Over in the Dead Silent Dimension.
The gray, hazy nebula was even more vast than the Mechanical Civilization's exploration fleets had initially predicted.
The two exploration fleets that had arrived here first had sailed for more than thirty years, one after the other, yet they still had not passed through the nebula's outer reaches.
The dust particles here were not densely packed.
But within every mote of dust, it was as if some extremely faint law of decay still lingered.
These laws had no obvious offensive nature, yet they continuously interfered with the fleets' detection radar and spatial ranging devices.
In the same region, the Mechanical fleets calculated a depth of only several hundred thousand li one moment, only for it to swell to several light-years the next.
Even among the unmanned reconnaissance units released by the fleets, quite a few completely lost contact with the Sky Net subnodes after entering the depths of the nebula.
"This is not a naturally formed law environment."
The Mechanical Dominator in charge of the two exploration fleets quickly reached a conclusion.
On the three-dimensional Star Map before it, it marked out one hundred and seventy-two regions with abnormal ranging data in succession.
These abnormal regions seemed to have no connection to one another.
But when all the coordinates were rearranged and deduced using the Decayed Civilization's calculation method that the Mechanical Civilization had only just cracked, a vast composite concealment array was presented within the fleet command hub.
This Gray Nebula itself was a protective shell!
Someone lived here.
Or rather, at the very least, someone had once hidden in here.
The fleet did not immediately forcefully destroy the concealment structure within the nebula.
More and more miniature Mechanical Probes were released along the seams of those arrays.
When one of the probes