Chapter 5: The Prison of Time and Space

Inside the Nebula Centauri.

Two massive planets orbit a red dwarf, one of which is three times the size of Earth and five times the mass, and the other is 10,000 times the size of Earth and has a mass comparable to Earth.

The two planets are in proper position with the stars, forming a solar system-like ecosystem, the difference is that there are only two planets in this galaxy, and although the terrestrial planets look similar to the Earth in appearance, the environment is very different from the Earth, except for the gravitational pull equivalent to five times that of the Earth, the temperature difference between day and night is as high as 300 degrees Celsius.

The maximum temperature during the day is as high as 270 degrees Celsius, and the low temperature is minus 300 degrees Celsius at night.

A planet that is so different from the Earth is pregnant with a Maltese civilization that has had three technological explosions.

This is a fourth-level civilization life form that can maintain evolution in an extreme environment, and the environment of the planet allows the Maltese to have more powerful abilities than humans, and their strong genes make them innate with divine power and invulnerability.

Although the Maltese are technologically advanced, they do not rely entirely on advanced weapons in battle, and their terrifying combat capabilities, as well as the planet's collection from other star systems, and some of the means of striking that have been passed down from generation to generation with the help of their own flesh, are not as powerful as ordinary heavy weapons.

What's even more evil is that the Maltese, who have evolved to a fourth-level civilization, have completely abandoned the moral shackles, and have begun to get rid of their dependence on embryonic reproduction, and completely use genetic cloning to evolve, making them more cold-blooded.

Such a race would be a nightmare for the lower civilizations in the universe.

In the sky above the blue planet of the Maltese, various strangely shaped aircraft are shuttling back and forth.

Among the many aircraft that are about to land, a small black cuboid is landing in the middle of a giant black tower-like building with a height of 10,000 meters.

A few seconds later, out of the open hatch in the middle of the black cuboid came a Maltese, who was none other than the male Maltese commander of the Maltese Interstellar Civilization Monitoring Station.

The purpose of his trip was to report to the monitoring headquarters of the Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Agency the information about the wormhole in the solar system that had just been discovered not long ago.

The Maltese commander walked out of the landing area of the ebony tower, turned around and got on the endless corridor shuttle, and started the shuttle the size of a car and drove quickly towards the corridor in the middle of the tower.

The corridor shuttle runs silently.

The conductor of the Maltese on the shuttle showed a hint of excitement, and was enjoying some kind of strange music played by the shuttle, the horse's ears swayed rhythmically, his head shook a few times from time to time, his big black tail full of bone spurs also swayed, and his fanged mouth sang along in a strange voice, looking in a good mood.

After about five minutes, the shuttle came to a halt in front of a black wall with a blue orb motif on the other side of the middle of the tower.

The Maltese immediately stopped shaking his head and singing along, and walked out of the shuttle with a solemn expression.

At the moment when the commander of the Maltese space guard station stepped out of the corridor shuttle, the black wall suddenly slowly opened a huge blue door, and a crystal transparent corridor suddenly appeared in the originally empty void, just at the feet of the Maltese commander.

The Maltese commander straightened the collar of his spacesuit and stepped down the transparent hallway towards the gate.

In a black hall like a canopy, holographic images of hundreds of star systems orbiting are floating at different heights, giving people a feeling of starlight, as if the sky is full of stars.

Countless Maltese dressed in blue planet patterns are working intently in front of holograms of the orbits of various star systems, discussing, video calling colonial planetary bases or outer space stations, receiving or transmitting data, fingers swiping in the air, drawing some kind of galaxy holographic pattern or line, looking orderly, busy but not chaotic.

It's like a busy work scene.

The Maltese commander turned a blind eye to all this, apparently being extremely familiar with the place.

As soon as he entered the starry hall of the universe, his body floated slightly, skimming through the holographic images of many star systems, towards the most conspicuous red star system floating in the center of the hall, and directly falling on a blue definite planet orbiting the star.

As soon as the Maltese body came into contact with the blue image of the terrestrial planets, they stood on the surface of the planet and said respectfully in the Maltese language:

"Lord Director, the commander of the 263rd Cosmic Stellar Civilization Surveillance Station, Clone 9100, reports to you."

Opposite the commander of the Maltese Surveillance Station Clone 911, sat an elderly Maltese with an old face and a much calmer expression, who was obviously the director of the Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Bureau in the mouth of the young Maltese commander.

"Oh, the 263rd Cosmic Stellar Civilization Surveillance Station is a low-level civilization detection station in the 1-30 light-year range that was established 500 years ago, is there any new discovery?" The director of the Maltese Blue Star Galactic Intelligence and Surveillance Bureau stood up and asked with a slight change in his expression.

"Report to the Director, in the fifth cosmic region of the 263 cosmic stellar civilization monitoring station, a faint space-time wormhole disturbance has been found in the yellow dwarf galaxy within 4.3 light-years of the blue star, and the data has been preliminarily interpreted as a low-level third-level primitive civilization." The Commander of the Nine Thousand One Hundred Maltese Clone had a slightly excited expression.

"Clone nine thousand one, are the results of your station detection data interpreted correctly, haven't your predecessors already concluded a century ago, and no living planets have been found in this range? You must know that the Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Agency now has a limited number of 'space-time cages', and it will not waste resources on a star system that does not have any life. The old-faced intelligence chief stood up and said with a serious face.

"Your Excellency, please ask the General Intelligence Bureau to review the data interpretation results of the Stellar Civilization Monitoring Station 263, and decide whether to activate the light-speed energy field to open the wormhole space-time channel and put a 'space-time cage' on this galaxy." The commander of the Maltese intelligence station leaned forward slightly and said solemnly.

"Well, I hope you're right." After the old-faced Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Chief finished speaking, his palm slid lightly across the void in front of him, and a blue holographic operation screen appeared between him and the commander of the Maltese space station, flashing countless red points of light on the screen.

The Chief of Intelligence pressed his black palm, covered in rough scales, to a red point of light labeled 263 in the hologram. The moment the palm of the hand touched the red point of light, images of galaxies and data in Maltese flashed.

Suddenly, a patterned hologram of the solar system, represented by Malvern, flashed.

At the moment when the hologram of the solar system appeared, the Maltese Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Chief raised his black palm and made a magnified pose with his thumb and index finger, which were covered with white pointed armor.

The hologram of the entire solar system was suddenly magnified and floated in the air, and the intelligence chief took out a magnifying glass-like instrument from his side and swept it at the hologram of the solar system, and the hologram suddenly began to change, and the hologram of the solar system kept magnifying, and with the magnification of the image, the major planets in the solar system suddenly flashed out and flashed on the holographic screen.

After flashing the Venus and Martian patterns, a hologram of Earth appears in mid-air.

The moment after the appearance of the earth hologram, it began to be continuously enlarged, with the flash of a pair of earth magnified holograms, the earth's mountains, seas, rivers, deserts, holographic video images were finally fixed on the earth's endless flow of vehicles, pedestrians bustling bustling metropolis streets.

"Clone nine thousand one, the data of the 263rd cosmic stellar civilization monitoring station is correct, this star system does have advanced life, judging from the magnitude of their use of energy, it can be judged that it has evolved to a low-level second-level civilization, congratulations to the 263 cosmic monitoring station for discovering a new cosmic civilization." The originally serious Maltese Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Chief had a smile on his face, and after turning off the holographic screen with his index finger, he looked at the commander of the 263rd monitoring station and said excitedly.

"Thank you Director for your affirmation of the 263 Space Monitoring Station, and on behalf of all the staff, Clone Nine Thousand One salutes the Blue Star Galaxy Intelligence Bureau." The Maltese commander said with a grim face and a standing posture.

"Clone 9,001, the Blue Star Galactic Intelligence Bureau will issue commendations to all the personnel of Civilization Monitoring Station 263, and apply to the Blue Star Supreme Planet Congress for approval to activate the stellar energy field, open the artificial wormhole, and release the stellar 'space-time cage' to this galaxy, monitor all the activities of this civilization, and ensure the safety of the entire Centauri star civilization.

Ten days later.

A black cuboid starship flew out of the blue terrestrial planet orbiting Proxima Centauri and flew straight in the direction facing Earth.

After accelerating to a distance of about five astronomical units from the terrestrial planet, the starship suddenly slowed down and eventually floated in space.

In the center of the black starship, dozens of Maltes in thick red protective suits are monitoring a huge oval machine outside the starship in front of a holographic screen.

"The coordinates of the galaxy are locked, ready to turn on the stellar light-speed energy field." The voice of the Maltese can be heard from the black starship.

"The stellar light-speed energy field turns on and begins to receive energy." As soon as the Maltese spoke in the black starship, a red ball of light suddenly appeared on the sun-facing side of the black starship, and it rotated at high speed while absorbing the energy of the stars in the sky

In just a few minutes, the red ball of light became extremely dazzling, like another sun.

"The energy is full, and the speed of light rotation begins!" The Maltese voices in the black starship rang out again, and everyone was engrossed in staring at the dazzling light ball spinning at high speed on the top of the ship.

The dazzling light ball rotated for dozens of seconds, and a colorful sphere suddenly appeared on the top of the light ball, which was the size of half a room.

"The wormhole passage is opened, and the 'space-time cage' is launched."

The next moment, a basketball-sized blue energy body flew towards the colorful sphere, and flew into it without a trace.

"The space-time cage has been released to maintain the stability of the wormhole." After the blue energy body flew into the wormhole space, the command came from the black cuboid starship again.

The colorful sphere on the outside of the spaceship lasted for about three minutes, and finally the energy was exhausted and disappeared in a flash of light, and the black cuboid starship turned around and returned home.

At the same time, in space near the orbit of millions of kilometers from the earth, a basketball-sized energy body appeared somewhere in space in a flash, and gradually dimmed, hiding in space without realizing it.