"If this world is full of darkness, I would like to turn into a star to light up the entire night sky... The starry sky is so shining... It is because there is me, you, and everyone standing deep in the stars..."

The song he and Mark sang together in Sun Tan's mind echoed in his mind. The song gradually became distant and blurry. He felt his body falling into the deep sea. He sank behind him and then everything around him sank into darkness. The stars rotated and turned into luminous circles after luminous, and Mark's figure disappeared in the center of those apertures. Mark knew that he had touched the space bubble, and the scene that changed rapidly in front of him was the result of his jumping in the space bubble...

He wanted to say something and do something, but he couldn't move. There was only darkness in front of him. His eyes were so tired that he couldn't open it at all. Sun Tan could only use his last strength to press the communicator switch. If the people on the spacecraft received the signal, they would definitely notice him, and then he fell into a deep coma.

The space bubbles produced by the pulsar explosion were not as soft as the star gate they were riding on before. Even though Sun Tan wore heavy protective armor, he was still greatly impacted when moving in the space bubble. In order to gain some forward kinetic energy, he discarded part of the armor, resulting in a greatly reduced protection efficiency. Now under this protective equipment, Sun Tan was covered in blood and his organs were seriously damaged. The fire of life was as weak as a candle in the wind. This was already the best ending that Mark had tried his best to exchange for him...

Sun Tan's ears were filled with vague voices, singing and various voices of people talking, among which he was familiar with and he didn't know. Sun Tan suddenly realized that perhaps this was the feeling that Mark often told him, like a dream, but he was obviously very awake... Whenever he deliberately captured the information in it, the sound soon disappeared. Sun Tan suddenly thought of the wave-particle duality in physics, and he thought of the double-slit interference experiment, which made countless physicists feel headache but unexplainable...

In the presence of an observer, the particles passing through the gap are converted into waves, leaving scattered ripple marks on the light screen behind. In the absence of an observer, the particles keep the essence of matter unchanged, so they pass through both sides of the gap, and the traces left are also two regular straight lines.

Could it be that my own existence plays the role of this observer? Or, everyone belonging to this universe is essentially observer, those things that affect us... Once we realize their existence, their own state will collapse and turn back into a disordered probability cloud, so we cannot prove their existence no matter what.

But who are they? What do they want to tell us? Sun Tan's consciousness began to become blurred, his thinking speed began to slow down, and the vague sound began to become clearer and clearer. He knew that this was his body that began to collapse, his organs were necrotic, his blood was stagnating, his brain cells were withering rapidly, his reason and memory were disappearing, and he kept falling into the abyss of nothingness. Because of this... he heard that sound, right?

"My vital signs are disappearing, and my 'observation' of this world is gradually weakening, so I am affected more and more severely... But how did Mark feel this feeling?"

Sun Tan's questions could not be answered, and no one could give him an answer. Thinking began to become more and more difficult. In the end, he gave up thinking and let his body fall. The same should be true compared to Mark's side. Sun Tan sighed in the dark spiritual abyss. He didn't even have an oxygen bottle, and his armor was as damaged as me... The situation must be worse than mine now.

Indeed, as he thought, Mark's condition was extremely bad. To be precise, his vital signs had completely disappeared. Now he is no different from a corpse floating in the cold universe. If he continues like this, his only fate is to be completely frozen into ice in the low temperature, his body will be frozen with this ragged metal, and then shattered into countless pieces in a collision with space garbage. Of course, the universe is so wide that perhaps he will never hit an obstacle and be pulled by the gravity of one star after another. Finally, after countless years of baptism, he turned into dust and fell on one of the planets...

It should have been like this, but what Mark saw... was a different scene.

He saw himself falling downwards, and then the next second, but the previous image did not disappear. Instead, it was superimposed with the self that appeared behind him. It looked like images that were generated continuously, and it was different from Sun Tan's consciousness gradually moving towards nothingness. At this time, Mark felt that his thinking was extremely clear. He could "see" the tiny holes on the surface of the protective suit on his body, and even "see" his tiniest pores. He didn't know what kind of state he was in. Even though his eyes were closed, he could see more clearly than before.

Mark didn't know what kind of state he was in now. He had just pushed Sun Tan away and fell in the opposite direction. Now there was nothing he could use to speed up, and even the oxygen to sustain life was exhausted. He had just given the last bottle of oxygen to Sun Tan. After all, he was the one who was heading for life, and Mark was about to fall to death. He just survived with that. Maybe he could hold on until the rescue arrived.

"Let him go, you belong here."

Mark recalled the sound he had just heard, just like the "eyes" he heard in front of the star gate, without any words or pronunciation. The meaning of the sentence came directly into his mind. This time, it was the clearest thing that Mark heard, so he made the final decision without thinking. Of course, even without this sound, he would use this method to send Sun Tan away.
Chapter completed!