On this night, Li Yao and his friends had a small farewell dinner made of canned food in the Blue Sky Market, not just for Li Yao but for each other.
Because of the changes in the frontline, the command center of the coalition army of the four Kurfürst families had sent the latest order, requesting the "National Protection Army" to set off in advance to block an important sailing route of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors.
Therefore, Li Yao's and Boss Bai's fleets would set off for their respective battlefields together tomorrow.
Although the food was all kinds of canned food, they enjoyed themselves quite a lot. Also, halfway through the dinner, A Boxing Champion came, too, with a thermos of noodles with tomato and egg.
In the end, under his inhuman, ruthless, and iron-like eyes, the thermos of noodles was snatched and shared by Li Yao and Boss Bai.
The Fist King was so infuriated that he was about to die.
The minor episode did not affect the atmosphere of the farewell. Everybody stayed up all night, talking about the upcoming battle and the drastic changes that would take place at the center of the cosmos in the near future.
It was not until the east of the artificial dome was injected with crimson that Li Yao finally had enough fun. Taking Li Jialing with him, he boarded a super small starship that was commonly known as a "shuttle" and slowly left the spaceport.
When they left, the "Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs" under the disguise of the "National Protection Army" was also ready to go. The super starships that had been strengthened and modified by Li Yao, Boss Bai, A Boxing Champion, Xiaoming, and Wenwen soared into the sky, spurting out colorful exhaust flames that congregated into colorful torrents.
Right now, the name of the fleet was only known by a few people in the Blue Sky Market. Oh, and perhaps a few people in the Xing Yao Federation at the edge of the cosmos.
But it was believed that it would rise at the center of the cosmos unstoppably in the near future and burn the entire Pangu Universe with its brilliant flames.
Li Yao, on the other hand, would make a glamorous entrance on another battlefield with another world-shocking identity!
"Good luck."
The shuttle was about to leave, when Boss Bai's blessing came over in the communication channel. "Li Yao, you lack nothing except good luck. I hope that everything will go well this time."
"Of course."
Li Yao grinned and replied, "We are people who are going to break out of the Pangu universe and stir up billions of stars. The Imperium is just an insignificant place. What is it?"
…
Half a month later, in a desolate space zone not far away from the Seven Seas Grand Market, the headquarters of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the debris of countless starships constituted an overwhelming torrent of garbage, like a universal highway made of stone belts.
It was the sailing route in space visible to the naked eye. It was the shortest distance from one best jump point to the next best jump point.
Of course, of the Space of the Pangu of Space of the high precision of the precision of the high precision.
However, such a jump had a high demand on the precision of the Space Jump Unit installed on the starship, as well as the endurance of the passengers' bodies and souls, and the consumption of fuel was astronomical, too.
Sometimes, it was not even a matter of the fuel, but a lot of high-purity, precious, special mixed fuel had to be injected into the Space Jump Magical Equipment in order to activate the Space Jump that spanned hundreds of Sectors.
Such special fuel, as well as the rarely-seen marrow crystals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, were often monopolized by the nobles and the military. Only the elite warships were qualified to use them.
For the regular business starships and carriers, they could not afford such expensive fuel, and the weak bodies of the passengers were often unable to adapt to the damage caused by the decomposition into the four-dimensional state for a long time.
Therefore, they could only jump from one Sector to a neighboring Sector and slowly reach their destination through such a "frog jump".
Also, during the short-distance jump, in order to save fuel, they had to look for the places where the three-dimensional structure of the Sector was most unstable and where wormholes were most likely to exist. Those places were the jump points marked on the star map.
From one jump point to the next, a straight line was not necessarily the shortest.
Taking advantage of the gravity of the planets or even the stars, it was like being thrown out by a universal slingshot, which could significantly increase the speed.
In the meantime, many jump points were also terrible areas where cosmic storms and meteorite fragments occurred frequently. The garbage and debris caused by the war activities of human beings could deal a fatal blow to the business starships.
In order to take advantage of the gravity of the stars and the planets and to avoid the dangerous areas, the sailing routes between the jump points turned into complicated curves. Only the experienced captains could stick to the sailing routes precisely and reach a perfect compromise in terms of time, safety, and fuel consumption.
The battles between the four families and the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, on the other hand, often revolved around the blocking, clearing, escorting, and ambushing of the sailing routes.
In the past couple of months, the branch fleets of the two parties had already had almost a thousand brief but cruel conflicts on the sailing routes. Countless starships had been crushed, countless ordinary people and Immortal Cultivators had been killed in the cold space together, and countless precious goods had turned into garbage drifting on the sailing routes as lackluster landmarks, exactly like the debris floating on the sailing route before his eyes.
After three months of fierce battles, almost 50% of the sailing routes around the Seven Seas Grand Market had been cut off.
However, the business teams on the remaining half of the sailing routes had multiplied, showing abnormal prosperity.
It couldn't be helped. However fierce the war was, life had to go on. As the headquarters of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the "Seven Seas Space Zone" where the Seven Seas Grand Market was located was the center of trade and logistics at the edge of the Imperium in the first place with the most stable wormholes and the most abundant jump points. To some extent, it boasted similar features to the capital of the Imperium.
The goods of countless Sectors and resource planets had to be transferred in the "Seven Seas Space Zone" in order to be delivered to the Sectors that were in dire need of them.
Those goods were either the fertilizers that were in dire need for farming, the core filtering units of the water purification system or the air purification system, or the effective drugs to kill a certain plague. All in all, they were indispensable items in every Sector, resource planet, and space town.
Without those goods, the whole town, the whole planet, and even the whole world would be faced with crises. Therefore, however fierce the war was, people had to pass through the battle area and do business in the Seven Seas Grand Market.
At this moment, such a fleet made of more than ten ragged, half-armed business ships was sailing on the sailing routes that were full of debris carefully.
Many of the debris still boasted an extremely high temperature. Some of the units deep inside the debris were even having intense reactions. Now and then, colorful light balls would burst out and stare at the tiny fleet like abnormal skulls.
Those debris were the products of a fierce battle not long ago.
It suggested that the sailing route was probably a perilous frontline. The fleets of the four families, the fleets of the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors, the ferocious space pirates … All kinds of wolves and leopards were lurking in the dark space, waiting for an opportunity to bite them brutally.
Many deep eyes were even staring at the tiny business team right now. It was only because they were too inconspicuous and shabby that they were too lazy to rob them at the cost of fuel and ammunition.
This knowledge made the caravan's journey become even more cautious and cautious.
At the end of the business team, there was a rusty, fat, and stupid business ship that seemed to have a history of hundreds of years. A silly black bear was painted on the head of the ship, and below it was the name of the business ship — Little Bear.
It was not a starship that was suitable for long-distance voyages but only for ferrying and docking in the neighboring Sectors.
In order to adapt to the "leapfrogging" after multiple space jumps, the owner of Little Bear had modified it painstakingly. A lot of patches had been added to the shell, making it look even more bloated and clumsy, just like the ten or so business ships before it.
Although they seemed to be on the same boat, the dozen or so ships had never met each other before. They came from different Sectors and belonged to some small merchants who were alone. They had only met each other by chance at the last supply port and decided to travel together to boost each other's courage.
Although the business ships would be killed together if they were looted by a warship when they were gathered together, it at least brought them some … illusory comfort.
Huo Dongling did not like the strange universe outside at all. Not at all.
Her father was the owner and captain of Little Bear, and she had played on Little Bear since she was a little girl. She often sailed with her father, so much so that she thought that she was a real "child of the universe".
But in the past, they had been cruising near their hometown in the peaceful, non-dangerous universe where they were very familiar with every star. Every supply port they reached would be greeted by her father's old friends and brothers, who would give her all kinds of bizarre fruits and toys. It would only take them less than half a month to return home. That was the voyage that Huo Dongling was used to.
But this time was different. This time was too different.
Huo Dongling and Little Bear had never sailed so far before. They passed through strange space zones one after another, saw twisted debris, and even heard earsplitting alarms many times. They had to run away at the cost of fuel crazily. Little Bear had never been so vulnerable, and her father's face had never been so gloomy.
Huo Dongling even heard her father talking in panic in his sleep many times. That was her father, who was as strong as a tower and was not scared at all in the face of a cosmic storm!
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