Chapter 185 She Returns to the Battlefield
"What did you say?" Ning Shuyin asked in surprise.
Gu Lei pointed out the window to the apocalyptic sky shrouded in black spheres in the distance.
"You still have a chance to return to your Earth, although there may be slight differences from your original timeline."
"How do we get back?" Ning Shuyin tried her best to suppress her excitement.
“This will be a choice between two options.” Gu Lei reached out, opened the glass box next to the hourglass on his desk, and took out the spinning silver sphere.
“You should have seen this before, the Vision of God.” Gu Lei handed the sphere to Ning Shuyin.
Ning Shuyin took it; the silver sphere felt almost nothing to the touch.
The vision of God?
"!"
After Gu Lei's reminder, she did remember. It was an item she had seen at the Raven's Nest auction house that had failed to sell.
"I remember the auctioneer saying it was just an ornament," Ning Shuyin recalled. She remembered a slight commotion when the item was described. But when the auctioneer said "ornament," the atmosphere fell silent. No one placed a bid.
“They didn’t discover the true use of the item. The legends about the item are true,” Gu Lei said.
Ning Shuyin recalls the description of the items.
[A relic from a world observer. Upon activation, the user gains a one-second absolute omniscient perspective, gaining complete insight into the universe.]
"So, Professor, are you going to use this to find my way home?" Ning Shuyin asked.
“No, this is now just an ornament,” Gure said, stroking his chin. He took the sphere back from her hand, tossed it around like a coin, and put it back in the glass box.
"I've already used it."
Ning Shuyin: "..."
So you've already used it all up, then why are you still showing it off here?
She looked at the abandoned artifact, unsure of what expression to make at Gu Lei.
Seeing Ning Shuyin's speechless expression, Gu Lei straightened his expression and said, "Don't look at me like that. If I hadn't used it, I wouldn't have been able to happen to see your way home."
Ning Shuyin noticed the key point. A coincidence.
Guree reached out and stopped the rotating planetarium; the Earth projected onto the wall also stopped rotating.
“Right now, the biggest destabilizing factor in this world is not my relationship with Qianqian, but the world plunderers,” Gu Lei said solemnly.
The term "world raider" sounded familiar to Ning Shuyin. A scene flashed through her mind.
Huangfu Desen, Situ Linchen's former superior, once said in Ruins K100: "In this world, the winner takes all. If I can plunder the world, they will all be heroes."
Gure sat back down at his desk, his gaze shifting to Klose, who had been standing silently in the corner of the room.
“Miss Ning, besides you and me, there are other people in this world who have also discovered the secrets of the novel’s world. They want to control the stability of this world in their own hands.”
"You mean the Mechanical God Court?" Kross's icy voice rang out.
Ning Shuyin turned her gaze to him.
Since Huangfu Desen knows, Klose should naturally know as well.
When Kross saw Ning Shuyin looking at him with a questioning gaze, he nodded and said, "I don't know much about the Divine Court. I've heard talk of plundering the world, but I only thought it meant they wanted to take over the Alliance by force."
“I will not lie to my master,” Cross added.
At this moment, Gurei's gaze drifted to the window again, this time looking at the dark clouds: "The dark sphere above the Alliance is not a product of this dimension. It is an anchor point deployed by the Mechanical God Court."
"The fictional world we inhabit has been their target for a long time. The plunderers must eventually acquire a world, otherwise their operational logic will never cease."
“Through my divine vision, I saw that Miss Ning, you happen to have an unused world in your possession, which you can put into it.” Gu Lei opened his personal terminal.
He showed photos of the K99 ruins, showing the structure in the middle of the swamp before it sank.
"You mean the universe that was conceived in the Ark of Genesis?" Ning Shuyin immediately understood what Gu Lei was referring to, but then fell into confusion. "But what does dealing with the raiders and my return home have to do with it?"
"That universe is not yet fully formed, and you can shape it into Earth, your home. Although the timeline and the things that are conceived may not be exactly the same as when you left, they can be very similar."
Ning Shuyin bit her lower lip.
She had thought the door to home was permanently closed, but little did she know that the key was in her own hands.
Once the Ark is activated and the world is created, she will enter it, and the current chaos, war, and complex relationships will become irrelevant to her.
But according to Guree, she can only choose between "going home" and "dealing with the world raiders."
What would happen to the world if I were gone?
She looked around at the intricate mechanisms still in operation, then at the dark vortex outside the window: "Will this place be destroyed?"
“No.” Gu Lei’s answer was firm. “My observation is that this world has already formed its own logical loop. Even if you, as a variable, leave, the world… will continue to function.”
Ning Shuyin fell into deep thought.
Seeing her frown, Gu Lei said, "You can take your time to think about it. There's no rush. The creation of that universe isn't easy; it will require another material."
“But,” Gu Lei changed the subject, pointing to the empty space on the windowsill, “before you make your choice, we need to solve this problem in front of us.”
...
After a long while, Ning Shuyin finally left Gu Lei's office.
At this moment, in the near-space above the Alliance, the black sphere had expanded to an unbelievable size.
With each pulsation, it expands, tearing the surrounding space to shreds.
The high-energy defense network erected by the Allied fleet is now riddled with holes.
The Phantom, leading a private armed force, is doing its utmost to mend the energy network on the flanks, while the Usurper's Court is moving through the spatial gaps, using spatial displacement to transfer some of the field force waves away.
But these are just a drop in the ocean.
The ship's shields were so overloaded that they were constantly emitting electrical sparks.
Sha!
A silver-white research vessel sped into the battlefield. It was the Panacea of Loran.
Immediately afterwards, a clear and melodious female voice rang out on the alliance's communication channel.
"I am navigator Ning Shuyin. I will use my perception to share the energy flow nodes of the Dark Sphere with everyone. Please use high-energy weapons to attack according to the coordinates I announce."
There was a brief silence on the communication channel.
This was followed by cheers from the Alliance warriors.
But after two seconds, a deep, calm male voice rang out.
"Received." It was Situ Linchen.
Cold, hard, and businesslike, without a trace of emotion, as if replying to a stranger.
After that, only the static of electricity remained on the combat channel, waiting for her to lead the way.
Inside the command module of the Panacea.
Loran sat on the command chair, his long fingers manipulating the flight control panel.
“It’s so quiet,” he said, turning to look at Ning Shuyin. “In the past, Situ would probably have already ordered you to board his Starship.”
Ning Shuyin's hand, which was gripping the armrest of the deputy commander's seat, tightened slightly.
As expected, Lorraine noticed her subtle actions.
"So it seems your strange influence really is gone? Not because it was isolated by the bio-isolation armor on the 128th underground floor, but because it simply stopped working?"
Ning Shuyin did not respond to Luo Lan's words.
She closed her eyes, maximizing her S-level perception, and her voice rang out in the channel:
"Coordinates C1288, X505, the dark sphere has an energy weakness."
boom!
The Starship's main cannon fired precisely, hitting the node she had reported.
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