After confirming the need to maximize their technological threshold, the squirrels temporarily redirected their focus towards excavating technological relics.
Within the domain of Heavenly Tao network, most of the ancient relics had already been excavated, so they had to risk venturing into the Shadows to dig further.
The special force field shields installed on the ships could temporarily fend off the encroachment of the Shadows, but each activation of the shields caused a rapid increase in the reactor's workload, quickly leading to an overheated state.
If they didn't shut it down within two minutes, the only outcome for the spaceship was a reactor overload, with the casing melting due to intense heat and the ship vanishing into the Shadows.
