Uncle Zaku said that he wanted to see Miriya first. Of course, there was no problem with that. My only thought was that this fellow wasn't reliable at all. He had traveled such a long distance just to see his daughter …
Of course, that was just my malicious imagination. Uncle Zaku's solemn expression made me realize that the situation wasn't as simple as it seemed.
"It's hard to say right now. We have some private matters to attend to." Zaku scratched his head with a hesitant expression. "You know that I found Miriya in an ancient ruin. Recently, there was a small situation. I don't know if I should trouble you, so I have to talk to her first."
"I'll arrange it for you. You can go back with the second column's transport ship." I agreed readily. After all, Miriya was his family. That girl had gone to the frontlines purely because she didn't know what to do. I felt a little embarrassed.
Zaku revealed a yearning expression. "Your spaceship?"
I immediately looked at him vigilantly. "I'm warning you. If you dare to do your old trade on my ship, you'll be surrounded by the patrolling soldiers."
Everyone knew what Zaku did. He had dealt with the trash on the battlefield all his life. Although he hadn't come into contact with the ruins for a long time, he had made a fortune by digging holes in the ruins of the Empire. I didn't doubt that he would have the urge to knock something off a brand new Empire warship when he saw it. Grave robbers and archeologists all had this habit. Shallow Shallow's father had been an archeologist his whole life. Now, his family didn't dare to let him travel to historical sites alone because he always took out a shovel out of habit and gestured with it. In the end, the man with the red hoop would press him down …
If Zaku dared to use a shovel on the warship, the man with the red hoop wouldn't be the only one responsible for pressing him down.
Uncle Zaku scratched the back of his head and gave me an innocent smile. I had smiled like this when Shallow Shallow and I had been caught cheating in an exam by our teacher!
"What else do you want?"
Ignoring Uncle Zaku, I turned to look at the Pope. I would say the same thing again. I didn't believe that he would bring a bunch of government representatives just to disgust me. The Pope was a man of action. From the age of 23 to the age of 323, he had never stopped for even a single day. In order to maintain social order in Mobrador, he had countless ways to use his Church's army to forcefully control the government's army.
"It's mainly to let the Sage see Mobrador's predicament." A deep voice came from behind the mask. However, after knowing the true identity of the other party, I understood that it was actually the stereo sound system attached to the mask. His real voice was like that of the Minister of the Imperial Household. "Our people are indeed too inexperienced. A little panic has led to many unnecessary casualties. When Planet Brown Earth was attacked, many people set themselves on fire or harmed themselves near the Pope's palace to pray to you. The faith that I have been promoting seems to be showing signs of going out of control. Of course, we will think of a way to gradually solve this problem."
I said impatiently. "If you don't get to the topic, I'll leave first. I'll leave first. you. if you's going. you. you...
. "The Pope was speechless.
I didn't know how to read minds, but I could guess what the Pope was thinking. Why am I so jumpy when talking to this person?
It was easy for me to determine what the other party was thinking. That was because ever since I took office (or in other words, ascended to the throne), all the high-ranking officials of the various races that I knew had such an evaluation of me. Actually, I was quite wronged. It was a bad habit of them to beat around the bush and never get to the point. It was the most basic professional ethics of a politician to not talk about any specific matters within three thousand words. However, ever since I was young, I was best at talking nonsense like "Have you eaten?". The other party definitely wasn't used to this. These days, it was rare to see a news spokesperson who didn't thank everyone from their own thermos to the President of the United States before they spoke.
The Pope made me choke on my words for a long time. He finally nodded awkwardly. "Actually, we are indeed in trouble. It's not Mobrador, but the few of us —"
As the Pope spoke, he pointed at the few knights beside him.
"The Gun of Condemnation is no longer under our control."
"Bullsh * t, it's not yours in the first place," Tykes mumbled as he gulped down the beer.
No one paid attention to this unstable person who had just finished drinking. I looked at the Pope with a serious expression. "The Gun of Condemnation is no longer under your control? You can't contact the armed satellites? "
"It's not that we can't contact them at all," the Pope said. "So far, we can still sense the Gun of Condemnation. We can also send commands to them smoothly, but their response speed has obviously decreased. Most of the time, we can feel that the ancient weapons are operating on their own. It's not attacking, but … some commands that we can't understand. Anyway, when there's no one controlling them, they are operating on their own."
The Pope didn't make it clear, but I was starting to treat it seriously.
After a round of inspection, we confirmed that the Gun of Condemnation was a dozen or so high-powered armed satellites left behind by the Avengers. They were distributed in a few folds of space in the Mobrador Star System. In other words, in terms of coordinates, these armed satellites were located in the Mobrador Star System. However, they were wrapped in a highly warped outer shell of space, making it impossible to detect them with conventional methods. This was also a common sealing method used by most of the Empire's ultra dimensional weapons. I believed that the main purpose was to prevent dust …
These armed satellites were similar to the satellites that Miriya had mobilized. They had the ability to attack any world with the guidance of a commander. Their ferocious might had once helped the Holy Pope unify the world. To be fair, although these items were incredibly powerful in the eyes of ordinary species, to the point that the person who wielded them would be able to put their face on all the coins in the world within a few years, in my eyes, they weren't that high-end of an equipment. Among the empire's conventional weapons, there were 8 main series of satellites and over 120 different varieties. Pandora would often use these things to cause trouble on Rigel when she was bored. Even Teardrop had the authority to use the satellite cannons. One could see how widespread these things were within the empire's army.
That was why it wasn't a big deal for the Pope and his knights to have problems with the Gun of Condemnation. At least, it didn't seem like a big deal to us. However, the situation was complicated because it was a troubled time. The Avengers were surging with all kinds of undercurrents. At this critical juncture, I had to take the attitude of someone deflating their car and associate it with the end of the world.
The Pope told me in detail about the Gun of Condemnation not being very obedient. I concluded three useful pieces of information: First, the Gun of Condemnation … let's call them armed satellites. They could still be used and were obedient. Second, the response of the armed satellites had been slow since a few days ago because they were dealing with many additional tasks. Third, I realized that there wasn't much else after concluding the first two pieces of information.
After thinking about it for a while, I felt sweat forming on my forehead.
"I'm afraid there's a piece of bad news." I gave the Pope a heads-up. "Those satellites can no longer be used."
The Pope didn't say anything. He just looked at me quietly. His mask was facing me anyway. He was waiting for me to continue.
"Not only can they no longer be used, but I'm also going to send people to destroy them now. Also, all the Holy Relics in the Mobrador Star System have to be accounted for. Anything that's still in operation has to be removed."
Because I suddenly thought of something. Although the intelligence showed that when the Avengers left this universe tens of thousands of years ago, they had already destroyed the base here and unregistered the remaining Empire facilities, making them offline, but did they really not have a way to bring these equipment back online?
If all the relics of the Avengers were activated …
We would be surrounded!
So, after hearing the Pope's report, the first thing that came to my mind was that the commander of the Avengers had finally remembered the non-flammable garbage he had discarded many years ago and was now trying to activate these things remotely. I had to immediately send people to check all the Empire relics that were still in operation. Once the equipment was found to have this tendency, it had to be dismantled immediately, including the dozens of armed satellites with historical value. In this case, it wasn't a matter of whether it was wasteful or not. Those unsafe things definitely couldn't be left!
As for the Pope and the others who had lost the huge reliance of the armed satellites, of course, I had to make some arrangements. At the moment, it seemed that they were quite conscientious in their new identities. I couldn't just disarm them for other reasons. Besides, I still hoped that they would continue to use their prestige to help manage this civilization. I promised to give them some replacements, 100% technology from the New Empire that was absolutely under our control. That way, it would be much easier to control the Pope and the others.
I sent people to send the Pope and Uncle Zaku to the spaceport. The former was going to return to Mobrador, while the latter followed the transport ship back to Divine Mist. Miriya was still anxiously waiting for the information from the battlefield on Planet Brown Earth. Uncle Zaku's sudden appearance was probably a surprise to her. When I returned to my room to rest, I found that Sandora was already waiting for me.
"Ah Jun, I have something to show you."
The moment we met, Sandora turned on the holographic device in the room, looking impatient. Usually, there were only two situations that could make her so excited. One was that it was mealtime, and the other was … mealtime.
However, it was obviously not mealtime. So, I felt that this lass might have made an important discovery that could make the usually calm Her Majesty so excited.
The holographic image showed the vast space. The distant stars were flashing continuously. Then, a bunch of jumping numbers appeared in the middle of my vision.
I felt that the numbers had seriously affected my interest in looking at the stars. So, I suggested, "Lass, can you turn off the numbers first?"
She rolled her eyes at me. "I'm looking at these numbers. Oh, I forgot. Ah Jun doesn't know this. "
Why did it feel like she was saying that I didn't know how to count?
"What does that mean?"
I didn't want to spoil Sandora's interest. So, I stood next to her and pretended that I understood. My eyes swept across the pile of numbers and symbols. I asked curiously when they were about to be broadcasted in my head.
"It's the space signal that we scanned before the Revenge Army attacked Planet Brown Earth."
I was stunned. "Space signal? Isn't there no way to warn them of their movements? "
"But coincidentally, when they opened the spatial rift, one of our probes was patrolling in the vicinity. The data was intercepted by the probe during a routine scan. Although it was crude, we could deduce many things. "
I finally understood why Sandora was so excited. We finally found first-hand information about the instant when the Revenge Army performed a space jump. Moreover, it was from the point where they jumped out of! Of course, I immediately asked how the enemy had gotten there. However, Sandora waved her finger in front of my eyes to indicate that I should not be impatient. She had made another "incidental" discovery.
"These are the space coordinates that they jumped out of when they attacked Planet Brown Earth," Sandora said as she marked a point on the star map. "Then, these are the coordinates reported by the patrol team that was ambushed in the fifth orbit. They encountered the Revenge Army's small team here."
The two coordinates were perfectly aligned and completely overlapped.
"I should have noticed this a long time ago, but the attack on Planet Brown Earth was too sudden. I forgot about the patrol team for a moment." Sandora exhaled. Every time she solved a problem, she would take a deep breath like this. "Recently, the small patrol teams of the Revenge Army have been appearing frequently in the main material plane. They are not wandering aimlessly. They are scouting the way."
Sandora patiently explained to me what she had in mind. There were also a few conclusions that the commander and Bubble had deduced based on the various information that they currently had. Finally, a vague plan of the Revenge Army's operation appeared in front of me.
The enemy's small fleets were constantly entering and leaving the main material plane. However, due to some unknown reason, the Revenge Army did not know where the small fleets that they had sent out would be teleported to. Hence, the mission of these small fleets was actually to determine the coordinates. According to Sandora's analysis, although the Revenge Army could not control where they would appear, once they successfully teleported, they could use some unknown method to leave spatial coordinates at the location. The next time they teleported, they would be able to directly open a spatial rift there. In other words, the Revenge Army's small fleets that were running around like headless flies were actually opening up a wasteland. Then, we would be that wasteland …
After using these patrols to determine the coordinates, the Vengeance Army would consider teleporting their main force. This time, they would no longer use the teleportation method that they used in the first ambush on Divine Fog Planet, which could provide an early warning. Instead, they would use the same method as the patrols, which could suddenly appear without warning, just like the attack on Brown Earth.
This also explained how the Revenge Army had bypassed the gravitational interference sphere with Planet Divine Fog as the boundary and directly appeared in the fifth orbit.
Knowing the enemy's teleportation pattern, we could target the enemy's teleportation pattern. For example, if we encountered the enemy's' targeting team 'near the main base, we could immediately relocate our main forces, set up an ambush nearby, or simply use a bunch of space bombs to destroy the spatial order there. Although we still could not completely stop the enemy's elusive movements, at least we could increase the chances of them suffering additional losses in their ambush.
"Right now, there's only one thing I don't quite understand." Sandora frowned slightly, looking a little confused. "The universe is so vast. Within a range of tens of billions of light years, the probability of them using this kind of needle-like method to find our coordinates is practically zero. Based on the fact that a patrol team can locate a space of one light year, they don't have that many troops … "
"So, those patrol teams are probably not completely headless flies." I also figured something out. Then, I told Sandora the information that the Pope had provided earlier: some of the old Empire's facilities were operating abnormally.
Sandora's eyes widened in surprise. She suddenly had a look of realization. "I see. That makes it clear. The Revenge Army is using the ruins they left behind as vague coordinates! Since they treated the Shiring Apostles as their enemy, they must have deduced that we would appear near the ruins of the Empire. That's why their patrol teams would only appear in the sky where there are ruins of the Empire. The old Empire ruins are vague coordinates. A small patrol team would confirm and place the precise coordinates. Finally, a large army would teleport and search for the enemy using the three-stage method … I never thought that they would use such a method … In this case, my guess is even more believable. "
"Guess?"
I suddenly remembered that Sandora had something more important to tell me. The bunch of coordinates and whatnot were just something she mentioned in passing. However, it had only been an hour or so since she had lost her patience with the representative of the Mobrador government and left the room. What had she figured out in such a short time?
Sandora revealed a solemn expression. She pointed at a bunch of fancy numbers on the star map and said, "This is the data that Bubble just analyzed. As for my guess, I have been thinking about it for the past few days. Now, I have finally confirmed it. The reason why the Revenge Army is so elusive is because they come out from the shadow space!"
I was shocked. Then, I was shocked again. Then … I didn't understand.
"Ah Jun is so stupid!" Sandora sighed helplessly. "Have you forgotten the relationship between the shadow space and the real space?"
"The shadow space and the real space overlap. The two are separated by a conceptual layer and a spatial barrier. Everything in the shadow space originates from the real space. However, the duplication process is controllable. The two cannot communicate with each other in this way. That's all. I haven't finished looking at the rest. Just the contents alone are a few gigabytes … "
"That's right." Sandora nodded. "The shadow space and the real space overlap but they don't communicate. The space that our shadow city is in is like this. Although it has a very vast space of nothingness, its main body, which is the shadow city, overlaps with the real world's K City. Therefore, we can teleport to any location in K City directly from the shadow space to the real world."
I suddenly understood. Usually, when I brought the kids at home to the amusement park, I would often evade the tickets like this.
However, after understanding it, I quickly had a series of questions. I quickly threw them out. "Wait, wait, wait. I understand about the shadow space. But why can't there be any warnings when we teleport out of the shadow space? Also, why can't the Revenge Army confirm their coordinates when they teleport out of the shadow space? When we teleport out of the shadow city, we didn't drop onto the Empire Building, right? More importantly, if the Revenge Army teleports out of the shadow space, how big would the space be? "
That's right, how big would the shadow space be! According to what Sandora said, the Revenge Army 'floated up' from the shadow space through the method of matching two space coordinates. That means that wherever their patrol team has appeared, the size of their shadow space is at least as big. But the problem is, according to the records, they have been active tens of billions of light years away!
Sandora calmed down and seemed to be thinking about this problem. Then, she said softly, "This should be the truth. In this universe, there is a giant shadow space that is parallel to the entire world … They are actually right beside us."
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