Chapter 798: Chapter 425: Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
How could the Varo Civilization Exploration Fleet possibly fail?
It must be due to the incompetence of the command level!
Although the Varo high command considered covering up the message immediately,
the explosion of the Annihilation Bomb that happened in outer space at first was just too conspicuous.
Even when facing the middle and lower classes, they could fool them with various reasons.
But it wasn’t so easy to fool the upper-middle classes and the various teams.
Especially since among the officers and soldiers lost in the Exploration Fleet, there were many relatives and friends from these strata.
There were also a number of people who survived on the flagship who were biased towards them.
Although it was difficult to know the details, the fact that the Varo Civilization Exploration Fleet was catastrophically defeated and only the flagship escaped back was gradually known, and with it, the public became outraged.
To ensure the exploration of different Constant Star Systems for Rare minerals, the Varo Civilization implemented the policy of Great Varoism.
They uphold that the Varo Civilization is the noblest and greatest civilization of intelligent species.
The Varo Fleet is, and must be, an invincible fleet.
As a result, the Varo Commander was pushed out to kneel and apologize.
And after being stripped of all his duties, he was nominally detained for questioning.
In practice, the Varo high command sent him and his direct relatives to an escort ship.
They planned to let the commander go to a planet in a Constant Star System that had been developed for a thousand years by the Varo Civilization, where the environment had been modified to be comfortable enough for recuperation.
At the same time, it also meant keeping him far from the Mother Star and the following media storm.
The Varo Mother Star is about two billion kilometers away from this place.
In size, it’s about twice that of Water Blue Star.
The entire Mother Star has only one city, a super metropolis that occupies one-tenth of the surface area of the Mother Star!
Outside this super metropolis, the natural scenery of the Mother Star is preserved in its original state, along with vast ice fields.
Because the temperature on the Varo Mother Star is permanently below zero, there are no oceans on its surface, only great ice fields and flora and fauna adapted to this environment.
Su Ping’s Avatar, using the Invisibility Technique, floated high in the sky and used Divine Thought to meticulously scan the Varo Mother Star.
With the help of Divine Thought Perception, even though the Avatar only has the Cultivation of Divinity Transformation, there were no secrets on the Varo Mother Star to Su Ping.
Whether be it research institutes buried a kilometer underground beneath the metropolis or safe houses,
Su Ping discovered them one by one, even helping to identify which stored materials were genuine and which were counterfeit.
Su Ping’s Avatar took note of various important strongholds on the Varo Mother Star.
He then turned his gaze to the enormous space station orbiting the Varo Mother Star.
Or rather, the giant Space Port.
The Space Port is shaped like two massive, endlessly rotating rings.
The rotation of the rings provides gravity, allowing the Varo people inside the Space Port to move as freely as they do on the Mother Star.
Outside these huge rings are several shipbuilding platforms.
Su Ping glanced at them and saw that they were operating at full capacity.
And even new platforms were under construction.
Perceiving through Divine Thought, Su Ping could sense that the Varo engineers inside were all weary.
Yet they still worked hard, even resorting to using mental drugs.
Su Ping suspected that the bustling atmosphere of the Space Port had something to do with the defeat of the Exploration Fleet.
For emergency preparations, the Varo engineers had no choice but to endure.
“Hmm?”
Su Ping’s Avatar suddenly felt something.
It was the detection that his Divine Thought observation had been noticed.
He shivered slightly, first suspecting that perhaps a Transcendent was hiding within this Constant Star System.
Then, following the trace of his Divine Thought Perception, Su Ping spotted the source of the alert—a peculiar device within a heavily secured area of the Space Port.
Upon reading the mental waves emanating from the flustered researchers around him, Su Ping quickly figured out that this blue device, looking like a chaotic pile of irregular building blocks and five meters in diameter, was a Gravitational Wave Detection Device often mentioned in science fiction novels.
It’s only with such devices that delve into the realm of space-time that extra-dimensional detection and real-time hyperspace communication are possible.
Naturally, such high-tech creations are not mass-produced by the Varo Civilization, and such devices are unique examples cobbled together through fortuitous coincidences with the help of space-time-related Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Even from the memories of the crew members Su Ping had read after infiltrating the Exploration Fleet flagship, it seemed highly likely that this was the only device the Varo Civilization possessed; otherwise, the Exploration Fleet wouldn’t have had to resort to other methods to try to transmit information back to the Mother Star.
Inside the Gravitational Wave Detection Equipment Room,
as the alarm sounded, the Varo specialists inside became anxious and were shocked to discover that the alarm originated near the Space Port.
After an initial period of confusion, the person in charge of the device chose to report the incident.
After all, in so many years, this critical piece of Varo Civilization technology had never malfunctioned.
If that area was problematic enough to trigger an alarm,
then there was definitely something wrong with that segment of space!
As for what the specific problem was, the person in charge was at a loss when questioned and could only plead ignorance.
The Space Port’s higher-ups pulled up observation images from different angles, even requesting assistance from other satellites in orbit.
But they could see nothing out of the ordinary in that space near the Mother Star.
Out of caution, they notified the defense department of the Mother Star.
Very soon, more than a dozen small Varo Spaceships capable of flying in both the atmosphere and outer space flew over.