After the Protoss fleet successfully entered the area called Nightmare, the Human Alliance began to officially come into contact with another cosmic phenomenon in this galaxy - the virtual space.

The area centered on the entire Idare galaxy has completely turned into a subspace environment between the boundary reality and the virtual world, shrouded by virtual energy.

All ordinary instruments in this subspace have malfunctioned, directions and physical common sense are confused and reversed, and time and space are disordered. If there is not enough psychic energy to fight against this distorted space, other individuals or groups entering it will gradually fall into it.

The Spear of Adun, which has several artificial stars as reactors, can naturally withstand this kind of space distortion and navigate normally in it. As the perfect creation of the Protoss, although the Spear of Adun is only an Ark-level battleship, it is also one of the top ones in the Alliance.

All the fleets followed the Spear of Adun closely and headed deeper into Nightmare. During the voyage, the Protoss and humans in the entire expeditionary force saw some things that were normally difficult to understand.

A strange whisper that could be transmitted in a vacuum—not some kind of frequency or psychic energy, but audio! This phenomenon, which completely defied common sense, made the entire area seem very abnormal.

Also, during the voyage, the fleet saw a completely flesh-and-blood planet. After exploration, it was found that the mass of this planet was not even as large as a small meteorite, but its energy level was close to that of a small planet.

Even under the protection of the Spear of Adun's powerful psychic stance, various unpredictable events began to occur among the human soldiers in the accompanying fleet who had not awakened their psychic powers.

Some soldiers on the starship suddenly disappeared on the spot, and then reappeared within the next seven days. Sometimes two identical human crew members appeared at the same time, and one of them disappeared after a while.

Some crew members will report that they have foreseen the future, some crew members will awaken their psychic powers in this environment. In short, all kinds of strange things are happening in the entire nightmare without any pattern.

The concept of time seemed to have been erased from the consciousness of everyone in the fleet. They knew how many days had passed and their purpose, but they were indifferent to the passage of time.

If the Protoss, who are the main force, did not have a strong affinity with psychic energy, and if Commander Artanis was not a powerful psychic warrior, the entire fleet would have been wandering in this area for who knows how many years.

But even so, Artanis is not at ease now. Four Earth months have passed since they entered this area. Now, except for the Protoss of the Golden Fleet and the humans who have awakened their psychic powers and can still work normally, everyone else in the expedition force is trapped in a strange illusion.

And as the fleet goes deeper, the signal connection between the expeditionary force and the Alliance headquarters is getting weaker and weaker. In about two months, this connection will be completely cut off. At present, Artanis has discussed countermeasures with the Alliance headquarters. Through psychic pulses, Artanis will send a special message to the outside world every month to ensure safety. If the fleet fails to send a pulse for more than three months, the Alliance will use Dyson beams to clean the area where Artanis transmits signals.

After taking a look at the purple space outside filled with psychic energy, Artanis looked forward with a firm expression. He felt a strange yet familiar breath in it. During this time, Artanis also discovered some signals left by the missing Zeratul. Next, let him go and see what happened here!

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The expeditionary fleet has been sailing without contact with the alliance for nearly a year. During this year, the entire Nightmare Realm has been quite peaceful. Those strange creatures have never launched an attack on the expeditionary force. It seems that the expeditionary force is the only living thing in the entire area.

Until recently, the expeditionary force finally encountered something unusual. Each of these warships that suddenly emerged from the void showed signs of void corruption to varying degrees, but Artanis could still tell from their appearance what they were before.

These warships were all from the alien fleets that had been in this area before. Among them were military warships, pirate junk, and civilian spaceships. Although there were all kinds of things, without exception, these spaceships had all undergone varying degrees of modification.

Soon the expeditionary force received a strange psychic signal. This signal was not the usual negotiation or communication signal but a strange preaching term.

After translation, it was found that this was a group spreading the faith of a god in the virtual realm. However, before Artanis could respond, another fleet came out from another direction. The scale of this fleet was much stronger than the first one Artanis encountered. They also sent a psychic signal to Artanis.

After seeing this signal, Artanis also showed a playful smile. As expected, this fleet also came to preach, but they were preaching the faith of another god in the virtual world.

The two waves of Void believers gathered together and quickly threw the expeditionary force aside and started fighting each other. Artanis was also very interested in observing their methods of attacking each other.

These are two completely different methods of using psychic energy. One can vaguely see some information about the gods behind them. Soon the battle between the two waves of Void believers ended. The previous armed and dilapidated troops were destroyed by the later fleet, and then the victors began to continue preaching their faith to the expeditionary force.

This is what puzzled Artanis the most. Judging from the expressions on their faces when fighting and talking, they are all normal intelligent creatures, but judging from their actions, they are definitely not intelligent at all.

Artanis didn't say much to this inexplicable group of priests, but directly ordered his fleet to sink them.

In the days that followed, the closer they got to the Idare galaxy, the more priest groups they encountered. They were so dense that it was frightening. According to a rough estimate, the expeditionary force had encountered more than a dozen organizations that believed in different gods along the way. This was really frightening.

And from the power they displayed, it can be confirmed that they are indeed from the virtual world. When did so many gods from the virtual world begin to spread faith in the real universe?

The believers fought and united with each other, and the entire Nightmare was in extreme chaos. The expeditionary force also discovered the traces of the missing Zeratul after capturing the star maps of different gods for research.