The Silver Heart Civilization's Probe Team was frantic. They realized the severity of the problem: at such close range, they still could not detect anything. Did that not mean the entire Great Voyage Organization would be unable to detect it as well?
The unknown was what made things terrifying.
The situation was obvious now. They could not detect the other side, while the other side could detect them!
"Captain, the Heavenly Maiden Civilization is telling us to stop. We—"
"We are the Silver Heart Civilization, not the Heavenly Maiden Civilization. Our mission is to uncover the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's true nature. They tell us to stop, and we stop? Do we have no pride? Keep moving forward at maximum Warp!"
The captain of the Silver Heart Civilization Probe Squad was equally stubborn, directly ordering the Probe Team to change its target to the signal source seventy-four Astronomical Units away.
He simply refused to believe that they could not detect something from seventy-four Astronomical Units away. If they could not detect it from there, then they would get right up in its face and scan it. He refused to believe they still would not find it.
Yet this move immediately brought Ierna's third warning: Foolish civilization, this is your final warning. If you do not stop, do not blame me for being impolite!
The captain of the Silver Heart Civilization Probe Squad had backbone as well. He immediately had the communications officer broadcast toward the Void ahead: Quit playing tricks. If you are going to be impolite, then so are we!
Hmph! Interesting! Ierna's response came quickly. In an exceedingly arrogant tone, she sent a message to the Silver Heart Civilization's Probe Team: As expected of a civilization from some backwater place—you know nothing at all. But if you really stopped,