The picture painted by the pioneers is all-encompassing, and the simulated sandpit is vast enough to embrace the entire sea of stars. Latecomers take this as the starting point of their journey. Packing the sandpit into their handbags, they follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. It was not until the stars fell and she looked back that she realized: through all the meetings and partings along the way, she had journeyed ahead of everyone else, stepping among stars unrecorded even by the sandpit. "The meaning of the universe must lie beyond the universe."