"Inhale—Exhale—"
In the virtual outer space of the universe, Richard took a deep breath and surveyed the stars all around, eventually locking onto one of them.
He slowly raised his hand, aiming distantly at that star, gently pulling it toward him.
In an instant, the entire space of the universe began to warp and deform. The rest of the stars fled rapidly into the distance, while the one Richard selected approached quickly, appearing before his eyes.
It was a young main-sequence star in the hydrogen-burning stage, slightly larger than the Sun, with an overall orange-red hue.
Orbiting it were a total of seven planets. Among them, the planet in the fourth orbit appeared blue, with only a green patch at the equator, like a decorative spot.
Richard reached out, pulled the planet closer, and saw it clearly.
This was a planet with life, similar to Earth, but over ninety percent of its surface was ocean, with only a massive island at the equator, which was the green area seen earlier.
