"Er... error..." Raja's voice sounded as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper, trembling with disbelief. "Zero distortion! Zero error! Good heavens... it... it's back! And..."
"Signal strength! Look at the signal strength!" Xiao Chen abruptly pointed at a secondary screen beside them, his voice pitching sharply upward. "It's more than three hundred times stronger than the echo we captured during our launch! No! This intensity... this intensity is simply like..."
"—like the source transmitter is right in our adjacent room!" Faheding took over the conversation. The Sumeru scholar's composure was entirely shattered, his emerald Vision glowing brightly with excitement. His fingers flew across the console as he brought up the signal parameter analysis. "Transmission delay... practically negligible! Back-calculated from the signal propagation speed and timestamp... the signal source is distance-wise from us... no more than forty-five million kilometers!"
Chapter 199