Chapter 1 Doudou Star... Oh, New Aerym, Synchronous Orbit Location

Although the Aerym elves failed to enter the Cosmic Era, they spent thousands upon thousands of years holed up on their homeworld, stubbornly developing all sorts of skewed technology trees far surpassing other civilizations of their level, such as space station technology and starless space colonization technology. After moving, they naturally packed up all of these achievements and transported them to New Aerym. The various space facilities they brought have now been reassembled in orbit around their new home, including three large transit stations in synchronous orbit.

Next to one of the large transit stations, a fleet was ready. Silver-gray steel starships were assembled and arrayed, centered around a dozen slender large motherships, with countless triangular aircraft and dart-shaped small warships arranged into a massive, dense formation. Even though the Aerym elves had not colonized alien planets in their homeland, they had done their best to develop a considerable degree of aerospace technology: a fleet within a star system could still have this kind of momentum.

The billion Aerym immigrants who moved here also brought thousands of spaceships. Although these spaceships were old and aging and completely incomparable in scale to the giant ships made by those Cosmic Era monster civilizations, their vast array in space was still breathtaking: at least Hao Ren, who had never seen a scene like this before, was suffocating for a long time, and Yuese and Ailu are still suffocating now: the two elven followers have fought countless battles in their lives, but they have never seen such a formation of millions of troops in space!

However, of the thousands of ships, there were actually quite a few armed patrol aircraft, small escort boats, and other units that couldn't be called warships. They were arranged in circles around the large motherships, and from a distance, they looked like scraps falling from the large ships...

Hao Ren felt that his ability to associate things only went this far.

In fact, according to professional space combat rules, unless a technology called "Unified Shield" is possessed, space warships are absolutely forbidden from being arranged in such a dense formation. To prevent the ultra-high-speed debris cloud generated after a ship explodes from devastating friendly forces, the spacing between large and medium-sized space warships usually reaches thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers—the specific value depends on the technological model and scale of the fleet. The reason why these Aerym spaceships are arranged so closely is firstly because the mission they are performing is not a formal space battle, and secondly because they have to pass through the World Gate: a temporary gate with limited dimensions.

Hao Ren stood on the bridge of the Giant Tortoise Rock Table, watching the thousands of troops and horses in front of him with Lily. Both were in a state of excitement. The only thing that Hao Ren was better at than Lily was that at least he wouldn't grab the chair and gnaw on it. Hilda's figure was displayed on the communicator next to him. Her Majesty the Queen smiled slightly at Hao Ren: "I'm handing these people over to you, led by Wim in person. They are all happy to be at your disposal, but I hope you can ensure their safe return."

"Don't worry, don't worry," Hao Ren patted his chest and assured. "To be honest, your technology may be a bit low if thrown into my universe, but if thrown into the world I'm going to, it would be considered invincible. The number of guys there who can shoot down a spaceship with three fireballs can probably be counted on one hand."

Hilda nodded, and at this moment, the data terminal embedded in the console suddenly spoke: "Get ready, the World Gate is opening."

As soon as the data terminal finished speaking, an unusual sight appeared in space: the space in front of the fleet array began to surge, and the distant starlight seemed to be scattered away, and a circular light membrane hundreds of kilometers wide opened in the blink of an eye. The light membrane shimmered, reflecting scenes from another world.

Mysterious brilliance wandered across the light membrane, and after a moment, these brilliance finally solidified into a line of text:

"Take life and death lightly, do it if you don't agree, those who go out can't lose our family's face, we don't bully people but we can't let people bully us, building a foundation relies on luck for three points and effort for seven points, and the remaining ninety points rely on recklessness—most of the time the great, bright, and correct goddess Raven 12345 encourages you."

Hao Ren: "..."

Even Lily couldn't hold on anymore, hugging her head and squatting under the chair: "Landlord, don't let me appear on the communicator."

Hao Ren sighed and slapped the communicator: "All troops, set off!"

Then the Giant Tortoise Rock Table led the way, and thousands of Aerym warships that looked very mighty lined up and moved forward, the mighty team passed through the magnificent light membrane. Hao Ren watched the images transmitted by the external monitor, watching the eight characters "Take life and death lightly, do it if you don't agree" gradually enlarge in front of him, and a surge of pride rose in his heart.

This was the first time in his life that he was going to a mass brawl with so many people...

The crossing of the World Gate was only a moment, and the mighty fleet had arrived in another universe in an instant. The distorted and disturbed images transmitted by the external monitor quickly calmed down, and Hao Ren saw the scenery outside the spaceship again.

"We have arrived at the border of the Space Bubble Zone, and are now 'outside'," Hao Ren looked at the scenery outside the spaceship, "...Izhaks was right."

Vast space, brilliant starlight.

In addition to this brilliant group of stars, the external monitor also transmitted an incredible and abnormal sight: the distribution of starlight in the universe was not natural, and a considerable area of the stars was twisting, as if spiraling in a vortex towards the same direction. In the center of the twisted star vortex was a dazzling silvery-white spot, and it was vaguely possible to recognize that these silvery-white spots formed an image.

The data terminal adjusted the recognition sensitivity and image interpolation parameters of the external monitor, and finally extracted and presented the silver-white spot that was of concern in a clearer and more easily recognizable way.

It turned out to be a totally reflective sphere, and the so-called silvery-white spots were actually projections of distant stars and the Aerym fleet.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the entrance to the Space Bubble Zone," the data terminal's voice came from the console. "Strictly speaking, it's the projection of the Space Bubble Zone as an independent region in the three-dimensional universe—of course, it doesn't matter if you don't understand these things. What you need to do now is step on the accelerator and rush in. Oh, by the way, I'm helping you step on the accelerator... When will you finish the tutorial?"

Hao Ren slapped the data terminal: "Say less, no one will treat you like you're dead!"

Then he turned his head and connected to the communicator, and Wim's figure was immediately presented on the holographic projection.

"The data terminal will lead you in later, and it will use the special abilities of the spaceship to help you create a series of portals. If there is any situation, just discuss it with the Giant Tortoise Rock Table. We will go and meet Izhaks and the others first, wait for you there, and 'deal with' the wreckage."

Wim nodded: "Wish you all the best."

Hao Ren hummed, led Lily and the two elven followers, turned and left the bridge, and came to the Giant Tortoise Rock Table's transfer center.

Although this versatile Investigator's ship couldn't compare with warships in terms of firepower, it had added many practical small functions, such as a transfer device that could perform remote fixed-point delivery, so as to facilitate the Investigator to go to perform tasks in various situations.

The transfer center is located behind the bridge, and is a semi-circular room with a transfer platform set up inside that is enough for a dozen people to carry out collective transfer.

Although the strange spatial structure of the Space Bubble Zone is a problem, it is not difficult to transfer only a small number of people, at least it is very simple for the advanced Giant Tortoise Rock Table—when transferring small units whose transfer quality does not exceed a certain amount, the ship's powerful shipboard mainframe can directly analyze the transfer path of any point in this star area, ignoring the chaotic structure of the Space Bubble Zone.

As for the transfer coordinates, they had already been recorded before Hao Ren and the others left the Demon King's Castle.

Vivian was staying on the terrace of the Demon King's Castle, gazing at the huge wreckage in the darkness in the distance with Nangong Wuyue. Spots of light could be seen on the spaceship wreckage, which were the exploration personnel sent by Izhaks. In the past two days, the technicians in the Demon King's Castle who had the ability to work in space had been sent to the wreckage to be responsible for checking the status of the spaceship wreckage, such as whether there were fractures in key places: this was to prepare for the upcoming sailing.

Just then, the space on the terrace suddenly twisted, and the figures of Hao Ren and the others appeared in front of the two.

Doudou cheered and jumped on Nangong Wuyue, and began to happily tell her fish sister about her father's sculpture that looked particularly stupid. Hao Ren smiled at Vivian: "Everything is done, go and notify Big Guy, get ready to overhaul the spaceship wreckage—I brought engineering machinery, our goal is to make that big thing float up at least within a day!"