Chapter 776
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Chapter 776: Twelve Minutes
“Is it really the ability to control mirror-like objects…”
Guan Zai touched the floating mirror spear in front of him with his finger, and it remained firmly embedded in the void, motionless.
Seeing this scene, the silver-robed oracle below was left stunned, his mouth agape…
What just happened?
How did this spear suddenly stop?!
What unfolded before him completely exceeded the silver-robed oracle’s understanding. The sudden appearance of the code in the void, along with the alteration of physical rules in the entire area, filled him with an overwhelming sense of unreality…
How could this be possible?
Before the silver-robed oracle could regain his composure, Guan Zai raised his hand and tapped for a moment, and several lines of code flashed in the air.
“Target selected.”
“Administrator privileges revoked, target’s motion capability restored, modifying physical engine…”
“Physical engine modification complete, parameter preset… Target vector direction reversed, kinetic energy doubled, pointer direction locked, starting operation…”
Guan Zai gently lowered his finger.
The mirror spear floating before him suddenly moved again!
However, this time, it was not aimed at Guan Zai but shot out in the opposite direction, directly targeting the silver-robed oracle who had thrown it!
Boom—!!
With the double kinetic energy boost, the mirror spear created a sonic boom in an instant, and an invisible shockwave rolled out from the air, reaching the silver-robed oracle in the blink of an eye!
The silver-robed oracle’s pupils constricted suddenly.
Using the enhanced physical abilities granted by his modifications, he quickly dodged to the side, but the mirror spear seemed to have locked onto him completely, changing direction and following him as it aimed for his chest!
Boom—!!!
The mirror spear fell, and a deafening explosion echoed from within the Deep Dragon Pass. The invisible shockwave blew the clothes of several nearby sentinels and military personnel into disarray. They struggled to stabilize themselves against the wind while watching the battlefield in shock, their eyes filled with awe.
As expected of Mr. Guan!
This is a complete crushing victory!
As the thick smoke gradually dissipated, amidst the chaos, a slender, sharp mirror spear was deeply embedded in the ground, its tip pinning down a portion of the silver-robed oracle’s body and a metallic arm to the earth. The metallic skeleton had been completely deformed, with faint electric sparks dancing across its surface.
But most of the silver-robed oracle’s body had vanished.
“Escaped?” Guan Zai was momentarily taken aback upon seeing this scene. He scanned the surroundings and confirmed that the person had not actually fled the Deep Dragon Pass, revealing a look of surprise in his eyes. “How did he escape?”
After hesitating for a moment, Guan Zai pressed down his cap and lightly leaped into the deep pit created by the spear.
Inside the pit, there was indeed no sign of the silver-robed oracle.
Guan Zai frowned slightly. He raised his hand again and began tapping in the void.
“Activating administrator privileges, retrieving background data…”
Moments later, a flood of dense code cascaded before Guan Zai’s eyes. He looked up at the code, his pupils vibrating at a high frequency, seemingly reading the information contained within.
This code represented everything that had happened in this area over the past five seconds, essentially the “historical record.”
By analyzing this “historical record” presented in code form, Guan Zai could deduce everything that had occurred at a certain point in the past, including the entire process of the mirror disaster’s escape.
A few seconds later, Guan Zai seemed to have discovered something, and a look of realization appeared in his eyes.
“The physical engine was altered… that person passed through the mirror into another world?” Guan Zai turned around and looked at a piece of shattered mirror on the ground not far away, walking over to pick it up. “He ran pretty fast.”
Guan Zai sighed.
Through coding, he could indeed change the rules within an area, but entering the mirror world was impossible.
He couldn’t track the mirror disaster in the mirror world, but someone could…
It seemed it was time to find a certain delivery person.
Guan Zai tucked the piece of mirror into his pocket and walked out of the pit, scanning over to Lu Qiu and the others not far away, asking, “You all, no one is injured, right?”
“No, no, thanks to Mr. Guan arriving in time, none of us were hurt.” Lu Qiu stepped forward, respectfully addressing Guan Zai. “I am Lu Qiu, the deputy captain of the original Night Watch Team 066, currently serving as the temporary commander of this Deep Dragon Pass.”
“Mm, thank you for your hard work.” Guan Zai nodded slightly. “Since the matter has been resolved, I’ll take my leave. This mysterious person’s background is not simple; we must capture him as soon as possible.”
“Understood.”
After a brief farewell to Lu Qiu and the others, lines of code floated out from Guan Zai’s body, and he vanished from the spot in a flash.
Lu Qiu looked at the wreckage of the communication tower and the control room, letting out a helpless sigh.
“Send the repair team over to restore communications first, then fix the control room.” Lu Qiu turned to glance at the misty border outside the steel walls, speaking solemnly. “We are on the front line of the misty border; we must restore communication with headquarters at all costs. Otherwise, if something really happens, we won’t be able to relay any information…
Three hours. If communications aren’t restored within three hours, let the repair team resign.”
“Is it really that urgent?” a military expert approached, somewhat puzzled. “The last large-scale ‘mysterious’ invasion was half a year ago. Even if there is a second beast tide, it can’t be so coincidental that it happens just as our communications fail, right?”
Lu Qiu frowned, stepping closer to the expert.
“Are you joking with me?”
The expert stood frozen. “What?”
Lu Qiu extended his hand, pointing in a direction behind the Deep Dragon Pass, speaking coldly: “More than three hundred kilometers beyond this pass are several crucial coastal cities of the Great Xia. If the beast tide breaks through the border and we fail to relay the message in time, there will be a twelve-minute information vacuum…
Do you know what those twelve minutes represent?”
Lu Qiu took a deep breath and slowly said,
“In the third minute, the beast tide will cross this sea area and appear at the edge of the coastal cities.
In the fifth minute, seven coastal cities will be completely destroyed by the beast tide, with up to ninety million citizens buried within, countless families shattered, and centuries of urban accumulation obliterated in an instant.
In the twelfth minute, two provinces will fall… with casualties beyond counting.
If it weren’t for Captain Wang Mian of the [Mask] team traveling back in time half an hour before the first disaster-level beast tide appeared, foreseeing that disaster, and several special teams working together with humanity’s top forces…
What I just mentioned about those twelve minutes would be the situation that Great Xia would ultimately face.”
The expert was left speechless, and after a long while, he finally asked in confusion:
“But… don’t we have deities overseeing us in Great Xia?”
