Not long after the fleet entered the void, we arrived at the Ghost Fleet's nest. For the Empire's ruled territory, these floating corpses of the void had truly drifted far too close—though the void had no concept of distance or coordinates, informational proximity remained the sole standard for judging "distance" here. The Royal Fleet had reached the Ghost Fleet's location after almost a single informational calibration, showing just how abnormally close the "distance" between them had become.
With the Empire's void detection technology, the Macro World Network's sensitivity to void fluctuations, and the Departure Courtyard System's special capabilities, we had only detected the Ghost Fleet's coordinates at such close range—and that was after deploying Tracking Probes. It had to be said, this was an extremely humiliating matter for the intelligence department. If this group of ghost warships had not been so unusual, I figured the intelligence chief would have found a crack in the ground to crawl into and meditate in seclusion by now.
Only after getting close did we discover an abnormally powerful layer of informational interference around the Ghost Fleet. This layer might have been the crucial factor protecting so many warships as they drifted through the void without being consumed. By continuously constructing signals that simulated a World Barrier at its boundary, it "deceived" the void, allowing the fleet within to remain safe as though it were in a material universe. We did not know whether this interference layer was jointly generated by countless warships or whether the enormous fortress at the Ghost Fleet's core served as a barrier generator, but the barrier was impressive enough: aside from the Empire, I had never seen another civilization produce anything on such a grand scale.
The Royal Fleet felt nothing much while passing through the informational interference layer, merely