CHAPTER 529: CHAPTER 528 COORDINATE SHIFT

This accidental situation was quite special.

The Wandering Alliance, on a spatial level, exhibited no anomalies, continuing to move forward smoothly.

However, in the Wandering Alliance’s 3D map, the Wandering Nebula’s position underwent a peculiar leap, suddenly jumping from one point to another.

Since no anomaly had occurred in the real world, the staff initially thought it was a malfunction with the real-time map equipment. But after careful inspection, the equipment was found to be functioning correctly.

With their keen intuition, the staff immediately notified a professional scientific team to discuss the specifics of the situation.

In the 3D mapping device, the Wandering Alliance had drawn a model of the entire Universe map, making the Cosmic Center’s coordinates clearly visible. According to the central coordinates shown on the map, the Wandering Nebula should have already been approaching the Cosmic Center. But as it neared the Cosmic Center, the Wandering Nebula’s coordinates on the map underwent a change. In the three-dimensional coordinates of length, width, and height, the height coordinate remained unchanged, but the length and width jumped forward. According to the conversion, this leap of the Wandering Nebula moved it forward by at least three hundred million light-years, equivalent to using a Jump Engine.

But here lies the problem: the Wandering Alliance did not use the Jump Engine and was merely flying in a normal manner.

And different from the sudden leap in map coordinates, in real space, the Wandering Nebula sensed no such change. Whether from a sensory perspective or from detection equipment, the Wandering Nebula was always moving forward slowly and smoothly without any deviations or turbulence.

After a cautious discussion, the scientific team believed that one of the two must be wrong.

However, more people in the scientific team leaned towards the map equipment having an issue, given reality takes precedence, and no anomalies of this nature were observed in real space.

But, as the map equipment also had no issues, the scientific team suspected an abrupt system failure. To be on the safe side and to locate the error conclusively, the scientific team decided to continue observing the onward progress of the Wandering Nebula. If the device system had an error, such a problem would most likely manifest again.

After a period, the observing scientific team grew restless.

Because the Wandering Nebula had continued to move forward steadily for hundreds of thousands of light-years, a similar malfunction did not occur again.

Under normal circumstances, this should have been good news, as it at least proved that such a fault was incidental and not recurrent.

However, the researchers were troubled because the Wandering Nebula’s coordinates in the map device were, in fact, drifting further away from the Cosmic Center and had not returned to normal. Assuming no issue in real space, it meant their mapping system had failed. Without the guidance of map coordinates in the vast Universe, the Wandering Alliance could easily lose its way.

Continued like this, not to mention finding the Cosmic Center, they would only drift further and further away.

Therefore, the scientific team immediately called for relevant professionals to update the map system, even replacing the mapping equipment with a brand-new set.

But to everyone’s dismay, even after completely replacing the equipment, the coordinates displayed for the Wandering Nebula did not return to the normal state everyone imagined. Instead, as the Wandering Nebula continued to move forward, it kept drifting away from the Cosmic Center just as before, quite bizarre!

It was then that someone finally proposed another possibility.

That is, maybe the mapping device was never at fault to begin with, and it was real space that had a problem.

Although the specific cause was still unknown, it was conceivable that, since beings from a level-five civilization inhabited the Cosmic Zone and possessed highly sophisticated technology, perhaps the Wandering Alliance was being deceived by the technology of such a civilization.

Judging from the Cosmic Center’s coordinate position, the area in question that had issues was right at the Cosmic Center. Perhaps a level-five civilization did not wish for other civilizations to find the Cosmic Center and thus used their technology to execute a masterful concealment.

To confirm this, the scientific team contacted Black Hole Lu Chen.

After Lu Chen understood the whole situation, he controlled the Wandering Nebula to begin flying in the opposite direction.

This reversal of flight was mainly to return to the location where the coordinate shift first occurred, to see if a similar situation would happen again. If it did reoccur, the conclusion would be clear.

When the Wandering Nebula flew back to the previous position where the coordinate jump had happened, a similar situation indeed occurred again. But this time, the coordinates they jumped to were back to the initial position approaching the Cosmic Center. In other words, they expended much effort only to find themselves back at the starting point.

It was obvious from this scenario that the Cosmic Center had been concealed.

Then, the Wandering Alliance conducted several more practical tests, approaching the Cosmic Center from different locations and directions, only to discover that a shift always occurred in the end. And judging from the map coordinates, every leap took them directly past the Cosmic Center to the other side of it.

It was as if they had passed through a door in space, with the Cosmic Center seemingly being this door.

"What on earth is going on? If the Cosmic Center has indeed been hidden, how was it concealed? And who could possibly be behind it? But if it’s not hidden, then that means our previous understanding of the Universe was greatly flawed. We must resolve these issues as soon as possible!"

Black Hole Lu Chen posed these questions to the scientific team, hoping they could quickly resolve these doubts.

Although the task was daunting, the situation was unique, and the scientists had to make an effort. The wave backflow was continuously closing in, leaving them with less and less time; they had to race against the clock.

Moreover, the Wandering Alliance had always suspected that the Cosmic Center might hold clues about the formation of the Universe. Now, with such a bizarre situation at hand, they could not help but suspect that the method to transcend the Universe might be related to the anomalies at the Cosmic Center!

Outside the Cosmic Center.

The starry flux in a certain direction became more and more intense.

Specifically, the material in the starry sky seemed to flow like water, madly surging towards a particular direction. The previously stable Cosmic Zone Universe, due to the rapid movement of matter, seemed to have turned into an ocean of stars.

When the Wandering Nebula conducted its last leap experiment, it just so happened to jump to the location of intense fluctuations. Of course, the Wandering Alliance quickly noticed this strange situation, as matter had been relatively stable since entering the Cosmic Zone Universe, and nothing like this rapid flow had ever occurred. Moreover, not only were the surrounding materials moving rapidly backward, but the materials at the edges of the Wandering Nebula also seemed to be pulled by a Strong Gravity, breaking free from the Wandering Nebula’s bond and flying towards the rear position.

Faced with such a situation, the Wandering Alliance would certainly not sit idly by; thus, they immediately flew in the direction of the material’s movement.