The success of his experint filled Luo Wen with excitent. He continued to practice relentlessly, increasing the teleportation range from ten ters to a hundred, and eventually a thousand ters.
The objects he teleported also grew larger, starting from small beetles, progressing to large beetles, worker drones, and ultimately even teleporting Sarah Kerrigan’s insect body.
However, Luo Wen discovered a limitation: he could only teleport node units. The inherent nature of node units made them bridges capable of connecting reality and the virtual.
Fortunately, this restriction didn’t trouble him much.
As his proficiency grew, so too did his ability—or rather, he approached the upper limit of his current capabilities. The ceiling itself was fixed, but through practice, Luo Wen got ever closer to it.
That ceiling, however, still constrained him. This limitation was also sothing that could be overco. As Luo Wen continued to evolve, so too would his upper limit increase.
The path he had taken seed to diverge from his original intent. The “wormholes” he now used bore little resemblance to the wormholes he had studied earlier. Yet, this new thod was uniquely suited to him and the Swarm, a wormhole concept entirely their own.
To commorate this breakthrough, Luo Wen nad his new skill Fold Crossing.
Despite this achievent, Luo Wen’s current abilities still fell short of his goal to send the “seed” beyond the New Ji Race’s territory. Achieving that was akin to chasing an impossible dream; he needed to further refine and enhance this skill.
Through continuous experintation, he discovered that he could temporarily amplify his abilities by drawing energy through the node units. It was akin to taking a low-level character at level 10 and injecting it with enough power to temporarily experience the capabilities of a level 20 account. Although the enhancent was short-lived, the abilities during this period were undiminished.
Because of this discovery, the previously abandoned gastructure Self-Destruction Plan was revisited.
On that day, the energy generated by a 2,000-kiloter-long gastructure, combined with the power it siphoned from a star, allowed Luo Wen to experience the capabilities of a level 60 “high-level account” for a fleeting mont.
However, the massive power gap and the brief usage period, despite Luo Wen’s prior preparation, still caught him off guard. A small mishap occurred, causing the plan to fail.
Fortunately, he had another chance.
Over the course of several hours, Luo Wen replayed the sensation of the enhanced power in his mind, analyzing and internalizing every detail. Only when he felt fully prepared did his consciousness return to the present.
The second gastructure had already reached its designated position and was siphoning energy from the star. Luo Wen waited patiently, with Sarah silently standing guard behind him.
Suddenly, Luo Wen closed his eyes. At the sa ti, the gastructure in the distant Riken Star System exploded, unleashing a brief yet dazzling burst of light.
At the center of the explosion, a flesh pod was ejected.
Drawing on his earlier experience, Luo Wen executed his operation with unparalleled precision this ti. The flesh pod didn’t need to search for the black spot; instead, the black spot “actively” appeared along the pod’s trajectory.
The black spot flickered briefly and disappeared, taking the flesh pod with it.
Luo Wen didn’t imdiately open his eyes. Instead, his expression grew even more solemn.
Currently, every illuminated point within the Swarm Network resided within the territory of the Interstellar Technological Confederation, firmly under the influence of the New Ji Race. Transporting the seed to these areas would be aningless. What Luo Wen truly needed was a new galaxy, a region beyond the New Ji Race’s reach.
When the “wormhole” was opened earlier, a massive influx of energy entered at the sa ti as the flesh pod.
As previously ntioned, higher dinsions lack the concept of distance. Luo Wen, existing partially outside dinsions, randomly sought a location within this universe. By guiding the energy through the Swarm Network as a bridge, he attempted to pierce the dinsional wall at that point.
However, this subsequent step was untested. Luo Wen encountered a new challenge.
Perhaps there was insufficient energy intake, or perhaps too much energy was consud in constructing the bridge, or maybe the dinsional wall was simply too sturdy. Whatever the reason, Luo Wen found himself unable to breach the wall and release the seed.
The situation was dire. If the energy depleted entirely, the seed suspended between “reality” and “virtual” would inevitably be annihilated. With both opportunities exhausted, attempting sothing similar again within a reasonable ti fra would be virtually impossible.
Fortunately, at this critical mont, Luo Wen suddenly sensed a weaker region within the dinsional wall. He mustered all his strength to punch through it.
Within the energy-charged passage flickering with lightning, the black spot reappeared briefly, ejecting the flesh pod.
The foreign intrusion caused the already volatile energy to surge even more violently, threatening to obliterate the intruder.
It turned out this was another wormhole.
As the spatial field’s energy surged to devour the flesh pod, sothing unexpected occurred. After enduring the chaotic storm of energy, the flesh pod erged completely unhard.
While Luo Wen’s Fold Crossing bore a surface resemblance to wormholes in terms of effect, its formation and operational principles were fundantally different—at least for short-distance crossings.
Being different, Fold Crossing required no “negative energy” as a stabilizing dium. However, for long-distance Fold Crossings, Luo Wen was uncertain whether the sa principles would hold.
Being cautious by nature, he had added a special storage compartnt to the flesh pod to hold a small amount of negative energy as a safeguard.
Negative energy wasn’t particularly rare in the universe, but even for the technologically advanced New Ji Race, collecting it was extrely difficult. For the less-advanced Swarm, it was even more so. Fortunately, the Swarm only needed enough for a single flesh pod, a manageable requirent.
Although the addition of a storage compartnt slightly increased the flesh pod’s size, it was like purchasing an insurance policy—better safe than sorry.
Aside from the exponentially greater energy demands, long-distance Fold Crossing worked fundantally the sa as its short-distance counterpart. It effectively manifested part of Luo Wen’s essence, allowing him to pierce through dinsional barriers and traverse them. Thus, negative energy wasn’t strictly necessary.
However, the unexpected happened. Due to insufficient energy, the flesh pod exited directly into an actual wormhole. If not for Luo Wen’s caution in including a failsafe, this attempt would have ended in failure.
Inside the wormhole, ti held no aning. In the blink of an eye, the flesh pod was expelled.
Returning to “reality,” the flesh pod unraveled, revealing a small, golden beetle inside—a rare Anchor Unit. This unit allowed Luo Wen to pinpoint its location.
Yet without comparative reference data, Luo Wen had no way of knowing where it had landed or how far it was from the current Swarm territory. However, given the extent of Luo Wen’s level-60 enhancent, it was certain to be well beyond the original galaxy.
The specifics of its location would require a Swarm base to develop in the area and map the star charts for confirmation.
Still, the Swarm now had a genuine escape route. With this backdoor secured, Luo Wen could face the crises ahead with far greater composure.
Luo Wen finally opened his eyes, a smile spreading across his face. Sarah, who had moved closer, saw the expression on her revered Overlord’s face and understood that the plan had succeeded. She, too, broke into a smile.
However, Luo Wen paid no attention to Sarah. Instead, he rubbed the corners of his eyes and closed them again. The situation on the other side remained unknown, and he needed to monitor it closely.
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