133: Chapter 133 The Dark Forest Law

Perhaps in the shadows, these races were also trying to lock onto Chen Mo's location.

And force the secret of his strengthening out of him.

Such behavior was common.

But the Universe was too vast.

Even within a region of 100,000 light-years, finding one person on a medium-sized planet was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Without clear coordinates or energy signature tracking, even with interstellar travel capabilities, one could only sigh in frustration.

This was his greatest barrier at present.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Mo exited the virtual space.

On the Public Domain, Cang had already sent over the data and video of that energy lifeform.

Chen Mo clicked on it immediately.

The video expanded.

A massive nebula stretched across the center of the screen.

Pillars of gas and dust reached across the sky, like a giant wall slowly churning in the Universe.

Embedded in the core of the nebula was a massive blue star, its surface temperature so high that not even the Tianzhi Race's probes could capture a close-up image, leaving only a glowing white silhouette wrapped in a halo on the screen.

Scattered around this massive star were dense clusters of stellar embryos.

Each embryo was a dense gas cloud undergoing gravitational collapse.

The initial thermonuclear reactions had already ignited inside, flickering on and off like countless lamps being lit one by one.

The energy lifeform was located in the midst of these stellar embryos.

A golden speck of light.

It flickered, barely visible against the vast nebular background.

Its size was almost negligible on the scale of the nebula.

The Tianzhi Race fleet approached from a distance, and the viewfinder kept zooming in.

The temperature of the speck of light was tens of thousands of degrees, its edges blurred, and its internal structure unclear.

It was slowly absorbing free matter in the cosmic space: thin gas molecules, scattered dust particles, and photons radiated by the protostars.

Every time it absorbed a batch of matter, its brightness would increase slightly, like a balloon being slowly inflated.

Chen Mo watched for a moment and shook his head slightly.

Through the remote footage, he could only see the appearance and could not feel anything.

What he wanted to perceive was the internal structure of the energy lifeform during its gestation, how its energy core spontaneously condensed and formed, and the path it took from an unconscious state to the Awakening of consciousness.

A spectral analysis table could not provide these things.

He opened the Tianzhi Race's observation data.

He still found nothing special.

The data itself was very detailed—temperature curves, matter absorption flux, electromagnetic radiation frequency distribution—but all values were within the expected range.

As for the essence of the energy lifeform's gestation from zero to one, even with the technological level of the Tianzhi Race, it could not be observed.

"In the end, I still need to perceive it with my own eyes to gain anything," Chen Mo thought to himself, closing the interface.

He exited the Spirit Energy Universe.

After returning to Han City, Chen Mo first called Elder Liu over.

In the conference room.

When Elder Liu pushed the door open and entered, there was a trace of confusion on his face; Chen Mo rarely called him over alone like this on such short notice.

"Chairman."

"Adjust the research priorities next."

Chen Mo got straight to the point, his tone solemn, "Concentrate resources to prioritize the development of deep space detection technology, focusing on breaking through technologies for wormhole traversal detection, dark plane navigation early warning, and spatial fluctuation origin tracing."

"I will communicate with the Tianzhi Race to have them provide the relevant technology."

Elder Liu was slightly stunned, somewhat puzzled.

At present, the Blue Star Federation was in a period of rapid expansion, with all technologies advancing in parallel. Suddenly raising deep space detection to the highest priority was unexpected for him.

But he had always trusted Chen Mo's judgment and immediately replied, "Yes, I will arrange it immediately."

Chen Mo saw the confusion in Elder Liu's eyes.

He could understand that the Federation's main energy was currently spent on digesting the civilization advancement technologies from the Tianzhi Race, all of which were urgent tasks on the surface.

Suddenly shifting to detection technology, and in two directions far beyond the current technological foundation.

He began to explain.

"In the Universe, exposing one's coordinates is equivalent to placing civilization under the crosshairs of other races."

"Now there are civilizations lying dormant in the shadows, and civilizations rising rapidly. Competition in the region will soon enter a new phase."

"At that time, being able to detect external threats in advance will be more important than anything else."

The more Elder Liu listened, the more solemn his expression became. By the time Chen Mo finished speaking, a layer of cold sweat had already seeped onto his back.

The Dark Forest Law. He understood.

With Blue Star's current position and scale, once its coordinates were exposed, the consequences of facing any civilization with the capability for interstellar strikes would be overwhelming.

Blue Star had no strategic depth, no interstellar fleet, and no second planet to retreat to.

"Understood! Chairman!" Elder Liu's voice was extremely serious, his posture standing straight, "I will immediately convene a plenary meeting of the research institute to launch the special deep space detection project. At all costs, we will produce results in the shortest possible time!"

After speaking, he turned and walked away quickly, his pace several times faster than when he arrived.

Only Chen Mo was left in the office.

He stood up and walked to the window.

The skyline outside the window was sinking into twilight.

The last rays of the sun drew a faint orange-red band of light in the atmosphere, and the city's lights began to turn on one by one.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the atmosphere and falling into the distance.

That vast Universe.

Countless stars burned in the darkness, and countless planets revolved around them in their orbits, over and over again.

And in this seemingly tranquil darkness, perhaps a civilization's fleet was already undergoing Transmigration through a wormhole, perhaps a coordinate had already been locked.

He sighed slightly in his heart.

He hoped Blue Star would not encounter it.

But he knew clearly in his heart that this was something completely uncontrollable.

Anything could happen.

And the only thing he could do was to become stronger before everything happened.

Strong enough to master everything.

But deep in his heart, a trace of annoyance inevitably arose.

He only wanted to Cultivate in peace and grow steadily, yet there were always endless crises and changes pushing him from behind, forcing him to move forward.

Chen Mo stood by the window for a long time.

The twilight outside the window gradually faded, and the night sky turned completely dark.

The lights of Han City spread out into a warm golden ocean in the darkness.

A moment later, all the emotions in his eyes converged, leaving only firmness and calm.

Annoyance was useless, worry was useless.

Only becoming stronger was the eternal answer.

He turned around and sat cross-legged in the center of the room.

His Inner World unfolded with a boom.

Hengyuan Force surged from his body, and the white-yellow flame of light reignited, enveloping him in a gentle radiance.