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Now, Earth has become a distant homeland for humans, like Jerusalem. Around the time Hia received Airi’s letter, another moment as important as the invention of the flying car occurred. It was the appearance of a round creature. The fact that humans had developed a life form optimized for adaptation to space became a big issue. This life form, which had protrusions and hair all over its body like a dust doll, was called an amoeba. Originally, amoeba meant a single-celled organism, but the name amoeba was given to the new life form that would survive in the near-zero space.
The amoeba prepared to escape, bouncing around inside the spaceship. Because it can be synthesized in the body even without air, it did not particularly breathe. Just like a fish living in water, the amoeba could move only through photosynthesis. Space was hotter than expected. The closer it was to the sun, the more it felt like summer. Although it was a universe where people thought there was nothing, there was always light. Just as the ocean was full of water and the Earth was full of air, space was full of energy. Whether it was dark energy or light energy didn’t matter.
Just as people took their dogs for a walk decades ago, people took amoebas for a walk in space. The amoeba bounced and guided the people, as if a planet held by a large baobab tree was shaking and floating away. Sometimes they would spin around, and sometimes they would blink their big eyes and stare. Amoebas were more unpredictable than people thought. That’s why people found the discovery of amoebas so amazing. Their black fur was soft as if combed, shiny like ebony, and also shone in various colors when exposed to light. The colors of the universe were not CMYK or RGB, but were called arongsaek, arunsaek, and urean colors.
When black ink is applied to paper that gets wet with waves, various colors come out, when you open an opaque tidal flat shell, the shallows look like a combination of waves and foam, and a large sky shadow is cast on the powerful stream of water rising from the fountain on an autumn day. The amoeba began to move slowly, conscious of the clusters of nearby stars twinkling and twinkling, the movement of the hazy constellations, and the huge halo of the dazzling galaxy cluster. Sometimes the amoeba jumped very high, sometimes it dashed quickly, and sometimes it slowly rotated around the spaceship.
Amoebas were sometimes a reddish, mature rosy color, sometimes a yellowish, fluffy chick color, and sometimes a mysterious bluish-reddish color. They were all colors of light. Amoebas expressed their emotions with color. So viewers could figure out their emotions visually. When an amoeba was a mysterious color, it was angry. Then nothing could calm it down. People had no choice but to endure and wait for a long time.