Chapter 134 The Enlarged Image of the Girl's Warm Fragrance
After the initial surprise, Caesar became genuinely angry.
He had wandered beyond the borders for a thousand years, only to be deceived by a mere girl.
That laser gun, that submissive, even eager-to-leave demeanor—it was all meant to lull him into a false sense of security.
She secretly went to face danger alone, without telling him.
“Damn little liar…” he squeezed out the words through gritted teeth.
Ignoring the pain in his body, he turned and ran towards the command center.
He opened the warship's communication frequency on the control panel and said in a deep, sharp voice, "Ning Shuyin, return to base! Don't make me say it twice."
But there was no response on the communication channel.
"Not coming back? I'll catch you..."
Before he could finish speaking, a crackling sound came from the channel. The communication had been deliberately cut off.
Caesar slammed his hand on the command platform in anger, then pushed the thruster control lever all the way down.
"Initiate the highest-level assault ship recovery procedure. Upon reaching a target range of 100 units, proceed with unconditional recovery." He issued the manual command, his face extremely grim.
The Wanderer sped off at full power, chasing after the distant point of light.
...
Inside the assault ship's cockpit, Ning Shuyin had just cut off the communication channel with the mother ship.
Caesar's anger was within her expectations.
The assault ship's intelligent voice announced: "Arrived at the designated jump point. Proceed to jump?"
"Enter!" she commanded.
With a slight tremor, the starry sky outside the window was stretched into thin lines.
She took the ellipsoid containing the high-dimensional particles out of her equipment bag—she had taken it while Caesar was at the armory.
[Host, your actions are extremely reckless. Have you considered simply vanishing into nothingness along with this higher-dimensional particle in the jump channel?]
"No." Ning Shuyin's voice was calm and composed. "I'm not gambling; I'm confident enough."
Her confidence stemmed from what she discovered with Caesar in the storeroom.
When she saw the black energy threads emanating from the high-dimensional particle that had begun to mutate, she sensed that the "mind chains" deep within her consciousness felt not fear towards those black energy threads, but rather a greedy desire for them.
It wants to absorb.
Since that was the case, Ning Shuyin no longer hesitated. She opened the ellipsoidal protective shield.
He took out the "cancer of space" that had become scalding hot and held it tightly in his palm.
Her palms burned with excruciating pain, but she couldn't care less.
She closed her eyes, mobilized all the energy in her mind, and awakened the black crystal.
The high-dimensional particles continued to expand into spikes in her palm, and the black energy threads were released more and more densely.
All of this inevitably caused her physical pain.
Spikes had pierced her palms, and her forehead was constantly being attacked by those black energy threads.
The mental chains are absorbing things at an alarming rate.
Her soul felt as if it were being torn apart and crushed. Every nerve ending was screaming in pain.
In her mind's eye, it was as if she saw stars fall and the universe be born.
One after another, rise and fall unfolded in her mind.
As more and more black threads were absorbed, the "cancer of space" began to struggle violently in her hand, like a small animal eager to escape.
She could only tighten her palms and trap it.
The mental chains, however, are feasting on chaos and destruction, transforming them into a part of themselves.
[Host! Your mental threshold is approaching the danger line!]
[Host! Your vital signs are declining!]
Ning Shuyin felt her body getting heavier and heavier.
It hurts so much...it's so uncomfortable...
She just wanted to fall asleep like this... just for a little while... just for a little while...
Her hand slipped limply and touched the assault ship's control panel.
The assault ship began to veer off course in the jump tunnel.
[Host! Wake up! You're flying off course!]
The system's call became a faint echo in Ning Shuyin's gradually fading consciousness.
Her assault ship left an abnormal track in the jump tunnel.
Just then, a colossal creature caught up from behind at an extremely high speed.
Caesar sat in the command chair, staring intently at the teetering assault ship on the holographic screen.
"Execute the forced recycling procedure immediately!"
The Wanderer began sending out a recall signal for the assault ships.
The assault ship carrying Ning Shuyin received a recall signal and activated unconditional deceleration.
Four mechanical arms extended from the hull of the Wanderer, with powerful magnetic meshes at the top of the arms, covering the assault ship like a fish catcher.
Accompanied by a clicking sound.
The assault ship successfully docked with the mother ship.
Caesar was already waiting at the door of the recovery capsule. He didn't even wait for the standard safety check procedure, so he forced open the isolation door and rushed in.
The pilot's hatch glass was stained with blood.
Ning Shuyin's face was pale, her body was soaked in sweat, and she was curled up unconscious in the driver's seat, her body still trembling reflexively in pain.
At this moment, all his anger turned into pity.
He opened the hatch and leaned down to look; her right palm was badly injured, and the blood inside the cabin was clearly flowing from her hand.
After looking around the cockpit, the high-dimensional particle was nowhere to be found.
Caesar carefully lifted her up with one arm. His other hand's fingers rested on her injured right hand. He wanted to position her injured hand so it wouldn't be crushed.
But just as he grasped her drooping fingertips, a tinkling sound rang out.
He only felt a chill on the back of his hand.
It was a chain she was wearing on her wrist that slipped onto his hand.
In fact, the clasp of this chain had already been broken by the impact of the vortex within the Penrose triangle paradox space.
However, Ning Shuyin, relying on the extension chain, still wore it on her hand.
But now that she has fainted, she is unaware that the chain has slipped off.
Caesar's hands were large. Even with the extension chain, the bracelet could only fit snugly on three fingers of his right hand.
But just as the chain touched his fingers, something strange happened.
"Hmm!"
Caesar grunted.
Waves of excruciating pain surged from his palms and his mind. And this pain quickly spread throughout his entire body.
He was already extremely weak from enduring the energy of the plague, and now, attacked by this pain, he lost his balance and fell towards the cockpit seat while holding Ning Shuyin.
What slid into his hand was Ning Shuyin's pain transfer bracelet.
Almost at the same moment he fell into the cockpit, the door sensor was triggered, and it closed automatically with a "whoosh".
After the door closed, the cabin lights automatically dimmed. The air circulation system emitted a low hum.
An idea popped into Caesar's mind.
So she had been bearing this pain all along... all alone?
The harmful energy released by that high-dimensional particle was thus trapped inside her body.
If she isn't released, won't she be tortured to death?
Fortunately, he was able to share the burden with her.
He assumed it was just the energy shock she received dissipating outwards. She hugged her even tighter, pressing her body completely against hers.
He simply wanted to use a larger contact area so that more of her energy could be transferred to him, alleviating her pain.
At that very moment.
An aura that should never belong to the command center of an assault ship lingered around his nose.
Like a mountain forest after the rain, or like a young girl with a warm fragrance mixed with a little sweat.
The smell is amplified in a confined environment, creating an indescribable subtlety.
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