Chapter 1163 - Opening the Gate… (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Scarred Nebula.

People on Inferno who looked up at the night sky would see strange starlight, which was hard to observe anywhere else in the universe. Most of the stars they saw there looked distorted. As the gravitational forces of the Scarred Nebula’s interstellar clouds and the spatial rift interfered with the starlight from deep space, the most massive and most explicit space object they could see was the spatial rift in the very center of the nebula. It looked like a slightly deformed eyeball, chaotic and turbid, surrounded by a ring of radial spatial fissures.

For a long time to come, the Sun people and the Twilight remnants called the huge cosmic rift the Galactic Eye, as some of them believed that this spatial rift was the eye through which the gods monitored the universe, and kept the two worlds in a balance.

In some ways, their beliefs were not wholly groundless. During the process of building the passageway, Hao Ren did install thousands of monitoring instrument in the ‘eye of the storm’ of Scarred Nebula to monitor the status of the Wall of Reality.

The eye of the storm, also known as the Great Fissure, was a large hollow space, which stretched across the center of the Scarred Nebula. It was difficult to describe this hollow in the usual language of physics. In general, it was a gradient area where two universes overlapped each other. On the edge of the hollow, clashes of universal laws were milder, and bursts of energy radiations happened. The closer it was to the core of the hollow, the more intense the conflict of the law of physics was, and space-time became less stable, beginning to crack open gradually. At the core of the hollow, the law of Physics broke down and the boundaries of the two universes were almost non-existent. Despite that this core area only accounted for one-hundredth of the volume of the hollow, it contained 99% of all the information in the entire hollow. In order to build a controllable gate, Hao Ren first needed to set up a giant computing center here to parse and reconstruct the information at both ends of the gate.

Just like setting up a compatible protocol between two computer systems of different architectures, this protocol would ensure the files of the two systems could be transmitted securely.

After a spatial distortion caused by a warp-jump, three spacecraft appeared almost simultaneously above the eye of the storm at the center of the Scarred Nebula. The three spacecraft were similar in shapes: painted in a silvery-white coating, of a long axis of more than 500 m with massive upper superstructure and four symmetrically arranged cabins. This was no stranger to the interstellar-stage civilizations in the multiverses: it was the inspector spacecraft.

To carry out the next project, Anthony Alfonso and Galazur had gone back to their respective homeworlds and come back with their spacecraft. They also had a large number of construction units onboard, and powerful supercomputers. With these resources, Hao Ren did not have to apply for technical support from his superior.

The support Raven 12345 provided always made no sense after all.

The three spacecraft might look the same, but they actually had differences. The leading spacecraft was painted with a massive avatar of a husky on the back deck (after much pestering from Lily), and the second spacecraft was painted with powerful-looking but actually-useless magic symbols on the armors while the third spacecraft looked so much subtle except with a golden dragon standing on top like a wave surfer.

This surfboard was a bit too big, though.

Looking at the scene in space on the Petrachelys’ flight deck, Hao Ren was impressed by Galazur’s flying skill. “Galazur has got skill!”

“I told you what, this is exciting!” Galazur’s voice was heard over the radio. The dragon queen was seen in the monitor waving to him using her short claws. “Those of you who could only sit on the flight deck would never get to know the thrill of cosmic wind blowing into your face!”

Anthony Alfonso suddenly cut in. “I thought you have quit space surfing after getting struck by an asteroid?”

The dragon queen suddenly blew her top. “Did you summoned that asteroid?”

Listening to the two seniors washing their dirty linens openly, Hao Ren started to feel pessimistic about the corporate culture of the gods.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed inside the spatial rift, interrupting the two veteran inspectors.

“Is that the flash of the annihilation of the Great Fissure?” Anthony Alfonso asked, face serious.

“Yup. In the core of the Great Fissure, information exchange constantly happens between the two worlds. When incompatible information meets, they will be annihilated,” Hao Ren said. “What we have to do is to drop a ‘core’ at the annihilation point, and the core will guide the establishment of the passageway. At the same time, twenty-one control bolts will be placed around the Great Fissure when the gate opens. These control bolts would ensure the stability of the gate, and prevents the expansion of the crack on the Wall of Reality.”

“Don’t you also need some ‘filtering’ measures to prevent foreign objects from falling into the gate?” Galazur asked.

Hao Ren had not thought of that. “There are no celestial bodies around the Scarred Nebula, the matters near the Great Fissure have long been cleaned up by space storm, and the remaining cosmic dust is basically harmless.”

“I am talking about those space explorers who have a death wish.” Galazur shook his head. “I know about the Scarred Nebula. Normal civilizations with a brain will mostly preclude this place from their flight paths, but every year, there are still daring explorers coming here to seek challenges. They are actually pirates and smugglers who have nowhere to go. Their bold action would only cause our universe losing its mass unnecessarily. Before that, I wouldn’t care if they die by falling into the Great Fissure, but now after the gate is built, they would only damage the facility.”

“Oh, it now makes sense. Perhaps we can install a circle of ‘humanitarian’ turret guns around the Great Fissure to prevent someone from entering it.”