"Why!?"
He Zheng stared in shock, his excitement doused as if someone had dumped a bucket of cold water over his head. An Ke and the others' expressions changed as well.
Before Eve could answer, Ye Lin quickly asked:
"Because of the monsters outside?"
Eve paused briefly, then nodded:
"Yes, but it isn't just because of those monsters. There's also the Sun."
"Twenty-four hours ago, the Rebels opened part of the Dyson Sphere shielding the Sun, so even if you make it out of the atmosphere, you'll be exposed to solar radiation. Unlike Earth's surface, where the atmosphere weakens the radiation, once you enter space, you'll have almost no chance of surviving."
"If you'd arrived a little earlier, you might have been able to leave directly. But now..."
When Eve finished, they all stood frozen. For He Zheng, her words struck like a bolt from the blue.
Monsters? Solar radiation?
He instinctively wanted to ask what those monsters had to do with their escape, but before the words left his mouth, He Zheng abruptly remembered the dark shadows swallowing the fireballs.
Damn it!
With those shadowy monsters around, they couldn't even take off.
Those monsters absorbed energy, and they were right overhead!
The moment they powered up a spaceship to leave, the monsters would pounce and drain all its energy. If they absorbed enough energy, everyone would die!
Dead silence filled the hall. The sudden turn of events had caught everyone off guard.
No one had expected that leaving would be so simple, yet utterly beyond their reach.
A few seconds later, Ye Lin drew a deep breath and asked Eve coldly:
"How exactly did the monsters appear? If they've been here all along, how did the people before us get out?"
"If the Dyson Sphere can be opened, it