The Mech Touch

Chapter 6458 The Craven Red Humans

"Oblivion Gate?! And there are two of them? This... this changes everything!"

"Have we finally managed to open up a portal back to the Milky Way?!"

"This is too good to be true! It is impossible for a pair of portals that are only a fraction of the size of the greater beyonder gates to be able to bridge 50 million light-years. Technology is amazing, but this goes too far!"

"This is no mere product of technology. Do you see all of those mysterious runes? Do you see how much hyper materials have been used to construct this gate? The god pilot herself revealed that this is a work of both modern technology and ancient mysticism! 'E-technology' is just a euphemism for cultivation sorcery!"

"I WANT TO GO HOME! I WANT TO GO HOME! I DON'T WANT TO STAY IN THIS DEATH GALAXY ANYMORE! PLEASE HELP ME BUY A TICKET! I WILL SELL EVERYTHING JUST TO BE ABLE TO GET BACK HOME!"

"Is the Evolution Witch mad?! We have done so much to break away from original humanity and its many institutions. All of that will be undone if the god pilots of the Milky Way are able to pass through these Oblivion Gates and enter the Red Ocean in large numbers. Sure, they may be able to save us from extinction, but they will not be satisfied with letting us retain our power and independence. I fear that the greedy humans from our former galaxy may become even worse enemies than the native aliens!"

A huge amount of people, both ignorant and wise, immediately drew a lot of conclusions based on the shocking unveiling of the Oblivion Gates.

Whether they were right or wrong remained in question, but everyone already developed a lot of ideas about the Oblivion Gates.

Immediately, the public had split into at least two camps.

One group wanted to leave everything behind and pass through the Oblivion Gate as quickly as possible so that they could return to the protective umbrella of original humanity.

Unlike the poor and miserable red humans that were struggling to prove their right to survive in the new frontier, the numerous and powerful original humans in the old galaxy did not fear anyone except themselves! This craven behavior completely pissed off the more patriotic and committed red humans who had completely bought into the idea of building a new future in the Red Ocean.

Even though the survival conditions of red humanity were much harsher, the pressure exerted by total war had also caused them to grow by leaps and bounds!

Explosive advances in phasewater technology, hyper technology,

E-technology and cultivation science had already caused red humans to enjoy dozens of amazing new benefits!

The Red Ocean was a nightmare for the weak, but a paradise for the strong! The New Elites Program and the Red Collective granted ordinary people who failed to stand out in the Milky Way completely new options to stand out and excel.

As the public began to get more and more divided over the existence and the implications of the Oblivion Gates, a certain Larkinson remained completely stunned by what he learned.

The unveiling of the Oblivion Gates completely shocked Ves!

He knew nothing about their existence!

He had no clue that the Evolution Witch and his mother plotted such an ambitious scheme!

It was understandable that Ves remained in the dark when he resided in the Red Ocean.

He never approached the Evolution Witch or gained access to whatever secret research base she established in order to develop the Oblivion Gate in cooperation with the Dimensional Architect.

In the past half year, Ves had been too preoccupied with completing the Swarm Project and setting up the Red Collective.

Had the Evolution Witch done this on purpose to keep him busy and out of the way long enough to prevent him from causing any unforeseen

accidents?

That may very well be true!

While Ves accepted that the Evolution Witch had successfully prevented him from stirring up any trouble that could risk the Oblivion Gate Project, he could not accept that his own mother had kept such a massive secret from him for long!

Back in the Milky Way, a certain silvery cyborg cat yowled and jumped away from the design terminal.

"MOTHER!!!!!!!!"

The cat flew out of the design lab and quickly navigated the passageways of the Throne of Light, the heavy cruiser that served as the flagship of his

mother's fleet.

Along the way, she transmitted a message to meet with her mother in person. It took a minute for her to receive a response, which prompted Veronica to change her course.

She could usually find her mother at her private temple and meditation room, but this time she had appeared out into open space!

Fortunately, the living divine artifact's flight speed was not slow, and the Throne of Light was not as massive and time-consuming to navigate as actual battleships.

Veronica plunged towards the nearest exit that led into open space.

As soon as she dove out of the hangar bay to the bewilderment of the soldiers serving on the heavy cruiser, the cyborg cat magically amplified in size and began to exert her Maracos organ to speed up her passage

through space.

As a mystical mirror creation of Ves that he had bastardized from a strange orvan ritual, Veronica was actually one of the main reasons why Ves became eligible to become a phase lord!

Due to the fact that Veronica was not a static altar but actually a living cat with biomechanical implants, the Cyborg Cat was also a phase lord! Navigating through space with her own phase whale organs was a piece of

cake.

Veronica therefore sped up her pace, but still had to traverse a lot of distance before she was able to reach the coordinates of the Oblivion Gate.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Her mother and her collaborators had placed the experimental construct far away from any starships for fear that the proximity could produce unexpected variables.

While Veronica urgently sought to reach her mother and demand an explanation, the Evolution Witch finally began to speak again after the masses received enough time to process the initial revelations.

"In the interest of avoiding any misunderstandings, I shall announce the presumed limitations of the Oblivion Gates first." The god pilot spoke in a serious tone as if she had not just unveiled a powerful solution to one of red humanity's greatest shortcomings! "First, the Oblivion Gates are experimental and untested. There is no guarantee that they will work. The Dimensional Architect has made invaluable contributions, but the Oblivion Gate does not incorporate technologies based on his strengths alone. The forced merger of several radically different fields of technology has resulted in not one, but two asymmetrical gate constructs that work slightly differently. Either one, both or none of them will work as intended."

It was clear that it was extremely difficult to figure out how to develop two different Oblivion Gates that had to be adapted to local circumstances. The Red Ocean had a good supply of phasewater, hyper materials and other unique local materials.

The Milky Way was largely barren of both phasewater and hyper materials. These constraints meant that the R&D team over in the old galaxy had to figure out different ways to produce similar results, and that made this

project much harder to succeed.

"The Oblivion Gate is much more expensive to operate. It is not necessarily

costlier than the greater beyonder gates, but the amount of volume they can displace across vast distances is much smaller. Due to the need to connect wormholes divided across millions of light-years, every activation consumed an extreme amount of phasewater and other unspecified resources. The other side lacks the support of large quantities of phasewater, so it is much more difficult to establish a connection. This also means the wormholes cannot remain active for long. It may take a second or less to complete an exchange of high-value trade goods. We cannot afford to exchange trivial low-cost materials between the galaxies." That also made a lot of sense. Ves refused to believe that these strange Oblivion Gates could solve a problem that the greater beyonder gates failed to accomplish.

The fact that the Oblivion Gates worked more like teleporters than more traditional beyonder gates was a huge limitation. The longer the gates maintained their connections, the more stuff that humans could transport

to different locations.

Ves still remembered all of the fleets and starships that passed through the

lesser and greater beyonder gates at a high frequency during the Phasewater Generation.

Human civilization had drastically changed once the distances that separated humans across the Milky Way had shrunk. A journey that used to

take decades could not be completed in a matter of weeks due to the network of lesser beyonder gates!

It was not reasonable to expect the Oblivion Gates to perform as well as

the beyonder gates.

The Evolution Witch paused before she disclosed a disappointing piece of information. "More importantly, if you have any thoughts about returning to the Milky Way Galaxy, then do not hold any expectations. Nothing alive can travel through the current iterations of the Oblivion Gates. We are most certain that any human or other organism will not be able to survive the intergalactic passage. It is possible that this may be remedied in the future, but this is not our priority. I am not interested in opening an escape

route, and the humans of the Milky Way may not necessarily welcome us

back."

That certainly sounded ominous. There was a lot more meaning behind these words that Ves could not figure out at the moment.

Just as expected, a lot of red humans grew disappointed at the revelation

that they could not pass through the Oblivion Gate and return to the old galaxy alive.

There was no reason to believe that the god pilot lied in front of their faces. If she said that they would not survive, then it must be true.

Perhaps the Oblivion Gates were just prototypes that were not refined

enough to enable humana to nace through

There was still a lot of room for technological improvement! Previously, only a small group of researchers were able to work on the

Oblivion Gates in secret.

Now that the Evolution Witch removed the veil of secrecy on them, it was a

lot more acceptable to involve other Star Designers and other clever minds in the subsequent development process!

Many red humans still clung to the hope that the Oblivion Gates would reestablish passage to the Milky Way. They were willing to die if there was no escape route, but now that one had appeared, their resolve to fight to

the bitter end in the Red Ocean had diminished! While the Evolution Witch was definitely aware that this undesirable reaction might occur, she did not comment on it at this time. "There are only two Oblivion Gates. Their successful construction demanded the use of high-grade exotics and super-class materials that are impossible to source in the Red Ocean. We have exhausted a considerable proportion of our local stockpiles. If our Oblivion Gate is destroyed... we may not be able to construct a replacement."

As she spoke, a large sphere-shaped black container appeared into view. It was meticulously designed to fit the aperture of the inner ring structure.

This shape offered the most volume for gate transfers according to the

calculations.

A similar sphere had appeared in front of the Oblivion Gate in the Milky Way as well!

Both sides had to activate their Oblivion Gates simultaneously and perfectly coordinate with each other to form a continuous and stable wormhole, if only for a second!

"Once I have concluded my speech, I intend to conduct the first test shortly afterward. I will not hide the results of this attempt. You shall all be able to see for yourself whether we can open up a small, high-end trade route with the Milky Way."

Many people wanted the god pilot to hurry up and commence the

experiment as quickly as possible.

Others wanted her to share as many details as possible so that they could

figure out the working principles of the Oblivion Gates!