National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 416: The Antimatter Source and a Glimpse of the Black Light
What is the Misty Star Region?

As the name suggests, it is an entire star field filled with a large amount of special star sea fog energy. This fog energy may be a relic from the multiverse era, or it may be an accidental product after the formation of the broken star sea.

However, one thing is certain, that is, this fog energy must carry an extremely strong interference magnetic field, making it difficult for creatures or starships that enter it to make use of the effects of technological products such as radar, and it is very easy to get lost.

His eyes flickered, but Song Chi did not directly enter this foggy star area.

It’s not that he was worried that the information given by Kendall Eagle was wrong. He had already confirmed through the [Covenant of Oath] component that everything the other party said was true.

He was hesitant about whether to leave a space anchor point in the original place. If he did, he would have to cancel the anchor point set up in the Tianxu Cangqiong.

The advantage is that if he gets lost, he can always return to the starting point via the market to explore again without having to go back to the Dragon Ridge Continent.

The disadvantage is that there is no space anchor in the Tianxu Cangkong. Once it rushes into the foggy star area, it will be difficult to enter and exit the market at will. After all, if the warships staying in the outside world deviate slightly, he, the captain, may fall into endless fog after leaving the market.

As for leaving space beacons using space beacon-like components?

This cannot be done.

Based on the special rules of the Xinhuo human civilization, only the space beacons located far away from the Xinhuo human river community can be activated. All space beacons set within the territory of the Xinhuo human civilization, or even within a river community around the Xinhuo human river community, cannot be activated.

The reason for the emergence of this rule is that in the early days of human civilization, some crises that people did not want to mention occurred.

Some Xinhuo captains who were left behind in alien star domains were enslaved by alien civilizations. They then returned one after another through the space beacons that were first left in the territory of Xinhuo human civilization. Finally, after a long period of planning, they opened an ultra-long-distance space transmission channel for an advanced alien civilization, which eventually led to a massive invasion of the alien civilization.

In that civilization invasion, the four great empires of the Xinhuo human race paid a heavy price and won with a slight advantage. That is to say, at that time, the Xinhuo human civilization had not yet come into contact and collided with the eight-armed snake demon civilization. Otherwise, it would be hard to say whether the Xinhuo human civilization could have been passed down to this day under internal and external troubles.

It was the painful price paid that time that made the four great human empires reflect deeply and eventually unite to create this rule.

After this rule was passed, such incidents have never occurred again in the following 200,000 years of human civilization.

No matter what, with the Flame Seed protecting his mind, Captain Xinhuo's mental power is among the best in the entire Broken Star Sea. Even if he really encounters alien races in the star sea who are good at enslavement, bewitchment, illusion, etc. during his exploration of foreign lands, it will not be possible to completely enslave a Captain Xinhuo in just 24 hours.

Once it exceeds 24 hours, they will miss the return time of the Xinhuo battleship. Even if they successfully enslave the Xinhuo captain, they will not be able to return to the territory of Xinhuo human civilization across billions of light years to plan anything.

……

“Forget it. I don’t know how long I will have to stay in this fog. I will have to go to the market for subsequent transactions. If I really get lost, I can just go back to the Dragon Spine Continent. The straight-line distance between the Dragon Spine Continent and this chaotic star field is no more than 10,000 light years, so it won’t take long…”

As he muttered, Song Chi's eyes turned firm, and then the battleship's engine roared, pushing the Tianxu Cangqiong into the fog ahead.

Zizizi!
As soon as they rushed into the fog, a strange buzzing sound came from the side patrol radar. Looking sideways, Song Chi frowned.

It can be seen that the [Eye of Peeping], which originally had an astonishing detection range, now displays a radar image with a diameter of only tens of millions kilometers. This distance may seem large, but this is in the sea of ​​stars. Compared with the Hun Tian star region with a diameter of hundreds of light years, the distance of tens of millions kilometers is really insignificant.

Fortunately, the "transition star map collector" feature of the [Aurora Transition Device] has not failed. It has now been enhanced to the fifth level. The star map range that can be generated by this feature is 240 times the detection range of the patrol radar, which means that the diameter can reach 24 billion kilometers and the radius is 12 billion kilometers.

Compared with the Huntian Star Region, this detection radius is insignificant, equivalent to only two light points, but overall it is still good, so as not to make the Tianxu Cangqiong run around like a headless fly.

In addition, another alarm soon sounded inside the battleship.

[Note that the corrosive energy from the outside world continues to erode the energy shield, and the current energy shield value has dropped by 1%. ]

Song Chi didn't care about this. When the warning sounded, the Tianxu Cangqiong had been in the fog for several seconds. In other words, it would take 5 to 6 seconds to erode 1% of the shield value of the Five Elements Zhoutian Energy Shield, which did not exceed the repair speed of the "neutron star core pulse" characteristic.

The warship swept into the depths of the fog, and at the same time issued instructions to the Sky Intelligent Computer, asking it to notify immediately if it detected high-intensity energy fluctuations.

Afterwards, he left a "ethereal body" clone on the battleship, and then entered the Zhutian Market.

This foggy star region is very large, and it is still unknown when the trace of the small black hole can be found. Song Chi naturally will not just wait here.

After breaking through the fourth level of the guiding technique, the progress of his practice became increasingly slow, and he had to make use of all his time.

Now he was preparing to use the last blood peach.

Over the past few decades, the number of Green Blood Peaches in his hands has exceeded one hundred, and he gave a lot of them to his parents and other third-level elders in his clan.

However, although there are many Green Blood Peaches, he can only use one more at the moment. After that, this thing will have no effect on him anymore. This is a great pity.

In the lv47 all-attribute training room, as soon as Song Chi took the Jade Blood Peach, he drank a top-level body-building potion.

He then assumed the standard posture for practicing the Daoyin Technique and began this rapid practice.

Nearly a month later, when Song Chi walked out of the all-attribute training room again, his guiding technique had broken through from lv40 to lv41.

But to be honest, his successful breakthrough this time was due to a certain amount of luck.

In fact, after his guiding technique was promoted to the fourth level, the Green Blood Peaches that had only taken nine thousand years to mature no longer had much effect on him. It was just that he was lucky, as he had accumulated more than ten years of experience before that, so he was lucky enough to break through to level 41.

This time it was just a breakthrough. It would still take a long period of hard training to reach the peak of lv41, let alone lv42. However, Song Chi was still very happy.

Suddenly, his eyebrows raised. Through his ethereal body left in the outside world, he got the information from the outside world for the first time.

"We have detected traces of giant creatures. Are there giant space beasts in this foggy star region?"

When he returned to the battleship, Song Chi looked at the radar map first.

Just as the ethereal body had seen before, the radar map did show a creature that was over 200,000 meters long and moving at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing this, there was no need for Song Chi to remind him, as the Qiongtian Intelligent Brain had already activated the "Mirage" feature in advance.

With a body length of 200,000 meters, if nothing unexpected happens, it must be a sixth-level star beast. Star beasts of this level will naturally be avoided as far as possible.

As the Tianxu Cangqiong was getting farther and farther away from the other side, Song Chi said to the Qiongtian Intelligent Brain:
"Intelligent brain, can you analyze what kind of creature it is?"

[Accepting the command, comparing the database...]

[It is known that its body length exceeds 200,000 meters. It lives under the energy of the fog and is extremely fast...]

[Speculation 83.5: The star beast "Mist Tooth Shark", probability %]

[Speculation 12.5: Starry sky beast "Mist Fox", probability %]

[Speculation 4: Other, probability %]

"Mist-toothed shark?" Song Chi felt a chill in his heart when he heard the speculation given by the Sky Intelligent Computer.

The mist-toothed shark, this giant beast in the starry sky has a great reputation. It is extremely warlike and good at tracking scents. Even if it is several light years away, it can capture other abnormal scents appearing in its territory and quickly track them.

In other words, the Tianxu Cangqiong itself has energy shields and hull armor barriers, and does not emit any strange aura. Otherwise, at that distance just now, the other party would have discovered the existence of the Tianxu Cangqiong long ago.

Thinking about this, Song Chi was about to enter the market again, but the Qiongtian Intelligent Brain suddenly sent out another prompt.

[Note: a large circular empty zone was found on the jump star map, which is suspected to be caused by the black hole swallowing.]

Song Chi paused, and quickly turned his gaze to the new star map displayed by the [Aurora Jump Device].

On this star map, there is indeed a circular edge of a star sea void belt in the corner. Although the complete appearance of the void belt has not yet been officially seen, judging from the circular edge shown on the star map, it is indeed the characteristic of a circular void belt.

Based on this, Song Chi controlled the warship to jump two light minutes in the designated direction, and then a wider circular hole with corner cross-section appeared on the star map.

At this point, Song Chi was completely certain that there was indeed a circular void belt ahead, and the small black hole was most likely located at the deepest part of this circular void belt.

Having guessed this, he couldn't wait to control the Tianxu Cangqiong and rush into the void ahead.

There is no fog energy in this void zone. After the warship enters, the corrosion effect on the Five Elements Zhoutian Energy Shield completely dissipates.

This change made Song Chi more certain of his guess.

There is no reason why such a special area would appear in a star field shrouded in foggy energy.

Unless the fog energy that enters this area is swallowed up by the small black hole.

To prove this point, he continued to maneuver the warship towards the inner area of ​​the void.

There were not many changes at the beginning, but as the battleship gradually went deeper, the surrounding devouring energy continued to increase. On the tenth day of the advance, the shield value of the Five Elements Zhoutian Energy Shield began to decrease continuously. Fortunately, it was still within the repair speed of the "neutron star core pulse" characteristics.

On the fifteenth day, after several jumps, the Tianxu Cangqiong had entered the inner circle of the black hole's radiation zone. On this day, the terrifying devouring energy from the outside world finally reached a relative balance with the "neutron star core pulse" characteristics.

In other words, if Song Chi continues to let the Tianxu Cangqiong move forward, this balance will be broken, and the energy shield of the battleship will gradually weaken until it is completely overloaded.

And when the energy shield is overloaded, it is the battleship's armor and the ship itself that will face the terrifying devouring and tearing force.

If it were before, Song Chi would definitely have hesitated for a long time, but today his attitude was particularly firm. The Tianxu Cangqiong did not stop and continued to advance.

The reason was simple. A few hours ago, the [Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine] component emitted a slight vibration, and it sensed the presence of an antimatter source not far ahead.

For this reason alone, Song Chi will never back down.

The faster the battleship moves forward, the faster the shield value of the energy shield on the surface of the battleship's hull will be reduced.

[Warning, affected by the external devouring and tearing force, the battleship's energy shield value has dropped by 26%, and the current shield value remains at 74%. ]

[Warning, under attack... The current shield value is 51% remaining. ]

[Warning, under... The current shield value is 18% remaining, please repair it as soon as possible. ]

When the shield value dropped to 20%, Song Chi quickly activated the [Last Blessing] component.

Now that [Last Blessing] has been strengthened to the sixth level, the energy shield value that it can restore each time has reached 80%.

This means that the light emitted by the Five Elements Energy Shield is almost fully filled again.

However, this was only temporary. The warning sound in the battleship continued to sound, and the shield value that had just almost recovered was rapidly decreasing again.

Looking ahead again, it is not far from the location where the [Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine] is sending out the induction.

But it was clearly a distance of less than 20,000 meters, but at this moment Song Chi felt it was extremely far away. He wanted to start the warship jump, but under this terrifying compression and tearing force, it would be extremely dangerous to jump rashly. If he was not careful, the ship would be destroyed and everyone on board would die.

He could only continue to control the Tianxu Cangqiong and slowly move forward.

[Warning, under... The current shield value is 16% remaining, please repair it as soon as possible. ]

In a short period of time, the energy shield's value dropped by 20% for the second time. Song Chi could only activate the last battleship repair. In an instant, the energy shield's value recovered to 95% again.

At the same time, he also increased the speed of the Tianxu Cangqiong.

Finally, the battleship arrived at the location of the antimatter source identified by the [Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine] component. It was a special energy ball of pitch-black color. If it were not for the identification of the [Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine], he would never have known that this thing was actually a large source of antimatter.

He didn't have time to think about it. The battleship's hatch opened a tiny gap, and at the same time, the battleship's tractor beam shot out from the gap with difficulty.

But even so, the indescribable squeezing and tearing force from the outside world still invaded through the tiny gap in the hatch.

In an instant, the warning sound of the Sky Intelligent Computer sounded quickly.

In just a moment, the battleship's hull suffered considerable damage, but Song Chi could not stop, because once the hatch was closed, the tractor beam would be completely ineffective, and he would have to start all over again.

Song Chi's face was tense, and his solemn eyes were fixed on the tractor beam that swept out of the warship. It was obvious that under the extreme compression force of the outside world, even the tractor beam was greatly affected. The tractor beam that was originally enough to have an effect over a distance of tens of thousands of meters was now compressed to just over a hundred meters.

Because of this, even though Song Chi had tried his best to control the warship to get closer to the antimatter source, the traction beam was still extremely difficult to pull.

In this situation, the battleship's outer energy shield was rapidly depleting.

When the antimatter source was pulled into the cabin, the shield value of the Five Elements Zhoutian Energy Shield dropped by 20% for the third time. This time it was even worse, with only 11% left.

In response to this, Song Chi gritted his teeth and activated the "Posha Zen Seal·Inner·Speed" feature, allowing the [Last Blessing] component to instantly complete the cooling of the repair effect, and then he activated this silver repair component for the third time.

In an instant, the energy shield's shield value returned to 91%.

At the same time, the Sky Intelligent Computer began to rapidly turn the battleship and rushed towards the periphery.

However, at this moment Song Chi was completely absent-minded. He turned his gaze to the deeper part of the black hole. If the previous glance was not an illusion, he seemed to have seen a fleeting black light in the deeper part of this small black hole.

Originally, everything inside the black hole was pitch black, with no other light. However, the fleeting black light just now was completely different from the darkness of the black hole itself. It was more like a dark black that emitted light.

However, time was running out and he didn't have time to think too much. If he didn't leave, the battleship's energy shield would be overloaded.

PS: Guess what it will be?
(End of this chapter)