Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1616 The Shocking Change of the Leap
The dark sea of ​​stars is dotted with scattered starlight, vast and clear.

Through the huge viewing screen in the control room, the entire sea of ​​stars quietly unfolded before everyone's eyes.

In the distance, nebulae in the Sersorn star system emitted soft light of varying shades, and all things were quiet, as if the entire universe was holding its breath.

With the cruise phase over, Noah officially entered full-power jump standby mode.

The crew readjusted the position of the energy-gathering ring, detaching it from the stern of the Noah and Tiandu ships. The two ships sandwiched each other, holding the energy-gathering ring in the middle, preparing for the high-speed jump.

The technicians at the control center repeatedly verified the jump procedure and compared the coordinates again and again. After confirming that the activation point was indeed far away from the surrounding high-altitude airspace and was the most suitable and safe location, the jump procedure was officially started.

The moment the command was given, both starships simultaneously lit up with layers of progressively bright blue energy patterns, which meandered along the armor grooves of the massive hulls, illuminating one by one.

The silent starship seemed to awaken suddenly, its light reflecting off the constantly rotating energy scales in the center.

The starship's stern thrusters all turned backward, bursting forth in rings of blue light that scattered the surrounding interstellar dust.

The next instant, the entire starry sky seemed to suddenly blur and distort, as if a piece had been torn from a complete painting and was gently shaken.

The originally clear star points were stretched infinitely, transforming into thousands of silver light bands that crisscrossed and cut through the dark universe.

The surrounding space seemed to be softened by the high temperature, trembling violently. The invisible void seemed to take shape, being forcibly stretched and elongated. Thin spatial cracks appeared around the ship's hull, like the patterns on porcelain on the verge of shattering, spreading silently.

The massive ship sank slightly, steadily enveloped by an energy shield that arose from within.

The silver light band continued to extend into the distance, transforming into slender light threads that intertwined with the trembling spatial cracks to form a dense light net, extending into translucent folds that rippled and gradually intensified.

The void plane gained vertical and horizontal dimensions, constantly twisting and tearing away into the distance. Following the direction of the light filaments, a dazzling teleportation channel slowly took shape.

The light and shadow within the passage surged rapidly, as if one could glimpse through the gaps between the threads that the wormhole space outside the passage walls was constantly collapsing and merging, making the distant nebula appear as a hazy, colorful mist.

"Jump tunnel activated."

"The ship's jump shield is functioning normally."

"Energy reserves are stable."

"No abnormalities found in the power system..."

After a series of orderly announcements, Lin Fan gave the order to enter the jump tunnel.

The thrusters' exhaust plumes surged, illuminating the void behind the ship with a blinding blue light. The ring-shaped energy shockwave expanded rapidly outwards, leaving behind fleeting ripples in the vacuum that spread into the distance.

No one noticed that the spreading ripples at the rear of the ship repeatedly struck the already fragile space barrier.

First, a thin, thread-like crack quietly appeared, then it quickly stretched and forked, and the spiderweb-like pattern grew wildly at an alarming speed.

Like thick glass struck by a heavy hammer, it instantly covered the entire airspace.

A thin, dark purple mist seeped out through the cracks, tinging the once clear sea of ​​stars with a pale purple hue.

The warning red light in the control room suddenly lit up, and the alarm sounded throughout the entire ship.

"Warning! An anomaly has occurred at the spatial barrier! A violent disturbance in the force field has been detected..."

The central control screen simultaneously switched to a real-world view, blocking most of the wormhole passage in front of us.

The crisscrossing cracks resembled thin ice that could collapse at any moment, and the color of the cracks continued to deepen.

"What happened?" Cen Fangyuan had just asked when the alarming cracks suddenly shattered.

A monstrous, gaping hole suddenly formed behind the Noah, its violent suction force like the gaping maw of a monstrous abyss, frantically devouring everything in the airspace ahead. The suction field and the jump tunnel formed an angle of over seventy degrees, but they were too close to avoid each other.

The newly formed jump channel was instantly distorted by gravity, and the brilliant silver light threads were torn into intermittent dotted lines, falling into the depths of the rift.

The Noah's bow had just entered the entrance to the jump tunnel when it was suddenly veered off course by this immense force.

It was as if I was grabbed by an invisible giant hand, forcibly pulled off my original track, and even turned in a different direction.

Under the impact of the massive turbulence, the protective energy shield continuously developed large, glaring white streaks.

The thrust generated by the full-power operation of the thrusters was rendered useless in the face of the terrifying gravitational pull. At first, it could hold the ship in place for a while, but once the ship had turned halfway, it actually became an aid to accelerate the starship into the rift.

Caught off guard, the Noah suddenly found itself in an irrecoverable passive situation; the change could happen in the blink of an eye.

"Turn around!" Cen Fangyuan shouted sharply, a rare occurrence for him. "Full speed back! We can't let ourselves be pulled in!"

"No! The momentum isn't enough to break free from gravity!"

Nature always manages to shatter human arrogance when they think they have mastered and controlled the laws, leaving their insignificance and powerlessness starkly exposed.

"Then let's hold on for now! Let's stall for as long as we can!"

Cen Fangyuan gritted his teeth and stared at the real image on the big screen, which was no longer a projection.

Stardust, nebula fragments, and spatial debris were all sucked into the pitch-black hole, along with the shattered light filaments at the entrance of the jump portal, as if it were an inevitable and irreversible trend.

The gap was so close that the Noah turned around and its bow was already inside the opening.

Even though the engine had already reversed direction and was pulling back with all its might, it only slowed down the rate at which it was sinking.

The ship was violently tossed about by two opposing forces, like a leaf in a stormy sea, helplessly being dragged toward that dark abyss.

Inside the hole, swarms of familiar insects and beasts appeared on the giant screen.

Such a huge commotion obviously attracted their attention, and they all turned around and flew towards the cave entrance.

"Damn it!" Antonio gripped the armrest tightly, turning his head in astonishment. "Weren't these rift wormholes supposed to send things out? How come we're being sucked in instead?"

Cen Fangyuan had no idea, and he looked around, trying to find the reason—only by understanding the principle could he break the deadlock in a targeted way.

“It might be due to different formation principles,” Jin Sichen reacted the fastest, speaking rapidly. “The rift wormhole in Sersorn was broken from the inside out, with positive pressure flowing outward. But the one we encountered should have been broken from the outside in, with internal pressure lower than external pressure, and possibly also influenced by the force field of the jump, creating a negative pressure that pulls back!”

"Is space so easy to break? Wasn't this supposed to be a safe zone? What is Sersorn up to? Doesn't he have detection data? How come he didn't notice? Could he have done it on purpose?" Antonio's face darkened.

"Whether it was intentional or not, we don't have time to worry about that now." Lin Fan stared intently at the traction force readings on the large screen. "If I remember correctly, the pressure imbalance caused by positive and negative pressure will automatically disappear once the internal and external pressures are balanced, right?"

“You’re talking about the basic theory under normal atmospheric pressure,” said Old Thup, who was in charge of scientific research. “But now we are in a cosmic environment where there is no atmospheric pressure, so we can’t apply simple atmospheric pressure theory.”

"The high-density ex-situ energy stored inside this space barrier is inherently prone to creating a spatial potential energy difference with the external conventional star field. You can simply understand it as an interstellar version of pressure difference. At the moment the space breaks apart, the high potential energy region pours outward and the low potential energy region surges inward, which generates a directional pulling force, that is, a suction force. This is also the underlying logic of the formation of space channels."

"If it were just a simple release of potential energy, the potential energy inside and outside the space would be leveled out, and the pulling force would indeed weaken and disappear. But this is an alternate dimension, where turbulent currents and alternate energy will continuously surge out, which is equivalent to an inexhaustible source of energy. Even if there is a local balance for a short time, the crack will continue to twist and expand, and the pressure difference will be repeatedly regenerated, so the suction force will never completely disappear."

"In addition, after the space breaks, a miniature spatial vortex will form near the opening, which is an independent pressure difference force field. Even if the internal and external potential energies can be temporarily balanced, the gravity of the vortex will continue to pull, making it difficult for the starship to break free."

Everyone's expression changed drastically.

So, they have no way of getting out?