After waiting in confusion for three days, the day of the live test finally arrived. Li Gaoliang, lying in the Virtual Reality System with his most elite subordinates, finally understood where the Reach Professor Lu had mentioned actually was.
Boundless space, a blue planet, and starships stretching as far as the eye could see...
"Holy shit! Is that... the Queqiao spacecraft?"
"Doesn't look quite like it... More like some heavily modified version."
Standing inside a somewhat cramped room, everyone whose consciousness had connected to the Virtual Reality System wore expressions of shock.
This was completely different from the chaotic spaces made up of fragmented pieces they had experienced before, and completely different from peering into an unfamiliar world through an observer's perspective. Everything here felt so real. Whether it was the heavy sensation on their shoulders or the crisp clang of their boots against the floor, there was not the slightest flaw to be found. It felt as though they were truly there.
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It felt as if some accident had occurred during the experiment, and all of them had been transported from the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study's laboratory onto this starship.
Yes, this time was different from before.
Neither the sounds nor the tactile sensations were produced through external equipment.
Like the images before them, they were projected directly into their brains...
Of course, compared with the backdrop outside the portholes, what was even more astonishing was the armor they wore and the rifles hanging from their chests.
This incredibly futuristic armor appeared before their eyes with such clarity that, even though they all knew they were lying in a laboratory of less than a hundred square meters, the atmosphere of war still gave them an inexplicable sense of urgency,