In the sky above Jinyuan City, the sky was dark. A black starship was silently ascending into the sky. Its tail and five wingspans spewed out crystal flames at the same time as it slowly passed through the atmosphere.
This was a common sight in the sky of Jinyuan City. How many starships would take off and land in a day at the spaceport?
However, when the Dragon Seeking Starship truly sailed into space, the five wingspans spread out rings of colorful halos, like ripples in a lake, illuminating this star field.
Fortunately, there were no frogmen or human fleets in this space. If there were, they would find that the energy fluctuations of this halo were unimaginably strong. After spreading for a while, a straight hole was torn in space, revealing a space that seemed to be another star field.
Back then, the space-time cracks opened by the Expedition and the Conqueror were in the shape of a whirlpool, but this Dragon Seeking Starship directly tore through space. Its energy jump was many times stronger.
All of a sudden, the black Dragon Searcher Ship turned into a strong light as thin as a needle and disappeared into the space-time rift. In the next second, the strong light disappeared along with the rift, leaving no trace behind.
The interior of the starship was a completely different mirror image. The image of the reconnaissance radar was displayed in the form of a light screen. It could be seen that the starship had indeed passed through a space-time tunnel, but the surrounding scenery was all distorted like colorful electric waves jumping randomly. It was a completely bizarre vision.
Ding Meng was still experienced. He knew that the speed of the Dragon Seeking Starship was much faster than ordinary interstellar jumps.
"Is it warp mode?" Ding Meng asked.
Lu Qi explained, "Sir Ding, this is Level 4 warp speed!"
Ding Meng was shocked. Ordinary starships had Level 1 warp speed, which was the speed of light; Level 2 warp speed was eight times the speed of light; Level 3 warp speed was 27 times the speed of light. The mothership of the Holy Grail Federation's super fleet could reach Level 3 warp speed if it had enough kinetic energy.
However, under normal circumstances, the fleet commander would not use Level 3 warp speed because there were too many conditions required and it was very difficult to achieve. The most difficult ones were the location of the destination and the choice of the route. First, you had to know the destination coordinates, and secondly, you had to avoid the obstacles along the way to achieve super light speed.
Level 4 warp speed was 64 times the speed of light. The Federal Empire had not reached this level of technology yet. This proved that the starship level of the Steel Mane Empire was far higher than he had imagined. It was very likely that they had benefited from their origin civilization. As the Warlord said, they were originally an advanced civilization.
Ding Meng calculated. The distance of 1,200 light years, if they flew at Level 4 warp speed, it would take them nearly 20 years to reach it. However, he believed that the Patriarch Society would not spend such a long time on interstellar travel. It was a waste of motor and fuel.
He glanced at the control panel again and immediately discovered the purpose of the dual-state complex metal of the Dragon Seeking Starship. At this moment, the energy circles that burst out from the starship's wings were constantly folding and twisting the space-time tunnel in a combination of "arc and string". He immediately understood that this was the principle of folding a piece of paper in half. Two points on a straight line were the shortest. With warp speed and space folding, the original 20 years could be shortened to a few years or even a few months.
"How long do we need to fly?" Ding Meng asked.
Lu Qi said, "We will arrive in 42 days!"
Even though he was mentally prepared, Ding Meng was once again shocked. According to the formula, this was almost level 10 warp speed. In theory, this was the technology that those god-level civilizations had grasped and the speed at which they traversed the universe.
What kind of civilization was the origin of the Steel Mane Empire?
However, he was soon relieved. The Dragon Seeking Starship had been charged for six years. This engine was probably created by the Steel Mane Empire.
Looking at the various strange scenes that kept flashing on the screen, Ding Meng murmured and sighed, "The thing you are looking for is of unprecedented importance."
Poseidon also sighed, "To be honest, this is related to the future of our race."
Ding Meng curiously asked, "Is it really that important?"
Poseidon looked serious, "The Silent System was discovered by chance when we were drifting in the universe many years ago. The fleet that Lord Ming Li was on had also been there."
Ding Meng did not intend to hide anything and asked directly, "Did he find something on Gray Plateau?"
Poseidon said, "Lord Ming Li brought Madam Ming all the way from Gray Plateau to Byron Galaxy. Later on, she became Madam Ming."
There was actually another Steel Mane Empire in a distant and unfamiliar galaxy. If it were Ding Meng, he would also suspect Ming Li.
Poseidon said, "Actually, there are many people of our race scattered all over the universe. It is actually very normal to find people of our race in an unfamiliar galaxy."
He did not finish his sentence, but Ding Meng understood what he meant. The abnormal thing was that Madam Ming later gave birth to Whitey. This was definitely an abnormal phenomenon. According to Warlord Warlord's explanation, the Steel Mane Empire had undergone a long process of mutation, and suddenly giving birth to an Origin Race member proved that Madam Ming had the genes of the Origin Race. The Origin Race also had the characteristics of sensing new energy sources. This was definitely investigated by the Patriarch Society.
However, Little White was abandoned the moment he was born. The Board of Patriarchs couldn't do anything even if they wanted to. In everyone's eyes, Ming Li and his wife despised this illegitimate child. The Board of Patriarchs couldn't say anything about this. However, logically speaking, it shouldn't be difficult for the Board of Patriarchs to investigate Little White's whereabouts.
His previous analysis was that the Patriarch Society must have some inside information. They deliberately did not touch Whitey because Whitey was too young. When the time was right, they would directly go to the concentration camp and bring Whitey back. There was no need to kill Ming Li and his wife. There must be some secret that he did not know.
However, Ding Meng did not think too much about it now. With more than a month, not only could he have a good rest, but he could also practice martial arts alone in his room. Whitey, Zhan Feng, and the others were arranged to stay in another room.
Whitey was an ordinary Steel Mane Empire member and did not have any source energy in his body. Therefore, Whitey was served with all kinds of metal delicacies every day. He ate when he woke up and slept when he ate. Whitey had never lived such a good life since he was young.
Forty days quickly passed by. The Dragon Seeking Starship had already broken out of its warped state and was quietly sailing through the depths of the sea of stars.
Looking at the radar image, it was really pitch black. Nothing could be seen.
Lu Qi's expression was very serious. "No, we are passing through a large area of interstellar dust. The density and scale of this dust is at least fifty times that of the Fertile Chalk System."
Ding Meng asked curiously, "How do you know?"
Lu Qi said, "I have been to this place a total of three times. The first time was when I accidentally discovered it during the great migration. The second time was when I was escaping from the Rainbow System and was chased here by the Frog Race fleet."
Ding Meng said, "That time, everyone was running for their lives. How did you end up being chased by the Frog Race fleet?"
Lu Qi laughed bitterly. "Sir Ding, there is something you do not know. We managed to avoid the explosion of the Solar System, but on the way back, we encountered a second Frog Race fleet. At that time, our starship was already loaded with a batch of precious resources. If we were to be inspected by them, the losses would be too great. Our Long Voyage Team could not afford it."
Ding Meng stared at him. "So you chose to escape?"
Lu Qi laughed bitterly. "It was impossible to really shake them off!"
Ding Meng sighed. "But if you were to escape towards this Star System, that would not necessarily be the case."
As he said this, he saw Xilang bring up a 3D simulation map from the reconnaissance platform. It was the terrain of this Star System. Its outer area was indeed very similar to the Fertile Chalk System. A circle of interstellar dust spread out. This was at least a few billion kilometers across. It was impossible for a normal starship to pass through it.
After crossing this natural moat, there was a black and gray planet. Meteorites were densely packed together. It looked like a piece of asphalt that was sprinkled with black stones, soil, and sand of various sizes.
In the Federal Empire, including the Frogmen of the Devouring Sector, this Star System was known as the "Land of Dead Silence".
Lands of Dead Silence were not common in the universe, but they did exist. There were many reasons for their formation. Some were materials left behind by supernova explosions, some were Star Systems that had experienced war, and some were even Star Systems that were damaged by battles between Galactic Masters. No matter what the reason was, they were all severely damaged. After drifting endlessly in the universe and changing over a long period of time, they gradually gathered together and became lifeless Star Systems.
Lifeless meant that there was no Sun, no light source, no vitality, and no life forms. It was a complete land of Dead Silence. There was no value in using it. Even a garbage dump would not choose such a place.
Lu Qi continued, "But during that escape, I discovered the secret of this place."
"What secret?" Ding Meng quickly asked.
"This is it!" Poseidon's voice came from the control panel.
The black steel bed on the main control console had risen. Under the joint operation of Poseidon and Xilang, a large black metal ocean was formed, corresponding to the three-dimensional simulation of the reconnaissance platform. The simulation was a virtual light screen, but the main control console generated a real scale model. As the two of them removed a large number of nebulas, dust, meteorites, debris, debris, and irrelevant celestial models, bit by bit, a standard model of the galaxy was displayed.
This huge star region that seemed to be a dead land was actually a complete galaxy. More than 50 stars revolved around a core planet at different orbits and speeds. However, a large amount of dust and debris covered everything. In addition, there was no light. Even if the starships of the Federal Empire came here, they would not discover this galaxy that was so hidden that it was almost like a drifting object.
Only the starships of the Steel Mane race had a probability of discovering this because Poseidon and Xilang did not use advanced scanning technology. Instead, they used mechanical simulation and data evolution to calculate the result.
Ding Meng was once again impressed by the Steel Mane race's rigorous, persistent, and adventurous spirit.