Xia Chujian discovered that the two engine blades of her Ghost-Class Starry Sky Fighter began to rotate in the opposite direction.
They spun faster and faster, generating a tremendous inward suction force that even stirred the surrounding space into a vortex.
And from that vortex, something seemed to be continuously absorbed into the warplane's engines.
Xia Chujian felt her hands and feet grow cold, and she was completely stunned.
What are the engines doing?
Her heart pounded, and after finally calming down, Xia Chujian quickly opened her Smart Bracelet and found the video files Yang Ling had sent her about the internal structure, maintenance, and testing of Starry Sky Fighters.
As she watched these video files again, intending to learn and apply on the spot, this phenomenon of the engines rotating in the opposite direction had already spread from her Ghost-Class Starry Sky Fighter to the engines of her roommates' three Thunder-Class Starry Sky Fighters.
Each Starry Sky Fighter was equipped with two engines.
At this moment, vortices also appeared in front of those six engines, though they were a bit smaller than the vortex on Xia Chujian's side.
Then, it seemed that something was also being rapidly absorbed into the engines of those three warplanes from the vortices.
By the time Xia Chujian finished watching the video content related to the engines, the engines of these four warplanes had already begun to rotate in the normal direction.
It was as if the reverse rotation, the stirring of the cosmic vortex, and the absorption of unknown substances were just Xia Chujian's illusion.
Xia Chujian rubbed her eyes and looked at the monitoring screens again.
Yes, everything was normal.
Not only normal, but these four engines were now emitting energy many times greater than before!
The warplanes' speed increased dramatically once again.
Xia Chujian didn't know what she could do, so she could only grip the control stick tightly.
Because the speed display in front of her was showing the soaring speed of these four warplanes.
Four thousand kilometers per minute.
Eight thousand kilometers per minute.
Sixteen thousand kilometers per minute.
Thirty thousand kilometers per minute! This speed...
Xia Chujian's heart was about to leap out of her throat! Because she knew that even with the most efficient setting, a Controllable Nuclear Fusion engine couldn't reach this speed!
Xia Chujian recalled the video tutorial Yang Ling had given her and understood everything.
It turned out that the engine "failure" she had just seen was not a failure at all.
Instead, the engines were absorbing new energy from the vortex, most likely Antimatter.
When Antimatter and ordinary matter meet, they immediately annihilate each other, releasing tremendous energy.
This energy was simply incomparable to Controllable Nuclear Fusion.
The tutorial said that fully releasing Antimatter, in a more advanced engine environment, could even allow the speed to reach one-tenth of the speed of light!
And the normal speed of light is three hundred thousand kilometers per second.
One-tenth of the speed of light is thirty thousand kilometers per second!
But their engines were not that more advanced type, so they only reached a speed of thirty thousand kilometers per minute, which was only 0.16% of the speed of light...
However, being able to reach this speed was already incredible.
Because the tutorial video Xia Chujian had just watched said that the Empire's research on Antimatter energy was still in a relatively early stage.
The highest known speed of dedicated Antimatter engines was only ten thousand kilometers per minute...
Here, this Controllable Nuclear Fusion engine, which had been suddenly modified somehow, actually reached thirty thousand kilometers per minute! Thinking of this, Xia Chujian suddenly stopped worrying and instead began to feel a surge of excitement.
Because she realized that at this speed, they would only need twelve hours to cross the Asteroid Belt—and reach the Cangge Star Interstellar Terminal on the other side!
Thinking of her previous plan to reach it in a "record-breaking" five days, she had been too conservative, hahaha! This opportunity was too precious, Xia Chujian even felt that she had never had such a good opportunity in her life...
She looked at the warplane's control panel and began to study the impact of this speed increase on the warplane's performance.
She quickly discovered that due to the soaring speed, an invisible Gravity Field had appeared outside the pyramid-shaped four warplanes, protecting them.
This Gravity Field is really powerful. If she had this Gravity Field before, what would she have been afraid of the Ion Beam Cannon for?!
Even high-energy cosmic rays can't penetrate that sturdy Gravity Field right now!
Of course, Xia Chujian also knew she was just daydreaming.
In fact, if she had that kind of speed back then, Jiang Yongbai wouldn't have been able to catch up with them even if he chased them until his Warplane disintegrated, let alone dare to fire an Ion Beam Cannon. What wishful thinking! Xia Chujian shook her head regretfully and looked out the Warplane window.
In that instant, she felt like she had entered a time tunnel, because the scenery outside the window suddenly slowed down.
The feeling of flying at the speed of light just now vanished in an instant.
The scenery outside the window was also changing.
Slowly, the dark and boundless void of the universe gradually gained light.
The light shone from an unknown place, and Xia Chujian realized they were no longer alone.
It seemed there were more than just the four of them here.
She looked at the window to her left.
Outside the window, a huge Small Asteroid slowly floated over.
When it got closer, Xia Chujian realized that it wasn't a Small Asteroid, but a shattered city!
It was as if someone had torn apart a planet and then thrown the fragments away like pebbles.
And on that thrown fragment, there happened to be a city.
Xia Chujian suddenly turned her head to look at the display screen of her Warplane. It was empty, with no indication whatsoever that there was a corner of a shattered planet in the outer space outside.
But when she looked back at the window, the shattered city was right there, floating in the Starry Sky.
Xia Chujian widened her eyes and rushed to the left window, looking up at the towering city.
She couldn't tell what material the city was built from, but she felt it was full of dreamlike technology.
The entire city was silver-white, but it lacked a three-dimensional feel.
The buildings in the city looked incredible.
They weren't like the buildings Xia Chujian was used to, whether they were high-rise buildings or dilapidated low bungalows.
They were aggregations of complex geometric shapes.
The buildings seemed to be constantly rotating, twisting, and intersecting, creating a sense of perpetual motion.
Xia Chujian only watched for a while before she felt like she had lost her sense of length, width, and height, because light could shine from all directions and angles, forming an interplay of light and shadow.
It was like a two-dimensional animation, with no sense of reality.
In that unimaginable city, Xia Chujian also saw humanoid creatures.
At first glance, they did look like her, with human shapes.
But looking again, she found that their shapes had changed again.
They could move freely, going wherever they wanted.
The obstacles in front of them seemed to not exist at all, or perhaps they themselves were one with these strange buildings.
They moved and lived freely in this city of geometric aggregations, their postures elegant and mysterious.
They didn't seem to realize that their city had been torn apart, nor did they realize that they had left the planet they depended on for survival, even surpassing conventional movement and spatial limitations.
Xia Chujian saw a young man walking out of a tall building.
The tall building seemed to be woven from countless rotating and twisting lines, with a dynamic beauty of being able to be split and combined at any time.
The young man took a few steps, and a new tall building appeared in front of him.
The tall building was strangely shaped, floating directly in the air, with slender and elongated floors, like a blooming Other Shore Flower.
Delicate strands of petals extended in all directions, each strand of petals being a corridor leading to an unknown Other Shore.
Xia Chujian's pupils shrank sharply. This was too wonderful!
She quickly turned on the camera on her Shao Siming Mecha helmet to take pictures.
Just then, the boy suddenly turned his head and smiled in Xia Chujian's direction.
Xia Chujian widened her eyes in disbelief.
The boy saw her?! What was going on!
She subconsciously raised her hand and waved in the boy's direction.
The boy actually raised his arm and waved back at her!
Xia Chujian's heart was about to jump out of her throat!
But even so, she couldn't see the boy's face clearly, because his features were extremely blurred.
He turned around and walked forward, even his figure began to blur, and then he walked into the Other Shore Flower Building, merging with the entire building.
It seemed that he was originally part of that building.
Xia Chujian desperately leaned against the left side of the warplane window, her whole body pressed against the glass, just wanting to see clearly what was going on.
But as she got closer, the silver-white city seemed to have been hit by a hammer, and began to disintegrate and shatter from top to bottom.
Like a huge piece of colored glaze, it instantly decomposed before her eyes, turning into countless fragments of nebula and ice crystals.
Xia Chujian: "..."
She blinked, and looked again outside the left warplane window, where a deathly silence had returned.
Where was the huge silver-white city? Where were the broken pieces of colored glaze?
Where was the Other Shore Flower Building floating in the air?
Everything just now seemed like a fantastic and dreamy illusion.
Xia Chujian pursed her lips, and quickly turned on the Shao Siming helmet's camera, intending to see the scene she had just recorded.
As a result, the scene she had just seen was not there.
In the camera's storage, there was only a bizarre scene lasting three hours, full of various lines, colors, and geometric shapes flashing rapidly, as if passing through a tunnel.
Xia Chujian: "..."
She felt like she had only watched for three minutes, how could three hours have passed?! She rubbed her temples, wondering if she was mentally disturbed and hallucinating.
This situation was not uncommon for space astronauts.
She looked at the warplane's control panel, and was stunned again.
The time displayed on it was also three hours later!
So she really did hallucinate? Xia Chujian frowned.
What exactly was going on?
She thought about it until her head hurt, and her stomach was growling.
Hungry, let's eat a tube of Advanced Nutrient Solution.
She took out a tube of Advanced Nutrient Solution, held it in her mouth, and then opened the electronic notebook in her Smart Bracelet, intending to write down the scene she had just seen.
Just then, on the right side of the warplane window, another huge fragment of a celestial body floated over.
Xia Chujian glanced at it, and immediately couldn't take her eyes away.
She lunged to the right warplane window, widening her eyes to take a closer look.
This fragment of a celestial body was a bit special.
It looked like a complete stone mountain, or more precisely, a stone mountain with a fence.
A fence made of black trees of unknown material wrapped the stone mountain from top to bottom.
At the highest point in the middle of the stone mountain, there was a fairytale-like Small Wooden House.
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