"You don't understand. The old man values them so much; they must have something special about them. He ordered the fleet to immediately rush into the danger zone and automatically search for targets within it. Even if some fleet members are lost, it doesn't matter. Now, I suddenly really, really want to wipe them out. I feel threatened."
"Your Excellency, once we enter the danger zone, our fleet will never be able to return."
"Their fleet is small in number, but its defenses are formidable. They could send in 2 billion warships and let the fleet operate autonomously."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
In the Reaper fleet, Chen Peng and Li Zhixiong were busy directing the robots to produce relay equipment. In this space, without the relay instrument for positioning, it was impossible to see where the exit was. The surrounding space was all the same, just like when they were trying to find the entrance to the danger zone. There was no real entrance there, but the space itself was problematic.
The fleet was already ten light-years away from the exit. The cautious Chen Peng stationed two Reaper at the exit location just in case. The danger zone, which is the Secondary Universe, allows for faster-than-light travel. The relay equipment can only transmit information using electromagnetic waves, and the speed of electromagnetic waves is far slower than the speed of the warships.
Li Shun's fleet was immediately discovered by the Reaper as soon as it entered the Secondary Universe. They immediately followed the relay device to catch up with the main fleet. Li Shun also discovered the presence of the Reaper, and his fleet quickly followed the Reaper in pursuit.
" Chen Peng, Li Shun has come in. We're probably really in danger this time."
" Li Shun will arrive here in at most an hour. With these relay devices, it will be easy for Li Shun to find us. Now we have no choice but to take a gamble."
"You mean, we're just going to risk going this far? Our only remaining connection to the General's four-dimensional portal is the hundred hidden among the meteorites outside. If we get lost here, our Reception Plan will be impossible to implement, and we'll just have to wait a long time. By then, we'll all become withered bones in this Secondary Universe."
"There's no other way now, Zhuge Xiong. You're not afraid of dying, are you?"
"What a joke! I'm not one to cling to life or fear death. I'm just worried about the safety of the academicians."
"Staying here would be even more dangerous for the academicians. Alas, we should have had the general escort them back long ago. Now, this equation has no solution; venturing into the Secondary Universe is our only chance of survival."
"Alright, even if we notify the generals and academicians, they won't go back. I didn't believe in God before, but now I pray that our academicians will return to the fleet safely."
After discussing their plan, the two commanded the fleet to leave the relay equipment and enter the unknown depths of the universe. It was pitch black there, with no light from any stars. As before, the fleet lost contact with the relay equipment more than 10,000 kilometers away. Even though it was right in front of them, they could not receive any electromagnetic signals.
The fleet has been more than a hundred light-years away from the relay equipment. In this strange space, it is almost impossible for Li Shun to find the Reaper fleet. However, it is also almost impossible for the Reaper fleet to get out. Even if they return by the same route, they will not arrive at the original coordinates.
The fleet is now lost in this space, and Chen Peng and Li Zhixiong have no choice but to stop it. The further they go, the more difficult it will be to get back.
The fleet doctors constantly examined and monitored the academicians' bodies to prevent any abnormalities caused by inconsistent rules, but everything seemed to be normal and the academicians' bodies did not show any abnormalities.
The feeling of personally venturing into this space is far more intense than using machines to collect information, and previously, due to the limited number of relay devices, the fleet could only collect data within a few light-years of the entrance.
The closer to the entrance, the more consistent the rules of the Secondary Universe become with those of the macrocosm; the farther away, the greater the changes in the rules. The academicians had forgotten that they were in a dangerous Secondary Universe, excitedly testing all the data around them to compare with the data of the macrocosm and look for anything special.
At this moment, Li Shun's face turned even uglier. He hadn't expected that the academicians would let him lose his way in this space. It was impossible for his fleet to catch up with them. He had lost 2 billion warships in vain, plus the more than 1 billion warships destroyed by the dimensional fall at the beginning, as well as 5 units of high-level insect swarms, without even touching the enemy.
Helpless, Li Shun had no choice but to once again detach his fleet to bombard the exits of several dangerous areas. After a lot of work, he found that it had no effect. So Li Shun simply left billions of warships to block the exits, preventing the people inside from coming out. Even if the people inside obtained something, they would not be able to leave.
After finishing all this, Li Shun left the Matter River again and returned to a planetary system on the edge of the Insect Zone, where thousands of industrial planets were busy and countless spaceships of all sizes were at work.
At Academician Zeng's request, the fleet sailed another 500 light-years. Li Zhixiong and Chen Peng figured they were already lost anyway, so what difference did it make if they sailed a little further or a little less? So the fleet set sail again and advanced another 500 light-years. In fact, there was no point in distinguishing between front, back, left, or right at this point; if they had a direction, they wouldn't have gotten lost.
Although there is no direction to advance 500 light-years, we will inevitably get further and further away from the exit. The farther away we are, the greater the changes in space, and the more information the academicians can collect.
The academicians in the Secondary Universe have been busy for several months, and the results have been enormous, with academicians from various research projects coming up with some new conjectures.
Each academician has their own research project. While searching for that defense system, Academician Zeng is also responsible for finding a way out. Getting out is always a major issue. If you can't get out, it's useless to gain anything here.
" Academician Li, is there any abnormality in the Basic Energy of this space?"
Inside the Reaper ship, Academician Liu Bo inquired about Academician Li Youwei. This time, Academician Li Youwei was the only academician in the field of microphysics Academician Zeng. In the past ten thousand years, Academician Li had not participated in any research in the fleet, and had been busy with the Fourth Reversed State.
It wasn't until he entered the Secondary Universe that Academician Li temporarily put aside the topic of the Fourth Reversed State and turned to observe and study the Basic Energy of this space.
"Over the past few months, I've extracted tens of thousands of units of Basic Energy. These can not only form all the known particles, but also smoothly transform into the first, second, third, and fourth Reversed State. There's nothing particularly special about them, however..."
"But what? Academician Li! Tell me quickly!"
"However, these Basic Energy seem to be able to be further subdivided, but unfortunately our magnetic field microscope is also composed of energy, and its magnification is limited. Seeing the Basic Energy is already the limit."
"Are you sure?" Academician Liu Bo's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"I'm not sure, I just have this feeling. What's wrong? Why are you so excited?" Academician Li said with a smile.