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Chapter 418 - An Unfamiliar Radio Wave
Chapter 418 - An Unfamiliar Radio Wave
Chapter 418: An Unfamiliar Radio Wave
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In space, the space barrier quickly repaired itself.
The middle-aged man in armor held a crystalline diamond-shaped object in his left hand. He lowered his right hand, which was shaking slightly.
In the end, this was only a spatial barrier that had been temporarily broken through. They were not in the spatial distortion, and there was no spatial energy to continue supporting it, forming a spatial rift that would not automatically close.
The terrifying storm erupted for a while, fierce and sudden. In essence, it had no power to draw on. As long as it was blocked off from its source, it would not be able to continue.
The bald man and the scarred man flanked him like guards.
“We were tricked.”
The middle-aged man’s expression was ugly as he gritted his teeth.
Although they had protected the core of the spaceship, how could they find a place with the ability to build a similar spaceship in such a remote galaxy?
The silver spaceship was a multi-purpose spaceship that could perform investigations, tracking, and attacking. The destruction of the spaceship was almost equivalent to a mission failure.
“Boss, the person who set up the trap in advance must be the one who killed the star spirit. The other party might have a spatial ability. What should we do?”
the bald man asked anxiously, ignoring the cold sweat that was dripping down his forehead.
“There’s no way to avoid it. Let’s deal with the trouble at hand first. Under the cover of the remaining storm, I sensed two other abnormal energy fluctuations. Be careful.”
The middle-aged man nodded and reminded him.
“There are still two abnormalities?”
The bald man’s expression suddenly froze. The disturbance when the storm erupted was very serious. He had thought that the three abnormalities reported by the artificial intelligence had erupted at the same time to create the storm.
The scarred man at the side felt the pain from his scar and had a serious expression on his face.
It was fine since there was a huge difference in strength between them and the opponent who had spatial abilities. But if the difference in strength was not to the extent of crushing him, it would be a huge problem for those who did not have spatial abilities.
This was especially true since the location of their spaceship’s destruction was in a remote area in outer space. It was a fact that one’s strength made the rules here.
The three of them were already equivalent to law enforcers. They were very intimidating to ordinary criminals who had some strength, but when faced with spatial ability users who could fight and leave at will, their intimidation was no longer there.
In fact, to put it bluntly, they might not be able to escape unscathed.
Just as the three of them were waiting solemnly, the other two spatial abnormalities erupted almost at the same time.
A red-haired arm suddenly extended from the spatial rift. Then, it opened its palm, and the sharp claws on it lit up with a white light.
The palm was unprecedentedly large, almost completely covering the entire space.
The sharp claws could not be underestimated. With a flash of white light, terrifying restraining forces quickly spread out, almost sealing off the entire galaxy.
At the same time, in the last spatial rift, although nothing strange rushed out, a terrifying suction force suddenly appeared, wanting to suck all the matter in the galaxy into the spatial distortion.
Although this suction force was not very lethal, it was the most terrifying.
No one knew what kind of existence was waiting in the spatial distortion behind the suction force. Perhaps it was an unimaginable mouth, an environment that made one feel despair, or perhaps…
Once one was sucked in, the result would be nothing good.
“They’re coming.”
The middle-aged man in armor took a step forward and pressed his palms together.
The energy fluctuations in his body suddenly rose from a relatively low value to near its peak. Just the fluctuations alone shook the entire galaxy.
He was preparing to use all the power of his inner world to deal with the red-haired arm and the increasing suction force.
“Captain,” the bald man and the scarred man shouted.
The two of them were extremely vigilant and stood guard on his left and right sides to prevent the middle-aged man from suddenly being ambushed by the spatial ability user.
If necessary, they would even take the initiative to wear down a portion of the will in their bodies and transmit the power of their inner worlds to the middle-aged man to replenish his energy.
This was a desperate situation. There was no other way. The middle-aged man was the strongest in the three-man team. If their strongest combatant did not fall, they could still fight.
…
However, the three people led by the middle-aged man quickly sensed that something was amiss. Be it the red-haired arms or the terrifying suction force, they did not seem to be targeting them.
Outside the abnormal space, “It’s alive!”
Chen Yiming was also dumbfounded by what he had brought over.
From the red-haired arm, the shadow of the huge beast he had seen previously was real, not a mirage.
The spatial distortion was too dangerous. Unless it was necessary, he should not mess around with it. Otherwise…
At this moment, a palm that covered the sky moved towards Chen Yiming. Before it reached him, the surrounding space became sticky.
This stickiness wasn’t just a little restrictive. Even with Chen Yiming’s physical strength at the star condensation realm, he couldn’t move freely and felt a powerful restraining force.
“It can’t see those who are close to it?”
Chen Yiming was shocked.
What he did not know was that the interference he had caused in the spatial distortion was very serious.
The red-haired arm had locked onto his aura, allowing it to cross countless layers of space and find the corresponding spatial rift.
Furthermore, it was as if a blind person was touching an elephant. Other than the aura that it had already locked onto, all the other auras in the galaxy were disturbed by the spatial distortion.
For example, as long as the three people whose spaceship had been destroyed did not take the initiative to come into contact with it, the red-haired arm would not sense them.
In the blink of an eye, facing such a terrifying arm, Chen Yiming immediately used the space anchor to perform a series of space-jumps. The binding power couldn’t stop the space anchor, and he escaped from its range in the blink of an eye.
After escaping, he did not dare to stay any longer and continued to escape further into outer space.
At this moment, a commotion came from afar. The three people who were resisting the suction force also discovered the person who had attracted the attention of the strange arm.
It turned out to be a yellow-skinned human.
When the middle-aged man in armor saw this, he immediately shifted a portion of his attention to the fleeing figure. The spatial ability he had was very powerful. He was fast at launching attacks, and he could jump a long distance.
The bald man had a strange expression on his face as he muttered to himself, “Do you think this is karma?”
The scarred man thought to himself, “What exactly did the culprit who killed the star spirit do in the spatial distortion? The red-haired arm has a main body that is definitely an existence that is far beyond the level of the gods.”
The spatial distortion was a forbidden place at the level of a god. Most of the bolder people would only go there due to the excitement of becoming a god.
The three dragon gods escorting the human spaceships all belonged to this category.
This also included the middle-aged man in armor. Even though his cultivation level was above the star condensation realm, he still did not know much about the spatial distortion.
The deeper reason was that the spatial ability users were very secretive about this and treated the spatial distortion as an escape path. They did not want other non-spatial ability users to know too much about it.
Soon, the red-haired arm chased after Chen Yiming.
However, the terrifying suction force from the other spatial rift also suddenly increased by a few times, as if it wanted to devour the entire galaxy.
“Let’s retreat too,” the middle-aged man in armor frowned and instructed.
As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow of an ancient Buddha appeared from the middle-aged man’s body. His face was expressionless, and his size was comparable to a planet. In addition, thousands of arms grew out of his back.
Then, the ancient Buddha became furious.
Countless arms formed fists and stretched out in a large circle, attacking the spatial rift that emitted a terrifying suction force.
“Boom!”
In an instant, terrifying ripples spread out. The galaxy shook, the stars trembled, and matter was destroyed. Its power was not much weaker than the terrifying suction force.
The terrifying suction force from the spatial rift paused for a moment and its strength decreased greatly.
“Now,” the middle-aged man in armor shouted. Taking advantage of the small gap, the three of them endured the much weaker suction force and crossed the void with just their bodies to escape from the abnormal triangular area.
The further away they were, the weaker the suction force became. It did not take long for the three of them to escape from its range.
…
In the blink of an eye, more than 10 minutes had passed.
The terrifying suction force in the galaxy had already weakened to almost nothing.
Other than the red-haired arm that was shrinking back after failing to find anything, it was completely empty. Not a single piece of rubble was left behind.
Although no one was seriously injured, they still felt a lingering fear.
In the end, the red-haired arm and the suction force from the spatial rift only took a short time to completely disappear.
In space, Chen Yiming observed all these changes and said in a low voice, “The time taken for their complete disappearance and the time I took to break through the space barrier is exactly the same.”
“Then, when using the spatial distortion to affect the real world, is the time inside fixed?”
Previously, when he used the space anchor to escape, he thought that he needed to completely shake off the red-haired arm, but the truth was not like that.
The red-haired arm had locked onto his aura and chased after him for a while. Regardless of whether it caught up to him or not, it would return to the spatial distortion once the time was up.
“It seems that there is an indescribable existence hidden in the spatial distortion. If I cause a huge commotion inside, I will expose the corresponding coordinates, which are the weak points in space.”
Due to the layered space inside, most of the spatial barriers were so thick that it was almost impossible to break through.
Among the spatial abilities, the most common spatial perception ability was relying on one’s sharp spatial senses to move around in the spatial distortion.
On the other side, in space, the middle-aged man in armor watched as the spatial rift completely disappeared.
If the red-haired arm was targeting him, and there was a terrifying suction force interfering from the side, he did not have the confidence to escape unscathed.
This was the difference in their cultivation levels. It was a natural difference between those at the top and those at the bottom. It was not impossible to admit that this difference did not exist.
The culprit who had killed the star spirit could escape from the pursuit of the red-haired arm unharmed. Even without his two subordinates, he would not be in a good situation if he fought with such a spatial ability user.
Spatial ability users could come and go as they pleased, but if he made a wrong move, he might step into a trap set by the other party. Just because he could escape such a trap once did not mean that he could escape again.
At this moment, the bald man heaved a sigh of relief. His entire body went limp and he relaxed.
In his current state, there was no longer any trace of the fighting spirit from before. He was completely dispirited after having survived a disaster.
He asked, “Boss, look, the spaceship is broken, and the person we’re facing is so difficult to deal with. If we don’t ask the organization for help and go to our destination to investigate just like that, what if a similar trap is set up ahead…”
He did not know how to continue.
In short, he wanted to report to the higher-ups that they had failed the mission and ask for help or just return dejectedly.
When the scarred man heard this, he looked up at the bald man.
As members of the same team, logically speaking, they should scold him for suggesting that they retreat.
They had lost their means of transportation, but they themselves were unharmed. Even if the opponent had special abilities, it should not be a reason for them to retreat.
However, when he recalled his previous encounter with an existence he could not defeat, most of his confidence disappeared.
The three of them fell silent.
After some time, the galaxy was still extremely quiet, but the quieter it was, the more uncomfortable they felt.
“Let’s retreat for the time being and wait for the orders from the higher-ups.”
The middle-aged man in armor weighed the changes in the difficulty of the mission and made the final decision.
Hearing this, the bald man and the scarred man heaved a sigh of relief.
The person who had killed the five star spirits had tricked them without even showing his face. They really could not afford to just rely on their own strength to cause trouble for the other party.
If they wanted to continue with the mission, they had to at least have spatial ability users as temporary reinforcements.
…
In the next few hours, Chen Yiming remained cautious and used the space anchor to make space-jumps. He searched the area for the whereabouts of the three people whose spaceship had been destroyed.
It took some time to determine their location.
It turned out that they were hiding together under a small energy barrier. The energy barrier was maintained by a burly man with a long scar on his face, and it blended into space, making it difficult to see with the naked eye.
Although the universe was vast and boundless, it was quite difficult to hide in a space where there were no obstacles to hide behind.
This was because the energy barrier was a barrier-type ability. Its function was for hiding and interference, but it was essentially still energy.
Chen Yiming was relying on the space anchor to open a path. Once he touched the energy barrier, something would immediately happen. This abnormality would immediately reveal the coordinates of the three of them.
In the energy barrier, the spatial energy fluctuations collided with the energy barrier, causing a commotion.
“We’ve been discovered!”
The scarred man’s expression changed drastically.
There was nothing in the space around the energy barrier, so there was only one possibility. He was not taking any chances.
When the bald man heard this, his expression changed drastically.
Chen Yiming’s method of tricking others had left a serious trauma in their hearts. They were afraid before even starting to fight him.
“There’s no other way. That person’s spatial ability is special, and we can’t wait for reinforcements to arrive. The information we have isn’t enough to support us in fighting the other party. Let’s retreat.”
The middle-aged man in armor decided to retreat without any hesitation.
No matter how fast the reinforcements were, they could not immediately arrive in this galaxy.
As for the price of opening a long-range space-travel passage and for them to quickly arrive in this part of the galaxy, with the level of this mission, it was clearly impossible to justify it.
At the very least, the faction that the three of them were in was not in the position to pay such a price.
Soon, the three of them rushed out of the energy barrier without holding back at all. As quickly as possible, their bodies crossed the void.
Chen Yiming’s figure appeared in the distance, but he didn’t chase after them.
“Am I that scary?”
However, he was secretly delighted. After all, the three of them were not weak. The reason they had fled without fighting was mostly because they had been frightened by him.
For spatial ability users, spatial distortions were also indirectly a part of their strength.
Chen Yiming had made use of the spatial distortion. Some seemingly suicidal actions could be used as his trump cards once he understood the spatial distortion more.
…
Time passed day by day.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed. The factions related to the star spirits had yet to send anyone back. They seemed to have given up on investigating the case of Chen Yiming killing the star spirit.
“It’s time to leave after dragging things out all this while.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yiming made use of his special connection with the spiritual figure and the space anchor on its body to teleport across an extremely long distance and appear in the Daxia spaceship.
The three spaceships of the Daxia Kingdom were named according to historical eras. They were the Daxia, the Dashang, and the Dazhou. The Daxia was the core of the spaceship fleet.
In a flash, a secret cultivation chamber appeared in front of him.
This was a sealed room that completely blocked out any interference. It was beside the core power room of the spaceship, and was equipped with a full set of daily necessities.
Of course, the spiritual figure was essentially a ball of spiritual power and did not need to eat, drink, or poop.
He opened the electronic door and walked out. The surveillance equipment in the corridor discovered Chen Yiming’s figure. In a few seconds, the higher-ups of the human race knew that he had returned.
Half an hour later, in the control center of the Daxia spaceship, in a large room that was more than 1,000 square meters, other than the staff, a representative had been brought over from every spaceship. They had important matters to decide.
Soon, Chen Yiming heard a piece of unexpected news.
“A radio wave with some pattern?”
This radio wave had obvious traces of an intelligent civilization. For example, there were several repetitive waves, and there was a logical connection between the waves.
In fact, it was very similar to the time in human history when unmanned detectors were launched into space one year. The detectors would continuously send radio waves into the distance to seek a response from intelligent alien civilizations.
An expert said in an apologetic tone, “The advanced technology used on the spaceships were not developed by humans. Our level of technology and operating systems are far too inferior.”
“In reality, human technology is still at the level of the blue planet. We’ve received this radio wave for a few days, but we still can’t completely decipher it.”
Chen Yiming nodded. He could understand why the expert was offering an apology.
To humans, they had once yearned to come into contact with alien civilizations, especially those that were also technologically advanced. They hoped that they could use this opportunity to make a huge leap in technology and not be trapped on their planet.
This was especially true because of the decreasing number of non-renewable resources, which ignited this anxiety. If not for the sudden invasion of the otherworld, there would still be constant friction between the large countries because of the resources for space travel.
Now, an opportunity to interact with technologically advanced civilizations seemed to be right in front of them. Coupled with the fact that the humans now had strong subsidiary species working for them, they were even more confident.
No matter how one looked at it, there was no reason to miss this chance.