The system handed me over to the state.

"Understood, execute immediately!"

After the communication ended, Xiao Su began to steer the ship toward the rear of the planet. Hei hope asked with interest, "What do you think they are doing? Are they protectors of this still-developing magical civilization?"

"I don't know, there are many possibilities, although I also tend to lean towards the possibility of the protector."

Bronya leans towards this interpretation, but the specifics are unclear, so it's best not to bother her unless absolutely necessary.

Seven hours later, Su Xi, whose mental state had improved considerably, returned to the bridge. She even made herself a cup of coffee to refresh herself. When she saw Bronya still on the ship, she greeted her happily, "Hello, Doctor, didn't you go to rest for a bit?"

Bronya shook her head. "Seele and Black Seele went to rest. I'll wait for you here. There are some things I need to tell you."

So he told Su Xi about what he had discovered. Su Xi was very curious about this, "Can you see their ships? Alien spaceships, I'm very curious!"

They had already seen the ships of the Keponian civilization, and they didn't know where the design inspiration came from. The Keponian civilization built each of their ships like a rectangular pillar, and the front must be a square. The size of the ships was distinguished by the size of this cube.

But in Su Xi's opinion, those ships looked like coffins... The completely flat design was just...unbelievable!

How could a group of cute or sexy catgirls design such an aesthetically unappealing spaceship?

Now, they've discovered a brand new alien spaceship; it would be a shame not to take a closer look.

Bronya didn't waste any time and immediately showed Su Xi the data captured by the drone.

Looking at the spaceship in the video that resembled a dorayaki, I couldn't help but comment, "Isn't this just a dorayaki? How did they come up with such a spaceship?"

"It's just a coincidence. Each civilization's spaceship has its own unique features. It may be something their designers came up with suddenly, or it may be something they designed specifically because of racial issues."

"In short, they each have their own merits, so it's best not to over-evaluate them."

"Hmm... I know, I won't over-judge it. But in such a vast universe, there should be spaceships with the same or similar designs, right? If not, then isn't this universe a bit absurd?"

"It's hard to say."

After discussing the shape of the spaceship for a while, Su Xi began to direct the gradually waking crew to perform maintenance and repairs on each part of the spaceship. In the coming period, they would be frequently performing continuous jumps, so maintenance after each jump was necessary.

Looking at the slowly submitted maintenance report, Su Xi asked, "Speaking of which, when is our next warp time scheduled?"

"Why are you asking me this question if you're not the captain?"

Bronya retorted, "You're the captain, aren't you?! She's just an ordinary doctor; how could she possibly control the ship's warp time?"

"But didn't you help move our spaceship here? Remember to let me know next time, it's quite important. After all, I'm the captain. Although you have more authority than me, it's better to leave these kinds of things to me."

Su Xi felt it was better to handle these matters herself. Even though Bronya had higher authority than her, she wasn't a professional captain after all. If something went wrong, it might be too late to wake her up.

Bronya shrugged. "Fine, I just thought you were too tired, so I didn't wake you up. I won't do that next time. Even if you're exhausted and sleepy, I'll still grab you and throw you in the captain's cabin."

Su Xi immediately bared her teeth at Bronya, "Retaliation, huh? Next time you throw me into the captain's cabin like this, I'll keep all three of you locked up in the room and make sure you can't get out!"

Su Xi pouted and continued to handle the official business at hand. The major overhaul of the ship would take a long time, and after a whole day, the ship had only completed half of the overhaul.

It was 9 a.m. Although the concept of morning, noon, and evening had become increasingly blurred in space, the crew on the ship still used alarm clocks to plan their time. Su Xi also arranged some activities on the ship to more clearly distinguish the three time points of morning, noon, and evening.

"The ship's overhaul is half complete. We can set sail once the other half is finished."

"Also, the reconnaissance drone captured some interesting footage. Would you like to see it, Doctor?"

Bronya raised an eyebrow. "Is the area down there civilized?"

"Hmm, it seems to be a war between two countries. Shall we take a look?"

"A war between magical civilizations? Open it up and take a look. It's just about seeing the magical effects. There's no magical civilization that's inferior to modern ones. Wars are just fought the same way."

Su Xi turned on the footage recorded by the drone from high above. As Bronya had expected, the war between magical civilizations was very simple: the soldiers on both sides charged into a chaotic melee, and the mages behind them dared not use magic.

The reason is simple: if one side uses magic, the other side will use it too, and then it will be a matter of magic bombarding each other, leaving no room for ordinary soldiers.

However, we can still see the mages casting spells to provide auxiliary magic to their soldiers and help them in battle.

In such a chaotic battle, the individual quality of the soldiers would soon determine everything. The soldiers on one side almost crushed the enemy on the other side. Then the soldiers rushed into the ranks of the mages, and the mages finally began to use magic to resist.

This was somewhat unexpected for Bronya. Generally speaking, there's nothing to be afraid of when mages get close; you just have to fight them. But the mages here were incredibly skilled. They withstood the charge of the ground infantry for almost half an hour before being overwhelmed and slaughtered by the infantry.

"This mage is a bit too strong. I thought they would have died when the infantry got close, but I didn't expect them to hold out for a while longer."

Su Xi was quite surprised. She had the same thought as Bronya: this mage was quite formidable.

"But I'm a little disappointed. There's no amazing magic like I imagined, no warriors radiating battle aura, and no unparalleled warriors. It feels no different from a normal war."

"Under normal circumstances, those experts wouldn't participate in this kind of war, because if they make a move, the people of the opposing country will definitely make a move as well. Unless it's a danger like the destruction of a country, they won't take action. That should be the case."

Bronya applied her experience from reading novels back then to this other world, and Su Xi blinked in surprise, "It sounds like a novel plot."

"It seems you and I read quite a few of the same novels back then."

Bronya smiled helplessly. After all, humanity is a technological civilization, and naturally knows nothing about the wars of magical civilizations. Moreover, if China were a magical civilization, it might still be in the era of feudal dynasties, and there would be no modern times as we know them today.

"Hmm... I think most novels are written like that. After all, back then, people's understanding of magic was that you throw one, I throw one, all kinds of high-level magic, all kinds of forbidden spells, and then bombard. It would be a miracle if ordinary armies could fight normally in novels."

"Most of the time, it's just watching the protagonist use one spell here and there, and then it's over."

Su Xi sighed, "I thought it was quite interesting the first time I watched it, but it got more and more boring as it went on... I gradually lost interest in watching it... Anyway, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's change the subject. Shall we go down and take a look?"

"The overhaul will take about another day, and then we plan to stay here for two days to give the crew a good rest before continuing the warp jump."

"What do you think?"

Bronya stroked her chin. "To be honest... I don't really have any good ideas... I don't really want to go down there, after all, I have a bit of a bad impression of magical civilizations."

Thinking back to the magical otherworld I visited during my last mission, my impression of it was really bad. However, the duel between the heroes of the two worlds was quite interesting. There was no demon king or demons, so it was alright. It could be considered a relatively novel otherworld.

Chapter 433: Pulse Storm and the Test of the Brave

The discussion about magical civilization could not solve the fact that they would be bored and have nothing to talk about for the next few days. So after the maintenance was completed on the second day, Su Xi and Gong Ning discussed it and entered the warp again. They needed to get to their first target location as soon as possible.

Even though the warp jumps along the way had almost exhausted the crew of both ships, they had finally reached their first destination: the star system where the energy storm was located.

"My God... are we going to have to go through this storm? Can we really make it through?"

First, they were surprised by the storm before them, and then they began to doubt whether they could get through it. Seeing this scene, Hei Xi couldn't help but ask, "Can't we just go around it? Why do we have to rush through?"

“Yeah, we don’t necessarily have to rush in, we can go around it.”

Su Xi also realized that the area affected by the energy storm was limited, and they could easily bypass it! After bypassing it, they could then proceed towards their target location.

Bronya did not respond to this for the time being. The three of them stared at Bronya, waiting for her to give an answer. Finally, she shook her head and said, "Let the crew rest for now. Let them rest for a while, and then we will consider our next move."

"Okay...it seems like you're pretty confused yourself."

Bronya smiled helplessly. Su Xi went to issue orders for the crew to rest. Blackie and Seele stood on either side of Bronya and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Hei hope asked first, feeling that this matter was a bit strange. They were required to pass through the energy storm, but they could have bypassed it and gone directly to their destination.

Moreover, Blackie suspects that this destructive energy storm could destroy their ships the moment they enter the outer perimeter. Most importantly... given the current situation, if they force their way through, it would be tantamount to suicide.

"I...I'm not really sure. I think this isn't a problem that we can solve by taking a shortcut. It's more likely a test. Think about it, when faced with danger, the instinctive reaction of living organisms is to run away. But what if, in some situations, they are required to confront these dangers head-on? What do you think?"

Hei hope frowned, and Xi'er asked in surprise, "So we have to go through it?"

"My guess is this... We might need to go through to complete our first objective, but we need more specific information. Rushing in blindly will only kill everyone."

Bronya turned and left the bridge, with Black Seele and Seele following behind. "What are you planning to do?"

"By using drones to observe and probe the energy storm, we need to know what kind of energy caused the storm, how powerful it is, and what would happen if it came into contact with ordinary metallic materials or with the energy shield."

“The reconnaissance drones used inside the ship are easily interfered with by energy pulses. If we modify and add anti-jamming devices, it will take too long. So it’s better for me to build them directly and send them out for reconnaissance. This way, I can also carefully control their every move.”

Bronya had already figured out what she should do. Blackie sighed, "So, there's nothing for the two of us to do, right?"

Bronya turned her head. "Perhaps...you two could try operating the drone?"

Half an hour later, Bronya had the engineers deploy three drones at the launch port, while she and Blackie returned to the captain's cabin to prepare for their first test of the energy storm.

Su Xi also noticed the three of them and curiously approached, asking, "What are you doing?"

"Use a detector to get specific data on the energy storm. Do you want to take control of it?"

Su Xi blinked. "Sounds interesting. Count me in! I want to control it too. How exactly do you control it?"

Bronya pulled out something Su Xi was very familiar with: a game controller. "Eh! A game... controller?"

"Yes, I installed it specifically for this purpose. Don't worry about the controller; just use it normally."

After a brief explanation of how to operate the controller, Su Xi nodded, took the controller and held it in her hand. At the same time, Bronya notified the rear cabin to release the prepared drones.

The drone was shaped like an oval sphere with a jet nozzle at its tail. Bronya connected the drone's feed to the large screen on the bridge, observing the data from the drone while simultaneously reading the information displayed on the screen.

The drone was flying very fast, and within half an hour it approached the edge of the energy storm. At this point, the drone reported a strong pulse interference.

"Intense pulse interference... Keep going. The pulse interference drone's shield can block it. Let's see if the drone can penetrate deep into the energy storm."

"I think that's unlikely, right?"

As Su Xi operated the drone, she said, "With such a small drone and so little protection, it would be strange if it could even fly into this kind of energy storm."

"Don't worry, I have my own way."

As soon as she finished speaking, the drone was suddenly enveloped in a black and red iron curtain effect. Su Xi was stunned for a moment, "Holy crap! How come this drone has an iron curtain effect?"

Su Xi was shocked. A drone covered with an Iron Curtain? This was a bit too much. After all, their Nuwa ship only had one Iron Curtain core reactor!

"I constructed it. I don't need to actually manufacture what I construct, and I can also see how the Iron Curtain works in an energy storm."

The drones, covered by the iron curtain, trembled as they entered the edge of the energy storm.

Visually, this magnificent energy storm looks like a spinning galaxy vortex, with visible pulse particles spiraling around an unnamed planet in the center, its scale comparable to that of a galaxy.

This is also why they doubted they might not be able to get through.

The area of ​​this energy storm is ridiculously large. If the area were smaller, they could simply open the Iron Curtain and withstand it head-on. However, with such a large energy storm, if they rushed in with the Iron Curtain open, the core energy of the Iron Curtain would be exhausted before they even reached halfway through the journey, or even the core would be overloaded and paralyzed.

Therefore, this probing is extremely necessary.

They need to figure out how long the Iron Curtain can withstand the energy storm.

As it turns out, the Iron Curtain lives up to its name. At the edge of the energy storm, the drones were unaffected, and the outer shield designed to prevent pulse interference began to flicker.

Although the shield's core power level is only slightly related to this layer of shield, it is enough to prove that even a shield designed to protect against pulse interference is ineffective against pulse interference of this scale.

The shield lasted for about ten minutes before finally coming to a standstill. Bronya sighed; the Iron Curtain Core was still functioning normally.

How do you feel?

"Hmm... there's a slight delay in operation. Is it due to pulse interference?"