Jing Jiu understood why General Li had wanted him to come here himself.
Seeing these scenes with his own eyes felt entirely different from seeing them in the records. The former was more immediate, and therefore more real.
He continued forward, and the sounds of footsteps and explanations rang out again in the quiet, empty passage.
Of the two military officers, one was very familiar with the base and the environment outside, while the other was a researcher who knew more about the Dark Matter Sea.
"Even now, the institute can only conduct indirect observations and calculations. Analysis shows that the black dust and powder are still matter from our world, only altered at the microparticle level by some force. Physical laws are already chaotic at the submicroparticle level. For now, we can only identify certain patterns."
"The existence of dark matter is still based on calculations using mathematical tools. We cannot capture it, much less collect it. What we can confirm now is that it has no rest mass."
"What we call contamination is neither an invasion of the nervous system nor a transformation. We cannot understand it."
"The Ancient Civilization quickly determined that this contamination was irreversible, so isolation was their only choice."
"The key to stopping the invasion of the Dark Matter Sea is cutting off its source—that is, sealing those rifts in Subdimensional Space. The Alliance's supercomputing core can now monitor some Starfields in real time. In these regions, we are essentially racing against time, but those Spatial Fissures appear without a sound or sign, and sometimes certain planets are still contaminated."
"Colonial planets and mining planets account for a very small proportion of This Star System. Judging by how frequently contamination occurs, we can conclude that the Dark Matter Sea... extends farther than we imagined