"I'm sorry …"
After three seconds of awkward silence, Shallow Shallow finally turned her head away with a blushing face and spoke in a barely audible voice.
I didn't expect Shallow Shallow to have such an adorable reaction after transforming into her dark personality. Of course, it would have been even better if she had remembered to put me down first.
I have to admit, Shallow Shallow's ability was truly heaven-defying. Just hearing the words' time manipulation 'would make any metahuman gnash their teeth in jealousy. And now, this ability was in full effect, successfully turning me into a motionless statue in the air. To make matters worse, Shallow Shallow obviously only remembered to apologize and awkwardness. She completely forgot to retract her ability so that her boyfriend could come down.
Thus, after half a minute, Shallow Shallow, who had almost walked far away, suddenly heard the dull thud of a heavy object falling to the ground behind her. This girl who was as thick-skinned as her outer personality and inner personality flushed red once more.
"… I'm sorry …"
I was defeated by this girl.
Helplessly rubbing Shallow Shallow's hair, I shrugged and said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Didn't you notice that someone was missing beside you just now?"
Shallow Shallow's reply was rather direct. "No!"
"That's possible …"
"I really don't have that!"
Me: "…"
Just as I was chatting with Shallow Shallow, who had a much harder time communicating after her personality transformation, while patrolling the command tower, that black figure finally appeared again!
Like an agile leopard hiding in the darkness, a pitch-black object flashed past the corner of the corridor in front of me.
Shallow Shallow immediately activated her ability, while I leaped to the side with astonishing reflexes — I didn't want to be turned into a laughable statue by this carefree fellow again!
Just as the black figure was about to dash into the corner in front of me, it abruptly stopped in mid-air, while I slammed into the wall beside me …
It would have been quite a comedic scene — if it hadn't been me on the wall …
It was obvious that the enemy's good luck didn't help her this time. Shallow Shallow's ability had successfully taken effect before the enemy could escape its effective range. That frighteningly fast figure suddenly froze in midair, and I could finally see the general shape of the enemy — — it was a petite girl wearing a black cloak. This figure also made me realize from another angle just how hilarious my previous appearance was. But in less than two seconds, a strange red light appeared beneath her feet and swiftly swept across her entire body. The black-cloaked girl easily landed on the ground. Shallow Shallow's powerful time ability had actually been dispelled!
The black figure didn't stop and disappeared from our sight like a gust of wind.
I slowly slid down from the wall and wiped the blood off my nose. I should have checked how far away the wall was from me before I jumped out …
"How is it?"
Shallow Shallow's cold yet concerned voice rang in front of me. Of course … cough cough, I could still hear the barely suppressed laughter in her voice.
"Just look at the familiar face on the wall beside you and you'll know …"
Shallow Shallow finally couldn't hold it in any longer and let out a "pfft" sound. But she swiftly concealed her momentary loss of composure and returned to her cold demeanor.
"Let's chase after her. The command tower is only so big. She won't be able to escape."
I replied in a muffled voice while covering my nose. Then, I ran after Shallow Shallow.
I wasn't sure if it was just my imagination, but I felt that the girl whose face was completely covered by the black cloak gave off a strange feeling of familiarity.
The other party's speed was astonishing. Qian Qian and I had seen that black shadow flash past us like a gust of wind. But every time, before we could react, the other party would disappear into a fork in the road or turn a corner. My physique was far superior to that of a normal person, and Qian Qian had even used her time acceleration ability, but the two of us still couldn't catch up to the other party. This made me even more surprised.
Not only was I astonished by her speed, I was even more astonished by the way she moved around as if she was in her own home. This command tower wasn't big, but it wasn't small either. Plus, every floor had a different function, so it was definitely not an easy task to navigate every corridor and fork in the tower. But the girl we were chasing after, who we didn't know if she was a friend or foe, could accurately navigate every path in front of her while running at such high speed. To be honest, even I had gotten lost in this command tower a few times!
Of course, the above definitely didn't mean that I had no sense of direction — listen, that's definitely not it!!
We chased after the mysterious girl until we reached the exit near the top floor of the command tower. After we lost sight of her once again, Shallow Shallow and I stopped at the same time.
"She seems to be luring us here on purpose."
I cautiously looked at our surroundings and voiced out my suspicions.
Shallow Shallow replied matter-of-factly, "Of course."
I instantly went crazy. "You saw through it all along!?"
"I had this feeling the third time she took the initiative to appear in front of us." Shallow Shallow mercilessly attacked my pitiful self-esteem. It was said that a woman's intuition was three times stronger than a man's, but … could it be that I was just too slow?
Fortunately, my adaptability was quite strong. After a moment of self-hypnosis, I finally managed to forget the tragic fact that my observation and reasoning ability was actually inferior to the careless Shallow Shallow. I said to the person beside me, "Since you already knew that she was luring us here, why didn't you say so earlier?"
"There was no need. No matter what her goal is, as long as we catch her, we will naturally know."
… He felt that Qian Qian's current appearance was too strange …
Although my intuition told me that the other party had already set up a trap for us, Shallow Shallow and I couldn't just give up like that. The central engine room was equivalent to the heart of the entire fleet. Regardless of whether the other party was friend or foe, we couldn't allow such a stranger to roam around the engine room. Especially since Bubble and Little Bubble weren't Shiring Apostles who were adept at fighting. If they weren't given the time to build a defensive structure, a squad leader level soldier of Schilling rank could easily defeat a Schilling mainframe. One of them was my daughter, and the other was … cough cough, let's call her mother for the time being … In any case, I couldn't accept any of them getting hurt.
The sealed door in front of us was the place where the mysterious person had disappeared. After the baptism of getting lost countless times, I knew that there was no other path behind this sealed door for anyone to hide in. It was the top of the command tower, a rather wide open platform. The entire platform was as smooth as the forehead of the Second Baldy who sold mutton skewers in front of my school when I was young. Even a tiny girl like Jingle would have a hard time playing hide-and-seek on this platform. In other words, the mysterious girl's ultimate goal was to lure us to the platform at the top of the command tower.
"Be careful," Shallow Shallow and I said at the same time. Then, we were stunned for a moment before we smiled faintly at the same time.
"Psst —" The sealed door slid open smoothly, revealing a wide metallic floor and a cloaked girl who was standing at the edge of the platform with her back facing us.
She had obviously noticed our arrival, because I saw her back swaying slightly. But even when Shallow Shallow and I were less than ten meters away from her, she had no intention of turning around.
I observed the surroundings and realized that it was just as Bubble had said. The entire world was limited to this isolated command tower. Other than the platform we were standing on, everything between heaven and earth was an indistinct grayish-black. It was like a boundless fog, but it didn't have the texture of fog. It was more like a pure color, a pure grayish-black color that filled our surroundings. There was no so-called boundary between heaven and earth in this boundless space. In fact, once we left the range of this command tower, we wouldn't even have the concept of up, down, left, or right in that grayish-black space. The Central Engine Room used Parallel Dimension Technology was a mysterious technology that was similar to "creating something out of nothing." It forcefully created an inverse space-time that overlapped with the real world. This space-time was the so-called Parallel Dimension. After all, the Shiring Apostles weren't real gods, so they couldn't truly create a world out of nothing. Therefore, the range of the Parallel Dimension was usually very limited. Outside the physical area of the Parallel Dimension was the edge of the Void World, and the grayish-black "space" around us — who knew if there was such a thing as "space" there — was the buffer zone between the Void and the world.
It was said that the most widely used energy source in the Xiling Empire, psionic energy, was converted from the Void Decay energy extracted from this buffer zone. Every high-level Shiring Apostles would at least have a psionic reactor set up in another dimension to provide them with astonishing energy. This reactor must have been set up in this special space.
Schilling civilization … I really didn't know if humans on Earth could develop to a super civilization that could talk to the Gods on equal footing. Just thinking about it made it seem impossible …
"Ah Jun, you're spacing out."
Shallow Shallow's cold voice suddenly rang in my ears, pulling me back from my thoughts that had drifted to the distant edge of the universe and started thinking about the direction of human development.
At this moment, the mysterious girl in front of us finally broke the silence. She spoke with a voice that sounded like a fiery explosion, but it was very pleasant to the ears. "Finally … we can take it back …"
Following such a strange statement, she slowly turned around and took off her hood.
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