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Resonance has begun.

The gravitational wave frequencies of the two quasars began to gradually tune.

This tuning was faster than the previous two.

Firstly, Su Li had already accumulated two experiences and had become much more proficient in controlling the intrinsic frequency.

Secondly, because her quasar has stabilized over this period, the frequency drift is much smaller than when it first evolved.

In less than an hour, the gravitational wave resonance between the two quasars stabilized.

The intensity of singularity entanglement continues to rise.

The dark energy fluctuation curve began to slowly approach.

Seven decimal places.

Eight decimal places.

Nine decimal places.

Synchronization is stable.

Then, the resonance field was activated.

With the line connecting the singularities of the two quasars as the axis, an invisible dark energy field began to slowly spread in all directions.

It is not a gravitational wave, not an electromagnetic wave, and not a signal that can be detected by any conventional detection method.

But it does exist.

Fang Yan was the first to sense it.

His black hole was immersed in the resonance field.

Within his perception range, the surrounding area remained that dark, empty halo of dark matter. On the screen of the gravitational wave detector, only the stable resonance signals of two quasars were visible.

He saw nothing and heard nothing.

But in a very short moment, a faint light suddenly flashed in the depths of his consciousness.

It's not real light, it's a perception.

It's like standing in a pitch-black room with your eyes closed, and suddenly you feel a gust of wind blowing in front of you. You can't see the wind, but you can feel it.

Fang Yan held his breath.

He began to try to capture that glimmer of perception.

It's very light.

Like a plucked string, it trembled gently at the edge of his consciousness.

"Relax, don't rush to grab it." Lin Tian's voice rang out in the communication channel, his tone slow, as if afraid of disturbing something. "Dark energy is not something that can be grasped. The more you try to grab it, the more it will slip through your fingers."

"Calm down and feel its presence."

Fang Yan took a deep breath and slowly relaxed his attention.

He no longer tried to capture that sensation, but simply stayed quietly in the resonance field, letting the ripples plucked by the strings spread naturally.

Then, he felt it.

That "wind" began to become clearer.

It is no longer a fleeting, faint perception, but a silent, ever-flowing ocean.

This ocean is everywhere.

Dark energy is located at the edge of his accretion disk, on the surface of his event horizon, at that infinitesimally small point deep within his singularity.

"I...I felt it."

Fang Yan's voice rang out on the communication channel.

His tone remained calm to the point of being almost cold and hard, but if you listened carefully, you could hear a very faint tremor beneath that calmness.

That was a tremor Fang Yan had never felt before.

"Stay calm," Lin Tian's voice rang out again. "Don't rush to let the dark energy get close to you; let it flow towards you naturally."

Just as Fang Yan detected the dark energy, Li Changying also sensed it.

"Holy shit!" Li Changying blurted out.

This man, usually taciturn but ruthless in battle, now spoke with barely suppressed excitement, "It felt like someone suddenly turned on a light in a completely dark room!"

Next up is Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng's reaction was completely different from the first two.

He didn't speak, but simply let out a soft breath in the private channel.

A very long breath.

It was as if something that had been bottled up in my chest for years was finally released at this moment.

He started as the top rookie in the third star sector, entered the game with the Blue Giant Star route, and then switched to the Black Hole route, where he has been steadily progressing.

He knew how high the upper limit of the black hole route was, and he also knew that as a latecomer, there was a considerable gap between him and the first batch of senior students who had switched to this major.

But now, that gap has been largely closed.

Because of the affinity with dark energy, it was no longer something he could only look up to but never reach.

He got it too.

After these three people, the last one to sense the dark energy was Lu Xuejian.

Her black hole is immersed in the resonance field.

Fang Yan has already sensed the dark energy, and Li Changying and Zhao Zheng have also completed their senses one after another.

She alone never sent any confirmation signal.

"Xuejian?" Su Li's voice came through the private channel, tinged with worry. "How are things on your end? Is there a problem?"

Lu Xuejian did not answer.

That's because her consciousness is currently immersed in an extremely special state.

She sensed dark energy.

Moreover, they felt it more clearly and deeply than others.

Those dark energies flowed deep within her consciousness.

She felt very calm, a calm she had never felt before.

Her thoughts seemed to be immersed in a warm and deep ocean, and all her anxiety, tension and unease gradually melted away.

Only a pure perception remains.

She "saw" dark energy.

It's not about seeing with your eyes or scanning with a detector, but a kind of innate perception.

She sensed that the person in front of her was establishing a connection with her that transcended language through the resonance of the resonance field.

She even felt that she could hear his heartbeat.

It wasn't a real heartbeat.

It is the pulsation generated by the quantum entanglement of the quasar singularity.

"Xuejian?" Su Li's voice rang out again, this time even more urgent.

Lu Xuejian finally spoke.

"I...I'm fine." Her voice was very soft, as if she were afraid of disturbing the ocean. "I've never felt this good before."

Time passed by, second by second.

From dusk to late at night, from late at night to dawn.

Zhou Haiming stayed in the command center of the observation station, recording the status of each person every once in a while.

The dark energy affinity of the four people slowly increased as they were continuously immersed in the resonance field, growing little by little from a baseline close to zero.

This process did not involve miraculous growth or sudden leaps.

It simply climbs steadily, methodically, and steadily upwards.

Fang Yan's affinity was the first to break through the basic level threshold, reaching eleven percent of Lin Tian's.

Then there's Li Changying, ten percent.

Zhao Zheng, 9.5%.

As for Lu Xuejian, her affinity level eventually stabilized at 13%.

The tallest of the four.

Su Li secretly sent her a message in a private channel: "Xuejian, you're the tallest!"

But she knew in her heart what this number meant to her.

It means she can get one step closer to him.

The relay ended twelve hours later.

The gravitational wave resonance between the two quasars slowly receded, and the resonance field quietly dissipated as the last trace of dark energy fluctuations faded away.

When Fang Yan withdrew from the resonance field, the first thing he felt was not dark energy, but exhaustion.

That kind of fatigue wasn't physical.

It's the feeling of unease that comes after one's consciousness has been stretched.

It's like someone who has always lived in darkness being suddenly thrust into the sunlight. Although the sunlight is warm, the eyes need time to adjust.

Li Changying slumped into a chair in the lounge, staring at the ceiling and letting out a long sigh: "Awesome."

There is only one word.

But Fang Yan could tell that this one word contained everything.

Zhao Zheng did not go to rest.

He returned to the observation chamber, brought up his attribute panel again, and looked at it several times from beginning to end.

Then, he saved the newly added attribute annotation to his local database. In the annotation's notes column, he only wrote four words—"Don't let it down."

Lu Xuejian was the last to emerge from the resonance field.

When she walked out of the observation chamber, the first thing she did was not to record data or report to Zhou Haiming, but to walk to the door of Lin Tian's rest room.

She didn't knock.

She knew he was inside analyzing the complete data transmitted.

She simply stood at the doorway, placing the cup of water, which had been cooled and reheated several times, on the small table beside the door.

Then she turned and left.