The cold, boundless cosmos unfolded before her eyes like a scroll painting, adorned with countless brilliant, shining stars.
Jiang Che saw the magnificent Butterfly Nebula. Nebulae are interstellar clouds of cosmic dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases, encompassing nearly every type of extended celestial body besides planets and comets.
The nebula before her looked just like a butterfly. Its overall color was a dreamlike, phantasmal magenta, and its outstretched wings resembled roaring flames, as if it were flying through the cosmos—a truly magnificent sight.
It seemed close enough to touch, but in reality, it was likely hundreds of light-years away. The sheer volume of the nebula was unimaginably vast. Before it, the planet humanity depended on for survival was but a speck of dust—or even less. And an individual was more insignificant still.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Zhou Chen asked with a smile from beside her.
