Xu Wuyi stood before the light screen, looking at the distribution of those blue regions across the star map. Their positions were indeed scattered along the inner edge of the territory's boundaries.
"Have you completed the ring-layout plan?"
"I have." Jiang overlaid a new layer of lines onto the light screen—warm golden dotted lines reconnected the red and blue regions, changing the edge nodes' connections from a radial pattern to a circular one and forming closed loops between neighboring nodes.
"This plan nearly doubles the connection density in the edge regions. But in terms of construction costs, it won't require many additional nodes—only slight positional adjustments to a little over twenty existing nodes, along with the placement of fewer than ten new ones. As for materials, standard energy relays will be enough."
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"How long will it take?"
"About a month, if the manpower is assigned properly. There aren't many relays, and installation won't be difficult. Most of the time will go into precisely adjusting the nodes' angles. A deviation of more than one degree will affect transmission efficiency."
"Zero One will assign the manpower for you. Submit any requests for support from formations directly through the system."
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Jiang nodded, shut off the light screen, and put away his Data Pad. Before leaving the hall, he paused and turned his head toward Xu Wuyi. "By the way, I've recently observed a new phenomenon. Whenever your Forgers—your Rootlines—draw close to one another, their cores spontaneously emit resonance signals at similar frequencies. The fluctuation patterns of those signals are highly consistent with the frequency of energy flow through the Rootline network spreading through space. I can't confirm whether the Rootline network is using them to perceive space, or whether their cores are independently exploring space, but there is definitely a clear