236: Chapter 236 The Hidden Planet

Gao Gan ran to the laboratory in a hurry, his face full of excitement.

A large number of researchers were gathered to begin tackling this ultra-new type of atomic material.

...

Gao Yuan sat in a chair, watching the starry sky displayed on the panoramic virtual screen.

He was actually unsure whether humanity could truly escape the pursuit of the Beiji People.

The fact that those Beiji People kept humans as livestock just to enter the Spiral Arm indicated that there were secrets within the Galactic Spiral Arm that even the Beiji People coveted.

But why did they only want him and not anyone else?

Was it because others simply couldn't enter the Spiral Arm at all?

Gao Yuan didn't know.

However, this universe was extremely unfriendly to humans from a three-dimensional world.

The Spiral Arm was filled with gas clouds. Gao Yuan remembered them saying before that aircraft couldn't enter the Spiral Arm! So when humans eventually entered it, how would they survive?

These were all problems.

Gao Yuan also felt very lost, but a decision had to be made now. Even if this decision pushed humanity into the abyss, he had no other choice.

After changing direction once again, Gao Yuan felt that humanity was like an escaped pet, hiding everywhere in a sprawling metropolis.

He had just set a course, only to find a slaughterhouse ahead, so he had to escape this place...

Only by entering the wilderness could they survive.

But the wilderness... was fraught with danger.

Gao Yuan didn't know how dangerous it was inside the Spiral Arm, but at least there was a glimmer of hope.

Now, everyone had entered a high-intensity state.

Even the ordinary people in 'kyushu xiaoyao zhi' were required to be online for more than 8 hours a day and had to complete level-clearing challenges; these games were now almost entirely focused on knowledge of spatial physics.

Furthermore, over half of the resources for ordinary people's education were now tilted toward physics.

It would take a whole generation to travel from here to the Orion Arm.

The elderly would pass away one after another.

In space, even in death, one would make a final contribution to humanity. In space flight, engine jets require propellant. The thrust of propellantless engines is too small; only by ejecting propellant backward can an engine obtain sufficient thrust.

As for the ashes of the deceased, only a small portion would be kept as a memorial. Most of the ashes would enter the engines to be sprayed into space as propellant.

It felt as though a long time had passed.

So long that many people had forgotten the threat of the Beiji People and that they were drifting through space.

Gao Hei, Gao Yu, and Gao Ke had all reached adulthood.

Gao Hei, in particular, appeared even more mature than Gao Yuan. Gao Hei was now a qualified mecha pilot.

He enjoyed piloting his mecha to explore space!

Just now...

Gao Yuan received a message from his eldest son, Gao Hei.

"Father, we are under attack!"

Gao Yuan was startled!

He immediately performed a localization and ordered them to return.

But the signal was cut off.

Gao Yuan's mind went blank. His son... was he, a black-haired man, about to bury his own black-haired son?

He immediately dispatched a fleet to the last coordinates where Gao Hei and the others had appeared.

Fortunately, the fleet spotted Gao Hei and his team before even arriving.

The mecha was severely damaged, but luckily, it hadn't lost power.

Seeing his son return, Gao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

He immediately deployed all probes, wanting to find this alien civilization that had attacked them.

But the probes couldn't fly too far... if the distance exceeded a billion kilometers, they couldn't find anything at all.

In the vastness of the starry sky, at a billion kilometers, even a star is just a point of light. If it were a rogue planet, you wouldn't see a damn thing!

Yet a billion kilometers, even for the Human Fleet, was only a journey of a little over five hours...

If the opponent's warships were advanced enough, they might be able to fly over and launch a sneak attack in just two or three hours.

But now, that civilization was nowhere to be found.

Gao Yuan utilized every means at his disposal.

He still couldn't find that civilization.

However, he believed that civilization was lurking around them, spying. In the past few days, the Human Fleet had been attacked from time to time, already losing over a dozen warships.

Gao Yuan didn't know how they had discovered them. Logically speaking, in the dark universe, if the distance was too great and he hadn't found them, they shouldn't have been able to find him either—unless they had massive sensors!

Just then, Gao Hei sent him another video call.

"Dad, we captured one of their satellites! We're rushing back now!"

When Gao Hei returned...

Gao Yuan saw the satellite. Currently, it was covered in a strong magnetic field; this was to isolate all of the opponent's signals and prevent them from controlling the satellite to explode or stealing information.

Soon, the staff began to study the satellite...

The analysis quickly yielded results. Although the satellite was advanced, it was not beyond human comprehension. This meant that even if the opponent was more advanced than humans, it was only by a very limited margin!

Could this also be a fleeing three-dimensional world civilization?

And they were bringing a planet with them?

This reminded Gao Yuan of that movie from Earth, 'the wandering earth'!

He hadn't expected that someone in the universe really would run away with a planet!

The scientists compiled the data...

They reached a conclusion: the civilization attacking them should be on a rogue planet...

This satellite was likely originally a planetary moon, and that planet was at least five times larger than Earth.

The flight speed of this planet was very slow, and it had encountered Gao Yuan's fleet purely by chance.

Subsequently, Gao Yuan and his team's position was exposed...

The fleet on that planet began to launch sneak attacks on the humans!

Seeing this conclusion, Gao Yuan breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The situation was much better than he had anticipated. If they had encountered an Advanced Civilization, then humanity would be finished.

Now, since the opponent wasn't much more advanced than them...

Then there was a chance.

What needed to be done now was to find the opponent.

But in the vast universe, the opponent was just a non-luminous planet. If the distance was even slightly far, he couldn't detect it at all.

...

Gao Yuan prepared to go find Gao Gan. Gao Gan had a technical background and might know how to find the opponent.

Right now, the Human Fleet was just constantly taking hits.

Because they couldn't find the opponent, and the opponent would just hit them once and run, eventually resorting to setting ambushes on their path forward...

Hydrogen Bombs, Antimatter bombs, and Red Mercury Nuclear Bombs were just floating quietly in space like that...

Such small volumes wouldn't catch the fleet's attention...

Because the fleet had nets in front to collect cosmic materials.

So the Hydrogen Bombs they had planted were also gathered in...

The next moment...

The fireworks caused by the explosions lit up the Human Fleet.

Gao Yuan was sick of it.

He swore to find them and then take them down!

Just as he was about to head out, he saw Gao Yu coming in.

"Is something wrong?"

"Are you trying to find that planet? I can help you..."

"How can you help?"

"Gravitational Lensing!"

Seeing that Gao Yuan didn't speak, Gao Yu explained.

"All celestial bodies have gravity. When light passes by a massive celestial body, it will bend slightly due to gravity... We only need to release light in all directions and then observe whether these light rays bend to determine if there are any hidden celestial bodies nearby!"

Gao Yuan had indeed heard of this before.

"That's impossible. We don't have equipment advanced enough to observe that tiny bit of light bending... That requires an extremely delicate detector. If I had a detector like that, I would have found that planet directly!"

"No... I can!"

Gao Yuan looked at Gao Hei.

"How will you see the light bending?"

"Give me a Hubble Telescope, and I can find it..."

Gao Yuan was skeptical.

He got a Hubble for Gao Yu.

Then they continuously emitted light in all directions.

On all the monitoring instruments, no subtle changes in the light could be seen.

But after Gao Yu finished looking, he input a set of coordinates. "Right here, 1.1 billion kilometers away from us, in this direction!"

"You can go verify it. Once the target is identified, it's very easy to verify!"

That was true.

The universe is vast, and a planet is just a dot. If you can't find that dot and search blindly, it's very difficult; but now that Gao Hei said he had found the dot, verifying it was much simpler.

High-energy rays, light waves, and electromagnetic waves could all work...

Soon, the verification results came back. There was indeed a massive planet at that position.

Gao Yuan was shocked. What kind of monster was this genius son he had with Mo Ti?

None of that was important now...

Since the target had been found, it was time for him to make his move.

He had had enough of the frustration of being a passive target.

Gao Yuan dispatched a thousand warships. After adjusting their course, they entered silent mode and flew toward that planet using inertia...

They would arrive in half a day...