At the Biological Laboratory, after Lü Yongchang proposed the concept of the Lost Insect Swarm, Mao Zhengzhi and the others plunged back into their busy research.
Transforming a carbon-based lifeform that lived on a planet's surface into a semi-silicon-based lifeform capable of crossing interstellar space was immensely difficult.
Even though Human Civilization had now become a level seven civilization, this research still posed considerable challenges.
As for Lü Yongchang, after finalizing the basic research plan for the Lost Insect Swarm, he returned to the Spacetime Research Center to continue his unfinished work.
And so, two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Earth calendar year 11702.
The fleet gradually approached the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy.
In the empty, dark universe, Silicon Ray and the Human Fleet dropped out of their faster-than-light curvature states-more than a century of travel had nearly exhausted the fuel they carried.
Two warped spacetime structures slowly emerged in space. They were the micro-universe ports.
Transport ships emerged from Human Civilization's Micro-Universe Port in orderly formations, bringing essential supplies and energy to the five hundred escort warships stationed outside.
By comparison, Silicon Ray had much less trouble.
It simply took a blue giant emitting intense radiation out of its own micro-universe, then plunged straight into it.
Amid increasingly powerful fluctuations, the energy within the star rapidly "flowed" into Silicon Ray's body, easing the fatigue of its journey.
Just like the Human Fleet's maintenance and repair work, absorbing a blue giant required a considerable amount of time.
Silicon Ray clearly had no intention of staying "submerged" inside the blue giant for that long.
As a "small" wave large enough to swallow Earth whole surged across the blue giant's surface, Silicon Ray poked its head out.
It cast a curious glance at the nearby Enroget fleet.
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