Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move

The last time Huo Gu mentioned was when the Collectors first embarked on interstellar voyages.

Back then, the risks were far greater than those faced by the Collectors' current interstellar expeditions. They had yet to possess antimatter, and encountering an obstacle even the size of a grain of sand during near-light-speed travel would have been an utterly terrifying disaster.

Nor did they have antimatter to decelerate with. They relied on stellar gravitational slingshots to slow down, and the risks involved were equally immense.

Even so, the Collectors successfully took that step and achieved what they had today.

Or rather, their present achievements were precisely the outcome Huo Gu had foreseen long ago.

Hearing Huo Gu suddenly revise his words, Ming could not help but grow curious.

Eh? Different? Wasn't it a huge step forward?

"It far exceeded the scope of being described as 'a huge step.' It was like the difference between the Collectors before and after learning basic knowledge—the gap was crushingly vast," Huo Gu explained.

That powerful? I can't imagine it.

Still, I believe you're right, Huo Gu. Just as you told me before, in such a short time, these little ones have reached such heights. They can even pull things out of the Big Fireball. I never imagined they could become this formidable.

Ming had absolute faith in Huo Gu's judgment, because Huo Gu had made similar predictions before, and everything happening now had confirmed those earlier judgments.

Ming still remembered when information on stellar-scale megastructures had been sent back. The diameter of the tunnels inside that stellar ring alone was greater than Ming's own diameter. The scale of such a megastructure was unimaginably immense.

At any rate, Ming believed it could never build something like that. If the information sent back by the Collectors had not