After the enemy's command ship was destroyed, their combat prowess dropped by a notch. They became stiff and inflexible, and the frequency of their attacks also slowed down. Even though the battle that followed was still extremely intense, the scales of victory still tipped in our favor. Under the leadership of the super storm commander, Syves, as well as other battle-hardened imperial officers, we gradually reversed our disadvantage in numbers. The enemy's inflexible phalanx was already starting to show many openings under the continuous assault of a large number of mobile troops, and they were completely routed by the orderly imperial army.
With perfect command, the strength of a few decisive elites, and a bunch of buffs, it was only natural that we were outnumbered.
On the bridge of the Empire Admiral, the upper echelons of the Empire who hadn't had the time to rest were all gathered together, discussing the current situation.
The immense pressure from before had finally subsided. This battle that was supposed to be incredibly difficult had finally developed in the direction that we had hoped for thanks to Syves' hard work. This made everyone heave a huge sigh of relief.
But Syves was an exception — no matter what, although we had successfully completed our mission and returned, it was still a fact that we had almost made a huge mistake along the way. If it wasn't for Shallow Shallow's sudden support, even if I had used my Void Domain to resolve the crisis, everyone present would probably have returned with wounds. This gave Syves, who was the commander of the frontlines, immense pressure, and also strengthened her belief that ambushes and schemes were both unorthodox methods, and to have the highest leader personally ambush them was even more unorthodox. In the future, no matter what, she couldn't allow these fellows in her family, who would disregard everything when they got excited, to step onto the frontlines.
This also reminded us that ambushing the enemy's command ships was indeed not a wise decision. Not only did they have astonishing defensive capabilities, they were also heavily protected by a large fleet of escorts. To actually have dozens of Eternal-class motherships act as their escorts, it was all thanks to the fact that a Legend-class Apostle had personally gone into battle. If we had sent a normal assault squad — not only would we not be able to harm those command ships, we would have alerted the enemy instead.
This time, we had no choice but to use ambushes to weaken the enemy as much as possible. If there were similar situations in the future … whoever wanted to go could go.
"This way, the enemy in the Eastern Sky is basically cleared. I believe that after such a long battle, they no longer have any hidden troops here, and the enemy in the Great Nebula has probably been wiped out by us. We should now turn our attention to the West." I knocked on the table to attract everyone's attention, before turning my gaze to Shallow Shallow. "Before that, let my precious girl tell us about her huge discovery. Don't be so happy, I can already see your back teeth."
"Hmph." She glared at me before instantly forgetting about her slight dissatisfaction. "Of course it's a huge discovery. She's a genius girl after all — Ah Jun, do you still remember the Psionic Death Star that we lost contact with?"
"Duh, of course I remember." I instantly felt my heart ache. "How much electricity was that?"
"It wasn't lost at all," Shallow Shallow said casually. "Falling into the Void, leaving this world, and so on are all wrong. The Psionic Death Star is still where it originally was, and it hasn't moved at all. Just a few minutes ago, I was just convinced of this conjecture."
“What？！” I instantly let out a weird cry, which caused my big sister to chop me. "Ah Jun, what the hell are you shouting for!"
"That's it. It's right there, it's just that you can't see it." Qian Qian chuckled as she looked at my conflicted expression. She was familiar with her boyfriend's personality and knew what he was conflicted about. He wasn't conflicted about her unbelievable words, because no matter what she said, I wouldn't question it — at most, I would pretend that I didn't hear anything. What I was truly conflicted about was that if the Psionic Death Star was really there, then why did we have to risk our lives and pour so much energy into the Void Realm to search for clues about it … What a shameful waste!
Just as everyone knows, I am the same as Shallow Shallow. We are both people who know how to live our lives.
As for whether Shallow Shallow was spouting nonsense, there was no doubt about it. Although she was unreliable most of the time, I knew better than anyone when she was serious and reliable. What she said right now was definitely trustworthy.
"Alright, Ah Jun, don't be conflicted." My big sister didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she looked at her little brother who was heartbroken over the past few days. "Shallow Shallow, you know that Ah Jun will definitely believe any of your crazy ideas, so don't keep him in suspense. Where is it right now?"
Shallow Shallow raised a finger and waved it in front of us. "It was here six seconds ago."
"Another explanation? So troublesome …"
Looking at the expected confused gazes around her, Shallow Shallow instantly hugged her head and laid on the table. She was the worst at things that required intelligence, but she couldn't just say "This is professional knowledge that you don't need to know." Thus, after organizing her words for a long time, our Queen of Time began to give a group of normal people a literacy lesson on "The Long History of Time."
"First of all, I'll use a way that everyone can easily understand to explain the problem of time distortion. Ah Jun, can you see me a second ago?"
"A second ago?" I was stunned as I didn't understand what she meant. "I've been looking at you the whole time, right?"
"Wrong, Ah Jun. You will never be able to see anything a second ago." Shallow Shallow shook her head forcefully and denied my answer. "Even if it was a millisecond ago, you won't be able to see it directly, just like how you can't see things a millisecond later. This is one of the absolutes of time: An observer can only observe things that are the same as their own time, and in the entire world, every individual exists in the same history.
This should be the foundational rule of the world, it determines the entanglement of all things in the world. Under the restriction of this rule, the prerequisite for one object to have an effect on another object is that both objects are on the same axis of time. For example, what a human's eyes see must be relative to what is happening in the 'present'. The information before this point in time is known as memory, and the information after this point in time is known as deduction. Both cannot be observed directly, and humans can't jump out of this iron rule, just like how no one can fly by grabbing their own hair. "
"Wait, then if I use your power to go back in time, like ten years ago to kill Er Pang, wouldn't that be entering a different timeline?" I immediately found a possible point of contention. "Ah Jun, you still don't understand.
"Ah Jun, you still don't understand. These are two completely different situations. Using my ability to return to the past is essentially walking back in the normal timeline for a period of time. It's like walking on a guide rail. A bug can crawl forward or backward, but the guide rail remains the same. The history recorded on the guide rail remains the same. However, time displacement is different. You're not walking back along the time guide rail. Instead, you have a guide rail that's of a different length and direction from the normal timeline. Are you confused?"
I was confused, really.
Just like anything related to time, this was a very confusing theory. The absolute nature of time meant that humans could only see the "present" and could only live in the "present", and any "past" you saw was nothing more than a "memory" of the "present". It was just like two years ago when you were bitten by Da Huang at your doorstep. Two years later, you could only remember being bitten by a dog, but it was impossible for you to experience a battle between a human and a dog again — because two years ago today, you were the one who personally stewed Da Huang.
It took me a lot of effort to sort through all these messy things, but what made me feel balanced was that Liliana, who had always flaunted herself as a genius, reacted slower than me.
"This thing is even more of a pain in the ass than the manifestation of the Laws …"
The priestess laid on the table without a care for her image, sighing endlessly.
I almost reflexively glanced at her and said, "You … a pain in the ass?"
Liliana immediately jumped in anger and said, "This pope's butt is itchy, alright … Hey! What kind of look is that! She spent thirty to forty years to cultivate such a rare pair of resources, do you think it's that easy! "
At that moment, I felt that my daily conversation with Liliana was unbelievably tough, while the pair of general sisters who hadn't matured for millions of years simultaneously looked down at each other and sighed together, preparing to beat up Liliana when they had the time.
"Hey! Listen to me! " Shallow Shallow slammed the table like a child throwing a tantrum. "Where were we … Ah, the absolute nature of time, this absolute nature is one of the cornerstones of the orderly operation of the universe — there must be other cornerstones in the field of creation, if Jingle's grades were slightly better, she might be able to explain it in more detail to us. In short, every existence in the universe, including atoms and molecules, as well as everything derived from them, are able to coordinate with each other and form the world, thanks to this absolute nature. Then, an interesting paradox appeared: If one thing, its time is out of sync with the time of the entire world, what would happen?"
Everyone immediately became serious and expressed that they were all ears. Stop keeping us in suspense, it was already impressive that we could understand until now.
"Compared to the historical system of this world, such a thing would disappear." Shallow Shallow shrugged and said the ultimate and also the simplest answer. "Using our Psionic Death Star as an example, it would stay six seconds in front of us, and this six seconds difference would make it impossible for us to see it. Furthermore, anything in the normal timeline would be unable to react to it, such as our radar."
Silence. Silence. Everyone was slowly digesting this absurd paradox. Mercury Lamp, who had been sitting on my shoulder like an ornament without saying a word, suddenly became interested. Her usually cold face was now blushing as she raised her hand. "Sister Shallow Shallow, if that's the case, wouldn't we be able to see it in six seconds?"
"Do you know, there's a story called 'free meals tomorrow'?" The one who explained was Mercury Lamp. She understood Shallow Shallow's theory faster than any of us. "There was a hotel that had a sign on the door that said 'free meals tomorrow'. A passerby saw it and thought it was a good deal, so he checked in and waited for the next day for a free breakfast. However, the owner of the hotel still wanted him to pay for his meal because the sign said 'free meals tomorrow'. And now, it's' today '. The passerby waited for the third day, but he still had to pay for his meal because — people always live today. I believe that the second paradox that Shallow Shallow mentioned should be the reverse version of this story."
Shallow Shallow nodded forcefully. "That's right. In the second paradox, an individual is accidentally disconnected from the world's historical system. He exists in a certain period of time in the entire timeline. For example, if you want to get to know someone, and that person lived yesterday, on the first day, of course you wouldn't know him because yesterday was the zero day, that person hadn't appeared before you. On the second day, you still wouldn't know him because on the first day, you didn't know him. On the third day, you still wouldn't know him because on the second day, you still wouldn't know him because on the second day, you still wouldn't know him. On the fourth day, you still wouldn't know him because on the second day, you still wouldn't know him. On the third day, you still wouldn't know him because on the second day, you still wouldn't know him. On the fourth day, you still wouldn't know him. On the fifth day, you still wouldn't know him because on the first day, you still wouldn't know him. On the third day, you still wouldn't know him because on the second day, you wouldn't know him.
"That's the second paradox. Our Psionic Death Star disappeared six seconds ago in current history. Therefore, for every individual in this world to have a relationship with it, they must have had a relationship with it six seconds ago. That's impossible. You can't get to know someone who hasn't been born yet, and it's impossible to have contact with something six seconds before they intersect."
"Then, at the moment when the Eternal-class main cannons focus fire …"
The Big Sister looked at Shallow Shallow, her gaze clear.
"There are always exceptions to everything, and the absolute nature of time can still be broken." Shallow Shallow smirked. "If I can precisely change the flow of time for an individual from the start, then the second gap is controllable for me. Well, of course, that's difficult. In fact, when we were attacked, I could only create a second gap of less than a dozen milliseconds even with my full strength. But for a paradox built on the level of Laws, as long as the conditions for its establishment are met, the second gap would not make a difference whether it's a femtosecond or a hundred million years. It's the most powerful invincible skill, and not even Divine Shield or Reverse Phasing could compare to it. Because the second gap can even be ignored by Law attacks, its only flaw is that its duration is a little short … Hmm, at most a few minutes. Paradoxes are paradoxes because they're all built from the ground up. Such a situation cannot occur in the real world, and it's too difficult to rely on one's spiritual power to build a paradox without destroying the integrity of the world."
"Baby … As expected … this is the most powerful invincible skill."
Looking at Shallow Shallow's smug yet innocent smile, I was convinced for the first time.
Liliana muttered, "The most powerful defensive skill …"
Look, a lot of people ask for it when they're unlucky. Don't eat dinner tonight!
After using a long time to explain and understand, we finally understood Shallow Shallow's theory. And after Jingle flipped through her mountain of textbooks for half a day, she finally confirmed that according to the basic laws of the world, the theory of 'living before the present time' was true. We had Xi Weisi organize this theory and passed it to Tawil. In the end, the bespectacled girl jumped in joy and immediately applied for the most stable communication channel to record this knowledge into the database of the Empire that we were currently rebuilding. Although it was a little exaggerated for a domineering woman to jump in joy over a theory, it wasn't that I couldn't understand her excitement. This could be said to be the first new knowledge that had appeared in the process of the Empire's restoration. This was of great significance to a researcher, and it was completely different from the work she had been doing previously to restore the ancient database.
In fact, Tawil had already put the research of the 'Time Warp Defense System Based on the Time Warp Theory' on his agenda. Although he knew that once this historical equipment was developed, it could even eliminate the Anti-Phase Warp Defense System, but …
Tawil! I'm asking you to hurry up and find a way to retrieve our Psionic Death Star, not sneak into the research center to develop a new project!
According to Shallow Shallow's theory, the Psionic Death Star should have fallen out of the timeline due to the sudden collapse of its own enormous energy, causing its history to be shortened by six seconds. Hence, a continuous second warp was created between it and the world. However, the Psionic Death Star still experienced a period of contact with the outside world after its core disappeared for six seconds. This meant that the second warp was unstable, and the Death Star could jump out of the broken timeline at any time and return to the normal world. Now that Shallow Shallow had grasped the technique of controlling the second warp, Tawil's mission was to quickly turn this magical paradox that could only be realized with his special ability into something that could be simulated by machines, and then drag our Death Star out of its erroneous history. This sounded difficult, but for the super genius bespectacled girl who had successfully developed the 'Energy Plundering Device' based on my ability, it wasn't difficult at all.
At the same time, while we were intensely working on the Time Warp Reversal Project, another major event that erupted among the ordinary races of this universe was also happening.
The leaders of the Gotark Free Kingdom in the West Sky, the Kemite Empire in the South Sky, the Holy Kingdom in the North Sky, and the Roland Gale Financial Group in the East Sky, announced at the same time that the World Resistance Front had been established. The scattered resistance armies of the various races were now united to form a coordinated resistance community to fight against the cruel rebel armies of the Empire. The resistance front was led by the strongest forces of each Sky, and the commander-in-chief was the Queen of the Free Kingdom, Fina, who had first raised the flag. The Roland Gale Financial Group, as the rebel armies of the East Sky had been completely annihilated, became the only force of the resistance army that didn't need to defend, and had the strength to take the initiative to attack. Because they had fought against the former 'Shepherd' for the longest time, they became the strongest main force of the entire resistance army.
Thus, the heaven-shaking war drums resounded throughout the universe.
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