The more straightforward Ding Ling Dong was, the more hesitant Li Yao became. "That's decades, if not a hundred years!"
"It's not as unbelievable as you imagine!"
Ding Lingdang smiled. "Didn't Professor Mo Xuan say that you will be in the hibernation state most of the time during the space voyage? Everything will pass as soon as you open your eyes. You won't notice the passage of time at all!
"Even when you are awake, your perception of time is entirely different from that of the outside world because you are in the sub-lightspeed state. Decades in the outside world may be only a year and a half for you!
"Only after you discover the mysterious world and begin to collect intelligence will it take you some time, right? So, it will only be a few years at most!
"By the same logic, after you are gone, I will not wait for decades in the Federation by myself like an idiot. I will certainly participate in the 'Heavenly Road Plan', explore the larger universe, and enjoy a more exciting life. I will spend most of my time in the hibernation cabin. I will not be unfrozen, woken up, and have adventures until I discover new Sectors!
"If there is no other choice, I can always participate in the 'Sun Warrior' Plan. I can enter the special hibernation cabin near the orbit of a star to absorb the spiritual energy released by the star and train myself in the long hibernation!
"In such a way, even if a hundred years have passed in the real world, only a couple of years will have passed in our perception and physical condition!
"Ten years of separation is still acceptable to me. What do you think?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and realized that it did make sense.
Most of the time in space exploration missions was spent searching for new galaxies and worlds in the boundless universe.
Such boring missions could be completed automatically by the navigation crystal processors. The explorers could spend their time in hibernation without feeling anything.
Even if a hundred years passed, it would be nothing more than a dream. They would not feel anything at all.
If everything went well, in their "perception", perhaps a few years would have passed, and the two of them would meet again.
"Li Yao!"
Ding Ling Dong suddenly became excited. Waving her arms in the golden sunlight, she looked like a cheetah running towards the sun. "Let's make a deal. Let's compete!"
"In the next hundred years, you will explore the mysterious worlds deep inside the dark nebula, and I will participate in the 'Heavenly Road Plan' and discover more Sectors!"
"Let's meet again in a hundred years. By then, we can all tell each other the interesting things that happened to us while we were exploring the new world. Let's see whose story is more soul-stirring and whose achievements are greater. What do you think?"
Her spirited expression made Li Yao's last bit of hesitation disappear.
Li Yao reached out to his wife, and their pinkies were tightly intertwined!
"It's a deal!"
Li Yao smiled brilliantly. "I will certainly bring back the most beautiful flower in that world from the depths of the dark nebula for you. Wait for me, honey!"
"Nonsense."
Ding Ling Dong said softly, "Of course I will wait for you, until the day the universe is destroyed."
…
One month passed.
The first Magical Equipment Exposition of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector came to a successful end in exclamations and compliments. Superstring magical equipment, Colossi, automatic resource collection puppets … The series of magical equipment dazzled and amazed everyone.
A large number of super projects, including the 'Heavenly Road Plan', were launched one after another, painting brilliant and glorious pictures. It also boosted the confidence of the ordinary people of the three Sectors, filling them with confidence for the future.
However, in the secret areas that the general public had yet to touch, undercurrents were running amok and raising huge waves.
The mysterious signals from the depths of the dark nebula and the greetings or threats from unknown forces made the leadership of the three Sectors, including the Yuanying Sector and the demon emperors, feel that a new wave was coming before the previous one was over.
After realizing the severity of the issue, everybody agreed that explorers must be sent to the depths of the dark nebula no matter the cost!
Li Yao's capability and his past experience made him the well-deserved candidate for the job.
It was also the exploration mission at the top of the list in the 'Heavenly Road Plan'.
Right now, the targeted modifications for 'Spark' and the 'space gate' were being carried out. The Heaven's Artillery needed to be adjusted to the extreme mode that could teleport a longer distance, too.
Li Yao had three months to go through the 'super intensive training'.
A special training team made of more than thirty Yuanying Sector members was dedicated to providing service, or rather, torture, for him.
The training that was even crueler than the eighteenth level of hell seemed to have brought him back to the torment when he was a teenager.
Although he had always enjoyed self-torture, he couldn't help but complain about the sufferings.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Every day at four o 'clock in the morning, inside the training room with thirty times the gravity on Kunlun, Li Yao's day of torture would begin under the bombardment of Ding Ling Dong and' Iron God 'Yan Ba, two specialists of body refining.
There was no need to mention 'Iron God' Yan Ba. He was an experienced Yuanying of the Combat Department in the Federation, a crazed body fundamentalist, and a monster who could dismantle a Crystal Suit as easily as a matchbox with his bare hands!
Ding Ling Dong, a new Yuanying of the Combat Department, did not care about the relationship between husband and wife at all, either. Her punches were brutal and fatal, and she would not stop until Li Yao was bleeding.
"Quick, quick, quick, you're too slow, too slow, too slow!"
"Don't think that you are somebody just because you know how to pilot a Colossus. When you are in a foreign land where you are not familiar with, where can you find so many Colossi and Crystal Suit for you to pilot?
"Any magical equipment will be worn out and destroyed. In the harshest environment, you will not find any resources or tools to maintain your magical equipment at all!
"Therefore, your body is the 'magical equipment' that you should trust most!"
"Only when your body is as tough as iron and denser than a neutron star can you possibly fight for a slim chance of survival in the mysterious foreign land!"
Under the polishing and bombardment of the two experts of body refining, Li Yao felt like crying. He felt that he had been compressed into a neutron star with a high density one moment and then ripped apart into a swirling nebula the next.
The body tempering training would last an hour. Then, he would have another hour of recovery treatment in the medical cabin.
The hour would not be idle, either. Although he could not move his body, he had to receive the intelligence training from Guo Chunfeng, director of the Secret Sword Bureau.
"In the past ten years, although you have done a good job in the Flying Star Sector and the Blood Demon Sector, there were too many coincidences," Guo Chunfeng said.
"In the two adventures, you made friends with the big shots of certain forces by accident and were involved in their unpredictable schemes. Eventually, you got in touch with the information and secrets that ordinary people could not have access to.
"Obviously, we cannot place our hope on 'coincidences' again. Therefore, you have to abandon all your 'unorthodox' experiences in the past and systematically learn how to disguise yourself into a suitable identity so that you can break into the core of the target force and collect the most critical intelligence consciously!
"It is too late and unnecessary for you to get in touch with the fundamental theories from scratch in only one to two months.
"I have prepared a lot of cases here. They are all top-secret files of the Secret Sword Bureau, including the classic infiltration between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector in the past two hundred years!
"Some of them include the example of the expert known as' Thousand-faced Fox 'of the Blood Demon Sector, who lurked inside the Federation for decades and was promoted to the deputy director of the Confidential Information Office of the Department of Defense. Some of them are stories about our Secret Sword Agents who snuck into the Blood Demon Sector and infiltrated the Pantheon of Demons. Of course, there are also their experiences of being seen through, captured, captured, escaped, interrogated, and counter-interrogated in the end!
"If you can figure out every detail of the hundreds of cases, I believe that whatever the mysterious world looks like, it will not be able to trap you."
Pausing for a moment, Guo Chunfeng continued. "Of course, unless the natives of the mysterious world are all Pangu more than twenty meters tall. In that case, even the deities will not be able to help you. Good luck!
"That will be the lesson that we are going to learn later. How to avoid being captured alive by the enemy when you are at a dead end? Even if you are captured alive, you will still be able to end your own life painlessly and neatly without leaving any useful information for the enemy!"
"Well …" Li Yao hesitated.
"If you feel that it is too difficult, you can totally turn it down," Guo Chunfeng said. "To be honest, I am very interested in the mission!"
"Hehehe," Li Yao said. "It was not easy for me to persuade my wife to let me go. How can I give up so easily? Stop kidding, Brother Guo! "
After an hour of tussling with Guo Chunfeng in the mysterious world of dark battles, it was time for the maintenance of the magical equipment.
The elite teams of the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution and the Refining Department of Deep Sea University, including Professor Mo Xuan and Supernova Jiang Sheng, gathered together and taught Li Yao all the knowledge about the assembly and maintenance of the space gate.
Although Li Yao was a top refiner, his expertise lay in the Crystal Suit and the Colossus.
He was still somewhat familiar with the common star beacons, but when it came to the array of star beacons of an enormous scale and the space gate made of such star beacons, it was a whole new lesson for him!
In order to send the coordinates from the depths of the dark nebula to the Tian Yuan Realm across a distance of millions of lightyears, the space gate was destined to be enormous. It was estimated that it would be made of at least three hundred star beacons and tens of thousands of units.
When the units were launched into the depths of the dark nebula one by one, it was impossible for them to be projected to Li Yao precisely. Therefore, special radiation sources had to be installed on the units to release unique signals for 'Spark' to receive. Then, Li Yao would control Spark to retrieve and assemble them one by one.
After the assembly was completed, a series of precise and repetitive debugging would be needed before the signals could be sent out successfully.
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