These people think that the audience members are fools, eating off the royalties for too long. Of course, such corruption from the past hardly exists in today's Federal era, but mentioning it here is indeed quite ironic.

Experience has shown that when our firm scientific concepts blur, shouldn't we occasionally look up at the stars, letting our children's hearts fill with wonder? Why did many great physicists start studying the esoteric in their later years? Including people like Einstein, Newton, and so on...

People should have dreams, without dreams there is no progress, without dreams, one is a dead fish. It is due to dreams that the first car appeared on Earth, the first jet airplane was created, and the first light tank was built.

Nowadays, people often say that the 19th-20th centuries were the height of industrial development for mankind; the 21st-22nd centuries were an era of regression. Centuries pass in the blink of an eye, many physics theories of the past have long since been overthrown. Only Einstein is still remembered, only the indomitable Stephen Hawking has his name passed on from mouth to mouth. That was a time when great men were numerous, their existence, despite the continuous regression of the era, ensured that our dreams of exploring space never wavered.

However, hundreds of years have passed, and mankind's understanding of materials still lingers in the 23rd century, not until the end of the 23rd century, was dark matter truly discovered. Its significance is not the material presence in the universe; it could also be said that it is different from our known theories, in fact, it is a product that lies beyond our three-dimensional universe.

Only through four-dimensional space crystal technology can we trace back to the root. Similarly, things like the dimension of time, black hole dimension, are all part of the three-dimensional space, but are far beyond it. These things sound simple but upon careful investigation, they become extremely complex.

Due to the uncertainty and unsearchability of dark matter, even today, differentiating antimatter concentration areas requires special instruments to scan for a long time. Only just now has Feng Yi discovered he is within the Red Cloud.

Indeed, when he discovered it, he was at the edge of the Red Cloud. For Feng Yi, the best course of action now would be to escape as quickly as possible, he would never show even a hint of curiosity towards the Red Cloud. Swiftly he inputs turning commands into the computer, with the shuttle craft shifting its course at a speed of 1562 kilometers per second...

As for whether it will be successful, it is hard to say. Feng Yi knows that the universe he sees before him might not be real. On the contrary, when he entered the Red Cloud area, everything he saw could just be cosmic images projected by macro-effects.

Feng Yi cannot rely on luck now, he switched the shuttle to autopilot mode, and activated the 360-degree full holographic starmap, observing the changes in everything around him on fast-forward. If there are abrupt images, they must be refracted projections from the Red Cloud; in that case, it would be difficult to determine the right direction.

One minute, two minutes, at 3 minutes and 30 seconds, Feng Yi discovers a bizarre scene: the light of the Red Giant star sector suddenly disappears at around 3 minutes 30 seconds, then a faint point of light appears from another Red Cloud density area.

That is a mirage of the starry sea, in other words, the coordinates he previously located were not the real coordinates.

He must remain calm. Any excess emotion will disrupt his correct judgement, which is extremely dangerous in space. One wrong move can lead to a series of mistakes. Feng Yi takes a long breath, his rapid-working brain deftly operating the computer in unison with his hands.

Meanwhile, the shuttle is turning at a speed of 4000 mach, and it will take about 42 minutes to complete a 180-degree turn. As for the accurate direction, 12.5 degrees need to be added on top of the original base, that is, the position at two minutes and twelve seconds after 42 minutes.

While calculating the time in his mind, Feng Yi reviews the video playback back and forth, fearing there might be another error. Fortunately, this time the screen shows everything's normal. Even if the screen is rewound several hours, the brightness of the distant Red Giant has only increased, which suggests that there should be no problem with his inference.

After an hour, Feng Yi finally found the true red giant star against the projection of the Bizarre Red Cloud. He breathed a sigh of relief, ultimately setting their course to follow the route of the North Star's Kuiper Belt, another safe route within the Red Giant Region. Although it was a longer journey, he didn't want to risk untimely death by attempting to follow the previous course again.

Three days later, the shuttle once again entered the Red Giant Region and began its journey on the 5th Dragon Gate Space Station's trajectory. By the time they reached the space station, 22 days had passed. Looking at the massive building that resembled a space fortress, Feng Yi was not in the mood to linger there. In order to save time, he intentionally merged the shuttle into the Dragon Gate's jump point entrance. A single leap would cost a high price of up to a million, which was the discounted rate for the light shuttle's low antimatter energy consumption.

Whoosh...

Accompanying the bright light of the Dragon Gate space station, the blaze instantly amplified to warp speed level. A blue halo seemed to appear around the shuttle, with its speed instantly peaking. From the head cabin, the pilot, Feng Yi, could clearly see the distortion caused by space compression.

Upon passing Lipton Star, Feng Yi received a disappointing message from the local broadcaster: Bermuda Galaxy's entry points into the public star fields were already half-blocked by Saudi military forces. In this war between two powers, the Saudi side clearly didn't want the Federation or any other forces to meddle. The Federation had its own adversaries, and such was unavoidable during wartime.

The chance of successfully breaking through at their current speed was still high, but Feng Yi was still wary of Saudi beam weapon pursuits. In such a situation, if only Eggy were here, he could certainly pinpoint a safe moving coordinate. But since Eggy wasn't around, Feng Yi decided to proceed cautiously – it seemed they had no other choice but to reduce their speed and traverse through the asteroid belt.

As it happened, Feng Yi happened to encounter space pirates while crossing the asteroid belt. Not long after entering, he received a radio wave from afar, instructing him to stop for inspection.

Stop for an inspection? Feng Yi's answer was a firm 'fuck off.' Living in a survival-of-the-fittest era, if he couldn't size up the situation properly, he might as well have wasted his years of survival. He didn't doubt that in peaceful times, space pirates might have just robbed goods. Yet, today was different. There were no merchants on this route, and any encounter would leave nothing behind. To voluntarily stop for inspection was no doubt suicide, except for beautiful women who would either be taken for pleasures in bed or sold directly to the slave market.

Not that Feng Yi was really afraid of these pirates, but he just didn't have the time or inclination to deal with them. He wouldn't be able to defeat a hundred of them, but the pirates weren't stupid enough to destroy his shuttle, and this gave him the chance for a one-on-one close combat fight.

For now, he had to leave immediately. The answer he would get was only one kind — he would anger these desperadoes and then become a target of attacks. Rather than this, it was better to strike first. So Feng Yi fired a laser cannon as he sent his reply.

Due to the distance, the damage from the laser cannon would be greatly reduced when it hit the pirate's ship, but he wasn't worried about the strength of the pirate's hull. Seeing that he had made a successful hit, Feng Yi immediately fled without another word, knowing what his advantage was.

The speed of the shuttle was almost comparable to that of military warships. After taking a shot, Feng Yi retreated as if he was saying 'catch me if you can.'

This unexpected turn of events instantly enraged the space pirates. However, Feng Yi cleverly manipulated his shuttle to rapidly traverse the asteroid belt and used it as a cover. Next, he wasn't that afraid really. In the end, he was barefoot and not afraid of those wearing shoes. Whether the military could catch up to him was another story, but the space pirate group was different. Once they left the asteroid belt, they would inevitably be spotted by Saudi forces.

Once caught, there was no chance of escape, let alone continuing with their pirating. They would have to pack up and get on a lifeboat. With some luck, they might not end up enslaved by the Saudis.

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