CHAPTER 216: CHAPTER 144: THANKS TO THE ASSOCIATION!

If they flew themselves using the Superluminal Engine, even with a Star Map, it would still take hundreds or even thousands of years to arrive.

But with a Wormhole Engine, that time can be dramatically reduced!

This is also why even the Blue Spirit Civilization, a Fourth-level Civilization, must pay a huge price to purchase the Wormhole Transition Engine that only a Fifth-level Civilization can manufacture independently.

The advantage is simply too great.

"Luckily, we have the Association," Xiu’Er suddenly sighed.

Everyone else immediately resonated with this sentiment.

The help brought by the Association is enormous.

Even just being an Association member is extremely important.

If it were not for the combined efforts of these Association members today, there would have been no chance to seize a ship like this, let alone learn the truth!

"We should accelerate the analysis of this vessel," interstellar world Shen Yu also said, even directly ordering the Goddess of Hope, "Now that the entire civilization confronts a life-or-death crisis, I want to mobilize all scientific research personnel across our civilization to fully analyze this captured vessel. I’ll use Association resources at key points for acceleration. The goal is to turn it into our bridge to enter the interstellar civilization society, and to do this in the shortest time possible!"

"No problem," the Goddess of Hope immediately replied. "I’ve already mobilized all relevant researchers."

"I will create a secret space for the investigation," interstellar world Shen Yu added again.

Now, Shen Yu had already upgraded the Secret Realm Creation Magic to Plane Creation Magic.

Stronger, more hidden, with much larger space.

Initially, interstellar world Shen Yu thought it wouldn’t be of too much use to himself, but now, it turned out to be invaluable.

The mere significance of preserving a seed for the future can provide Human Civilization with enormous psychological comfort, and can better protect the researchers.

So, with the swift response of the Goddess of Hope, large numbers of scientific research personnel in the rear all received emergency orders.

"A new S5 Level project!"

"Quick, quick, quick, set out immediately!"

"What’s the situation on the front line?"

"I agree to join, accept top-level supervision; you can tell me the specific details now."

"What, a fully intact ship equipped with a Wormhole Transition Engine? And it’s a battle carrier?"

"Everyone, drop everything you’re working on. We’re heading to the new project!"

"..."

It must be said, the management efficiency brought by the administrative AI is truly extraordinary.

Even though the ship is still at the front line, and the Plane isn’t created yet, a slew of projects and actions were swiftly initiated in a short time.

Interstellar world Shen Yu also took command directly on the captured carrier.

Even if the most powerful civilization in this world came, they would not have the ability to take the carrier out of interstellar world Shen Yu’s hands.

—Interstellar world Shen Yu could throw it into the Gray Mist Space at any moment.

Meanwhile, the other Shen Yus also knew that interstellar world Shen Yu would be extremely busy in the coming period, and each withdrew.

At the same time, they quickly received messages from interstellar world Shen Yu.

"The recovered industrial planets are fully operational now. Our industrial productivity is advancing rapidly and we can give you even more support—just ask."

The other three Shen Yus all showed delight.

They also knew the help that Interstellar Civilization can now provide is indeed huge, and it’s not just because of the recovery of over a hundred industrial planets.

More importantly, it’s because of their own action.

Even the Goddess of Hope had to admit that the help from Association members was the crucial factor for their survival amid the current predicament.

And it’s their only trump card in facing more powerful civilizations in the future.

With such obvious interests at stake, the Goddess of Hope’s regard for other worlds within the Association skyrocketed!

She even proposed directly providing them with a fully automated production planet!

However, the primary Shen Yu, after careful consideration, regretfully declined—or rather, decided not to accept for now.

After all, the crisis in the primary Shen Yu’s world involves the pan-parallel universe, which is still rife with unknowns.

Moreover, it’s clear that there are monitoring capabilities.

Suddenly boosting their power in a forced, unnatural way isn’t necessarily a good thing for Human Civilization; it might even bring unforeseen risks.

"We don’t have to insist on taking the development path of Interstellar Civilization," Shen Yu particularly emphasized this point during the internal meeting. "Interstellar Civilization has its own development needs, and so do we. That’s determined by different world environments. We must figure out what our advantage is, what the enemy is, what the needs are. My decision is to open up new parallel universes."

That’s right. In Shen Yu’s view, the biggest feature of his world is the development of the pan-parallel universe.

This doesn’t just mean population and the Gray Mist, but also uncovering the secrets hidden in the pan-parallel universe.

At this moment, the state of Human Civilization in the Second Parallel Universe had basically stabilized, and now, with strong support from Interstellar Civilization, Human Civilization was fully capable of pressing forward even faster, more boldly, to develop more parallel universes.

This time, Shen Yu was even getting ready to bring the Second Parallel Universe in, joining the exploration.

And naturally, the global Meteorite Crisis management department fully supported this.

Though their parallel universe mainly played a supporting role in the Second Parallel Universe exploration, they still gained considerable returns.

The greatest gain was, of course, the rapid growth in the warriors’ feats and power.

As well as captured and harvested monsters.

Since their own world was still rapidly developing, exploring other parallel universes became the biggest channel for gaining benefits.

So, Shen Yu directly used magic to open up a new parallel universe world.

This time, the world connected was still in the modern era.

And even more recent.

The time was 2013.

This was also intentional on Shen Yu’s part. Of course he wanted to find the period with the largest population possible to harvest as much Gray Mist as he could.

With last time’s experience, this time, the pace was much faster.

The envoy went directly to the United Government resisting the monsters, revealed his identity, was immediately and warmly received, and then teleported warriors and provided weapons and equipment.

In just three days, an initial alliance was formed, and Shen Yu once again became the top adviser in the Third Parallel Universe.

Unfortunately, the monsters appearing in the Third Parallel Universe now started to show repeats.

"Phase Mantis, essentially the same as our world’s Phase Wolf Hunting." Shen Yu handed over the new captured monsters to interstellar world Shen Yu. "And another type—ever-growing, slime-like tentacle monsters, also very similar to plants, and can be countered easily by Martial Arts Masters’ Primordial Spirit. We don’t even need to look for new solutions."

"Seems not every world’s monsters have distinct traits." Interstellar world Shen Yu wasn’t surprised by this outcome, nor was he disappointed. "After all, they’re different species; they still have a lot of comparative research value."

"Yeah, at least we’re still getting Gray Mist," Shen Yu nodded.

It’s just that it didn’t meet expectations, but that’s normal.

The only real regret was that the efficiency of opening new worlds was severely restricted by cross-parallel universe teleportation capacity.

Even building a Teleportation Array didn’t help much.

In the previous Second Parallel Universe, it was fine—Bronze monsters were the only ones that needed Martial Arts Master support, and their numbers weren’t great.

But now, the number of these slime tentacle monsters was truly massive.

Conventional force was not effective enough.

They had to teleport large numbers of Martial Arts Warriors in for support.

That meant Shen Yu had no time to develop the Third Parallel Universe in the short term.

"Anyway, at least you now have a stable pipeline for Gray Mist," interstellar world Shen Yu commented a little enviously. "But it’s getting tricky on my end. The Void Spirit Race is retreating wholesale. We want to pursue, but we can’t catch much, and even if we do, there’s not much Gray Mist to be had."

Now that Human Civilization has suspected Fifth-level Civilization life forms among them, and the Void Spirit Race is also an intelligent species, there’s every reason for them to flee.