Cooperation III

"But..." La trailed off and paused.

"Only nearby worlds can be opened. Or rather, nearby planets. Do you understand the concept of a planet?"

"I tried many times. Fifty, a hundred? Perhaps more—so many that I lost count."

Her expression was calm, but her words carried a dense, crushing despair.

"I understand what a planet is, but why is that?" Zhang Rongfang frowned. La was undoubtedly a top-tier powerhouse on his level, yet after trying for so many years, she was still filled with the emotion of having achieved nothing.

Opening this passage might truly be incredibly, incredibly difficult.

La walked to the edge of the passage and gently stroked the cold stone base.

"I calculated for a long time. In the end, the answer was still energy."

"Energy?"

"Yes." La nodded. "White Pupil's gravity is far too powerful. Nothing can resist its pull and absorption. The land beneath our feet is only barely resisting it all through its immense mass and orbital motion."

"But there is a price. The price is that this planet's life is burning away, plummeting at high speed," La said softly.

"Plummeting? What does that have to do with the passage?" Zhang Rongfang asked.

"Of course it has something to do with it. The energy we use to open passages is harvested from the planet's core.

"So the more tests we conduct, the more core energy we extract, and the faster the entire world moves toward White Pupil," La explained.

"Moreover, I calculated that the previous passage was merely an experimental accident. If we want to open the entrance to that passage in a targeted manner, then the world behind it is extremely, extremely far away. The energy required would also be immense!"

She had already made herself very clear.

To escape that terrifying gravitational