The jolt of turbulence shook Zhang Ze awake. He opened his eyes to find himself sitting on an airplane.

A pretty flight attendant was crouched beside him, politely asking if he was feeling unwell anywhere.

"I'm not, I just..." Zhang Ze stopped mid-sentence, realizing this scene seemed somewhat familiar.

'Before I traveled through time, I was on a plane...'

The memory became increasingly clear, flames seemed to flicker before his eyes. Zhang Ze turned to look at the flight attendant's uniform.

xxx Airlines, exactly the same.

He raised his hand to look at his watch; the time was 12:29.

And in one minute, there would be a plane crash.

Instinctively, under the flight attendant's gaze of 'are you a hooligan?', Zhang Ze reached out and grabbed her wrist, trying to inform the crew of the impending disaster and attempt some kind of rescue.

But before Zhang Ze could speak, the plane suddenly lost speed, the engine stopped, and it plummeted toward the earth.

Amid the passengers' screams, the plane began to break apart. At the same time, a golden light enveloped Zhang Ze.

With the golden light flooding his sight, Zhang Ze lost consciousness.

Exactly the same as in his memory, nothing had changed.

But when Zhang Ze opened his eyes again, he didn't find himself rising from a grave; nor was he in the beautiful, fragrant landscapes of Four Continents.

Instead, he was standing on a ship's bridge, with a floor-to-ceiling porthole in front of him.

Outside the porthole was the boundless universe, with the Blue Star quietly suspended in eternity.

A minor artificial flight accident seemed to have no impact on the planet itself.

However, Zhang Ze hadn't the time to ponder, as in the next moment, the beautiful Blue Star shattered into fragments before his eyes, just like that plane.

Completely shattered, dazzlingly shattered.

It happened so suddenly that by the time Zhang Ze reacted, there was no longer an opportunity to reflect. All he could do now was mourn and remember.

Of course, it wasn't just the Blue Star that shattered, but also the ruddy Sun, the pockmarked Moon, and everything in this starfield.

It was as if an invisible wind blew across the universe.

Wherever it passed, it all turned to nothingness.

"Is this real?" Zhang Ze asked into the air.

"Real, things that happened before," Li's voice echoed in Zhang Ze's ear.

Li appeared out of thin air, comfortably settling on Zhang Ze's shoulder. It leaned against Zhang Ze's head, pointing at the porthole to explain.

"This isn't reality but a dream composed of our memories.

"You can understand it as us sharing the same dream...

"By the way, your leg is pressing on my stomach," Li said, hooking Zhang Ze's neck with its tail.

Zhang Ze looked at the reflection of himself and Li in the porthole, suddenly asking a peculiar question. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"So, you blew up my home?"

"Aliens invaded Blue Star, kidnapped a cold and handsome man, and blew up Blue Star as part of the plan?"

"Give me back my home."

Li, "?"

"No, can you be normal? How did you make that connection?"

Zhang Ze, "Don't all sci-fi movies play out this way?"

Li sighed, gesturing for him to see for himself.

The scene outside the porthole began to rewind. The Blue Star reappeared, and as the image zoomed in rapidly, Zhang Ze saw the plane that crashed before his time travel.

Freeze-framed in the air, the plane's nose was already ablaze, and the entire aircraft had broken apart in the middle.

Looking down from the point of rupture, a clearly defined line could be seen.

On the right, everything was peaceful, on the left, nothing but ruins.

"The Earth Sea blew up your home," Li said. "The surge from the Earth Sea, like a gust of wind, swept over your home, and then your home blew up."

"It wasn't just your home—many people's homes blew up, including mine."

With that, Li waved a little hand, and the scene on the porthole began to change again.

A golden planet appeared before Zhang Ze.

"This is my home. Impressive, right?" Li looked at the golden planet with some unfamiliarity.

"I could tell you its exact name, but you wouldn't understand. However, you can call it the Amber Civilization.

"During the era of exile, that's what everyone called us."

Zhang Ze, "I get it. Surely you evil pig-like aliens wanted to research the ultimate secret of the universe, which led to the Earth Sea disaster.

"And to solve the calamity, you went to Blue Star to kidnap cold, handsome, wise young men, attempting to use an evil ceremony to..."

Zhang Ze's words were cut off as Li bit his head.

Li, "Shut up and listen."

Zhang Ze, "Oh."

After spitting Zhang Ze's head out of its mouth, Li began narrating a rather uninteresting story.

The story started off somewhat bland. Like most civilizations, the Amber Civilization began with the first life underwater.

After a long period of evolution, a dragon-like species first gained intelligence. They left the ocean, conquered the land, conquered the sky, and finally departed from the cradle known as their mother planet.

After leaving the mother planet, the development of the Amber Civilization advanced rapidly. They conquered their star system in just 40 millennia.

And even after that, the civilization's progress didn't halt. The entire Empire united, continuing to expand, until eventually, the Empire's banner was almost everywhere in the universe.

Li kept the description brief, skipping over the past glories and quickly getting to the point.

Li, "When the civilization reached its peak, our scholars proved the existence of the Earth Sea."

"At that time, we called it the Primordial Tide.

"Of course, you can call it other names. It has many—Black Barrier, Subspace, the Deep... I remember you also have a similar theoretical model called the Dirac Sea, which isn't quite accurate but close enough.