The vast universe was silent and profound.
He was not gazing into the night; he was within it.
This was a relatively empty region of space. The nearest star lay forty thousand kilometers away.
The Tian Jue Hao appeared to be floating quietly, but its actual speed had already risen from thirteen-thousandths of the speed of light to 15% of the speed of light.
Fifteen thousand meters per second.
Without any background reference, speed felt more like an illusory number.
The universe was not as densely packed with stars as people imagined. There were many such empty regions.
Some empty regions could even span hundreds of light-years.
If there were an inhabited planet within one of them, the life on it would surely believe itself to be the only, loneliest existence in the entire universe.
At that moment, the Tian Jue Hao's fifty enormous eyeballs were closed, while the "scales" across its body constantly adjusted their angles, emitting a kind of biological field.
It was not merely completely invisible visually and in terms of electromagnetic signals.
Even the life fluctuations of the crew had been concealed within the background of the universe.
Even a meteor fragment five meters in diameter would have been more conspicuous than they were.
The Tian Jue Hao had departed from Titan with the goal of breaking through the edge of the Solar System.
Even at 1.5% of the speed of light, it was still a long journey and an even longer wait.
So.
Liu Di did not wait at all.
Six minutes later, the Tian Jue Hao entered a wormhole.
The other end of the wormhole was the limit of the Sun's domain, a mysterious region of which humanity understood less than 1%.
Wormhole travel, remaining time: 4 minutes 36 seconds.
Liu Di glanced at