bioinnovel Chapter 488, Third Party!
Chapter 488, Third Party!
Data is synchronized back to Earth.
Due to bandwidth limitations and distance delays in interstellar quantum entanglement channels.
Zhang Yan and Guan Xing waited for a full six hours in the deathly silent sea lane.
During those six hours, Zhang Yan transformed the white tiger back into human form.
He leaned back in the driver's seat and closed his eyes to rest.
The image of that giant white hand tearing through space kept replaying in my mind.
Stargazing makes me anxious.
He kept flipping through scanned copies of various ancient books in the passenger seat.
A communication connection notification sound is heard.
Nie Qingcheng's voice came over.
She spoke a beat slower than usual.
It's clear that they were carefully choosing their words.
"The data has been received. I had the technology department and the Great Wall team's think tank conduct a full cross-analysis."
"in conclusion?"
Zhang Yan opened his eyes.
"No conclusion has been reached."
Nie Qingcheng's voice was unusually solemn.
"The characteristics of this white light energy body belong neither to any community nor to any known civilization we have encountered in the interstellar trading channel."
"What's worse, I used the highest level of access to search the open database of the Cosmic Sea Observation Protocol."
"Even the Eye of the Abyss doesn't have any records about it."
It exists even though it is not recorded by the highest evaluation agency in the universe.
"Beyond the norm."
Zhang Yan uttered these three words.
"Yes, it's beyond the standard," Nie Qingcheng said.
"Its act of destroying the Yuanwang-class exploration ship doesn't resemble war."
"It's more like cleaning up."
"There was absolutely no hindrance."
"I found it."
The stargazer suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the communication.
She pushed a virtual screen in front of Zhang Yan.
The image above is a scanned copy of a yellowed ancient book.
"This is a fragment of a scroll from Guantiange, dating back eight hundred years."
"It records high-dimensional fragments captured by a previous observer during deep meditation."
Guan Xing pointed to a line of ancient seal script above.
"The white light patrols, hunting and guarding the path; when it is encountered, all is silent, and all things turn to ashes."
"The White Light Patrolman".
Zhang Yan read the name aloud.
"The ancient texts speculate that this is a being that specifically roams in hyperspace channels."
"They do not participate in the struggle for supremacy between civilizations, nor do they devour the world."
"They only do one thing."
"Hunting down travelers who attempt to cross distant star systems."
The sound of the stargazer was somewhat hoarse.
"They are the cleaners in the waterway."
Nie Qingcheng remained silent for a moment on the other end of the communication.
Qin Xiao's voice suddenly squeezed in.
With a hint of deliberate relaxation.
"If things really don't work out, just come back. I just stocked up on two cases of good wine, waiting for you to come back and drink it."
Nie Qingcheng's voice cut him off.
Qin Xiao chuckled twice and then said nothing more.
"Zhang Yan, you now face two choices."
Nie Qingcheng regained her rational coldness.
"First, turn back, abandon the Ruins, and return to Earth to defend the gate network to the death."
"Second, let's move forward and bet that this hand hasn't appeared again in 26,000 years."
Zhang Yan did not answer immediately.
If we turn back and retreat, we'll never get access to the self-healing technology of the gate network.
Three hundred years from now, the self-sustaining mode will end, or the pressure from the Eye of the Abyss will cause the gate to collapse.
Earth is also in a dead end.
Moreover, the parent body of the community is still approaching the solar system.
Retreat is a slow death.
"I won't back down."
Zhang Yan held onto the control lever.
"Then be prepared to be crushed at any time."
Nie Qingcheng did not try to dissuade her, but her tone became even more somber.
"Come back alive."
Communication ended.
Zhang Yan pushed the power of the Tiangongzhixin channel scanning module to its limit.
"Observe the stars, input the white light energy characteristics from the black box into the radar system, and perform a depth prediction scan of the route ahead."
"clear."
On the radar screen, green lines representing safe navigation routes and red areas representing danger intertwined rapidly.
Two minutes later, the scan results came back.
Guan Xing gasped.
Although she tried her best to restrain herself, Zhang Yan still heard it.
"What's wrong?"
"About a day's flight ahead."
Enlarge the star chart when observing stars.
"On the spatial walls of the shipping lane, there are a large number of traces of white light energy."
"The frequency is exactly the same as what was recorded in the black box."
Zhang Yan stared at the glaring white patches.
"How long have these marks been there?"
"Calculated based on spatial decay rate."
The stargazer's fingers flew across the keyboard.
"Very new, no more than three hundred years old."
The White Light Patrolman who destroyed the Guixu Giant Ship 26,000 years ago.
They continued to operate on this waterway for three hundred years.
If the Chaos Mech continues to fly straight along its original route.
A day later, they will crash into the White Light Patrol's hunting grounds.
"Avoid it."
Zhang Yan gave the order decisively.
"I'm replanning the flight routes."
The stargazer's fingers flew across the keyboard.
A massive amount of computational data cascaded across the screen like a waterfall.
Five minutes later.
A new, winding route appeared on the star map.
"This is the only safe route that can avoid the area where white light remains."
Guan Xing pointed at the screen.
But this will take us at least two more days, and...
She zoomed in on a node in the middle of the route.
"We must pass through this area on the way."
Zhang Yan looked over.
That area was not marked as a red danger zone on the star map.
There were no safe zones marked in green.
It was gray.
It was labeled with two words: Unknown.
"Whether it's unknown or not, it's better than becoming a target for the White Light Patrol."
Zhang Yan pushed the control lever.
The thrusters on the back of the Chaos Mech reignited.
The pale blue tail flame left a long trail of light in the dark space.
The mech changed direction and veered off course.
We sped off toward that gray, unknown node.
When the radar scans the edge of the gray area.
A very faint point of light flashed.
It was so fast that it was almost imperceptible.