"It stopped!"
A shout filled with delight and astonishment rang out from a corner of the Command Center.
At those words, Lü Yongchang, who had been feeling somewhat dejected, perked up abruptly and hurriedly raised his head to look at the Holographic Projection.
Sure enough.
After "capturing" the Two-Dimensional Fragment, the Spherical Probe had stopped where it was.
In the footage transmitted by the cameras, the gravitational lensing effect had appeared around the Spherical Probe again.
Clearly, after "capturing" the Two-Dimensional Fragment, the Spherical Probe had reactivated its extremely powerful Gravity Shield.
This scene also corroborated the conjecture Lü Yongchang and the others had made while studying the Two-Dimensional Fragment: gravity affected the fragment, but only an extraordinarily powerful gravitational force could have a substantial effect on it.
This was precisely why the Lator Civilization's flagship's Gravity Shield had been ineffective against the Two-Dimensional Fragment.
The Gravity Shield it generated was too weak.
"So... this probe's objective was the Two-Dimensional Fragment?" Sitting near Zhao Zijie, Gao Yang raised his eyebrows, a glint of excitement flashing in his eyes.
"If that's really the case, this crisis might already be..."
Zhao Zijie's expression changed drastically. Without time to think, he shouted to cut him off, "Gao Yang! Shut up!"
"Over?"
Clearly, it was too late. Gao Yang still finished the sentence.
"We're doomed..." Zhao Zijie slumped into his chair, his face ashen. "Professor, hurry and think of a countermeasure while we still have time."
"I doubt this probe's mission is that simple."
Even Lü Yongchang had never witnessed anything quite like this.
He froze for a moment, then gave Zhao Zijie a puzzled look. "What's going on?"
"You weren't this dejected even when the antimatter Electromagnetic Cannon failed earlier."
Zhao Zijie rubbed his stiff cheeks, shot Gao Yang a fierce glare, and