Like Que Niang, Yuan Qu and the others were annoyed after seeing the light, wondering why they hadn't thought of such an obvious thing.
According to the calculation, the space coordinates of the formation eye of the Sword Formation of the Solar System were constantly changing. They always thought it was a natural celestial body such as a small planet, and they didn't consider the human spacecrafts. Now that they thought about it, if the formation eye was a battleship, all their doubts would be explained.
Su Ziye said in a self-mocking tone, "Have we become stupid after cultivating so much that we couldn't even think of this?"
Then, he looked at Tong Yan and said in a mocking tone, "It's understandable for us, but you always thought that you were the most resourceful one. Why didn't you think of it?"
"I did." The expression on Tong Yan's face was calm, unchanged by what the Fairy Nun said. "But according to the mass of the formation eye, this battleship must be very large, more than seventy times larger than the largest long-distance carrier. The Federation of the Milky Way doesn't have such a large spacecrafts."
The long-distance carrier was a huge battleship used by the Federation to evacuate the populace from the Scorpion Tail Nebula, which could accommodate eighty thousand people living on it for a long time. More than seventy times larger than that huge battleship? Theoretically, it was not difficult to build such a battleship in the weightless universe; but the industrial design and multi-system integration would encounter many unexpected problems. As such, the Federation of the Milky Way hadn't tried to build such a battleship until now.
Hearing this, Su Ziye raised his eyebrows slightly, and Que Niang remained silent. Yuan Qu and Yushan eyed each other, thinking that it was true that they hadn't thought of it. It was because it was obviously impossible that they hadn't thought of the battleship.
"Even if such a huge battleship did exist, it would be hard to explain this curve …" Que Niang said while pointing to a spot on the wall.
"It's not 'even if'," Ceng Ju said with a complicated expression. "That battleship does exist."
Que Niang was taken aback a bit, asking, "Do you have any proof?"
Ceng Ju said, "You should know from Buried Cloud that I've been doing the calculation work on the 857 Base over the years, and I've also dealt with the allocation of military resources. You can regard me as an accountant. One year, when I was doing the calculation, I found some problems in the resource plan of the last one hundred years; it was obvious that the resources had been lost secretly. Li Chunyang said that they had other uses. I thought that those experimental planets had been taken away. Only now did I understand that those resources should have been transported to the Solar System. "
Que Niang asked earnestly, "How many resources?"
Ceng Ju said, "It's even more than what you've calculated."
At this point, He Xian's conjecture seemed to be established.
The eye of the Solar System Sword Formation was that huge battleship that no one had ever seen before.
Yuan Qu and the others were delighted, but Que Niang was even more silent, and even felt a little dejected.
"What's wrong?" Yushan looked at her and asked softly.
Que Niang said, "If the Formation Eye is a battleship, it won't move along a fixed route like the natural celestial bodies, which can change its direction and speed at any time. In that case, we will never be able to calculate its exact position. More terrifyingly, it means that the Great Grandmaster can adjust the formation by changing the position of the Formation Eye at any time."
If the formation could be changed at will, it meant that the Life Gate … might not always be safe. In other words, regardless of whether Tong Yan's inference was correct or not, there was at least a possibility that the immortals on the surface of Mars could have been killed by the Patriarch.
The atmosphere in the room, which had just become relaxed, became solemn again.
"Let's calculate the Formation Pivot first," Tong Yan said expressionlessly.
The Formation Pivot was the most important place in a formation, and it must be located in a relatively stable position in the formation. If they could find the Formation Pivot and the pattern of the formation's operation, they might be able to find the Formation Eye and break the formation.
They didn't need to find the Formation Pivot of the Solar System Sword Formation, because it was hanging there conspicuously — it was the sun. The problem was, since the sun was so huge, which point on the surface of the sun should they calculate? What if the point was deep inside the sun?
Of course, this was a problem they had to consider later.
"The functional relationship between the two points must be an uneven but boundless curve," Shen Yunmai's voice rang out again.
Nobody knew whether the Great Grandmaster would be crazy enough to change the formation and kill all the people on Mars.
Time continued to flow as usual, but there was a sense of urgency.
Que Niang and Tong Yan walked to the wall and wiped off the results of their research for many days, and started a new topic.
Ceng Ju stood behind them with a solemn expression, giving some advice once in a while.
He Nun Xian turned around and left the room, walking toward the outside of the base.
Hurried footsteps were heard as Yushan caught up with them. He presented a bottle of magic pills with both hands and said gingerly, "This is the last batch of magic pills the Sect Leader made before his ascension. It's very useful."
He Nun Xian fell silent for a while. She didn't explain that she was just here to take a look, not to ask for magic pills, nor did she express her gratitude. She just took the bottle.
A relieved smile appeared on Yushan's face.
"I've hurt you so badly, but why don't I see any hatred in your heart?" He Nun Xian asked while looking at her.
Yushan said with embarrassment, "Big Brother Yuan Qu and I are not talented enough. We were lucky to ascend. We should have lost the fight against you."
Since they should have lost, they wouldn't hate her.
He Nun Xian asked confusedly, "Since you knew you would lose, why did you fight?"
Before Yushan could answer, she thought of Que Niang's answer. She smiled self-mockingly and said while looking at the room, "That little girl is too much. She spent so many days calculating so many things, but she suddenly wants to overturn everything. But I can't see any disappointment in her heart … What on earth are you little guys thinking?"
"Even if you can't calculate the result, it's still a preliminary preparation. Just like me, no matter how badly injured I am, it's fine as long as I don't die."
Yushan said with a smile, "As long as Senior Uncle wakes up and knows we are here, he will definitely come here. Then everything will be settled."
He Nun Xian realized who Yushan was talking about after thinking for a while. She asked in confusion, "Why do you trust Jingyang so much?"
Yushan said, "Just like how the seniors trust the Founding Master."
He Nun Xian said calmly, "The Founding Master has never been defeated in his life, nor has he made any mistakes."
Yushan said confidently, "Senior Uncle has never been defeated. Even though he is trapped by the Founding Master, he is still alive."
This was the common view of the Aoyama Sect since Taiping and Jingyang.
As long as he was alive, he was not defeated.
After a moment of silence, He Nun Xian turned around and continued walking toward the outside of the base.
It was unclear if it was because of her severe injury, but she didn't fly on the cloud. What was even stranger was that she didn't fly back to the mountaintop.
"Senior Master, what are you going to do?" Yushan yelled behind her.
"I'm going to find that Master Yunmai. He's still throwing a tantrum like a little kid at a critical moment like running away from home."
He Nun Xian raised the medicine bottle in her right hand and waved it in a carefree manner.
The calculations were still going on in the room, and Shen Yunmai's vulgar words could be heard from time to time.
Peng Lang, Liu Shisui, and the others couldn't bear listening to him anymore. Since they couldn't help, they walked out of the room and sat down on the sandy ground.
Yushan sat beside Yuan Qu naturally and hugged her knees, looking like the young girl under the starlight on the cliff of the Shanghai Peak.
Su Ziye withdrew his gaze after taking a glance at Peng Lang and said, "I didn't expect you to be so powerful."
Peng Lang said modestly, "I'm just passable."
Su Ziye laughed and said, "You are so hypocritical."
Thinking of his status in his clan in the north, Peng Lang wondered how he was hypocritical …
Everything had to be done in a certain way. Though Jing Jiu had taught Peng Lang the sword work, and the No-Mercy Sect and Aoyama were close, they were still two different sects. "Big Brother Shisui is also very powerful," Yushan said reflexively.
Su Ziye shot a glance at Liu Shisui and said, "He relies mainly on those magic treasures."
Liu Shisui didn't get angry, saying, "Young Master said that the difference between humans and rocks is that they know how to use things."
Su Ziye sneered, "The problem is, are those things yours?"
Liu Shisui explained earnestly, "Now that the matter is over, I'll return the streamer to you. Little Young Sister has poured so much soul-fire into it as interest."
Yuan Qu retorted, "It's merely borrowing something. Is it worth your nagging for more than one hundred years? Did you hear me? It's not like I won't return it to you! "
Su Ziye exclaimed angrily, "Is it borrowing? Does Zhao Layue even know how to write the word 'borrow'? "
Time elapsed while the two of them talked about the old grudges.
… … It was another dusk on Mars, and a new morning came.
One day and one night had elapsed, but the work on the other side hadn't progressed, because Shen Yunmai hadn't stopped swearing.
Sitting on the sandy ground, Liu Shisui and the others looked at the sky in boredom.
Though they hadn't fully recovered from their wounds, it was not a big problem for them.
The real problem was in this patch of the sky.
After passing the highest mountain up ahead and ascending another three hundred meters, they would find the endless sword wills in the sky over there, as well as the invisible ocean.
They hadn't mentioned the Dead Dog for a while.
It was not because they didn't want to or worry about him, but they were a bit scared.
The Dead Dog had guarded the Shangde Peak for many years, so he was very familiar with the Sword Formation of Aoyama. Moreover, he had absorbed a great deal of fairy energy from the starlight along the way, and his Cultivation state had become more profound. As a result, he was able to protect them in the Kuiper Belt and lead them to this path leading to the Life Gate.
However, he was searching for the eye of the formation in the Sword Formation at the moment, so he had to endure the attacks of the sword wills all the time.
Even Peng Lang had almost been lost in that patch of empty space, and he had retreated reluctantly. And he had stayed there for so many days. Was he okay?
The alarm suddenly rang out in the building of the base.
Soon after, another alarm rang out in a building.
Liu Shisui and Peng Lang disappeared from the original spots, leaving dozens of sword lights behind.
Su Ziye and the others hurried back as quickly as they could.
As they returned to the room, the alarm had already disappeared.
The expressions on the faces of Tong Yan and the others were grave.
They were using the computing terminal of the robot to deduce the program they had written. Ceng Ju was also using his own device to deduce the program a second time.
A moment ago, the automatic program had suddenly malfunctioned, giving off two alarms.
Judging from the data, a celestial body of a great mass was approaching the solar system, and its gravitational force had disturbed the Sword Formation and their calculations.
They couldn't figure out what that celestial body was, and they didn't even know how wide the range of its gravitational force was.
What on earth was approaching the solar system?
While staring at the data on the wall, Que Niang suddenly turned to look at the light screen shot out by Ceng Ju's bracelet, murmuring, "The formation has started to change …"
Upon hearing this, the expressions on everyone's faces changed abruptly.
The Sword Formation of the solar system could change at any time. This was the result they had figured out, and it was also the last thing they wanted to see.
If the formation was changed, the Life Gate would not be the Life Gate anymore, and it might even become the most dangerous dead zone.
Mars would still exist, but what about these people who were still on Mars?
"Great Grandmaster …" Que Niang said with a pale face, "We have to find a way to stop him as soon as possible."
Tong Yan looked at Ceng Ju and said, "It will take some time to change the formation. Let's ask those seniors to come over and try to break the formation together."
Ceng Ju smiled bitterly, thinking that she didn't need those people to help her break the formation; she just wanted to take a few more hostages, and hoped that those people could help her hold on for a while if the Sword Formation of the solar system started to fall.
Before he could say anything, the shabby robot had already run out of the building and arrived at the flat ground in the middle of the ring-shaped base.
The robot turned on the loudspeaker of the highest power toward the mountain in the distance, and yelled, "Come here quickly! My old man has gone crazy! You are all going to die! "
…
…
The seawater was lapping against the beach not far away, teasing the coconut shells and teasing the monkeys who didn't dare to make a sound because of the bloody moon and the darkness of the day.
The seawater in the pond lapped against the bamboo pole lightly, as if to comfort it that it was alright even if it couldn't catch any fish.
The Great Grandmaster of Aoyama was sitting in a wheelchair, his body slightly askew, his eyes half-closed. The wrinkles on his face seemed to have been smoothed out by the sound of the double waves.
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked into the depths of the universe. He could feel a massive celestial body approaching the solar system, even disrupting the formation.
That celestial body was a little strange. The gravitational disturbance wasn't particularly strong, but the range was very wide.
Zhuo Rusui walked out from the cave abode, and his expression changed slightly as he looked at the changes in the dark sky.
The bloody moon hanging low above the sea seemed to be slightly deformed, and there seemed to be a ripple in the Sword Formation of the solar system. What kind of object could have such a huge impact?
"It's here," the Great Grandmaster of Aoyama said.
Zhuo Rusui turned to look at him, and asked nervously, "Who's here?"
The Great Grandmaster didn't answer his question. He sat up with some difficulty, and reached out to pull out all the fishing rods by the side of the pond. The holes that the fishing rods had pierced into the beach were immediately filled up by the overflowing seawater, and under the illumination of the stars, they looked like mercury.
During the childhood of human civilization, mercury was usually used in the tombs of emperors.
There was a huge underground space that looked like a mausoleum at the bottom of the sea.
Countless black tombstones flashed with blue electric arcs. The electric arcs weren't of the same thickness, and looked a little like chains.
Or maybe it was sword ropes.
Countless sword wills that weren't very sharp, but were extremely calm, were born from the blue electric arcs, and zigzagged upwards, passing through the ground and the endless seawater, and leaving the atmosphere.
Those sword wills were pulled by an invisible force, and like the strings of a zither, or like the strings of a sword, they shot towards somewhere in the depths of the solar system.
Did the invisible force come from the bloody moon above the sea, or was it something else?
Zhuo Rusui looked at the night sky, and felt that the Sword Formation of the solar system was changing, and his face gradually paled.
Those planets were still in their original positions.
The starlight in the sky didn't seem to have changed.
But something had changed.
Life and death were changing.
As long as the Sword Formation of the solar system completed its transformation, no matter who was in the Gate of Life, they would face the attacks of the endless sword wills.
In other words, no matter who came to the solar system now, as long as they landed on Mars, they would die in this sword formation.
But what about the immortals on Mars? They couldn't leave the Gate of Life, could they only watch as the Gate of Life became a dead zone, and die together with the person who came?
Zhuo Rusui knelt down next to the wheelchair, hugged the Founding Master's skinny legs, and said with a trembling voice: "I know you've already killed one, can you not kill another?"
The Founding Master looked at the night sky without saying anything, his eyes were calm.
Extremely emotionless.
Zhuo Rusui felt very cold.
It was a gaze that only God could have.
In the eyes of God, all living beings were ants.
Immortals were also living beings.
Why couldn't they die?
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…
Zhao Layue pushed the wheelchair to the window at the forefront of the battleship.
Outside the window was the sun.
The stars in the night sky were all battleships.
Some of the battleships were a few kilometers long, some were even more than 20 kilometers long, and were even larger than asteroids.
More than 30,000 battleships were arranged at a safe distance, forming a semicircular surface, like a giant cover, covering the solar system.
It was a magnificent sight.
Zhao Layue squatted down next to the wheelchair, placed her hand on his knee, and asked: "Shall we begin?"
Ah Da lay on his leg, lightly licking the back of her hand.
Jing Jiu was covered with a blanket, his face pale, like a patient who hadn't been here for long.
He felt that it was meaningless to do this, but he knew that Zhao Layue wouldn't be satisfied without trying, so he agreed.
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