Countless sparks danced across the endless darkness. From birth to extinction, they lasted only an instant, yet their endless ranks cared nothing for that fleeting light.
In truth, they were roaming freely through the darkness, searching for a path to the next universe. But the darkness was far from peaceful. The erratically shifting anomalies could swallow those wandering points of light at any moment. Though they meant no harm, who ever cared about an ant crushed underfoot?
Within the darkness lay many strange channels, like networks of veins. In some, dim points of light traveled onward; others rapidly dissolved behind the lights, until those lights reached their final destination...
Who am I?
Where am I?
After those two questions, more and more doubts and images seemed to begin weaving together-
I'm Luo Qi from Earth... an ordinary person in the world. My last memory was a car accident...
I'm Luo Qi... the genius Luo Qi from Water Blue Star, the Luo Qi who devised the plan to destroy the world...
No, I'm Luo Qi from Orange Star, the Luo Qi who left the Solar System during the extrasolar war...
A flood of images and memories churned. Countless memories and sensations threatened to make his consciousness lose itself, but in the end, they formed a single Luo Qi.
Luo Qi saw one scene after another, at once unfamiliar and familiar: a car accident, a body riddled with bullets collapsing into a pool of blood, a barren red sky and landscape...
These were fragments of memories both known and unknown to him. All manner of wars... wandering... destruction... and, finally, the passage across universes-
He remembered crossing into another universe with two other space-level civilizations. Inside that black hole was a contingency left behind by the Regional Administrator.
Any ordinary