Thanks to the upgraded Star Destroyer Asta had purchased, the Warp Engine did not take long to charge.
"Everyone, sit tight and hold on. The warp is about to begin. Verifying spatial data..."
Silver Wolf's voice came over the speakers.
"Data normal. Initiating warp!"
"Beginning countdown!"
"Five!"
"Four!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"Warning! Data stream disruption! Warning! Data stream disruption!"
"Surge in Fragmentum activity detected!"
"Abnormal spatial readings!"
"Main engine failure!"
"Auxiliary engine unavailable!"
Shrill alarms began blaring inside the main control cabin!
Although Chu Mu could not see, the sound still made his heart sink.
Just as he had feared, something had gone wrong!
With trouble striking at this critical moment, there was no chance of returning safely!
Warping worked by folding space, but the surrounding space had now fallen into complete chaos, becoming a raging torrent of turbulence!
"Kafka! Silver Wolf!" Chu Mu shouted.
"Chu Mu!" Kafka's voice came from right beside him.
Chu Mu reached out to grab her, but just as he was about to touch Kafka, the spatial turbulence breached the Star Destroyer's defenses.
His hand grasped nothing but empty space, and then the violent jolting threw him into the air.
Amid such spatial turbulence, Chu Mu could not even retreat into the black-and-white fictional space. The violent impacts soon knocked him unconscious.
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo~
Chu Mu slowly awoke to clear birdsong.
"Don't move," a voice said beside him.
Only then did Chu Mu notice the pain throughout his body, as though every bone had been knocked out of place.
"You'll need a few more days of rest before you recover," the voice said calmly. "Just lie here and take it easy for now. I'll bring your meals on time."
The voice sounded somewhat familiar to Chu Mu, so he asked:
"May I ask your