If Lin Xiaohe could not obtain the Dimensional Travel Ship, then she could only pin her hopes on the Vientiane Nirvana Universe Ark.
She returned to the third dimension. Chu Huaizhi met her gaze, then turned and left.
Of the three faces on Yanidamu, only Li Qing remained.
Her husband and child had completely become an imprint.
Lin Xiaohe had consumed a relatively large amount of energy, so she did not choose to travel through the fourth dimension. Besides, she still had to go find Gaia.
Yanidamu did not stop her. Li Qing watched her leave with cold eyes.
“Gaia, I want to return to the Black Domain. How will you come with me?”
Lin Xiaohe was truly very curious. As a planet, how could it cross star rings one after another while ensuring it would not be captured, or even torn apart, by the gravity of other stars?
Gaia was very happy: “Are you going to take me to find my contractor? That’s wonderful. You are a good human who keeps your word. Your character is as beautiful as my contractor’s! You lead the way.”
Lin Xiaohe did not ask more and maintained a steady pace forward.
Only after she left the star system where Gaia was located did Gaia begin to move.
An invisible repulsive field unfolded on the back side of Planet Ex, like an invisible sail, using the repulsive effect of dark energy to push the planet forward.
Lin Xiaohe looked back and was once again amazed by the wisdom of these prehistoric civilizations.
As one of the enormous objects in the universe, a planet itself could greatly distort spacetime.
Gaia was actively amplifying this distortion. It was not making a violent wormhole jump, but rather sliding like a finger across taut silk.
It smoothed the space ahead while compressing the space behind. Space itself began to flow, carrying the planet along and letting it glide through the universe at a speed far higher than its orbital speed.
Gaia said with some regret: “If it were still the old days, I would not need to expend so much effort. Our people would proactively build a network and jointly calculate an optimal gravitational path, cleverly using the gravitational slingshots of stars along the way, dark matter flows, and avoiding dense nebulae or black holes, and so on.”
Back then, traveling out was very convenient.
The universe was full of gravitational fields or controllable repulsive fields established by their people.
Lin Xiaohe felt that the movement method of the Spike Star envoys was very similar to Gaia’s.
One used the universe’s spike veins and nodes, while the other also found the optimal gravitational path.
Had the Spike Star envoys referenced the Gaia civilization, or had the Gaia civilization been guided by the Spike Star envoys? Or perhaps this was actually a coincidence?
The true bodies of the Spike Star envoys were almost as large as a planet. Since they were all such gigantic beings, was that why they had similar ways of traveling?
These questions were all buried deep in the long river of history.
Perhaps only by experiencing the evergreen of several eras of civilization could one know the answers to these questions.
Gaia’s movement speed was faster than expected. They quickly left the First Star Ring and arrived at the Second Star Ring.
Because Gaia’s actual movement relied heavily on the gravitational fields of other celestial bodies, Lin Xiaohe did not plan to go through the Black Prison.
The density of planets in the Black Domain was simply too low. Lin Xiaohe worried that Gaia would break down in the Black Domain.
The Second Star Ring was still completely silent.
After the ravages of the Zerg Zhou, there was no trace of humans in the entire star ring. To be precise, there was no trace of any living thing.
This was a star ring that had already died.
No energy, no sufficient matter, no life.
In order to prepare for the great decisive battle with Lin Xiaohe, the Zerg Zhou had summoned away all the Zerg in the entire star ring.
The Zerg had left.
Those planets that had been modified into the most suitable environment for the Zerg also lost their vitality after losing maintenance.
Lin Xiaohe walked silently through the Second Star Ring.
She had only passed through the Second Star Ring while traveling and had never lived there.
But she had once heard her family and classmates say that the Second Star Ring was the star ring most friendly to alien creatures in the entire Federation.
They would set aside a separate star domain as a habitat for native creatures after they lost their home planets.
Lin Xiaohe made no comment on this behavior.
She could only say that heaven’s way was good at reincarnation, and humanity still got its retribution.
After passing through the Second Star Ring and arriving at the Third Star Ring, there were a few more traces of life activity.
Especially after entering the Fourth Star Ring, a long string of battered and ragged spaceships appeared behind Gaia.
“Hi! Lord Sovereign, do you still remember us? We were once the Mantis Armed Group of Cold Star, and later joined the Sixth Star Ring Military Department, fighting the Zerg all the way.”
The leading spaceship opened the communication channel and introduced itself first thing.
Inside the spaceship, a skinny, monkey-like member leaned close to the captain’s ear and asked fearfully: “Boss, will it work if we say it like this?”
“We can only treat a dead horse as if it were alive. Damn it all, this life is really screwed up. We finally got rid of the Zerg, and now some collapse has come along. It’s killing us!”
The captain cursed and cursed, feeling that he was truly miserable.
How was his life so tough? Why would he still not die?!
The skinny monkey scratched his ears and cheeks, wanting to speak but hesitating.
The captain said irritably: “If you have something to say, say it. Don’t act like that. It annoys me just looking at you.”
The skinny monkey steeled his heart and said as if about to die: “Boss, then I’ll say it! Based on my experience as the former top salesperson of the Mantis Group, what you just said won’t work. If you want a client to pay, you either play tough or play soft. We definitely can’t play tough against the Sovereign.”
“Then we play pitiful?”
“Oh my, take a look at the Second Star Ring, Sixth Star Ring, and Fifth Star Ring. What have they become! The Sovereign has seen more miserable scenes than shooting stars.”
“Then what do you say we do!”
“Pitifulness from strangers and pitifulness from acquaintances have two different effects. Think about it, what have we done that benefited the Sovereign?”
The captain froze. The greatest good deed he had done in his life was joining the Federation military to fight the Zerg.
But the Sovereign and the Federation were mortal enemies, right?
The skinny monkey reminded him: “When we were evacuating the Sixth Star Ring, didn’t we help send out that cosmic communication?”
Yes, yes, yes!
The captain remembered. At that time, he had been terrified of the Sovereign. To avoid being vented upon in anger, he had sent a request for help from the Wasteland Star to the entire universe.
He did not know whether the Sovereign had received it or not…
Fortunately, Lin Xiaohe had received it, and for the sake of that matter, allowed them to follow.
“Great! Skinny Monkey, your title as top salesperson is well deserved!”
The Mantis Armed Group had barely survived until now, with only twenty spaceships left. There were only a handful of old members in the group, and Skinny Monkey was one of them.
Skinny Monkey chuckled.
So what if their strength was weak? The most important thing was knowing how to cling to a powerful backer!
Last time, an opportunity to cling to a powerful backer had been placed before him, and he had not cherished it properly. For the sake of a little brotherhood, he had found a way to return to the Mantis Armed Group.
As a result, he regretted it beyond measure.
Now, fate had given him a chance to start over, and he only wanted to say: “Lord Sovereign, I am loyal to you without fail. Please give me a chance to follow you!”
