Chapter 264: She successfully caught up with time

There are still two people in this situation.

This Yu Xiaomo is one of them.

Lin Ran told Yunxiao about Zhang Jie's situation, and Yunxiao grew more shocked the more she heard.

Doesn't that mean this kind of situation will happen again in the future?

Lin Ran:.....

She really hates saying this, because every time she says it, it stabs her in the heart....

Yeah....

Who knows when this situation will come to an end?

Lin Ran said helplessly, while Yunxiao fell into a new round of contemplation.

She was thinking, and after thinking, whether she should bring Zhang Jie back into the black hole.

But seeing Lin Ran now, who is almost as crazy as herself, Yunxiao thinks this might not be realistic....

By then she fears she might directly lead the Alliance to blow up her own black hole...

Whether or not they can find it aside, time inside the black hole is slow—one minute equals several years outside—so it's possible that as soon as they enter, Lin Ran will blast them out....

Yunxiao now fears this woman, and isn't their journey through the Sea of Time precisely to find that tiny possibility?

Now, this possibility has been found....

But he does not belong to her.

What should be done....

Yunxiao couldn't make up her mind; she had lost the goal she had always firmly clung to.

News has come!

Just as Yunxiao was lost in thought, Lin Ran let out a surprised cry and then shot down toward the urban planet below.

Down below, Zhang Jie had just finished his gaming trip with Yu Xiaomo; fortunately, the experience was decent, and Zhang Jie was fairly satisfied.

However, when Yu Xiaomo learned that Lin Ran was coming, he slipped away first....

Like a cat that had stolen a snack, but Zhang Jie didn't know what she had stolen....

Is it just that she wants him to keep her company for a while? That's too pathetic.

Zhang Jie scratched his head, utterly troubled; these problems must be solved with a good solution....

Otherwise, following the unreliable pattern of the simulator, something will eventually go wrong in the future....

By the way, why isn't Weiniya replying to messages?

Zhang Jie was a bit puzzled; Weiniya vanished after asking about his condition, and no one knows what she went off to do.

It shouldn't be anything serious.

Soon, Yunxiao and Lin Ran arrived at Zhang Jie's location; seeing the two covered in dust, Zhang Jie couldn't help but chuckle.

Who won in the end?

It's a draw...

This result actually shocked Zhang Jie—Lady Lin Ran lost? That was unexpected.

But looking at Yunxiao's expression, she seems a bit unhappy; she's probably feeling down too.

Zhang Jie suddenly recalled the psychological test he had given Yunxiao during the simulation....

Now thinking about it, that thing might actually be real...

Looks like I need to have a good talk with Yunxiao....

But this time is different from before; this talk with Yunxiao has Lin Ran supervising from the side, and it seems Yunxiao's arrival has made this peerless empress feel a sense of crisis.

As Yunxiao spoke, Zhang Jie gradually came to know what had happened after he left.

The Federation split again....

Simply put, after leaving the black hole, Yunxiao led the Federation in development for a long time, until they killed the entity inside the black hole, when a disagreement arose.

At that time, the Federation's technology was already quite mature; while everyone was looking forward to sailing the Star Sea, Yunxiao instead proposed the Time Traveler Plan.

It wasn't just to find the time point of Zhang Jie's existence; it was also because the Star Sea then harbored even greater natural disasters.

Civilizations seemed to have a special allure for them; when a civilization reached a certain level of strength, it would spawn a corresponding level of natural disaster.

What happened next was that the Federation split; most people disagreed with Yunxiao's ideas, chose to take all the technology and split off, staying behind to develop.

But the Intelligent Machine Empress firmly stood with Yunxiao, and Yunxiao didn't know whether it was because she had feelings for her or because her calculations had produced something.

In short, they were right; Yunxiao deliberately spanned three thousand years to observe those people's fate, and the result goes without saying—the entire civilization lasted less than a hundred years before vanishing.

Don't you have any other civilizations?

Lin Ran found it strange; when the Alliance was just starting, everyone around was a civilization ravaged by natural disasters—there was simply no situation like Yunxiao described.

None, not even a single civilization...

Strange....

They were ultimately destroyed by countless natural disasters.

So, the current Federation... isn't really a Federation anymore.

I am merely a traveler of time.

Interesting....

Zhang Jie nodded, but is the Intelligent Machine Empress still alive?

And she even took over that whatever entity? Then isn't it very likely that it's been watching them all along?

Zhang Jie looked around suspiciously and managed to startle some little gadget countless light-years away.

Is this the human sixth sense?

Intelligent Machine Empress is a bit timid; there are still so many things in this world she doesn't understand...

This mysterious existence is merely mysterious to them, or perhaps it belongs to this dimension.

And what about the thing Yunxiao mentioned, the one that speaks directly in her mind?

Intelligent Machine Empress shuddered; she now has a bit of excess emotion....

Afterward, Yunxiao especially emphasized Zhang Jie's seventy thousand years of solitary vigil, all because of that supercomputer inside the giant black hole; Zhang Jie had known this long ago, but he never spoke of it.

「Wait! Inside the black hole? Are you sure that thing won't be torn apart by gravity? 」

This is the question Lin Ran most wants to know, and she also raised doubts about certain mysterious existences.

「All that's needed is a corresponding repulsive force to cancel it out. 」

Materials science cannot overcome a black hole's gravity; it's forever impossible—nothing can escape, not even light.

But after a period of development, Gravity Prison technology has become quite mature, capable of generating a strong repulsive force to counteract a black hole's gravity.

They also learned how to decompress matter inside a black hole and harvest energy; to some extent, they have accomplished something truly great.

As for that mysterious existence, Zhang Jie also recalled that earlier voice—the one that could restore her memories even when Yu Xiaomo was clearly amnesiac.

【No matter what, have fun playing】

These were his words to himself; Zhang Jie kept them in his heart, and whenever he reached a crucial moment in the simulation, that mysterious language would appear....

【This world really is mysterious....】

Afterward came Yunxiao's time travel spanning several hundred years, all of which were spent inside the black hole.

Yunxiao crossed countless stellar epochs, crossed countless possibilities, and finally came before Zhang Jie.

She is a traveler of time, and now she has found Zhang Jie...

She successfully caught up with time....