Ye Buyu silently picked up her communicator, watched the discussion scrolling endlessly across it, and spoke in an even tone.
"I knew you wouldn't come up with anything anytime soon, so I decided to rely on wisdom from the people."
As she spoke, she raised the communicator in her hand with a smile.
A newly registered alternate account, without so much as a profile picture, posted a call for ideas on the Star Network.
[Suppose that one day, the Universe's energy expanded to its limit, immediately followed by a period of collapse. How could we survive that period?]
The post sparked an extremely heated discussion the moment it went up.
A stream of comments about waiting to die flooded the screen, and a large proportion of the Calamities were even looking forward to that day.
"What, the Universe is going to be destroyed? Great! Can it explode today?"
"How would I get through it? With my eyes closed. Just wait to die and be done with it."
"What an interesting hypothetical. But how could any creature possibly face the collapse of the Universe head-on? Unless they're a God."
"I agree with the person above, but those of us who aren't Gods should just wait to die. What's the point of struggling?"
Amid the vast swaths of pessimistic comments, some people were also trying to apply their own ways of thinking to this topic, which seemed so distant and unreal.
"Interesting. First, let's assume someone really can handle the collapse of the Universe. Then the point of this topic is obvious: how to get this world through that catastrophic crisis.
"Maybe find a box to put everything in-all of everything that currently exists-and then let it back out after the Universe has collapsed?"
"Oh, that's a good idea. But how do