Chapter 532: The Return
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A strong beam of light was released into the weakly vibrating space. As it streaked across space, ripples were ford on its surroundings.
A few hours later, the figure suddenly stopped moving. The space-ti bubble then opened up, revealing a shadow. Of course, it was Luo Yuan.
He turned his head back and still, there was no trace of the spaceship.
This was because he had overtaken the spaceship!
Traveling at superluminal speed, it was considered good as he could accurately determine its direction. Since he could not see and capture the object, Luo Yuan could only briefly estimate the spaceship’s location based on both their speeds as well as the distance between them. Uncertainties were taken into consideration so that he would not miss it.
If he had not made any mistakes in the calculations and the spaceship had not changed its path, then the spaceship was about 30 light-minutes away from him. That being said, the spaceship would need about one hour to reach him.
Luo Yuan slowly closed his eyes, spreading out his Sense. anwhile, his four-dinsional brain was processing quickly. Using his body as the center, he could sense the dust in outer space as well as the gas molecules in the area that was hundreds of millions of kiloters away.
Apparently, there was not much difference between him and God. He even managed to sense the region that was billions of kiloters away.
It was a trendously huge distance. If Pluto was the boundary of the solar system, he could have sensed it entirely. Such a distance, one would have to travel for about one light-day at the speed of light to reach it.
However, Luo Yuan had waited for half an hour and soon, he could then see the shadow of the spaceship. It was not because there were errors in his calculations but because the spaceship had changed its path a few minutes ago. At the sa ti, it was decelerating at a speed that was hardly detectable.
"Is the spaceship looking for ?" Luo Yuan slowly opened his eyes and he was startled!
Luo Yuan could not believe it. However, he could confirm that he was right as he saw that the spaceship had executed a big arc, flying towards him. It seed like the spaceship was about to stop, looking for him who had disappeared.
The people did not know that he could get back to the spaceship even when the spaceship was flying at half the speed of light. Therefore, they thought of stopping the spaceship so that he could get back to it.
However, it was not easy to stop a spaceship that was traveling at half the speed of light. Deceleration alone would need about a year. They could not switch off the power and the engine during this period of ti. At the sa ti, constant combustion was needed as it would assist in power boosting.
The energy released by the spaceship was like the explosion of a bomb when it was traveling at half the speed of light. If the engine was being switched off directly, a few seconds later, the speed would be reduced from half the speed of light to one-hundredth the speed of light. Decelerating in this way, even the spaceship would instantly collapse, let alone humans staying in it.
In addition to that, the spaceship would spend another two years to accelerate, at the very least. These two years were undoubtedly the most precious ti as humans were still living under the Glassian threat.
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In fact, Luo Yuan had underestimated his influence upon humans. Be it fear or respect, his powerful image was engraved on everyone’s’ mind. Such an impression had reached its peak ever since Luo Yuan had beco a giant and exerted his ability to easily control the virtual reality’s global server.
It was a crazy world and a crazy era as well. Be it before the apocalypse when everyone struggled to survive or after they had entered the outer space to escape, humans always felt insecure.
It seed like the people had been emboldened by him.
It was not obvious previously as humans were already used to Luo Yuan’s existence. Everyone revolved around his strong, cold Will.
Right when soone noticed Luo Yuan had disappeared, their anxieties instantly arose.
Unexpectedly, the decision was made smoothly during the top managent eting. Nobody was against it. Even those who were eager for power began getting anxious.
Humans who entered the outer space for the first ti were akin to babies that had just started walking. They were lost and confused. What they needed was neither a compromise nor an argunt, they needed a diplomatic and decisive man. The top managent of the governnt was not prepared to handle an epoch without Luo Yuan.
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"A high-energy object is detected in front of us. Referring to the data given, the high-energy object might be our commander!"
"Coordinates: X:233445,Y:289300,Z:238209!"
"The distance between the spaceship and the high-energy object is 3,542,000,000 kiloters." At the control center, a sound coming from the artificial intelligence system was heard.
At the sa ti, the artificial intelligence system had exported the video of the object.
It was a blurry shadow. It seed like it’s surroundings were blurred, associated with a faint glow. Looking at the center, one could only identify that it was a shadow with a human figure.
"It’s impossible!" Bi Jianping and the top managent were shocked. Based on the video, Luo Yuan had disappeared five days ago. The spaceship had traveled for five days and the distance traveled had exceeded 50 billion kiloters. They were now suspecting that Luo Yuan was ahead of them. It was indeed beyond comprehension as it was unbelievable.
Chen Xinjie followed behind them, remaining silent. She was breathing fast, staring at the shadow. Although she could not see a clear image of the shadow, she could sohow confirm that the shadow was Luo Yuan.
At the mont, Bi Jianping asked, "What’s the probability?"
"The probability is 15%. The electromagnetic wave and light detectors have beco turbulent. There is also a weak interference of high-frequency waves in space. Therefore, it is difficult to gather more information. Should we change our flight path to et our commander?" The artificial intelligence system asked.
Waves in space? Bi Jianping freaked out. He had spent years on the spaceship and he knew that space waves or the so-called gravitational waves were one of the common dangers that existed in space.
The existence of waves in space was not sothing rare in the universe as it could happen anyti. Normally, such waves were harmless. The height between ripples and the trough of the waves would usually be the diater of an atom. Be it the spaceship or creatures, it could do no harm to them.
There were many reasons why those waves were created. Most of them resulted from the vibration of objects that had strong gravitational forces, such as the explosion of a nova, crashing of neutron stars or the absorption of massive objects by a dark hole. These universal disasters were at a distance that was thousands of light-years away or might even be coming from another galaxy. The distance was too far. The energy would be significantly reduced when it was transmitted to the spaceship.
Nobody had ever witnessed a living being that could create them. If the mysterious shadow was not Luo Yuan...
As he thought of this, Bi Jianping imdiately said, "Wait, let’s confirm first. Just in case..."
Everyone had thought of this. They were frightened. Even Chen Xinjie could not confirm that the shadow was Luo Yuan. She knew that Luo Yuan’s abilities were indeed beyond imagination, but not to such an extent.
"How about sending an aircraft to see what’s happening!" Li Jian then suggested.
"We don’t know the opponent’s intention. We shouldn’t act rashly!" Tian Jinping’s face turned grave, shaking his head.
Right this mont, there were so abrupt changes in the frightening shadow that remained stationary previously. He/it quickly flew forward and the speed was getting faster. Everyone stared at the screen nervously. At one side of the screen, the data of the shadow were being recorded. Despite one could not understand the data, the significant changes in speed were apparent.
The speed of this shadow had reached 1,000 kiloters per second. In 10 seconds, the shadow had accelerated to one-thirtieth of the speed of light. As he accelerated at such a fast speed, even the critical tals were like soft mud to him.
This ability was indeed terrifying!
The atmosphere in the control center beca heavy.
What made people feel strange was that it was flying in a direction that was similar to the one of the spaceship. It looked like it was trying to escape, but it wasn’t!
"What’s it doing?" A thought ran through everyone’s mind.
As ti passed, the shadow was flying close to the speed of light and it was almost the sa as the speed of the spaceship. The next mont, the shadow disappeared from outer space.
At the sa ti, the spaceship trembled a little. Everyone shivered as they thought that it was an unknown attack. Everyone’s heart sank.
"What’s happening?"
"The commander has returned to the laboratory!" The artificial intelligence system paused for a mont before it replied.
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