The instant he finished speaking, a deep, pitch-black spherical barrier appeared abruptly before everyone.
It was absolute darkness. Neither light from outside nor light from within could penetrate the barrier.
Lü Yongchang narrowed his eyes slightly, studying the rapidly shifting data on the left side of the display.
The device's instantaneous power output was extremely high, but it lasted less than 0.1 seconds.
Simply put, the experiment to generate a Spatial Shield had already ended. What lay before the academicians was merely the shield's remnants, slowly being eroded by the surrounding space.
One second, two seconds...
As time ticked away, subtle changes gradually appeared on the smooth surface of the pitch-black spherical barrier-the self-repairing effect of space had begun to take hold.
At first, the holes were tiny, as inconspicuous as specks of dust on a lump of coal.
But as time passed, those dust-like holes gradually expanded and merged into larger openings.
The holes expanded faster and faster, soon eroding more than half of the pitch-black spherical barrier.
The Spatial Shield Generator inside was once again exposed to the academicians' eyes.
When the entire spherical barrier finally dissipated, the first stage of the experiment reached a successful conclusion.
Successfully generating a Spatial Shield did not mean the entire experiment was over.
After several minutes of data processing, the Spatial Shield Generator in the Holographic Projection began operating again.
At the same time, the distant Spatial Rift Generator began running in sync.
This time, they needed to test the Spatial Shield's defensive capabilities against spatial attacks.
The instant the dark spherical barrier appeared, an equally dark, slender line shot toward it from afar.
To account for various observation issues, the Spatial Rift's launch speed had been deliberately reduced considerably, to less than 0.1c.
Even so, that speed was far beyond