Chapter 355: The Fountain of Youth (12)
The moment her body became suspended in midair, Everly’s heart leapt into her throat, and a powerful sense of panic instantly seized her.
She had thought she would fall into the void, then helplessly roll down the slope, tumbling head over heels and getting thoroughly battered.
However, when Everly, trapped inside the ball of thorns, collided with the image of the planet, countless dense streams of information suddenly emerged from the surface of the image.
They sprouted from the image of Earth, gathering strand by strand until they formed several enormous, cloud-like tentacles that blotted out the sky, completely enveloping Everly.
The tentacles carried an ocean of information. Whenever Everly’s gaze swept across their surfaces, countless tiny, rice-grain-sized buds would emerge wherever her eyes landed. Once she moved her gaze away, they would wither and collapse like water plants left behind by a receding tide, rustling as they shrank back into the tentacles and vanished.
Paralyzed by the thorns, Everly could not move, and inevitably, her gaze lingered a little too long on one particular cluster of buds.
Sensing that they were being observed, the tiny bodies of those buds immediately began to swell like balloons being inflated. They grew larger and larger, cracks splitting open across their petals, until one strange flower after another burst into bloom, each vying to display its splendor before Everly.
Every flower was a record.
Within the flower centers of the blossoms crowding into her field of vision, Everly saw the explosion of an ancient supernova. She saw Ediacaran organisms writhing in a vast primordial ocean. She saw a mysterious flying craft descend amid flashes of lightning and thunder. She saw grand sacrificial ceremonies taking place upon ancient lands. She saw towering buildings of reinforced concrete rising from the ground…