Starry Sky Anchor

Stardate 2137. Humanity has used fixed jump channels to connect the four major spiral arm colonial areas for 137 years - until one day, all channels collapsed at the same time. The border system is disconnected. The First Fleet is trapped in a space rift. The Federation was in panic. Chi Heng, a maintenance engineer at Tianshu Station, worked in an abandoned marginal position and used a paper that was rejected five years ago to figure out the truth: the waterway is not a natural disaster - it is a deliberate tampering by an alien civilization. They are called Void Rangers, nomadic among the star fields, feeding on the tides of space. Humanity's fixed shipping lanes cut off their energy source. Pulling out nails is their only instinct. Chi Heng took his student Song Qiao to drive an unshielded engineering ship into the tampered space. What he wanted to do wasn't fight—he was building roads. Using a dynamic waterway that humans have never traveled before, he rescued 6,000 trapped officers and soldiers, threaded the needle in the 9-second blind spot of the enemy's cooling window, and went from being a wanted marginal person to becoming the only game-breaker in the entire federation who can resist space tampering. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.