Everyone's attention was focused on the strange patterns that emerged, until they occupied an entire line, until a series of evenly distributed dots appeared after the symbols, until a void of white noise came through the listening channel, with a "signal lost" alert ringing from a nearby Magic Web Terminal, many finally seemed to remember how to breathe as they took a deep breath.
"The signal is gone…" A monitoring staff stood up from their chair, saying with a trace of confusion on their face, and then repeated again, "The signal is gone…"
The holographic projection in the center of the room was still active, with a clear image hanging in mid-air. Gawain's gaze was fixed on those "symbols" that emerged at the end, unmoving for a long time—they appeared to be composed of arcs and straight lines, grouped into sets of four to six symbols, separated by dots or short lines, inevitably stirring certain associations.
