Rhomboid Crystal World

Whether it was a mirror image or reality, humanity still did not know.

But setting aside whether it was a mirror image, humanity soon discovered that something was wrong. After Lyra entered the Small Universe Channel, it found that it had lost contact with the other warships.

Communications within the warship were normal, but communication with the other warships of the First Fleet had been cut off.

Fortunately, this loss of communication did not last long. Once the later warships entered, communications between them were restored.

The Science Officer immediately understood what had happened. Information inside the Small Universe had evidently been cut off from the outside.

As the later warships entered, humanity quickly discovered another fact. After entering the so-called channel, the First Fleet seemed to have skipped any transition and arrived directly inside the Small Universe. Of course, there was another possibility: the lattice world before them was itself the channel leading to the Small Universe.

Through the probes' perspective, humanity saw the lattices. They looked exactly like the Rhomboid Crystals encountered years ago, except for their size. These Rhomboid Lattices inside the Small Universe were larger, each roughly the size of a Planet-Class Warship.

They were like floating islands suspended in the Void, hanging silently in place. Simple measurements revealed that each Rhomboid Lattice was about 0.5 Astronomical Units apart—an enormous distance.

Looking out in every direction from the First Fleet's location, there were Rhomboid Crystals everywhere. The entire human fleet now occupied the square space between four Rhomboid Crystals.

They differed somewhat from the Rhomboid Crystal Drift Bottle encountered before. Illuminated by the light emitted by the First Fleet, these Rhomboid Crystals gave off faint flickering glimmers. They looked like translucent crystals, exceptionally beautiful.

It had to be said that the Precursor Civilization's aesthetic sense was