In Jia Xiu's laboratory, specialists who had "snuck away" from the Space Maintenance Department successfully opened a passage leading to the coordinate point the Ukmak Empire's emperor was so concerned about.
Yet what appeared before Minister Odysseus, on the other side of the passage, was endless void, without a single concrete sight in view.
Based on past experience, the reason for this phenomenon was simple: there was no plane at that coordinate point. Otherwise, the passage should have connected directly to the plane.
Minister Odysseus hesitated for a moment before asking the others.
"Don't tell me you got the coordinates wrong?"
"No, Minister. You can question the details of our operation, but don't question our intelligence. The coordinates were written right there. Could we really copy them wrong?"
Clearly, the department staff communicated with Minister Odysseus somewhat differently from the traditional superior-subordinate relationship.
If they thought their leader was wrong, they refuted him outright.
"I think the coordinates you nervously dug up might have come from your imagination. There's actually nothing wrong with them. The data just happened to land here."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. How can this be called imagination? This is a reasonable deduction based on a great many details!"
As he spoke, Odysseus checked whether the coordinates they had set were correct.
What disappointed him even more was that the answer was yes. The coordinates were fine.
At that moment, Odysseus had no choice but to doubt himself. Could it really have been his imagination? Had he been playing games of wits with the imperial emperor inside his own head—
Jia Xiu asked curiously at that moment, "Hadn't you opened a passage to this coordinate point before?"
Opening passages to planar coordinates posed no technical difficulty for the Space Maintenance Department. They did it all the time. What