Second Time Dimension

Sea Emperor projected an image directly onto the screen.

In the scene, a uniquely shaped spaceship is docked at a port on a certain planet. The hatch is open, and a White Robed Man walks out of the spaceship.

"This is footage I captured a week before Hake disappeared, on a planet over nine hundred universes away. Of course, the monitoring data was heavily interfered with, so I made some repairs," Sea Emperor explained. "I captured the shape of this spaceship from here and immediately conducted a comparative analysis. I didn't have high hopes, because changing the shape of a spaceship is too easy; an advanced intelligent spaceship can complete a redesign in seconds. I don't know if they were careless or didn't care, but the spaceship's shape never changed, so I found out which planets they had previously docked on."

"Over the course of seven days, their spaceship docked three times. One time was at the location shown in the projection, another time was at an intelligence planet, and the last time was at a planet seven universes away from our own, on the same day Hake disappeared. After the spaceship docked, no one came out. Less than an hour later, the man in white appeared on Isa Star..."

"At this speed, the white-robed man must possess a spatial teleportation ability. His short-distance jumps are even faster than their spaceships. That's why they chose to abandon ship immediately after discovering Hake's location."

On the outer edge of the atmosphere of Isa Star, a white-robed figure stood proudly in the void. With a wave of his hand, nine Black Robed Man appeared out of thin air. The white-robed figure pointed. The nine figures vanished almost simultaneously, and the white-robed figure disappeared afterward.

This image was captured by a satellite, and the recording time was exactly one minute before Hake was captured.

"These surveillance videos are the steps I was able to find in their actions before capturing Hake," Sea Emperor said, then continued, "Through the locations where their ships were previously docked, I also captured some subsequent footage."

Sea Emperor then projected the subsequent images.

On the planet where the white-robed man had docked his spaceship, he quickly reappeared and returned to the ship. He appeared alone, clearly having already pulled Hake and the other Black Robed Man into his Miniature World.

The uniquely shaped spaceship quickly took off, and then the scene changed again.

After leaving the planet's atmosphere, the spaceship quickly activated a long-distance wormhole teleportation and then disappeared.

"We were quite lucky; a telescope happened to be pointed at the area where they initiated the long-distance teleportation and captured the footage of them teleporting away." Sea Emperor paused after speaking, "However, everything I captured ended here; that spaceship never reappeared within my detection range."

"Then why do you say it's good luck?" Gu Ding wasn't in a hurry. He had spent so much time with the Sea Emperor that he could tell from his tone whether there was still a chance for things to turn around.

"Because of that telescope, I know the coordinates and time when that spaceship opened the wormhole. Now all we have to do is head to the location of the wormhole."

"But that wormhole opened more than three months ago. What's the point of going there now? The wormhole has been closed for a long time," Gu Ding asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Let me explain it this way: you can think of the space we are in as a giant water sphere, and the space on the other side of the wormhole as another water sphere. So the effect of traversing the wormhole is equivalent to leaving the water sphere we are in and entering another water sphere."

"This separation and injection will inevitably cause violent vibrations on the outer walls of the two water spheres. And these vibrations will also produce ripples. Just like a fish leaping out of the water and then falling back into the water, it will cause a reaction on the surface of the water."

"So, simple physics and mathematics can be used to calculate the final landing point of the fish by considering its volume, mass, streamlined body shape, and the time, location, and distance of the ripples. Complicating that calculation method can also be applied to spatial science."

"Simply put, after inspecting the intensity of the residual shockwaves from the wormhole on-site, I can make a rough estimate and determine the coordinates of the exit location at the other end of the wormhole."

Gu Ding was completely bewildered by Sea Emperor's words. After all, he was just a student at the Basic Military Academy and had not yet been exposed to advanced topics such as space science. However, he understood Sea Emperor's last point: in short, after seeing the wormhole on-site, they could deduce the spaceship's teleportation coordinates.

"Then let's go now. With the performance of this spaceship, we should be able to make a round trip of seven universes in no time," Gu Ding said decisively.

"With the performance of this spaceship, a simple space jump will suffice to reach them, and a round trip will only take half an hour at most. Lily and the others will probably arrive in a few days, so it won't affect our reunion." Sea Emperor said, and immediately initiated the space jump.

More than ten minutes later, the huge black warship had arrived near the coordinates where the wormhole had opened.

"Gu Ding, leave the spaceship now and fly to the coordinates where the wormhole is located." After arriving, Sea Emperor spoke again.

Gu Ding nodded, opened the hatch, and flew toward the coordinates given by the Sea Emperor.

Having arrived at the coordinates, Gu Ding hovered in place, his consciousness communicating with the Sea Emperor. "Now? What should I do?"

"Do nothing, don't move, just stay still and hover at this coordinate point," the Sea Emperor instructed.

Upon hearing this, Gu Ding could only remain suspended in place, patiently waiting.

After waiting for about two hours, Gu Ding finally heard the Sea Emperor mutter to himself, "How could this be? There's no way to calculate the result..."

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Gu Ding couldn't help but ask.

"I've calculated it repeatedly, but I'm missing a constant, and no matter what I do, I can't get a result. But I've clearly taken all the factors into account..." Sea Emperor felt that he hadn't missed anything.

"Then take your time to think about it. Don't rush things; rushing can easily lead to mistakes," Gu Ding could only offer this consolation.

For the rest of the day, Gu Ding remained suspended in place, motionless, afraid of interfering with the Sea Emperor's calculations. But the Sea Emperor seemed unable to arrive at a result, muttering to himself incessantly.

"Gu Ding, what happened? It's been a whole day already. With the Sea Emperor's calculation abilities, a few hours should be enough for him to calculate the result." Miko's voice came through Gu Ding's communicator.

"The Sea Emperor said he doesn't know why a constant is missing. No matter how he calculates it, he can't get a result. But he said he has taken all the factors into account and shouldn't have missed anything," Gu Ding Miko.

"Missing a constant?" Miko's voice paused, then she suddenly spoke again, "It might be time. Have Sea Emperor give it a try."

"Time?" Gu Ding couldn't understand what Miko meant at all, but the Sea Emperor heard Miko's words clearly.

"That's right, it's time! I've always used the Main Timeline to calculate spatial coordinates, and due to inertia, I've ignored the changes in the timeline. Although our plane is Basic Plane with only one Main Timeline, in certain special spaces, Second Time Axis can also exist stably... No wonder the Dees Family disappeared overnight; they entered another time dimension—this is the best explanation!!!"

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[This chapter is so sci-fi!] (To be continued...^~)