Chapter 55 Dimension Date
In fact, to describe it strictly, what happened should be the moment when he "could not perceive"?
It was a period of frozen time.
Under the impact and protection of the three-party energy, Su Xi awakened the 'Sand of Time' and fell into this 'time gap' that did not exist in the current dimension.
To be precise, this is a 'blank spot' in time.
It is located after the self-destructive explosion of the mecha half-arm, and before the "annihilation of indifferent matter" caused by the superposition and fluctuation of energy transmitted by the space button over a short distance. There is a short and almost non-existent "time gap".
No three-dimensional matter has ever fallen into this "time gap" without being completely decomposed, let alone breaking through the extremely thin but extremely strong time wall and returning to the original real world.
But Su Xi did it.
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Time goes back half a minute to when everything happened.
The burning sensation on her back continued to grow, but Su Xi was unwilling to leave.
She closed her eyes tightly, then opened them again!
In the dark and chaotic spiritual world, tiny bits of golden sand began to gather...
When she fell heavily to the ground, her whole body was still switching between the states of 'solid' and 'empty'.
The pendant on her collarbone was completely shattered by this incident, and a very beautiful flame-like substance broke free from the broken air bubble, slowly floating in the air, and then intimately approached her face.
The icy blue was wrapped with a hint of the purest flame color, which changed and was reflected in her empty eyes.
At this moment, Su Xi still has all five senses, but she cannot see, hear, or touch any physical entity. Only in the chaotic "spiritual vision" can she experience the material world as an extremely microscopic and extremely macroscopic existence. Her senses flip and switch between the chaotic line "vision" and the real world with all five senses.
Then she discovered the charred crater created by the giant mecha half-arm not far away!
The remains of Hee-gwang, which had been almost completely dissolved, were found.
The 'chip' that carries the existence of 'Xiguang'
The huge energy destroyed the material...
Only the remaining black ash
She was completely furious. The urge to advance that had been deliberately suppressed before was released without any care!
The abundant spiritual energy once again boiled and ran wild in the dark brain, carrying with it the golden sand that filled the spiritual world, which suddenly became bright and dazzling!
However, the fragile body could not keep up with such an explosive growth of spiritual energy, and inevitably began to collapse bit by bit, especially the left cheek and arm that had been burned by the high temperature before, which were seriously injured.
The pain is still there, with all five senses.
However, the time around her froze, and Su Xi slowly stood up from the position of falling to the ground.
She looked around and saw flying iron chips and debris, a cannon barrel exploded in mid-air, and an even more bizarre sight - the powerful energy-carrying airflow formed obvious traces of the explosion in mid-air, as well as howling waves of different frequencies, which were sounds propagating in the air. She gently reached out to touch the traces of the energy fluctuations, and once again clearly felt the various essences that make up the three-dimensional reality.
I also felt the connection between this nature and "spiritual power" and how to control the trajectory of energy flow.
All of this, in this brief state of absolute stillness, unfolded to her a mystery of how matter and energy are related and transformed into each other.
After she understood, she also realized that she could definitely win back Xi Guang, so all unnecessary emotions such as anger and hatred faded away one by one.
In this static artillery fire, Su Xi's "sense of time" returned to zero again.
She understood that when she left this state, all current information would be broken down, re-encoded, and strongly compressed into genetic coding, and ultimately return to vague "intuitive" cognition.
Therefore, when she returns to the three-dimensional reality, she will not leave any traces in her surface consciousness, nor will she clearly remember everything she has realized at the moment.
What should I do?
The severe pain in her body was still there, but she didn't care at all. Su Xi even smiled slightly.
In her short life on Earth, she couldn't remember how many times she had encountered similar situations, where she had to make choices that went against her own interests in the face of various temptations of human nature. Her choice was often to do the one thing she cared about most, given limited resources and abilities.
For Su Xi, the former Earth girl, such a choice question might be between "monopolizing the candy" vs. "comforting the crying boy" at the age of five, "fawning on the dean" vs. "beating him up for doing what he wants" at the age of eleven, and "promotion opportunity" vs. "reporting the crime" at the age of twenty-five...
For Su Xi now, the important choice is -
Reshape the strength of the body, or save 'Xi Guang'?
She chose the latter.
The tiny mass of extremely cold and extremely fiery matter that had escaped from the shattered space bubble was suspended in front of her eyes. Then, at her call, it very slowly approached the center of her brows, penetrated into her and turned into a cool film that enveloped her. The cool and gentle energy sought out her newly expanded mental circuit, circling around. In a moment, the collapsed genes were reattached, and the cells' ability to "regenerate" instantly became stronger than the speed of "collapse"...
The damage to the body is gradually repaired.
This feeling is good and comfortable, but such a precious energy cannot be wasted in order to "recover Xiguang".
Because she wants to go backwards in time, she needs more powerful energy than the current 'destruction'.
Su Xi closed her eyes, and then gathered the beautiful ball of extremely cold and extremely fiery matter in her palm again. The feeling of emptiness caused by the energy escaping made her feel temporarily uncomfortable. But after ignoring this point, she became more and more calm. In her dark spiritual world, at this moment, it had become a magnificent scene of a long golden river swirling and converging.
The long golden river gathered and solidified, and with a roaring and rushing momentum, it followed the route that had been reorganized by the ball of 'ice flame' and circulated in her body over and over again...
Until a drop of gold sand solidified gradually between her eyebrows.
Such essence is very similar to the 'Sands of Time' mentioned in the 'Legends of the Empire' mentioned by Vulture Snow.
But at present, Su Xi has no idea about this, but according to her personality, she would not care even if she knew.
What she cared about was a small detail that she had not noticed before.
Su Xi gently spread out her five fingers, and the extremely beautiful 'ice flame' curled up very softly and docilely in her palm.
The girl sighed. In this zero-dimensional state, she recalled the memories that had been decomposed and compressed. The various entanglements after falling into the wormhole...
And this substance... maybe it's a fragment of that man's 'soul'? Or a crystal of spiritual power?
She didn't know how to describe it exactly, but no matter what, such a gift was too serious to be rejected as "too expensive".
Sudden.
The 'blank spot' of frozen time began to tremble ever so slightly. The flying iron filings that had been frozen around her began to move slowly along a predetermined trajectory. Sound waves of various frequencies also slowly rippled in the air...
The energy in the explosive quasi-ion cannon barrel slowly bloomed like a firework carrying the breath of death...
Her chance has come! At the moment when time begins to flow again——
Right now.
Su Xi closed her eyes slightly, and the drop of gold sand between her eyebrows began to shine brightly!
The pale pink mental power suddenly released outwards, forming a mental power shield that was thick and almost semi-solid within a three-meter range with itself as the center. Fine golden sand dissipated from the droplet-shaped golden solid on the forehead, slowly touching the shield and flowing over it.
Su Xi clenched her intact right palm, tightly grasping the extremely beautiful 'ice flame' substance, and drove the liquid silver bracelet on her right hand to transform into an extremely beautiful crescent-shaped curved knife.
She carefully activated the 'ice flame' substance onto the extremely thin blade of the liquid silver curved knife, then moved the knife forward, splitting the extremely thin but tough 'time wall' bit by bit.
She had to travel back to the moment before Xiguang's chip was completely destroyed.
This method was something she suddenly realized when she was in a static zero-dimensional state just now, searching for the trajectory of matter and timeline.
Having never actually operated it before, she could only move forward cautiously, fearing that an excessive attack would cause the collapse of the current timeline. However, the ability to cross the timeline, the power as vast as the ocean, was a mystery that she could not understand at present.
She could only put on a mental shield for some protection, dragging her body forward with great willpower.
Su Xi moved forward with great difficulty in the solidified 'zero degree time and space'. The laws of time and space began to annihilate this unreasonable reverse movement, and the mental shield wrapped in gold sand began to resist dissolution, although it protected her.
But it does not mean that it is unaffected. Three-dimensional matter attempts to reverse the one-way arrow of time and resist the power of the law.
The consequence was that every time she took a step in the opposite direction, her body, which had been repaired by the 'Ice Flame', would once again face the extreme acceleration of reverse gene collapse. Then, the spiritual force 'golden sand' circulating in her body would carry the surging vitality and quickly repair her collapsed body...
At present, Su Xi's control over liquid silver is not proficient enough to fully attach consciousness and mental strength. Otherwise, it would be an extremely clumsy method to use such a fragile body to fight against the power of the law and go upstream so recklessly!
Using the liquid silver curved blade with pure energy of "Ice Flame" as a spear and the mental shield wrapped with "Sand of Time" as a shield, Su Xi gradually approached her target.
Just when the three-meter-diameter mental shield was dissolved by the power of the law of time and only a thin layer remained, she got it!
That small piece of crystalline substance is the dielectric material of the small piece of the main core chip that remained before "Xiguang" was completely reduced to ashes.
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At this moment when time has not come and is about to close.
A human girl stood in front of the portable AI she had been tied to, watching it in the most human-like form possible, its limbs being melted by high energy, its body being blown into pieces, its head rolling in the air, looking at her in a slightly tilted posture...
The facial features that had been half melted by the high temperature seemed to be smiling... but the dissolved matter hung on the cheeks, as if crying...
In this silent state, she seemed to be silent for a moment, and also seemed to have paused for a long time.
Then she reached out her hand and gently pushed away the substances that were dissolved drop by drop in the broken skull. She easily found the main core chip of "Xi Guang".
It was slightly burnt and deformed under the high temperature, but the further back one goes, the more energy required increases by dozens of times.
But now she is unable to do so.
She carefully examined it and found that some functions of the crystal might be damaged, but it should be sufficient to restore the main core program!
Su Xi made up her mind!
Just as she reached out to pick up the chip of 'Xi Guang', the 'blank spot' of frozen time that brought her enlightenment resumed its normal flow of time.
The time gap that was opened closed instantly! And along the narrow and long passage she had opened, a strong suction force pulled her back to the coordinates of the "time and space point" before she set out.
This is the self-correction ability of the "Time Tape". It corrects all unreasonable existences that disrupt the normal timeline.
With all five senses fully open, she clearly felt the distortion of time and space as she fell back to the starting point.
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Su Xi blinked again and returned to the moment when the mecha half-arm destroyed its quasi-ion cannon barrel.
This is a more destructive energy wave than the second wave of attack!
Boom——
The liquid silver carries an extremely strong ice-blue mental force and surges into a shield!
This unconscious protection blocked the explosive energy that would have endangered her life the moment she fell back to normal time.
Su Xi was at a loss for a moment. At this moment, she obviously did not remember all the experiences she had had during that "blank point" in time. However, her sharp intuition reminded her, as did the foreign body sensation in the palm of her hand!
Find the 'hunter' lurking in the dark!
Counterattack!
It must be decisive and ruthless!
In Su Xi's outward spiritual vision, the scenery in the wasteland of the "Circle of Life" seemed to be shaken and overturned in such energy fluctuations.
The transparent safe house, the default location for transmission within and outside Sangong, was also completely destroyed!
Su Xi has no way out!
She doesn't plan to retreat!
By bypassing the opponent's searching mental fluctuations and tracking in reverse, she quickly found the 'hunter' hiding in the dark!
The location of the cocoon-shaped lifeboat that had been explored was now empty, with only a trace of a collapse in the sand. Under the trace, a deep pit nearly eight meters deep in the ground, there was a "curled up guy", and in Su Xi's mental scan, his true form was completely revealed!
Boom——
After the mecha half-arm exploded in self-destruction, smoke filled the air, and the surrounding landscape changed dramatically. The "curled up guy" was about to crawl out of the shallow charred ambush location...
At this time, the energy aftermath of the explosion was still spreading, and the high temperature that was enough to burn all carbon-based life still existed.
But this moment is perfect!
Su Xi couldn't explain how her so-called 'intuitive prediction' guided her to make this decision. She instinctively followed the guidance from deep in her heart.
She stretched out her hand and took back the beautiful semi-energy substance of 'Extreme Ice and Extreme Flame' and absorbed it directly into her body.
The liquid silver beetle armor collapsed into sand and fell to the ground, mixed with the yellow sand, searching like a magnet for the dark beetle armor material that had collapsed into black sand and scattered all over the ground a moment ago.
Su Xi, who lost her liquid silver shield, was once again exposed to the extremely powerful energy explosion.
But at this moment, her whole body was faintly surrounded by a mental shield, with traces of icy blue flashing on it from time to time. She knew that she had successfully advanced.
Su Xi closed her eyes slightly.
Open again.
Avoiding the surveillance cameras in the sky, the man has appeared in front of the "guy" who just climbed out of the ground.
Looking at the opponent's mecha defense shield with full energy, Su Xi thought quickly for a moment.
Otherwise, you have to break into the opponent's mecha energy shield unnoticed and deliver the most fatal blow cleanly and neatly!
I can only——
She instantly removed the mental defense shield covering her body and slammed sideways into the mecha's protective shield at an incredible speed!
She went in! But the powerful energy of the shield attacked her body again. Fortunately, at the same time, the cool icy blue energy was flowing wildly in her body, protecting her heart and the most delicate internal organs.
The half of the body that entered sideways was badly damaged, with only the faint golden sand between the eyebrows repairing the broken half repeatedly.
But she didn't have any extra energy to waste on repairing her body. She needed three steps to completely deal with this 'big guy' in front of her!
She pushed hard and stepped onto the military mecha that was about to take off into the air like a ghost.
Then, winding bloodstains accompanied by naked footprints stepped step by step on the intact left arm of the military mecha.
As the khaki mecha rose into the sky, the strong airflow forced her to half-crouch and lean forward to maintain her balance. Her ankle-length honey-brown hair was stirred by the rising airflow and flew around precariously.
Because she was stingy and stored as much energy as possible near her heart, in the newly formed "heart chakra", she silently waited to use the final blow in the plan.
As for her current appearance of "half angel, half Shura", she didn't care at all.
She noticed that the other party intensified their search for her, so -
Following the opponent's unbridled mental fluctuations, she forcefully invaded the opponent's mental realm in the opposite direction, and temporarily controlled all of the opponent's actions.
Then, he asked calmly,
'Are you looking for me?'
Almost at the same time, she sensed the chaotic thoughts and turbulent emotions in the other person's mind.
Su Xi didn't care.
She paid half of her attention to the beetle material that had been collected and integrated on the ground, "Come back to me," she called silently in her mind.
A huge black whirlwind suddenly rose from the ground and rushed up to the sky. The first thing he faced was countless densely packed "mosquito compound eyes".
'These ants are such a nuisance.'
As if fulfilling her wish, a violent black whirlwind swept through, destroying all the surveillance devices that Vulture Snow had placed in the sky!
She stepped from the half arm of the giant mecha to the most vulnerable part of the shoulder joint. At the same time, in her brain, she blocked the other party's attempt to exit the U medium link.
Standing in front of a giant mecha that was twenty times larger than her, Su Xi was not afraid at all. During the brain invasion, she shared her doubts and plans for the future:
'Can AI robots feel pain?'
'I have no idea'
"Why don't you give it a try and tell me?" she said, smiling slowly at the huge head that slowly turned around.
Using her hand as a blade, the liquid silver bracelet that returned to her hand instantly transformed into an ancient and heavy broadsword, and slashed fiercely at the most vulnerable connection part of the khaki mecha shoulder armor.
The khaki military special forces mecha, which was splashing with silver light and strong enough to withstand meteorite attacks, had its half-arm removed just like that.
Crack—the half-broken mecha arm made a shaky sound as if it was about to fall.
The dark insects that circled and danced around her transformed into flying mosquitoes, and instantly flew in through the gap opened by the liquid silver ancient knife like gadflies seeing blood.
'Devour it to your heart's content. I'll indulge you this time.'
She gave the order silently in her mind.
At this moment, the vulture Snow in the mecha cabin let out a miserable scream! When Su Xi used her mental power to bless the liquid silver sword, he followed the slightest fluctuation and broke free from Su Xi's mental restraint!
He even removed half of the U-link and launched an attack in manual mode!
"Beep, shoulder cannon ready—"
A warning sound rang out from inside the mecha cabin, and outside the cabin, the black muzzle of a gun was directly pointed at Su Xi, less than ten centimeters away.
"Kill!"
'Kill.'
Two commands were heard simultaneously from the shoulders of the inner and outer compartments of the mecha. Snow, the vulture, who was in a frenzy of killing intent, used voice to issue the activation order for the shoulder cannon!
Outside the mecha cabin, Su Xi simply issued orders in her mind according to the predicted plan.
Boom——
Standing a little further away from the battlefield and observing this confrontation, it is clear that these two orders from the enemy sides.
All were accurately realized.