The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

An elderly professor bent down and picked up a slightly larger yellow pomfret from the side, tracing the oval outline of the fish's body with his fingertips.

"That's right, this is a golden pomfret, a warm-water mid-to-upper-level fish, which is abundant in the South China Sea and East China Sea."

"Yes, their jaw structure and physiological characteristics are completely consistent with all the marine fish we know on Earth!"

"But if this is the East or South China Sea, how come these fish species, which only appear near the Australian and Australian islands, are here?"

Another professor held up two fish from different regions and tossed them around in confusion.

"Maybe it was swept here by the storm, let's not worry about that for now."

Let's test them first to see if they have any radiation or mutations.

"Hey! You guys dare to touch it without even knowing if it's radioactive!"

Ignoring the argumentative old man, they quickly confirmed the health of the fish using professional equipment brought by the students!

Suddenly, these elderly professors couldn't help but shed tears.

"Hahaha... I never thought we'd see an Earth that wasn't destroyed by natural disasters or higher-dimensional civilizations!"

Chapter 64 Earth Without Satellites

Listening to the old professors' reflections and their speeches about moving into the parallel world, Lu Qianwei shook his head.

No matter how good the parallel world is, he will not give up the main world of Ling Cage until the very last moment.

Even if they share the same origin in parallel worlds, the only result of their migration there will be the status of 'refugees'.

And as time goes on, the inevitable result will only be complete integration and assimilation.

From this perspective, there's really nothing wrong with it.

However, even though they share the same origin, there are still significant differences in parallel universes.

Furthermore, no mature civilization would easily abandon its original history.

'Acceptance' is already a positive term; the wars that broke out for land and living space were the most numerous.

Whether it's an organization or a country, conservatism, radicalism, and neutrality are an inescapable trilemma.

To crush low-tech with high technology is only possible if the other side doesn't have nuclear weapons.

Lu Qianwei did not want to drag humanity into a quagmire of wars where they fought each other.

The Freemasons were founded with the aim of resolving conflicts and problems between different worlds in a gentle and accommodating manner.

It is permissible to relocate people or provide material assistance, but these require the consent of representatives from both the receiving and receiving parties.

It must never be a one-sided demand, much less a plundering under the guise of "continuing civilization."

What Freemasonry does is never to issue refugees a "residence permit," but to build a bridge for mutual exchange.

In Lu Qianwei's view, no disaster world is without value.

The land of Ling Cage is occupied by the Devouring Beasts, but it also has a high-dimensional overlap that is not found in other worlds.

The military industry, technology, and even geological disasters of the old era were exposed, and the easily exploitable mineral resources were all extremely valuable materials.

Moving the entire population away at once is tantamount to abandoning these unique natural resources and tantamount to completely annihilating the foundation of a civilization.

The best approach is for Freemasonry to establish a cross-temporal and cross-spatial resource complementary economic system.

Technology, manpower, food, or water are all interconnected, and there will always be a need in the world.

Migration only puts all your eggs in one basket, while resource recycling allows each basket to grow new eggs.

After all, the interstellar space is so vast, internal strife would be too time-consuming and exhausting.

The wind died down, the rain stopped, the clouds dispersed, the waves calmed... The fully open cabin door let in the warm sunshine.

"I haven't seen such a blue sky in years," an elderly professor who has spent most of his time in the shelter remarked with deep emotion.

"Yeah, hehehe, I never thought I'd see such a view underground one day~"

"Ahem, you can look at the scenery later if you want," Lu Qianwei coughed softly.

Unlike ordinary anti-gravity levitation vehicles, armed levitation vehicles use fusion fuel as their energy source, so getting too close can still be dangerous.

Once everyone around the hatch had been evacuated, the armed airships officially arrived in the second dimension.

The first and second times they entered the same spacetime actually belonged to the same world, only their timelines differed.

This information was obtained by Lu Qianwei through the StarNet, searching for information about the Weyland Corporation's colonization and mining activities in the Zetapre system.

The workers they had rescued were excitedly heading to Ivaga in their spaceship.

They have already been accused of baseless crimes and a series of charges from financial tycoons.

As a result, some fled, and some were caught.

The chief engineer, Kamran, was forced to serve as the leader of a space pirate for decades during that period.

Ultimately, he couldn't escape being arrested and sent to the Interstellar Court as he grew old.

The warrant for the arrest of the mastermind 'Hannibal' did not disappear until a century later.

"The time portal is suspended in the air above the sea!" The airship that arrived at the sea immediately relayed this message back to the warehouse.

Upon hearing this, Lu Qianwei's first thought wasn't about the reason, but rather the strange idea that a square-shaped spacetime portal looked a bit low-class.

"Cough cough!" Clearing his mind of the inexplicable thoughts, Lu Qianwei got into a central command vehicle and flew away.

I glanced at the time portal; it was indeed floating on the sea surface at a height of 2 meters.

"Initiate satellite access procedure."

Unfamiliar with this parallel world, Lu Qianwei cautiously used satellite communication to learn about it first.

As long as it doesn't involve sensitive military satellites, they are quite confident that ordinary satellites used for communication will remain undetected by people in this world.

But before the technician even started, he was already frowning. He repeatedly confirmed that all civilian signals, including the C and Ku bands of various devices and even the L band of navigation satellites, were turned on.

However, there was no corresponding electromagnetic noise on the holographic screen.

"Sir, we haven't found any satellites for this planet."

"Nothing?" Lu Qianwei frowned. "Try switching to the military-grade encrypted frequency band, and try contacting them again."

"Received..." The technician tried everything, but there was still no response; the signal frequency band was completely blank.

After switching to several backup frequency bands, from low orbit to geostationary orbit, from general channels to other people's encrypted bands, the screen always showed a snowflake pattern indicating no signal.

"Have we traveled to ancient times?"

Without a satellite and with the location confirmed to be on Earth, this was the only scenario Lu Qianwei could think of.

However, there is also the possibility that this world, like the Ling Cage world, has suffered some kind of disaster.

"Let's ignore the satellites for now and try to find a ground signal."

Expand the scope to a full-band scan, recording any fluctuations.

"Understood!" The technician immediately adjusted the equipment parameters and switched the signal reception mode to ground full-band scanning.

However, due to the curvature of the sea surface and the power of the signal receiver carried by the airborne vehicle, the effective scanning radius was precisely locked at 500 kilometers.

This is the limit of the range that shortwave signals can stably cover through ionospheric reflection. As for ultra-shortwave and microwave signals that propagate at line of sight, the effective capture distance is only on the order of hundreds of kilometers.

As the equipment hummed and operated, Lu Qianwei watched intently as the waveforms flickered on the holographic screen.

From longwave to millimeter wave, from civilian broadcasting bands to military encrypted bands, nothing is omitted.

Time passed second by second, and the screen remained a smooth baseline.

Not to mention regular artificial signals, even those bands that can be identified and have artificially encoded characteristics are nowhere to be found.

However, there were a few sporadic flashes of natural electromagnetic noise generated by ionospheric disturbances and ocean current friction.

Several technicians who had been observing carefully shook their heads in dejection: "Sir, there is no feedback from any human signal source within a 500-kilometer radius."

Lu Qianwei was not discouraged upon hearing this. Five hundred kilometers on the sea is just a drop in the ocean, and this attempt was merely a matter of luck.

Without satellite positioning, who knows where they are?

Even if the area were expanded tenfold, it might not be possible to find any human habitation.

Chapter 65 Where is the Mainland?

Even if the exact location cannot be confirmed, as long as it is on Earth, the latitude and longitude will be correct.

Each hovercraft comes pre-installed with complete global geographic coordinate data for its most basic functions.

It includes all the continental, island, ocean current and topographical data before the catastrophe.

Even without satellite positioning, this database can still be used to define the search area.

At most, the initiative was turned into a passive one.

But in a world without satellites, he couldn't imagine what civilization could pose a threat to them.

Thinking of this, Lu Qianwei's gaze swept over the neatly arranged formation of armed airships outside the command vehicle.

"Notify all formations to access the vehicle-mounted geographic database and explore in four directions—Australia, Asia, North America, and Hawaii—using the time portal as the origin."

He paused, then added, "In addition, all formations, take note—deploy an anti-gravity buoy every 200 kilometers."

Buoys are relay devices used by bunkers for communication in the wasteland.

Equipped with a miniature fusion battery, it automatically forms a shortwave communication link, which can not only compensate for signal attenuation when there are no satellites, but also mark the return route to prevent the formation from losing its way in the vast ocean.

More advanced versions also have anti-radar and stealth effects.

"Remember! After deploying the buoy, immediately send the coordinates to the command vehicle."

Maintain the buoy network in good working order, and report any abnormalities immediately.

"Understood!" came the response from the six vehicles responsible for reconnaissance.

Sending out a large number of vehicles would only waste energy; leaving a few hovercraft to patrol the surrounding waters would be better.

Lu Qianwei immediately ordered the remaining vehicles to be driven back into the warehouse to await further instructions.

Watching the four teams of silver-gray mechs shoot off like arrows and disappear into tiny dots as they headed toward their designated latitude and longitude regions.