiao Han automatically captured these extremely weak new signals, but he simply classified them as "irrelevant background noise" and did not pay any attention to them.
He just wants to bask in the sun.
But the web of fate often begins with the most insignificant thread.
The "Golden Solitude" land he was looking for for himself might not be as isolated from the world as he imagined.
And his behavior style of absolute self and absolute power is disturbing the universe he is trying to escape in ways he did not expect.