Chapter 2: The Dark Domain's Desolation_2

Experts presented a summary report through video; despite everyone in the room having watched it several times, faces still turned a grim shade of blue upon hearing it again.

Lu Yuanming sighed and said, "What about the vacuum zero-point energy? The zero-point engine prototype?"

The great scientist Liu Yan stood up and sighed as he said, "The technology is too advanced; although it's not completely undecipherable, it would still require at least several years to a couple of decades for reverse engineering. That's not even the main issue, the real problem is that the power of this prototype is definitely insufficient to support the Gravitational Slingshot, and producing a new zero-point engine would mean that we need a massive amount of materials, and there's also a chance of failure, at least in the early stages..."