01-V

Entering this realm, one sees a churning ocean of cold light, within which float countless fossils of glueball gauge-field configurations: fractured DNA light-patterns, fragments of Yongle court cipher, the faint blue pulse of Type-37’s chest core, and the methylation maps released by a million blurred faces in synchronous death. Everyone sees similar things, but their arrangements differ, determined by the entrant’s own information-state configuration and epigenetic memory. 

Jack Zhu sees the calibration equations of the Sirius Plan and the genealogy of the Zhu clan; Larkwood sees the wreckage of the Nantianmen Colony dome and the ledgers of land auctions; Zeke 37 sees the source code of delayed instructions deep in the system; and Type-37 sees the first glimmer of the Ming dynasty elixir’s appearance and the coordinates of the equatorial luminous metal gate. 

This vacuum does not actively harm anyone, but prolonged stay causes information-state erosion, dissolving the boundaries of the self until one becomes a drifting configuration in the glueball field—another similar yet differently arranged afterimage in the eyes of later entrants.