Under normal circumstances, as long as Qian Qian announces that she has a new idea, we will try our best to avoid it. If we can't avoid it, the best solution is to pretend to be a rock. No matter what happens, we must ignore the girl. Although she might throw a tantrum at you, don't worry, with the girl's ability to concentrate, she will forget everything in about three minutes.
But once you obediently responded to her whims, you'd be in for a treat. Basically, she would easily destroy the worldview you'd accumulated for a lifetime, and then unreasonably drag you into some strange plan, such as establishing a righteous organization to save the world, or researching the evolution of a species from another world, or delving into the relationship between Cybertan and the Eva. Anyway, when the dust settled, you'd realize that human society was foreign to you, and you'd need a long time to rebuild a worldview that was more in line with human common sense. Countless tragic facts had given me rich experience.
But there were exceptions to everything. Occasionally, Shallow Shallow would use her special talent to notice things that we'd overlooked, such as the mysterious disappearance of the control core of a certain death star for six seconds.
Just like Big Sister and Lin Xue, Qian Qian's powers were constantly evolving and strengthening. No one could explain why the girls around me were so much stronger than the others, even though they were all Espers catalyzed by the Mother Nest. However, their inconceivable potential was undeniable. In the beginning, Qian Qian was only able to use part of her power to interfere with time when her personality changed. Now, she was able to use some of her power even in her normal state. As her power matured, her understanding of "time" also deepened. She seemed to have some kind of "explanation" about the nature of time that we couldn't understand. This girl had once excitedly mentioned this matter to me and tried to communicate with me. However, even though we were mentally connected, I still couldn't understand what she said. I could only confirm one thing: this silly and optimistic girl had indeed developed a great understanding of the nature of time. This kind of understanding had reached a level that even the empire's database had no records of.
"Time is inseparable from the same individual, and that's what I've seen." Shallow Shallow sat down on a chair. She knew that it was difficult for us to understand certain terms, and there were many things that she couldn't describe with words, so she could only choose her words carefully and express what she wanted to say as closely as possible. "For example, Ah Jun, you exist in the present, but you can't exist in another time at the same time. Even if you exist one second earlier or later, your time will be disintegrated by the laws of time … Hmm, it's so hard to explain …"
"Anyway, I think that the situation with the control core is very strange. Our observations from the outside indicate that the core's communication with the outside world has been interrupted for six seconds, but the records of the death star's core have reported that the communication between the core and the outside world has never been interrupted. The most suitable explanation for this phenomenon is that the collapse of energy has caused the timeline to break apart, and the time between the death star's core and the outside world has been distorted. In the eyes of the observer, the former has lost contact with the outside world for six seconds, but in the eyes of the death star's core, its communication has always been open, and the six seconds of interruption have been erased from the perspective of the observer. If I were to describe it in a more understandable way, it would be the same thing, but due to the difference in the observer's perspective, the history of the core has also changed, and the second history is six seconds shorter than the first history … Ah Jun, you can imagine this. A person who is both ten and twenty years old, if you look at him from the left, he looks like a child, but if you look at him from the right, he looks like a young man. Don't you think that's strange?"
I have to admit that I'm really confused.
"That … shouldn't exist, right?"
That question of being both a shota and a young man, how could it possibly exist … Alright, if I really want to use it mechanically, that death star fortress of ours that has already sunk into the endless void is indeed in such a situation. It has two sets of time, and the second set is six seconds shorter than the first, and that's a gun version …
"That's why I haven't been able to understand this question for the past two days." Shallow Shallow propped her left temple with her finger, supporting her head as she shook it. "The same person, the same Law, and the same observation, yet it shows two completely different historical trends, and both historical trends are correct. There's no such thing as a parallel universe. A person who is both a child and a young man at the same time, and a single observer will never be able to notice anything abnormal about this person, wah … My brain is completely messed up!!"
Don't worry, your brain has always been messed up — Of course, I didn't dare to say that out loud.
"In any case, Ah Jun, I think I've come into contact with something related to the Law. As long as I can find out whether the core of the death star is in 'one' or 'two' states during those six seconds, I might be able to find those missing scientists."
After Qian Qian said that, she immediately looked at me with her big, watery eyes. Her face was filled with an expression that said "praise me quickly". She looked like a puppy waiting for a reward. I was all too familiar with this girl's expressions since she was a child, and she had never upgraded any of her favorite emoticons since she was young.
Besides … She's just too cute right now!
Almost involuntarily, I hugged Shallow Shallow's head and rubbed her face against mine. "Alright, alright, alright. My precious Shallow Shallow is really working hard — But promise me one thing. Exploration is exploration, but don't engage in any dangerous experiments. You know your own abilities, that thing might cause the system of history to collapse!"
"Ahem, mind your image, the two of you."
My big sister suddenly coughed, causing a certain leader, who already had the mentality of teasing a pet, to snap out of it. She looked around at the Imperial Army officers who were pretending to be serious about their work, as well as the envious, jealous, and hateful general sisters.
The awkwardness didn't last long, because a familiar spiritual connection suddenly barged into the flagship. This arrogant spiritual connection didn't have the slightest concept of modesty. The moment it barged in, it released its presence in all directions, announcing a fact to everyone.
"Young and old, fellow villagers, ladies and wives, brothers and sisters-in-law, and fellow committee members of the Promotion Association of Gossips! I, Liliana, have returned in triumph! "
Don't be fooled by the fact that I only felt a spiritual connection to show off my presence. I'm willing to bet that Liliana really wanted to say that.
"Your Majesty, Lord Pope has returned. The Ancient Artifact is being moved to the garage."
"The mission was completed in twenty-four hours! Liliana is back … "Just as the royal guard's report ended, Liliana's voice rang out. Then, she hopped in front of me." Boss, Boss, where's the reward? "
… I really wanted to know how she had managed to rush to the bridge in an instant. Wasn't this place a traffic control zone where teleportation was prohibited? Jingle, just how much power did you give this crazy girl!?
A few hours ago, our detection equipment had confirmed that Liliana's mission was a success. Within five seconds, a planet that was brimming with life suddenly showed signs of lifelessness. Now that I thought about it, it still gave me goosebumps. It wasn't the destruction of a planet that we had done many of. What was truly scary was that the entire planet had been destroyed because of a seed, a little girl, and five seconds. This was much more frightening than any form of crisis at the end of the world. "It took some time to get to that planet." Liliana ran to the table excitedly.
She picked up our unfinished black tea and gulped it down for a minute. Then, she slumped on the chair without a care for her image. "Even with Bonnie's reputation and the fact that she only brought a little girl with her, those idiotic humans still interrogated us for a few hours. However, they were all done for in the end. Ha, it only took five seconds. Then, it took some more time to think of a way to transport the ancient artifact back. That thing was very strange. It was clearly no longer operating, but it seemed to be alive. It couldn't be placed into any spatial device. Even the Avalon-class spatial barge couldn't fit it in. We could only use the dumbest method to drag it back. Otherwise, I would have teleported over with that thing a few hours ago."
Alive? A remnant that refused to enter the transportation space? The situation that Liliana told me had piqued my curiosity. This time, Tawil would probably be busy again. She never had a moment of leisure.
"Let Tawil quickly study that thing. As for you, why did you come back alone?" The elder sister smiled gently as she looked at Liliana. "Where's the captain of the privateer group called Bonnie?"
"Erm …" Being stared at by the elder sister's smiling gaze, this healing power that was filled with light was no less than a natural disaster to a creature like Liliana. The little lass immediately slid down from the chair. "She … might have been frightened. Back then … back then, I threw the seeds in the downtown area. That human was watching from the side. Thousands of people instantly turned into dried corpses and sand. Even the flock of birds in the sky turned into organic dust and fell to the ground. When she came back, her face was green the entire time. I thought she was going to photosynthesize …"
As expected, I knew that with this lass's twisted personality, she would definitely scare people in whatever way she wanted.
However, she did complete the mission after all. As a reward, I gave the priestess a huge pile of sweets. Amidst this lass's protests of "Don't treat such a mature elder sister like your family's bunch of lolis, alright?", Pandora and Visca suddenly requested to personally send Liliana back to her room to rest. Although I felt that the blabbermouth Liliana was in trouble, I still gladly handed the latter over to the beautiful Violent Sisters. While I was at it, I arranged for someone to check on Bonnie's condition. Then, I happily returned to my work state.
I was happy for a total of seventeen and a half seconds.
"Reporting, Sir! A large-scale psionic engine activation signal has been detected at the border of the Eastern Sky. The rebel army's fleet is currently setting sail! "
It was still that intelligence officer, still bad news. These two days, he had become a celebrity in the command hall. Basically, the moment he opened his mouth, the surrounding officers of the Imperial Army would stare at him as though he was an enemy. Of course, it should be my misconception.
"What's the enemy's current position?"
"They are 0.2 light years away and are currently activating their hyperspace propulsion engine. They didn't discover any gravitational collapse zone within our defense perimeter, so we have eliminated the possibility of the enemy jumping into the battlefield!"
"As expected, they are advancing steadily. They have already memorized our gravitational disturbance strike."
The elder sister sighed.
Gravitational disturbance strike was a special weapon used by our Borderland-class Fortress Ship during our first direct confrontation with the rebel army. In the instant that the enemy was about to materialize during a hyperspace jump, we would release an extremely strong gravitational wave, causing the coordinates of the enemy's teleportation to become chaotic and overlap with each other. This kind of attack was a fatal threat to the troops that used hyperspace jump to enter the battlefield. Even the warships of the Empire were no exception. We had used this toy to successfully destroy the enemy's vanguard several times, but from the looks of it now, the rebel army had learned their lesson.
Of course, the speed of advancing continuously in a normal dimension wouldn't be as fast as a hyperspace jump, nor would they be able to launch a surprise attack. It could be said that all of their movements were under the radar of the enemy, but on the other hand, this also eliminated the possibility of being hit by a gravitational disturbance.
However, we didn't just set a trap for the enemy. As I said before, the rebel army without a commander are all idiots. This was our greatest advantage.
"Xi Wei, how's the situation in Avalon?"
"The Garden of the Departed is online. The third type of attack script has been loaded. We can attack at any time."
"Delay for fifteen seconds. Attack the rear of the enemy's formation. Inform Tawil to turn off those emitters in thirty minutes. There are enough enemies."
"Yes! Your Majesty! "
The enormous rebel army fleet had already completed its acceleration, rushing towards the direction of the summoning signal at several times the speed of light. It was a vast expanse of space without any celestial bodies to obstruct it. It could be said that it was the most suitable place for a battlefield. We didn't know if the rebel army could think, but they definitely wouldn't think about where the attack would come from or what form it would take.
When the fleet that stretched for hundreds of thousands of kilometers had not even completed half of its journey, the rear half suddenly suffered an unknown attack. The spaceships there seemed to suddenly slow down, and then they flashed violently. In just a few short seconds, more than a hundred thousand important spaceships that were responsible for logistics and electronic warfare began to disintegrate inexplicably. It was really inexplicable, because you couldn't see any high energy hit those spaceships from any way, but they just disintegrated. It was as if the power of disintegration didn't come from the outside, but rather from their own self-destruction.
"The light speed disorder attack has ended. Observation data is being uploaded." Tawil turned around from the information window with a satisfied smile on his face. "Your Majesty, we've achieved the expected results. However, I'm afraid that the space-time structure of the Eastern Sky won't be able to withstand a second attack."
"Once is enough. We've already destroyed the enemy's auxiliary spaceships. Order all motherships to charge the main cannons and prepare to fire!"
The attack just now was one of the many combat abilities of the Garden of the Departed. Light speed disorder, as the name suggested, was to lock a space in another world and then inject a large number of chaotic codes into the internal parameters of the universe, instantly changing the speed of light in that space. This change wasn't as simple as making light stop, but to make every inch of the target space have a random speed of light. For example, at a certain point, light could travel at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, but less than an inch to the side, the speed of light would be rigidly limited to one meter per second, and a little further, the speed of light would be 9.9 billion kilometers per second …
Because it relied on the infusion of the chaotic codes to produce the effect, the disorder was completely random and constantly changed in milliseconds. There was no possibility of foresight or reverse cancellation at all. Could you imagine the impact a group of spaceships that were traveling at several times the speed of light after entering such a space? Almost every inch of the hull would be accelerated or decelerated from stillness to dozens of times the speed of light in a millisecond. Powerful tearing forces that could no longer be explained by physics would act upon your armor from countless different directions, and even Empire warships with their shields fully activated would be helpless against such an attack that originated from the world itself. Such was the power of the Garden of the Departed.
It could be considered a loophole in the Laws. If it was directly used on the Empire's ships, even a Law strike would be greatly reduced — we all know that due to the prowess of our forefathers, any Empire unit has shockingly high resistance against Law errors. Moreover, every superweapon has its drawbacks, and the Garden of the Departed's flaw is that it is too powerful. We did not dare to use it at full power, but it still affects the stability of this world. After the lightspeed disorder strike ended, our monitoring system discovered that the entire Eastern Sky had changed. The speed of light here had been reduced by approximately nine percent, and the subsequent shockwaves were spreading across the entire universe. It is estimated that when everything calms down, the speed of light in this world would forever be limited to ninety-eight percent of normal. In vacuum, light would no longer travel at three hundred thousand kilometers per second, and its limit would be 294,000 kilometers per second. Furthermore, apart from us, no one would notice that the speed of light in the universe had been reduced. It was a change on the level of Laws, and any 'mortals' who were still bound by them would not be able to notice the loophole in the Laws themselves. Such was the tyranny of the laws of the universe.
A series of flashes appeared on the holographic projection as Sives reported calmly, "The enemy has entered their maximum firing range. Dark spatial mines have been triggered. It is estimated that we will enter a full-on firefight in three minutes."
"Let's go, weapons of mass destruction." I was the first to stand up from my chair, followed by Pandora and Visca, followed by Shallow Shallow and Big Sis. "This time, we can't just sit around and wait for news of victory. The enemy outnumbers us, and Tawil will only turn off that high-powered taunt machine in thirty minutes. Sives, is it alright to leave this to you?"
"I promise to complete the mission! Please be careful, Your Majesty. Your safety is more important than any victory or defeat. "
I waved my hand at the other party to show that I knew what I was doing. I led a group of forbidden weapons with the most ferocious combat power in the Imperial Army and left the bridge.
Our target was the space battlefield.
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