[Post-Apocalypse + Superpowers]
Qian Ye sat leaning against the dusty ground, staring up in a daze. His gaze was like a laser, fixed straight on the sky.
An old man passing by asked:
"Young man, there's not a single cloud in the sky. What are you staring at?"
"I'm counting how many blue eyeballs there are up there."
The old man looked at the cloudless blue sky and shook his head. "Didn't you go to school? The blue is just the color of the atmosphere refracting light. Where would blue eyeballs come from?"
Qian Ye asked quietly:
"Then what's beyond the atmosphere?"
The old man froze for a moment. Then he too looked up, his gaze passing through the familiar blue barrier as he murmured:
"The universe. The black universe..."
The blue sky was like a curtain, and within it lay a lush world teeming with life.
Beyond the curtain, however, stretched endless darkness and the unknown.
The curtain seemed as much a prison as a shield.
In a daze, the old man seemed to see pairs of invisible eyes in the sky, eyes that gleamed with arrogance and greed. Where their gazes met, a lonely little planet called Green Star floated in the void, weak and helpless.
In the instant Qian Ye sneered, Green Star seemed to turn into a cold chessboard, its grid lines crisscrossing. A tiny chess piece looked up, stubbornly gazing out the window at the stars.
