Generally speaking, without external intervention, spatial fluctuations are rare in real life. Only in large-scale events such as violent energy bursts, celestial collisions, or the death of stars, can spatial disturbances be triggered.
However, after investigating the location where the spatial fluctuations occurred, scholars from Divine Land found nothing.
It was empty, there was nothing there, just like before the fluctuations occurred.
This phenomenon is indeed rare, which has aroused the interest of many researchers. Quite a few researchers have even applied for a special spacecraft to go to the place where the fluctuations occurred to investigate.
Divine Land's current development focus is still on the surrounding planets, and its investment in spacecraft technology is indeed relatively limited.
Although it can travel between several planets around Earth Star, its speed has not yet increased to the point where it can move freely within the Solar System.
To reach the point where this spatial fluctuation occurred, the travel time would be measured in years.
Even so, it couldn't dampen the scholars' enthusiasm for conducting on-site research. It was just a matter of traveling for a few years, which was nothing to Qi Refining cultivators.
It's important to understand that, with their lifespans greatly extended, they now take monthly vacations—working one month and resting for one month—all to maintain their peak work enthusiasm.
With life expectancy extended, the Divine Land People's perception of time has also slowed down considerably. They used to wish they had 25 hours a day to work, but now things are very different.
Being able to spare two hours a day to go to work is already considered giving face to the boss; many people, after achieving success in their spiritual practice, stop going to work altogether.
For no other reason than to avoid being bullied by others.
However, just as the scholars from Divine Land were planning their route, a new situation arose at the point of spatial fluctuation.
What started as a slight ripple, like a pebble dropped into a pond, grew larger and larger upon further observation.
Even in what was originally an empty space, a white portal of light appeared out of thin air.
Like a gate embedded in the void, this portal of light began to spew out dazzling streams of energy in all directions after it appeared, and the light it emitted instantly became the brightest star in the night.
As the portal opened, a massive spaceship slowly emerged from it, but none of this was observed by the Divine Land side.
Because the entire spaceship activated its stealth defenses after exiting the space warp portal.
The Snail People's cloaking system was highly advanced; not even a ray of light was refracted, and the direction of the energy flow emitted by the light gate did not change due to the spaceship's obstruction.
The spaceship exited the warp portal, and the energy that had kept the portal open dissipated, causing the abrupt spatial gate to close.
The portal is located near Uranus, which is still some distance from Earth Star.
While large spaceships have their advantages, their excessive size also has its disadvantages.
The main reason for driving here was to avoid detection of anomalies by the native life forms on these planets. Even though the spaceship has been camouflaged, its mass is still a factor; traveling near planets will inevitably cause gravitational anomalies.
If researchers are monitoring this data, they can quickly pinpoint the location causing the gravitational anomaly.
"Finally arrived at the designated location. Damn it, the warp tunnel is no place for a human to stay."
This spaceship was the Snail People's warship. After several jumps, they finally arrived at the star system that caused the spatial fluctuations and stopped on the outer edge of the star system.
If there were no habitable planets in the star system, the warship would have already run them over and wouldn't have stopped at such a far distance. However, several habitable planets have been detected in the Solar System, and the planets' properties all meet the Snail People's survival needs, so the battle plan is different.
If warships get too close, they could capture the atmosphere of a planet, jeopardizing its habitability.
Therefore, in this situation, it is still necessary to deploy small warship fleets and use sheer numbers to carry out a cleansing of the entire planet.
"Initiating intragalactic planet detection."
Lao Mu simply rolled his eyes at Aozile's complaints, then began issuing commands to the spaceship.
An invisible probing force erupted from the spaceship and spread to various planets in the Solar System.
Before taking action, it is still necessary to conduct a survey and assessment of the entire galaxy to avoid any unexpected factors.
The probe wave results will take some time to return, and we certainly won't just wait idly during this time.
" Lao Mu, I remember we brought a lot of cannon fodder with us on this mission, right? How about we send a few to explore the indigenous civilization first?"
Exploring planets is a necessary procedure before an attack. Although Aozile has been fighting for many years and looks down on these procedures, he will not violate them.
However, when conducting reconnaissance, sending a few scouts down first doesn't seem to be a problem.
"You're so impatient, can't you wait a few more days?"
The exploration work was taken over entirely by the spacecraft's intelligent system, so the two of them basically had nothing to do.
"Ugh, how many times have we gone through this stupid process? What's the point? Besides, they're just cannon fodder anyway, what's the big deal if they die?"
The antennae on the Aozile twitched.
"Alright, alright, then send a few scouts to investigate first. Remember to have them activate the shapeshifter's camouflage and combat readiness before entering planetary orbit."
"Seriously? One set of camouflage gear could buy 100 cannon fodder soldiers. Giving it to them is such a waste."
"Better safe than sorry, what's a few dollars?"
"Why be so cautious when dealing with civilizations that haven't even emerged from several planets yet?"
"Oh, right, when you're recording the battle damage later, report 50 sets of camouflage and combat readiness."
"Holy crap, this thing is reimbursable! Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"We're on an official mission this time, not acting alone."
Such infiltration work is naturally not something the Snail People would do themselves.
Besides the Snail People, there were also a large number of soldiers from other races on the warship. These races were basically prisoners of war of the Snail People, either because their home planet had been occupied or because their entire race was under the control of the Snail People.
They were less like soldiers and more like cannon fodder.
Any job with a certain degree of danger is the first one these cannon fodder are sent to. To the Snail People, even a fifth-class citizen is still much more noble than these cannon fodder.