631: Chapter 631: Prophecy and the Spatiotemporal Coordinates Laboratory (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Passes) 631: Chapter 631: Prophecy and the Spatiotemporal Coordinates Laboratory (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Passes) Main World · Westlank
Rodan ti, eight in the morning, the early sun shone between towering mountains.
The roaring helicopter, carrying the gale, rushed over the lush forests, and scattered leaves crossed the boundary of trees and yellow earth, falling among rolling stones and sand.
In this area of crisscrossing prival forests, there stood an abrupt flat area.
And in the very center of this flat area, a young man wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans with spectacles sat in front of an unfolded table, stirring the coffee in his cup all by himself.
The huge helicopter slowly landed on the flattest ground among the stones and sand.
A man with a gentle and refined appearance jumped down from the helicopter,
carrying a long wooden box in his arms, he quickly walked up to the table, “Although I’ve seen this place many tis in photos, arriving here is still sowhat surprising.”
He gently placed the wooden box on the table and adeptly picked up the inverted glass and instant coffee from the table, sitting down in front of the young man.
“The powers of different Transcendents are diverse, and the further one progresses, the greater the difference in power.
I just happen to be able to do these things.”
He Ao picked up the insulated kettle from the table and handed it to the man opposite him, Li Cheng.
“You’re being modest,” Li Cheng laughed, glancing around, “Almost all the mountains nearby have been shattered by your strike.”
Here was where He Ao had used Mountain Collapse Tsunami for the first ti.
At that ti, the surrounding mountain peaks had crumbled, and the sliding rubble and soil had piled up into a slightly flatter hillock in the center.
Of course, the so-called flatness is relative to the steep mountains around it.
“The power of Transcendents is indeed formidable,”
He Ao glanced around; though only two short weeks had passed, green grass was already sprouting through the cracks of the collapsed stone and mud.
He turned back, looking at Li Cheng, and smiled gently, “But the tenacity of life is not weak either.”
Li Cheng, following his gaze to the struggling shoots of grass, nodded slightly, “Indeed.”
“You were so eager to find this ti, it’s probably not just to fulfill the agreent between us.”
He Ao lifted the coffee in his hands and took a sip.
“What do you think of this matter?”
Li Cheng prepared his coffee and looked at He Ao intently.
He knew that ‘Hao Yi’ was well aware of what he wanted to ask; otherwise, he wouldn’t have arranged a eting place so close to Central Earth and specifically tid it for the earliest mont he could arrive.
In a way, that was him ‘considering’ Li Cheng’s urgent mood, a gesture of goodwill.
And in fact, he was very eager to know how this mysterious Transcendent, presumably from the ‘relics’, viewed the recent anomaly of the relics.
“What information have you obtained so far?”
He Ao did not respond directly but set down his cup and asked calmly.
Upon hearing his question, Li Cheng paused for a mont, then slowly said, “Currently, we’ve been inford that ‘people who normally enter the relics at Rodan ti, noon 12 o’clock, will return normally’.”
With the conversation progressing this far, Li Cheng didn’t hold back anything, “We have an ‘prophecy class’ Transcendent item that can make rough predictions about future events.
The position where the Velora appeared was predicted by this item.”
“That sounds like good news.”
He Ao lifted his coffee and probed further.
Although he didn’t know the specific effects of this prophetic Transcendent item, he knew that such powerful items wouldn’t really cooperate with their users obediently.
If this prophecy was entirely accurate, Li Cheng wouldn’t be in such a hurry to find him.
“All prophecies given by this Transcendent item are not entirely accurate,”
Li Cheng held the coffee cup in his hand, “Its predictions often have deviations and omissions, especially those involving powerful Transcendent beings; blindly trusting its prophecy can very likely lead us down a path to ruin.”
“So the seemingly natural and wonderful outco pointed to by this prophecy is not the real happy ending,”
He Ao sipped his coffee, “Even possibly the worst outco?”
“In a sense, you could say that, but most of the ti, prophecies do at least show us a path, giving us the chance to change ‘the future.'”
Li Cheng looked at He Ao, “But the current problem is that we don’t know exactly what happened in the ruins, nor can we intervene in the affairs of the ruins, rendering us incapable of doing anything.”
He Ao looked at the gentle dean, and he could understand how Li Cheng must have been feeling at that mont.
Knowing a terrible future might occur, but being powerless against it, only able to watch it inevitably approach, that situation is, in fact, the most desperate of all.
Which is why Li Cheng was so urgently seeking out ‘Hao Yi’.
Even though he knew that the fact ‘Hao Yi’ ca from the ruins was just one of their many unsubstantiated conjectures.
But ‘Hao Yi’ was the only person he could think of who might possibly be able to intervene with the ruins.
He Ao held the hot coffee in his hands, the slight cool breeze blowing through his hair.
He pondered the ‘prophecy’ he’d heard from Li Cheng,
‘Those who enter the ruins normally, return normally.’
But what about the abnormal ones?
Those that hadn’t ‘entered’ the ruins?
At that instant, the previously scattered clues in He Ao’s mind vaguely began to form a thread of thought.
“So…”
Li Cheng, looking at He Ao who had been silent for a long ti, parted his lips slightly.
“You know,”
He Ao said slowly, “I’ve been collecting information about the ruins, and I too know very little about them.”
Li Cheng, whose hopes had been raised, felt them sink heavily.
Whether ‘Hao Yi’ was soone from the ruins or not, these words were essentially a polite refusal.
He opened his mouth but ultimately made no sound, instead reaching for the wooden box beside him.
Although he was feeling dejected now, as a leader, he knew what he had to do.
He didn’t have the power to force ‘Hao Yi’ to help, all he could do was fulfill the arrangent he had made with Hao Yi, to secure this mysterious B-rank person for the Research Institute.
“However, I think,”
And it was at this mont, he heard He Ao speak again, “this event may very well be related to the reason why the ruins were destroyed.”
“Hmm?”
Li Cheng jerked his head up, looking at He Ao.
This brief statent contained too much information.
It was an assessnt and speculation about the event itself,
Under what circumstances can one make assessnt and speculation?
When one has a basic understanding of the event!
Li Cheng couldn’t make such assessnts and speculations at the mont because he knew nothing about what happened in the ruins, he didn’t even know where to begin making conjectures.
To have an opinion, at the very least, one must have so level of understanding of the event, whether deep or shallow.
Just like the smartest student can’t solve a problem without knowing what the question is.
Quickly, Li Cheng realized, ‘Hao Yi’ was indirectly conveying information to him.
The other party wasn’t really rejecting him.
“So, you think this event…”
Li Cheng opened his mouth, tentatively asking.
“Dean Li Cheng,”
And at this mont, He Ao gently shook his head and stood up.
He still lacked so critical clues; the ti had not yet co.
He reached out his hand, and the Velora erged from the void, its door opening naturally.
A pitch-black rapier flew out from the Velora and landed in He Ao’s palm.
In that instant, surging shadows burst forth, spreading a terrifying pressure across the barren land.
The sky gradually darkened, the scorching sunlight no longer warm.
Dense shadows, like dark clouds and nightfall, spread quickly in all directions, obscuring all light.
“Let’s forge this sword first,”
said He Ao, standing in the very heart of the shadow with the sword horizontal in front of him, looking at Li Cheng.
“Okay.”
Li Cheng got up, grasped the lid of the wooden box, and flipped it open with a forceful motion.
The wooden box opened.
For a mont, the already dim sky darkened further still, as if the end of days lood over the oppressive world.
Gleaming thunderbolts, like roaming dragons, weaved through the clouds.
Their brilliant light replaced the radiant sun, illuminating every corner of the mountain forests.
Countless stray thunderbolts fell from the sky, landing among the mountains and trees, like threads connecting the earth and the heavens, leaving behind scorched land.
A long spear, wrapped in thunderbolts as if forged by them, floated out of the wooden box, hovering in the air, grasped by Li Cheng.
Countless serpent-like thunderbolts slithered over the body of the strongest B-class fighter in the main world.
His garnt stirred without wind, his eyes ablaze with lightning as brilliant as the silver sun—like a divine being standing atop a high mountain.
A fearso pressure, of an Angel’s caliber, affected the surrounding scattered shadows, like a shepherd wielding a long whip to drive his sheep back to their pens.
He Ao looked up at the thunderbolt spear with the na “Andaville’s Spear” inscribed in Denis script, glinting along its shaft.
Andaville,
He Ao fixated on the na.
In the sacred texts of the Life Goddess Church, Andaville had been a servant Angel of the Life Goddess but later rebelled and was ultimately slain by the Life Goddess, his corpse falling into a lake.
That very lake, tainted by his corpse and blood, ultimately transford into the Fountain of Youth.
He Ao had not expected to encounter anything related to Andaville in the main world, let alone so close by, at the Research Institute.
It seed as though Li Cheng was able to control the spear.
However, He Ao didn’t have much ti to think about it at the mont.
He released his hand, took a half step back, and let the fine sword in his hand float in the air.
Countless minute bolts of lightning drove the shadows, forging the twisted power into the blade.
It appeared that these thunderbolt Transcendent items indeed could forge the power into the blade.
Whenever the lightning flashed, the wild shadows grew a bit tar.
At that mont, He Ao also sliced open his finger, using his blood as ink to continuously reinforce the Control Array etched on the blade amidst the thunderbolts and shadows.
——
Navigator
The true body of He Ao cleaved through the twisted creature before him, resembling a giant brain, and extracted a grey Energy Block, placing it in his pocket.
“A02,”
he said, his gaze sweeping over the dim space around him, “where are we now?”
The corridor nearby was no longer sared with blood but covered on both sides with flesh that resembled ivy.
These were camouflage monsters that liked to disguise themselves as dried flesh or bloodstains to attract unwitting lifeforms to touch them.
Then, they would open their fangs hidden beneath the flesh to shred those ‘unfortunates’ who had fallen in their trap.
However, these fleshy monsters had a very low drop rate, with barely any Energy Blocks, and were a waste of ti; after encountering them twice, He Ao paid them no more attention.
“As long as these pieces of flesh aren’t touched, these monsters won’t attack.”
By now, He Ao’s flashlight was nearly out of battery, so he didn’t turn on the flashlight despite the relatively strong lighting.
After walking a distance, there was still no sound from A02.
He Ao raised his hand and looked at the miniature computer on his arm.
At that mont, a line of text appeared beneath the image of A02,
[“Sir, I can’t hear any sound around us, nor can I make any, please check if your microphone and speakers are connected.”]
Seeing this line, He Ao skillfully opened the screen and tightened the slightly loose microphone and speaker wires a bit.
The microphone and speakers of the miniature computer issued by the Research Institute were wired separately, and the mainboard that He Ao found on the Navigator didn’t have special connectors; He Ao could only tie the wires to the terminals.
In the course of intense combat movents, such tied wires were easily dislodged.
In fact, these two wires had co loose several tis before.
He Ao looked up and pushed open a door in front of him, revealing a vast hall strewn with broken machinery.
“Sir, our current location should be near the Space-ti Coordinates Research Institute,”
A02 said thodically after the wires were reconnected.
“Space-ti coordinates?”
He Ao asked, sowhat puzzled.
“Aside from short-distance void gliding, the main thod of long-distance travel for the Navigator is space-ti jumps,”
A02 explained, “And space-ti coordinates are the coordinate positions needed for space-ti jumping.
These coordinates are actually ‘solutions’ that co out after high-level computations regarding space.
Theoretically, as long as we have the corresponding space-ti coordinates, the Navigator can jump to any space-ti point in the universe.”
“Sounds impressive.”
He Ao stepped over the collapsed machinery, scanning the vast experintal lab hall with his eyes.
This was the lab with the most chanical creations He Ao had seen on his journey so far, filled with fallen experintal machinery.
“So, this lab is where space-ti coordinates are studied?”
He Ao asked casually as he carefully surveyed his surroundings.
“The task of the Space-ti Coordinates and Spaceship Power Research Institute mainly involves recording the space-ti coordinates explored by the Navigator and analyzing the spaceship power curve during space-ti jumps, in order to optimize spaceship power,”
A02 replied, “This place also stores all the space-ti coordinates possessed by the Navigator, but I am currently unable to connect to the network here, so I don’t know whether the space-ti coordinates still exist.”
Just then, He Ao stepped on so small tallic objects.
He crouched down, switched on the flashlight, and looked at the things under his feet.
They were densely packed shuttle-shaped devices haphazardly stacked together.
He Ao recognized these items because he had one too.
Spaceti Beacons.
But unlike the Spaceti Beacon he held, which still had a screen that lit up, the screens here were all dark; He Ao picked up a couple of them without being able to activate them, seemingly utterly broken.
“I seem to have found so shuttle-shaped small objects around here, they’re everywhere.
Are these things useful?”
He Ao dropped the Spaceti Beacons he had picked up back to the ground.
“Those are Spaceti Beacons, devices used to fix space-ti coordinates,”
A02 explained, “The ‘solutions’ of high-dinsional space-ti contained within space-ti coordinates are extrely complex and also carry so incomprehensible Transcendent information, so neither Transcendents nor ordinary people can rember them, nor can they be stored using pure chanical artificial intelligence; they can only be stored by a special chanical Transcendent artifact called a ‘Spaceti Beacon’.”
“These things seem to be broken, can they be fixed?”
He Ao asked casually.
“Normally, if it’s minor damage, it can be corrected using specialized correction equipnt.
The lab you’re in now has three devices for correcting Spaceti Beacons,”
A02 said, “But if the Spaceti Beacon’s screen is completely off, it ans it’s completely broken.
Such extensive damage is not repairable and requires remanufacturing,”
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