"Hmm~ what’s going on?"
Hearing the voice over the communicator, KIKI, who had been sleeping on Lin Xian’s lap, woke up groggily. As she opened her eyes, she noticed the strange mix of tension in Lin Xian’s expression.
After disconnecting the communicator, Lin Xian turned to KIKI and recounted the earlier situation to her.
"Dark invasions affecting the signal band is an old problem, but this close-range delay is sowhat perplexing to ."
After speaking, he looked at KIKI with a puzzled smile and said, "Am I being too sensitive?"
"I think..." KIKI sat up at this point, crossing her arms and speaking nonchalantly, "Nothing inside the Star Abyss can be viewed through our normal logic. Actually, your caution isn’t a problem; many tis your judgnt has kept us safe, so maybe there’s really a black hole in the Star Abyss?"
Lin Xian paused when he heard this, then his expression deepened, "You’re right, with the bay flying up into the sky, there’s no point in using conventional reasoning."
"Sister Ding also ntioned that experints without a certain base number are aningless as references. Since Grace hasn’t encountered an attack and communication is still possible, why don’t we verify once it reaches White City."
Lin Xian nodded in agreent, "But if Grace’s analysis is correct, then the Star Abyss is a catastrophe far beyond human imagination."
KIKI looked at Lin Xian with a complex gaze, then took a deep breath, wrapped her arm around his neck, her face lighting up as she spoke to him,
"Think about it this way: ti moves slower for us and faster outside. The global Extre Night predicted by the Phoenix Society lasting one year would actually feel longer for us, wouldn’t it?"
"You’re silly."
Lin Xian gently tapped KIKI’s smooth forehead with a finger, "We’ve already been devoured by the Star Abyss, so what’s the use of longer ti? Even a single night puts a lot of pressure on us since water and food supplies are limited."
"True enough~" KIKI wrinkled her nose in embarrassnt, then exhaled, "If only the problem of dark invasions could be solved, then when we get out, we can upgrade and let the train fly into the sky, transform the starship body, and add space propellers. Having rails is such a hassle!"
"That’s a good idea." Lin Xian nodded.
The biggest drawback of the Infinite Train project lies here, which is why Lin Xian constantly thinks about improving his chanical superpower to modify the vehicle and let the train soar high soon!
Thus, he didn’t hesitate any longer and began to devour the Parrot’s 140-gawatt nuclear power generator while he and KIKI kept track of Grace’s information.
Grace’s pace wasn’t slow, considered rapid reconnaissance, covering about 20 kiloters per hour on average. However, as the distance increased, information noise and signal frequencies were changing.
At 50 kiloters, Lin Xian received Grace’s baseline information, which had changed from 5 minutes 11 seconds to 5 minutes 29 seconds.
AM
Things began developing in the direction Lin Xian and KIKI least wanted to see.
[Sizzle... I’ve reached the northwest of White City, observing building clusters through visual status.]
Grace’s voice ca over the communicator.
At this mont, including Ding Junyi, Chen Sixuan, Shu Qin, Luo Yang, and others, everyone gathered in Compartnt 21.
Everyone looked at the moving terminal’s counter with complex and grave expressions.
minutes 50 seconds.
[At 5 minutes 50 seconds, assuming a temporal dilation effect and redshift phenonon exist in the Star Abyss environnt, calculating through distance decay, the ti flow rate difference between the position of the front and outside the Star Abyss is 14.02 tis, aning 1 day outside equals 14.02 days in your position, and 12 days in mine.]
Grace’s words transmitted through the communicator caused everyone’s faces to change dramatically.
"Ti speeds up? How could this happen?" Chen Sixuan asked.
Shu Qin said, "Could it just be the unique environnt here causing the signal delay?"
"Impossible!" Luo Yang scratched his head, "Even if a Black Hole causes such ti distortion, the direction is wrong; the closer to the Star Abyss, the slower ti should be, not faster."
Hearing this, everyone turned their gaze to Ding Junyi, the person with the highest academic knowledge on the train.
But at this mont, Ding Junyi only shrugged and said, "He’s right, from the perspective of the gravitational ti dilation effect of general relativity, unless there’s a Black Hole outside the Star Abyss, this phenonon is hard to explain."
Upon hearing Ding Junyi’s words, Lin Xian opened the light shield, gazing towards the deep blue sky curtains in the center direction of the Star Abyss and the bay floating in the heavens, feeling a chill down his spine.
At this mont, the only feeling left in everyone’s heart was one of eeriness.
"Oh, no wonder Lao Mo and Boss Hu felt they crossed the Star Abyss overnight; it wasn’t just one night at all!?"
KIKI uttered in astonishnt, "Calculating like this, they might have run for several days!"
"Moreover, Lao Mo and that Hu Lushou’s convoy is driven by high-energy battery cells, indicating those fuel cars couldn’t make it because they ran out of energy..." Luo Yang said.
Ding Junyi shook her head, took a deep breath, and said, "Not entirely, if such dilation effects increase exponentially, perhaps the closer to the Star Abyss center, the slower the ti flow rate, while the outer area has less effect."
"But this is too bizarre."
"No matter what, we have to leave here quickly."
Lin Xian’s brow was furrowed with seriousness, and he imdiately ordered Grace,
[Grace, quickly conduct reconnaissance on the original station tracks of White City and then return.]
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