Mech: Shattering of the Galaxy Chapter 1643 - 2: The Great Upheaval of This World
Previously on Mech: Shattering of the Galaxy...
With a fierce posture, it invaded this universe, then struck with lightning speed before all intelligence could converge.
Mu Fan, having garnered the allegiance of the Bone Fly, relied on the information gap created by the Black Storm and the Bone Fly’s void traversal, thoroughly disrupting the entire alert line of the Saint Luo Clan’s Border Army.
Even when this migrating fleet of only four warships had sunk into the "Gate of Divine River," the garrison of the Cameron galaxy of the Saint Luo Clan only received one message.
That was the Bone Fly of the Saint Luo Envoy once appeared near the "Gate of Divine River."
The last mark left on this starry sky was fixed in the minds of every Barbaric Ascension Star person... Shura’s hands plunged into the black fissure, boldly tearing it open.
...
...
On the Winter Tree Star, a black line suddenly tore open at the end of a vast holographic world.
The next moment, a fierce bow burst through.
The migrating fleet from the Saint Luo world thus arrived in a strange yet beautiful universe.
At the topmost point of the slit opening like a vertical pupil, a jet-black as ink Mecha spread its hands wide, its arms ignited with blood-red flames, though those flames at this moment looked like constantly cracking yet restoring mirrors.
That was Shura fighting against some void yet truly existent will.
Cosmic Will!
"Perhaps you’re expressing your dissatisfaction... but what else can you do besides anger and roar?"
In the cockpit, Mu Fan’s arms felt as if they bore a thousand tons; he even faintly heard the sound of muscles and bones being crushed, while colors and space fragments occasionally flickered before his eyes.
Like a mirror: exquisite and fragile.
This was the pressure residing in the passage between two universes, resisting the force exerted by the wills of both universes.
Before Mu Fan, the figures representing energy plummeted like an avalanche.
"Can you stop me, or... crush me?"
Dong, dong!
The throbbing of the Heart of Shura made Mu Fan feel the overwhelming power behind him.
When the Bone Fly finally wriggled its tail and drilled out, Mu Fan’s seemingly captive arms suddenly shook; visible sweat evaporated into mist, his arms clashed together like towering peaks.
Outside, Shura’s surrounding dissipating fragments simultaneously paused and suddenly closed.
The shadow of Shura supporting the slit was explosively crushed.
The slit closed tightly.
It seemed Shura was thus obliterated in the universe’s majestic force.
In front of the central light screen of the warship, Alva and other natives from the Barbaric Ascension Star were silent.
"Brother Mu..."
A phantom flickered a thousand meters away!
In the blink of an eye, that phantom froze into dozens of afterimages on the light screen.
Molten magma veins radiated throughout the body, flickering.
The black Mecha appeared clearly atop the Bone Fly.
This juvenile Bone Fly wagged its tail, slowly opening its large mouth.
The nearly frozen atmosphere instantly combusted, within the warship echoed a cheer.
...
"Where to now?"
"First, let’s rendezvous with them."
"Them, is it Harry and the others?" Nuonuo’s voice was full of joy; hearing these familiar names and returning to a familiar world felt great.
The little Fuzzy Ball in the girl’s arms seemed to sense its owner’s mood, boldly displaying its pair of bright little eyes, curiously looking at... Mu Fan.
This little guy’s eyes were filled with fear and curiosity.
"Yes, though the way back might have some trash to clear. Help me bring up the radar map of the Saint Luo Clan."
Nuonuo and Mu Fan battled side by side, watching as a massive three-dimensional light screen slowly ascended into view.
Green, green...
Still green.
[No similar biological energy wave detected.]
This time Black responded to Mu Fan with a system-like tone.
[No foreign signal fluctuation detected.]
[No spore network detected.]
The two following sentences instantly chilled the briefly intense atmosphere.
Meanwhile, in Mu Fan’s eyes, synchronizing Shura’s view, beneath the blood-red veil... there wasn’t a single light.
A world of deathly silence.
A world devoid of the aura of life.
"Panstellar network... unable to connect."
Lastly, Black gave Mu Fan an unexpected answer.
This indicated a problem with the fundamental network structure of the Luqin Universe.
And this was precisely a very severe issue.
For whether it’s the Outer Domain Galaxy, Hinchlo Business Alliance, Galaxy Federation, Gardot Empire... even after experiencing warfare, they would never unilaterally cut off the network.
What on earth has happened!
"Where’s Dawn? Where’s Shadow Island?"
Mu Fan spoke coldly.
[Searching...]
[20s... 30s...]
Half a minute, a minute, five minutes...
Black didn’t answer but had already provided an answer.
"Master."
A tall girl approached Mu Fan’s side, gently grasping her beloved’s right hand.
"We’ve lost contact with this world unless these large illusions around us truly are those I initially saw... something must have happened!" Mu Fan’s voice was definitive; he did not fear confronting difficulties.
He was worried...
About the friends left behind.
"Master, your Mecha should still have the interstellar map from back then, let’s reverse our course, first head to the nearest Jump Point to make for humanity’s gathering spot. Upon reaching there, we should gain initial insight into the current situation."
The girl’s voice was gentle, like a spring, comforting.
The surrounding large illusion barrier slowly disappeared to both sides.
The view of Winter Tree Star also appeared on the huge light screen.
Enlivened greenery on the sunny side and pure snowy white on the shadowy side immediately amazed the natives escaping from the Barbaric Ascension Star.
Still, a few noticeable annular pits drew Mu Fan’s attention.
"Compared to the database, we didn’t find these annular pits before heading to the Saint Luo Universe; Winter Tree Star has been attacked."
"But other explosion sites weren’t found; no signs of a human fleet’s attack."
"The disappearance of the Saint Luo Clan also seems odd."
"Wait... radar locks onto 143 comparison points, vegetation shapes have changed."
As Black analyzed to this point, Mu Fan’s heart skipped a beat, an inexplicable bad premonition surged, "What do you mean?"
"It means this vegetation, documented in the database for temporary positioning, now has shape changes unrelated to external forces, namely, these plants have grown taller."
Grown taller... grown taller!
Besides biological energy induction, there’s also...
"Time!" Nuonuo’s voice suddenly piped up; she stared at the data waterfall Black listed on the central light screen without blinking.
"During my exchange study at Taoyun Academy, I remember Felix the mentor mentioning in a lecture that dangerous black holes and spatial fissures in the universe often accompany another unknown risk... that is the time flow rate difference of an Alien Realm!"
"During normal travel routes, thanks to current Warp Jump Technology, time differences within the realm of human governance can be controlled."
"Yet when involving unknown regions over huge light-year distance differences, the impact of time flow rates will descend!"
Fleets lost in the universe.
Those century-appearing ghost ships...
"So, you mean the three months we spent in the Saint Luo Universe... here might be another time... no, no, if that’s the case, why was everything normal when I found you?"
When confronted with genuine cosmic astronomy, Mu Fan’s brain quickly lagged.
"Normally, Mu Fan, your guess is correct, but if considering the forcibly torn universe passages involved, then discrepancies could have arisen during this period."
"What discrepancy?"
"Crossing through forcibly torn space tunnels might have taken us three years... or even more."
Within the bridge, there was silence.