"Ah ah... it’s such a ss..." Xu Ying rubbed her hair irritably. "So many things have happened in these fifty years. I just jumped forward fifty years, but it feels like everything has changed..."
Fifty years ago, there were no survivors yet; fifty years ago, the human base in the underground world wasn’t this passive; fifty years ago, it was her brother, Xu Xin, who handled most of the affairs.
"What if... I jump back again..." Xu Ying suddenly had a bold idea, but she imdiately dismissed it herself, shaking her head vigorously. "No, no, no, it’s too risky."
"What are you thinking? Jump back to where?" Li Wenxi was curious about Xu Ying’s sudden action. "Did you think of a solution?"
"Ah..." Xu Ying gave an embarrassed smile. "I thought of a solution, but the price might be the destruction of the world."
Her words left Li Wenxi and Wei Shishi montarily stunned.
"...Now is not the ti for jokes." Wei Shishi rolled her eyes slightly. "I still have things to do over here. I’ll be leaving now. If there’s any news from Grandpa’s side, I’ll inform you."
"Hey, are you just leaving like that?"
Wei Shishi didn’t offer much of an explanation, taking her people onto an armored vehicle and leaving together.
"What’s going on..." Xu Ying sat down heavily on a large rock beside her, propping herself with her hands and looking up at the do. "What should we do now? We can’t go up there..."
"Can’t you teleport?" Li Wenxi sat down beside her, also looking up at the do. "Can’t you just teleport up there directly? We don’t have to mine; we just want to take a look after all."
"Of course not." Xu Ying sighed. "Not to ntion if there’s a place to land up there, just talking about my spatial ability, it’s not that easy to use. I need a very precise location. Simply put, it needs a reference point. Otherwise, not to ntion the larger effects, just Earth’s rotation and revolution an spatial positions are changing rapidly."
"...What do you an by a reference point?"
"It ans my spatial ability can only take to places I’ve been to and left my mark on." Xu Ying looked toward the villa on the hill not far away. "Like that villa. Spatial abilities aren’t just for casual use. Otherwise, one small mistake could lead to a chaotic position."
Li Wenxi nodded sowhat bewilderedly. "I think I understand. Then... if you made a mark here, and if you teleported to another place, couldn’t you just instantly teleport back?"
"It’s not that easy."
Xu Ying suddenly looked at Li Wenxi with a complicated expression, her eyes flashed with a hint of sadness, then she shook her head and said:
"If you were to teleport directly into space, there’s almost no chance of survival. The air pressure would drop to zero in an instant, internal organs would explode, and the temperature would plumt by a hundred or two hundred degrees... In such an instance without any protective asures, one might imdiately lose consciousness and then beco space debris floating in the universe."
"Ah... that’s so terrifying..." Li Wenxi imagined that scenario, swallowing hard.
Xu Ying glanced at Li Wenxi, her eyes drooping.
In that tiline, the real Li Wenxi, her sister-in-law, perhaps... died like that.
"What’s wrong?" Li Wenxi noticed Xu Ying’s somber mood and asked softly.
"Ah, it’s nothing, nothing." Xu Ying’s dejection lasted only a mont. She imdiately looked up and laughed. "That was just an extre example. After all, it’s only space travel, not ti travel. As long as you move quickly and have the ground as a reference, it’s not like you’ll be sent directly into outer space."
"Oh, I see." Li Wenxi pondered. "What you ntioned, that seems more important in ti travel, right?"
"That’s right." Xu Ying nodded. "Ti travel requires more attention to the landing point. With such a significant ti span, the original position would have completely changed. Without determining the space-ti coordinates, you would disappear into the chaotic space and ti, becoming space debris."
As she spoke, her tone beca sowhat somber again.
Her sister-in-law... was lost because of this...
"Then... why can’t you teleport up there? Isn’t it just a spatial shift?" Li Wenxi pointed upwards.
"Because, apart from being teleported into space, there are other failure risks!" Xu Ying sat on the large rock, kicking the pebble beneath her feet. "Extrely terrifying!"
Li Wenxi’s curiosity was piqued. "How terrifying?"
"Teleportation always requires so ti. Without exact coordinates, my position wouldn’t be too accurate, and a deviation is very likely." Xu Ying pointed upward. "There’s a three-thousand-ter distance above , and my non-coordinate teleportation error is around one in a thousand, aning there might be a three-ter error unless there’s a major mistake."
"A three-ter error..." Li Wenxi’s eyes widened slightly. "I get it..."
"Right? Imagine, if it’s three ters downward, I’d fall directly and die. Splat!" Xu Ying made a motion of her hands exploding on the ground. "I can’t teleport continuously; I’d simply fall to my death!"
"Wow... that is really dangerous..."
"And if it’s three ters upward? Sister-in-law, think, what’s three ters upward?"
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