No matter what Hao Ren was up to, Noobie had no idea what her fate would be. The muddled little one was still dedicated to her duty as the embodiment of evil, which was to destroy as much as she wanted. She tore an old newspaper into pieces, and while doing so, she was having a good time.
After a while, Noobie began to make a fuss. The starving little one slapped the cans to look for food. Vivian threw some minced meat into the can, and Noobie happily began to eat. At this point, the change in Noobie was so obvious that even a careless person like Lily could see it at a glance.
Noobie was unusually quiet when she ate, and when she asked for food, she took the initiative to signal that she was hungry. The latter was a sign that she was gradually learning to communicate. Even though the method of communication was brutal, it showed that she began to understand the importance of expressing her will.
While Hao Ren and Vivian were taking care of the little one, the Petrachelys traveled through the vast darkness of space. The long journey of 2.2 billion light-years seemed not so long after the spacecraft entered subspace. As the dark warp around the spacecraft opened up, the strange and slightly sparse starry sky appeared before everyone's eyes. This was the place that the drone cluster had discovered.
As the data showed, this was a vacuum of matter. Within 10,000 light-years, there was not a single asteroid in space, and it was located at the intersection of two galaxies. This caused the boundary of the vacuum to be filled with hazy interstellar dust clouds. Distant starlight from at least 10,000 light-years away shone through the dust clouds into this area. It was blurry, sparse, and cold.
The spacecraft left the hyperspace in the dust cloud outside the vacuum zone, cruising forward with various radars all the way, and finally crossed the clear boundary. There were no twists and turns worth noting in the process. It was as if the boundary was really just a rare natural phenomenon, as harmless to humans and animals. However, although the radars did not detect anything unusual, everyone in the spacecraft with above average intelligence knew that this place was not normal.
Noobie began to tear up a new ball of newspaper. She did not know anything, so the little one's intelligence was below average.
Nolan replayed the image when the spacecraft crossed the boundary line. She could not see anything at close range, but the image sent back by a detector tens of millions of kilometers away from the spacecraft was much more obvious. The front end of the dust cloud seemed to have hit an invisible wall and was sharply cut off in the air. The boundary was so clear that the image looked like it had been erased by an eraser.
"We have now entered the vacuum zone." Nolan's holographic image sat on the console in front of Hao Ren. She said while swinging her legs that dangled from the edge of the console. She looked relaxed, but in fact, she had turned on all her radars and was vigilantly observing the surroundings. "Although people who are not blind can see that there is something wrong with this place, none of the detectors have sent back any abnormal data." "There are two speculations at present.
"At present, there are two speculations. The first is that the things here are hidden by some kind of 'invisible field,' and the second is that the original matter here has been 'dug out.' Both are possible," Hao Ren said, knocking on the armrest of the captain's seat. "The interstellar dust on the border is in a state of 'movement obstruction.' Those clouds are still moving, but none of the particles have crossed the border. This makes it difficult for us to judge which possibility is more reliable."
Muru's voice came from the communicator. "Maybe it is the second possibility: the original matter here has been dug out."
The guardian giant temporarily took a break from his work in the CARS and Tannagost to serve as an advisor for this voyage. Because there was a high possibility that there was the legacy of the goddess of creation here, it was necessary to bring such a guardian with him. Hao Ren had arranged a special cabin for the big man in the rear of the Petrachelys, so Muru did not have to hide in the garage every time.
"How do you know?" Hao Ren asked curiously.
"We are not 'invisible,' Captain," Nolan replied. "I dropped a small monitoring station before entering the vacuum zone. Now this monitoring station is watching the ship from the other side of the border. According to the observation results, we have no signs of being invisible."
The image from the monitoring station was projected on the console. Hao Ren saw that in the empty space, a small silver-white dot appeared abruptly in the dark background, and behind the white dot was a blue light — that was the trajectory of the energy lattice of the Petrachelys in the background.
"So there is no invisible field in this area …" Hao Ren scratched his chin, but he felt that something was not right. "But this is where the crack in the Wall of Reality is. Matter can be 'dug' away. How can the crack in the Wall of Reality disappear into thin air?"
Vivian glanced at him and said, "Let's look around here."
The upper deck of the Petrachelys slowly unfolded, and an additional set of combined antennas stretched out from the armor belt. The spacecraft expanded the range of precision sensing and began to look for any clues that might explain the 'vacuum zone' in this vast wilderness spanning 10,000 light-years.
At the same time, countless silver-white shuttle-shaped light spots also shot out from the ejection channels on both sides of the spacecraft and quickly disappeared into the rippling space portal. These light spots were shipborne probes. Unlike the personal models with limited power, these highly intelligent probes that were directly controlled by the main computer of the spaceship had higher sensitivity, a wider range of movement, and a faster superluminal hyperdrive ability. They were also abnormally intelligent and could judge and detect the various disguises of the target on their own. These probes were like worker bees spreading out from a swarm of insects, rapidly expanding Nolan's perception range.
Hao Ren believed that this dark realm, which spanned 10,000 light-years, was not really empty because the suspicious signal recorded by Anthony Alfonso could not be wrong, and the signal was indeed consistent with the information signature code of this space, so this was definitely the crack in the Wall of Reality in the Plane of Dreams.
It was just that something had hidden this crack.
Nolan jumped down from the console. Although it was just a holographic image, she could move freely in the real world as if she were a real person. The "mental model" walked around Hao Ren, saying, "Show yourself, show yourself …"
Hao Ren looked at her strangely. "Are you chanting a spell?"
Nolan waved her hand. "You don't understand the shipgirl."
Hao Ren was speechless.
At this moment, Nolan suddenly stopped and looked in a certain direction in space in surprise. "Ah, there seems to be something over there."
"What?" Several people on the scene said in unison.
Nolan pressurized the engine and said quickly, "A probe found something strange … I'm afraid that's the only space entity within 10,000 light-years. Let me see … looks like a man-made building? "
The Petrachelys drew a stream of light in the universe, traversing the distance of light years in a flash, and soon the spacecraft arrived at the target location.
A probe was flashing blue in space, and behind the probe, Hao Ren suddenly saw … the upper half of an ancient building floating alone in the universe.
It was just as Nolan said, there was a man-made building floating in this strange place.
The spacecraft carefully approached the strange thing with a pointed top, only half of it, looking like a religious facility, and transmitted its detailed image to the holographic projection on the bridge, which also showed the size of the building.
Hao Ren saw that it was a man-made facility of up to 100 meters high, made of granite. It had a central structure with a vault, and in the center of the vault was a huge circular skylight with complex hollowed patterns. Around the vault were four symmetrically distributed spires, which looked like some kind of church tower. The exterior of all these buildings had complex and exquisite decorative lines. Silver-white metal and some kind of crystal were inlaid on these decorative lines, giving the impression of both luxurious decoration and mysterious magic.
Even without these decorations, the entire structure had a distinct sense of sacredness and luxury. Hao Ren looked at it for a long time and thought that it was very likely to be the upper part of a temple.
Only the upper part — in the transmitted image, he could clearly see that the lower part of the temple had disappeared. The stubble was sharp and smooth, as if it was cut neatly in the middle by a huge blade.
"I'm afraid it was cut by a spatial fault," the old demon said with experience.
"What do you think this is?" Nangong Sanba asked curiously in front of the holographic projection.
Vivian frowned slightly. "… Is it a bit like those temples in the Coldpath dimension?"
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