"Buzz..."
The exquisitely crafted, pure white spaceship vibrated, and blazing blue flames erupted from its tail thrusters, causing the surrounding researchers to spontaneously disperse slightly.
"According to our calculations and speculations, Subspace Jump should be completed in an instant, because the flow of time in the two spaces is not the same."
It's like when a person looks at a planet 100,000 light-years away, what they actually see is the view of that planet 100,000 years ago.
The same applies to Subspace Jump. For our real world, it's an instantaneous event, but for a spaceship in Subspace, it's actually a process of fluctuating equipment frequencies to locate a real-world Anchor, and then activating the shuttle again—a process that takes about twenty-five days.
The theory is that the Subspace is located by the vibration of the Soul Matter, and then the entire spaceship simulates this vibration frequency to form a vibration in sync, just like gradually adjusting the peaks and troughs of a wave and its vibration frequency to merge and interfere with another wave. Thus, when the spaceship's vibration frequency reaches the vibration frequency of the Subspace, it will enter the Subspace due to the synchronization.
Leaving the Subspace is done in the same way: using a phaser to determine the approximate location of the desired destination, finding the actual vibration frequency at that location, accelerating the spaceship to that vibration frequency, and then escaping from the Subspace.
Subspace and reality are like two perpendicular lines that intersect at only one point. This means that as long as you are located within Subspace, the distance to any other place within Subspace remains constant. This is the basis of Subspace Jump.
The Subspace is like the Roundtable Hold within the Elden Ring; reaching any other point requires only a single jump.
However, the twenty-five days in Subspace are the key to determining whether this technology is feasible.
"Could physical matter be corrupted by the soul, giving birth to things we can hardly understand..." The chief doctor looked solemnly at the spaceship that was trembling on the tarmac in front of him, almost leaving afterimages.
No one spoke again. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the trembling spaceship in front of them, their nerves on edge, hoping for a miracle.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the spaceship trembled more and more rapidly until it finally emitted only a buzzing sound, but to the naked eye, the spaceship seemed to be stationary and not moving at all.
The scholars' expressions gradually became tense.
The fact that the spacecraft was stationary but actually trembling proved that it had reached the critical point.
As expected, in everyone's eyes, the spaceship, which was constantly spewing flames and emitting a buzzing sound, but appeared to be completely still, seemed to have lost some color from before.
No, this isn't fading; it's more like it's blurring!
This blurring was initially invisible to the naked eye, but gradually, as time went on, some observable contrast began to appear.
"It seems we've succeeded!" the chief doctor said with a long sigh of relief, his eyes fixed intently on the fading color.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the massive spaceship on the tarmac seemed to gradually lose its color, turning grayish-white, and then began to show some double images.
As the double image deepened, everyone suddenly realized that, without knowing when it started, they could vaguely see the people on the other side through the spaceship.
"Buzz... Pfft..."
The vibrations seemed to be gradually weakening, and as the double image faded further, the illusion became more and more obvious.
Finally, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the entire massive spaceship completely vanished from the phantom image.
The tarmac returned to its previous quiet, but this tranquility did nothing to dampen the excitement of the scholars present.
"Success! The Subspace Jump was successful! Quick, contact the designated Anchor station immediately and see if the spaceship has returned!"
"Buzz!"
The spaceship vibrated and trembled, and the fifteen Church knights inside, whose power armor was secured to their power armor compartments, also trembled along with the spaceship.
However, their perspective is completely different from that of the outside world.
Franklin felt the vibrations in his body, and the view of the outside world reflected on the cockpit window of the spaceship was completely different from what the scholars outside had seen.
In their vision, accompanied by the constant tremors of their bodies, the outside world was gradually becoming nothingness.
This is an extremely terrifying scene.
Because this illusory process is like scholars observing them, it evolves little by little towards nothingness.
Even at certain moments, one can see through the illusory images of the crowd in front of them the illusory images of various city buildings, and even mountains and rivers behind them.
It's as if the entire world has transformed from three-dimensional to a two-dimensional ghost image, accompanied by extremely severe color fading.
The colors of the entire world are peeling away, gradually evolving from various colors into something like a black and white photograph. Then even the black and white begin to peel away, and the shadows begin to dissipate.
Until the very end.
"Buzz..."
The vibrations of the spaceship abruptly ceased, and beyond the glass windows of the cockpit lay only pitch blackness and emptiness...
Silence spread throughout the spaceship, and the entire spaceship, or rather the world outside the spaceship, was so silent that there was not a sound, or even a trace of matter.
The spaceship was so quiet that there wasn't a sound at all; the hum of the instruments and the sound of everyone breathing were completely absent.
After all, sound cannot travel through a vacuum.
This scenario is extremely terrifying. Even though humanity is now familiar with the darkness and silence of space, in a place where even matter is hard to exist, it's like seeing an even darker and deeper underwater fissure in a dark trench thousands of meters deep, which is enough to make one's scalp tingle.
Franklin and his fourteen Church knights remained stunned inside the spaceship for a long time before finally coming to their senses.
Only then did they hurriedly look down at themselves.
Although their bodies looked the same, they felt completely different from before.
This feeling is like going from three dimensions to two dimensions, or from three dimensions to four dimensions, giving them a game-like sense of seeing themselves in the third person.
Although the spaceship was silent and made no sound, they could communicate entirely through gestures.
"Anchor!"
Franklin didn't even dare to look into the darkness outside the spaceship again. He turned around and gestured to his teammates behind him.
The two Church knights sitting behind him, responsible for controlling the spaceship, immediately nodded and then pushed the spaceship's control panel, which also appeared to be made of matter, to carry out the predetermined steps.
"Buzz..."
A slight tremor was felt again, and the anchoring indicator lights inside the spaceship lit up as planned, beginning to use the vibrations to locate the real world.
Seeing that the equipment was functioning normally, the fifteen Church knights inside the spaceship all breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, everyone finally relaxed and sat down in their assigned seats, waiting for the program to run.
This Subspace Jump seems to actually be feasible.
The ship was silent. Fifteen Church knights sat inside, awaiting the outcome of the anchoring process.
With no light from the outside world, the passage of time was barely perceptible; the only way to determine the time was by the clock inside the spaceship.
Researchers had anticipated this possibility and therefore had prepared a large number of recreational devices inside the spacecraft.
But now that everyone has just relaxed, they're not in the mood for any leisure activities.
The darkness and silence outside the spaceship were oppressive and sent chills down one's spine.
The longer one stays in this seemingly abandoned environment, the heavier the pressure becomes.
It was so intense that everyone's heart pounded, and they could feel the vibrations in their chests.
"Gulp... gulp..."
The vibration was so strong that it almost emanated from his body, making it noticeable to those around him.
"Gulp... gulp..."
Franklin stretched out his thick mechanical arm and covered his chest in confusion.
Why does he always feel that the frequency of his heartbeat is completely different from the frequency he perceives?
Franklin's power armor arm couldn't possibly feel the frequency of his heartbeat through the armor, but his face had become completely ferocious.
"Damn it, something's alive! This isn't our heartbeat!"
A roar echoed from inside Franklin's power armor helmet, where oxygen was produced by the life support system.
However, the shouts could not be heard through the helmet. But Franklin's actions of unfastening the base of his power armor and picking up his gun had already fully awakened the team members behind him.