After all the starships had departed, something suddenly changed!
A blinding light flared at both the bow and stern of the flagship.
Even the enormous Hall Thruster at its stern paled before those two lights!
At the same time, a strangely intoned announcement rang out inside the flagship.
"The Gravitational Field Generator is ready."
"Spacetime curvature bubble forming..."
"Preparing to enter Curvature Navigation!"
An instant later, the behemoth vanished from sight!
"Successfully entered Curvature Navigation."
"Current speed: 1.1 times the speed of light."
The Human Fleet.
Lü Yongchang stood at the command console, his expression grave as he studied the Holographic Image before him.
He knew nothing of what was happening a light-year away.
But considering the disguised probe before him, the Superluminal Communication Device, and the other side's continued failure to answer their communication requests...
He already had his answer.
War was coming!
Compared with the earlier Proxima Centauri War, Human Civilization was at an even greater disadvantage this time.
Everything they knew about the enemy came from this single probe.
They did not even know where the enemy was!
Lü Yongchang frowned deeply as he watched the Superluminal Communication Device, still functioning normally in the holographic projection.
The high-energy laser just now had destroyed the probe's camera outright.
But on his orders, the high-energy laser beam had deliberately avoided the Superluminal Communication Device inside the black box.
The reason was simple.
The technology contained in this miniature Superluminal Communication Device far surpassed humanity's.
And it was precisely the kind of technology humanity needed.
The immense size of their Superluminal Communication Devices severely limited the performance of Human Civilization's probes.
If they could master this technology...
The Human Fleet's supporting capabilities would rise to a whole new level.
But this was undoubtedly a deadly gamble!
That was exactly