Chapter 552: The Eternal Star "Within Reach"
There was no communication request in Blackbeard's dialog box, only a row of text reports.
The intervals vary, ranging from one month, half a month to ten days.
Many places in the deep dimensional world have no external connection signals, and reports can only be made in his specific areas.
What is being reported this time is a special event called "Space-Time Riot".
More than half a month ago, when they were searching the area where some special items were washed out by the last Red River Star Stream eruption, they ran into people from the Empire head-on.
Perhaps it was because of the fighting between higher life forms that something was stimulated, inducing a "time and space riot"
"...Several of my companions have experienced varying degrees of aging and rejuvenation, and none of these are reversible..."
"…In the most severe cases, some even regress to the infant stage. This isn't simply a physical degeneration; their IQ and memory also deteriorate, unaffected by the 'countercurrent paradox.'"
When Li Ming saw this, his expression couldn't help but change slightly. The so-called countercurrent paradox refers to regional changes caused by time parameters.
Once a living being is involved, it will only affect the physical level and will not affect thinking and memory.
If the reversal of time and space causes the degeneration of thinking and memory, once it is accelerated, there will be no additional memory.
This is inconsistent with the consistency of space and time, and many experiments have also verified the "countercurrent paradox".
But the Star of Eternal Silence broke through this paradox, and its body, thoughts, and even memory regressed to the infant stage, which was even more terrifying than murder.
Li Ming recalled some current interstellar theories about time abilities. General time abilities have their own limitations, and the information state of living organisms themselves contains "time intensity."
And as life forms become more powerful and their interactions with the universe become more in-depth, their own time intensity will also become higher and higher.
Just like a flame at 100 degrees is already difficult to cause damage to F-level life forms, the intensity must be increased.
Time intensity is the most tenacious entangled information in the information state, and its connection with the universe itself is far deeper than any other information.
It is easy to kill a person, but it is extremely troublesome to change the universe's perception of him or her on a time scale.
The life forms that Blackbeard can call companions are at least S-level. According to the current theory of time, even if an X-level life form wants to cause such an impact, it will have to pay a huge price.
But the Star of Eternal Silence can do it easily.
Li Ming calmed down and continued reading: "...We are investigating further...but the Star of Eternal Silence seems to be escaping our pursuit. We are tracking the traces it left behind, but the trouble is, the Empire also knows about this."
After reading this message, Li Ming couldn't help but murmur, "It's getting closer."
After a moment of hesitation, he tried to contact Blackbeard, but he didn't hold much hope.
Blackbeard may have left the signal communication area, but what he didn't expect was that the communication was connected so quickly.
"Your Excellency Qinglong..."
On the virtual screen, the reflected light cast shadows of varying depths on Blackbeard's face. The new stubble on his chin was a unique bluish-gray color, and his pupils were full of bloodshot.
But he seemed to be secretly excited, and couldn't wait to say: "I've almost found it, I've almost found it..."
Having said that, he probably felt that this kind of thing had been mentioned too many times in the report, so he added:
"We're really close to finding it this time. The Navigator, the Forger... several of you have already followed the trail. We should have news soon."
"What are the specific coordinates?" Li Ming asked.
"I'll send it to you right away," Blackbeard said immediately, and then he looked at her expectantly, "Are you coming too?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ming received a series of data. The deep dimensional world did not have a specific coordinate system, and the direction could only be anchored through a series of measurements.
"Don't worry." Li Ming shook his head. "If there is any situation, please inform me as soon as possible. I will find a way to help you."
Blackbeard was a little disappointed when he heard that Qinglong was not planning to come, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
During the short time he was reporting the news to Qinglong, he would also check the news from the outside world. Naturally, he already knew what happened at the expansion meeting.
Combined with the last time the other party asked Chronoa to terminate cooperation with the Empire.
Among the pioneers, even the navigator who was quite dissatisfied with Qinglong did not dare to underestimate Qinglong's methods.
After getting the coordinates, Li Ming reminded the other party to bring the coordinates with every report in the future, and then ended the communication.
………
At the same time, somewhere in a shallow dimensional world, a raging black storm filled the entire world.
In the misty dust, a group of guys in bulky protective suits were setting up various mechanical instruments.
There are several giant spaceships docked nearby, painted in bold green and blue colors.
"Got it, got it!" Someone suddenly shouted in the channel, half-crouching in front of the screen of the operating instrument.
Before he could even shout twice, he was slapped on the back of his head, causing him to stagger and almost fall into the sand.
Zorro, wearing a yellow-brown mottled cape over his protective suit, came from behind, cursing: "It's nm, it's nm, awaken the sleeping dimensional beasts, all of them will die here!"
"Boss, we are all wearing protective suits, so our voices can't be heard." A low whimpering sound came from the channel, quite aggrieved.
"Do I need you to remind me?" Zoro shouted angrily, "I'm just in case you forget this after you take off your protective suit."
"Okay, stop whining and tell me what you found."
The fallen team member stumbled to his feet, seemingly unfazed by the boss's "insult," and excitedly said, "Black gold liquid oil, and it's super-high-compression quality, with a purity of over 90%!"
"Estimating by eye, no less than a thousand cubic meters!"
"A thousand cubic meters!?" Zoro's pupils dilated, his face changed, and he suddenly laughed out loud, "It's worth at least 10 billion star coins... Haha, I knew it wouldn't be like this forever."
"Damn you Robin, I called you and you refused to come. Now... I'm going to be rich!"
He shouted in the channel, attracting the team members to echo, "That's right, if Mr. Robin knew, he would definitely be jealous of the captain's luck."
Hearing these words, Zoro's laughter stopped abruptly.
He looked around, locked onto the person who was speaking, and kicked him, causing him to roll on the ground.
"Damn it! Robin and I have a life-or-death relationship. How could he be jealous of me?" Zorro snorted coldly. "When I become powerful, I will definitely rescue him from the clutches of the Azure Dragon."
This time, no one agreed and everyone looked at each other in confusion.
The boss still stubbornly believed that it was a devil's claw, but Lord Robin was already an A-level life form.
"Okay, dig it up quickly! I want to change the spaceship, I want to buy gene seeds, and I want to evolve into a Class A life form!" Zorro gave the order.
He looked crazy, but seemed to have a lot of authority.
Following his orders, many team members moved in an orderly manner.
Someone called out an automatic mining machine from a giant spaceship. It also seemed to be a high-end model. It emitted a dissolving beam and drilled towards a predetermined position, causing slight vibrations on the ground.
"Boss, the ground shaking may cause the dimensional creatures to awaken." Someone reminded.
Zorro's expression was solemn. "Fortune and honor are sought in danger. I don't know who killed the majority of creatures in this dimensional world. Now they are about to fall into the deep dimensional world. Only some ordinary things are left. They will hold on for a while."
"good!"
Although it was a life-threatening situation, no one questioned his words. Everyone did their job and placed shock absorbers around.
The ground hummed continuously, and the drilling beam quickly penetrated to a very deep depth.
"...200 meters underground, 250 meters..." The operator reported the system readings, but suddenly, the voice suddenly changed: "Wait..."
Before he could finish his words, the ground roared violently, and the outermost team member was suddenly thrown over, with his lower back hitting the deploying shock absorber.
The metal bracket emitted orange-red sparks from the friction with the sand, instantly igniting the black dust haze within a radius of five meters.
"grass!"
Zoro kicked the smoking energy battery away. The red alarm light on the inside of his mask dyed his pupils blood red. He turned around suddenly and asked, "What's going on?"
“The drilling beam angle is off by 16 degrees. It seems to have hit something!”
A team member shouted as a wisp of sand leaked out from the elbow joint of his protective suit and was now spreading upwards along the inside of his arm.
The automatic drill suddenly wailed, and the dark blue beam of light that shot into the earth's crust shook violently. Spider-web-like cracks suddenly appeared on the ground, and tiny fragments of broken light exploded from them, covering the entire area.
"What the hell is going on?" Zorro was confused. He reached out to touch the broken light in front of him, and then he was horrified to find out.
The protective masks on the faces of the team members around him were corroded with honeycomb-shaped ulcers, which were expanding rapidly.
The gelatinous sealing layer of the life-support duct at the back of the neck is turning black and carbonized at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Zorro's facial recognition frame flashed violently on the auxiliary screen, and the stress sensor at the elbow joint of his protective suit had burst into a bright red overload warning at some point.
It was as if an invisible hand was trying to crush his arm bones through five layers of composite fiber.
"Boss, something's wrong. The spatial readings here are all messed up." A terrified voice sounded in the channel.
Zorro's face changed drastically. Before he could react, he saw the dark blue broken light track area in front of him suddenly shrink, and a bright blue light flew from the ground.
Before he could react, it suddenly shot out and pierced through his protective suit.
"What is this?" Zoro was even more confused, and subconsciously touched the place that had just been pierced.
However, nothing happened there, and there was no change in his vital signs.
"What's going on?"
The incident just now was over within a few minutes. Zorro didn't understand why, but he quickly checked the casualties and found that there were no casualties.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and cursed angrily, "What a bunch of rubbish! They can't even dig it up properly."
After a while, the staff were almost replenished and the mining machine was adjusted.
He was about to continue drilling downwards, but the sound he least wanted to hear came from the channel.
"Boss, there's a problem..." The voice swallowed hard.
"...There's only half a cubic meter of black gold liquid left..."
"Half a cube?" Zoro looked dazed, not yet able to get angry.
He suddenly looked up and heard a hurried voice in the channel.
"Boss, someone is breaking through the dimensional space, already... already..."
"Here it comes!" Zorro's face was solemn.
In the sky, a series of standard warships suddenly came flying, all of them were extremely high-end models.
On the surface of the dark grey armor flow dark blue energy lines similar to blood vessels.
He subconsciously pressed the vibration knife at his waist and found that his shadow was twitching wildly on the ground, and some unknown force field had expanded.
At the same time, their channel had been forcibly taken over, and a cold voice came: "Scavengers below, this is the Imperial Fleet. Now ordering you to abandon any resistance and wait for us to take over the scene."
"People from the...Empire?" Someone's legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
Zoro took a deep breath, and suddenly thought of what had just happened. His face changed, and his brain worked at high speed, "It's definitely not a coincidence, but that thing has entered my body..."
"If it falls into the hands of the Empire, I'm afraid it will be the end of us."
The empire has a bad reputation outside, and Zorro has dealt with people from the empire before. Arrogance and contempt are their biggest labels.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he had made a decision.
He slowly exhaled, suddenly raised his hands, and shouted: "We surrender, please, my fellow empire brothers, please don't take action..."
…
"The Star of Eternal Silence..." Li Ming returned to the room, still thinking about this matter.
This thing is a solid addition to the Empire, especially to that old Adam.
That guy had bad intentions towards him, and although there had been no movement recently, he had never forgotten about it.
I will definitely not watch the other party succeed.
Knowing the coordinates, he could threaten Chronoa to come and help when necessary.
"However, Chlonoa is just a means, and it is not very controllable. The best way is to go there in person..." Li Ming thought.
However, only one of Klonoa and him can exist.
If he wants to go to the deep dimensional world, he must drain Chlonoa.
Although he now possesses various comprehensive abilities, he estimates that Chronoa is still more useful in the deep dimensional world.
"Let's see if this guy knows what's good for him first." Li Ming pondered and was not in a hurry to leave.
Another key reason is that he has to accumulate a lot of metal energy to obtain the strongest combat power.
With various ideas intertwined, he began to develop gene seeds skillfully.
Blackbeard's "good news" was further away than he had imagined. More than two months had passed in the blink of an eye, and there was still no movement in the deep dimensional world.
The Star of Eternal Silence seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with them, passing by them every time and they could never find it.
This made Li Ming glad that he did not go there rashly, otherwise, it would only be a waste of time.
Compared to the quiet deep dimensional world, some changes have occurred in the Mechanical Royal Court.
The third phase of the rebirth project has been completed, and the remaining eight artificial planets have been shaped. Today is the time for handover.
(End of this chapter)
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