Shen Bing froze. Unusual activity? What unusual activity? Could something really be going wrong over there?
"What happened?" Shen Bing asked.
Li Xiao said, "Luo Fei previously arranged for more than two hundred people to pass through the wormhole and enter that world. Using the equipment Master Qiao left there, they set up several production lines. Everything was proceeding smoothly, but starting two days ago, our people began finding every morning that the base had consumed far more energy than usual. After a professional analysis, they finally determined that the energy consumption was related to the Dark Matter Shield."
Shen Bing frowned. "What's going on? The Dark Matter Shield does consume energy while operating, but it shouldn't burn through it that quickly."
Li Xiao said, "Our preliminary assessment is that something has been attacking the shield from outside at night, increasing its energy consumption."
"Attacking the shield?" Shen Bing asked. "Then why didn't the Genesis Type 1 issue a warning?"
The Dark Matter Shield had been designed with an attack warning function. As long as the intensity of an attack on any node of the shield reached a certain threshold, the system would issue a warning.
Judging by what Li Xiao had said, the system clearly had not issued one.
Li Xiao hurriedly said, "The attacks probably haven't reached the warning threshold. In other environments, we have supplementary monitoring methods, but on that planet, aside from relying on the Genesis Type 1's automatic warnings, we can only observe things with our own eyes. So far, however, the people there haven't discovered anything unusual."
Shen Bing's brow furrowed deeply.
He recalled something. When the three unlucky fellows Thorne had captured first entered that world, they had seen the skeletal remains of a giant beast.
Although Master Qiao had collected a few