Maybe a year, or a decade, or a hundred years, the blue tramp quietly passed by one famous or unknown celestial body, even far beyond the confines of the solar system.

Until one day, I woke up with a strong sense of sluggishness.

The resistance was very great, Liu Hao could feel that his speed was dropping sharply, and the strange sense of distortion gradually disappeared.

The black curtain in front of him was boundless, and not a single starlight leaked out, so heavy that it made people feel suffocated.

Liu Hao watched silently like that, waiting for his ending.

Until a huge object suddenly appeared in front of him out of thin air and startled him.

It can be said to be a building, with a faint white light emitted throughout, soft and restrained, and the top is facing Liu Hao's "nose tip".

Incomparably huge, larger than the mother planet of the earth, so big that Liu Hao couldn't find the right words to describe the shock brought to him by this magnificent building.

Looking down from the top, the neat cross-shaped edge strips stretch infinitely, and the bottom is far away.

The material is heavy and rustic, but the surface is very smooth, I don't know whether it is made of stone or metal.

Liu Hao bumped into it, and unexpectedly did not touch any entity, and entered directly into the interior, as if the building was just empty of form and substance.

Inside the building, it is white and not dazzling, and it is impossible to tell where the light comes from, and it is ethereal like a fairyland.

This reminded Liu Hao of the experience of taking a sightseeing cable car when he was traveling in Huangshan in his previous life.

It was early in the morning, and the sun had not yet fully revealed its gorgeous posture, and the clouds and mist that shrouded the mountain peaks had not dispersed.

Sitting in a cable car that is transparent on all sides, surrounded by a white mist, it is tightly wrapped in a white mist, as if in the clouds.

I don't know if it was because of nervousness or being shocked by the beautiful scenery in front of me, several friends in the same company, including Liu Hao, all stopped talking and fell into an eerie silence, only the creaking friction between the cable car and the sling and the heavy gasps between everyone's noses sounded from time to time.

At that time, this thing was still holding back his urine, and took the opportunity to grab the hand of the big-eyed girl next to him, pretending to be a warm man.

The descent lasted about a few minutes, and seemed to be getting slower.

As if calculated, just as it was about to stop, a rippling silver luster ball jumped out from behind the white light, and Liu Hao crashed into it without having time to react.

The ball is very textured, it looks very dense, and it is a little viscous, like liquid mercury, and it ripples from time to time.

However, when the liquid touched Liu Hao, the light film that had been accompanying him and protecting him suddenly disappeared, as if it had melted into the mercury-like liquid.

The silver liquid quickly pounced, wrapping tightly around his core.

The sharp pain hit from all directions at the same time, like falling naked into burning molten iron, making his tentacles curl up.

Except for the silent wail, Liu Hao seemed to be powerless, and in a trance he even seemed to hear the squeak of the core being burned, like the pork belly on the iron plate that was roasted and flowed out of oil.

For a moment, Liu Hao was sure that he must have fallen into the legendary Abi Hell, being gnawed by thousands of ghosts and tortured by thousands of knives.

Unlike any previous danger, there was no time to prepare, let alone any effective defenses, so he could only silently endure all attacks.

Unlike barriers, the goal of a barrier is memory, similar to a form of purification.

The mercury-like liquid is aimed at the core itself, and in a short period of time, the originally strong blue core has lost a circle.

Liu Hao, who was struggling violently, found that he could move again, but the severe pain had already made him a little confused, so he instinctively fled.

The smooth, mirror-like entrance was now gone, surrounded by a silvery liquid, unable to orient itself and unable to see the border.

In the process of escaping, the blue core is like a piece of butter thrown into a pan of oil, running and struggling in vain, rapidly becoming smaller and melting in the silver liquid as it goes.

In a few breaths, the core shrinks to 50%, then 40%, 30%, 20%, 10%, 5%, 2%, 1%....

The core gets smaller and smaller, and consciousness degrades with it.

Degenerating from a higher intelligent creature to a reptile, and from a reptile to a single-celled organism, not knowing who you are, not knowing where this is, not knowing what is happening, the only benefit is that you can no longer feel pain.

After a few devours, Liu Hao reached a certain limit of the blue light cluster, nearly six times stronger than when he started, and seemed to have reached some kind of consummation.

The silver liquid caused him to slide quickly from this state of perfection to the bottom, almost completely dissipating, 0.1%, 0.01%, 0.001%...

In the end, Liu Hao flickered unwillingly, and disappeared in the silver liquid, unable to see it again, as if he had never been in this world.

There, apart from the silvery liquid that gradually regained its calm, it looked like a mirror, and it didn't seem to leave a trace, as it had been for eons of years.

In the dark, there seemed to be a sigh, and I couldn't really hear it.

I don't know how long later, but suddenly on this day, the calm water shook like a drop of water falling in, causing a circle of ripples.

Immediately after, more ripples appeared, layer upon layer, as if something was about to tumble out under the vibrating mirror. The ripples eventually turned into waves, and then they became like a pot of oil boiling violently.

With the steaming and jumping of the waves, at the place where Liu Hao disappeared, a colorful picture emerged.

The first picture is a little blurry, but you can still vaguely see that it is a babbling child, white and fat, with small eyes but round eyes.

Holding a red ball in his arms and wearing earthy blue open crotch pants, the white and tender little bird proudly poked its head out of the gap.

The next wave showed a bear child with a red scarf, sitting up straight on a chair made of wooden planks with his hands behind his back, and his mouth seemed to be loud.

Then there was a teenage boy with a fluffy mustache, shirtless, showing clear muscle lines, sweating profusely chasing a basketball, running happily and cheering loudly.

Then there was a tall, thin young man, a cream-colored turtleneck jacket over a black leather jacket, holding a slightly smaller hand in his left hand, a marshmallow in his right hand, and a happy but silly smile on his face.

For the first time, I was led to every department in a brand-new suit and shiny leather shoes, meeting all my colleagues, and my young face was full of solemnity and longing.

The night before the wedding, I drank with my fox friends and dogs in laughter and scolding, but the cold wine could not extinguish the excitement and eagerness in my heart.

......

As the waves roll, they become more and more intense, and the pictures are constantly appearing, and they are becoming clearer and clearer.

Until the last wave jumped, the picture of an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with very full apple muscles and two ponytails appeared, with a shy and angry expression, as if alive, vivid and happy.

The image did not disappear immediately, but lasted for a while.

The surrounding silver liquid seemed to be attracted by something, converging towards a center from all directions, forming a huge vortex in the blink of an eye, and it was the same place where the blue core disappeared before.

I don't know where the liquid that came from the ground disappeared, but the surroundings are still rushing and pouring there.

The image of the little girl finally disappeared, and a point of light appeared there.

The point of light is blue and expands and grows at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The expansion lasts for a short time, and after reaching a certain limit, it begins to coalesce inwards until it coalesces into a much smaller crystal.

The blue crystal is like an octahedron carved from a superb sapphire, shaped like two small pyramids upside down, combined together, crystal clear, brilliant, and looks joyful and proud under the reflection of the mirror-like silver liquid.

If you look closely, you will find that the surface of the crystal is covered with irregular dark patterns like totems, some curl like branches, some bloom like stamens, and some are like countless symbols patched together, mysterious and weird.

And on each plane of the octahedron, there is a small protrusion like a branch.

Slowly, as the crystals grew larger, the small protrusions grew longer and thicker, eventually growing into eight stout tentacles.

This convergence process finally stopped, and the volume of the blue crystal stopped growing, ten times larger than when it was first born.