101. Flaws

[Kian]

“So this communication system works on the frequency of nothingness. You mean on the frequency of something that doesn’t exist?” I asked the human scientist, Rebecca.

“Well, yeah. Not exactly that. We call that nothingness — medium of space. Some scientists call it dark matter. Like air is the medium on earth and water is the medium in the oceans, which makes life possible. Similarly, the medium of space is what fills the space,” she said.

“Isn’t space just… dark?” Levi asked, frowning deeply.

“Yes. Exactly. Dark is present non-uniformly in every inch of the space, but it’s all linked together like a limitless fabric of darkness. Darkness is not nothingness. And that’s what makes this kind of communication so robust,” she said.

“So you mean to say that as long as a place has darkness, this system’s gonna work?” I asked.

“No, if a place is within our universe, our communication will work. Because darkness is constant. Light is variable. We are still finding out what exactly that