There was no way he could keep sitting here with Duan Ning, drinking tea.
The high-priority alert sent from Evil Swamp Time-Space still hovered within the gray-green light screen outside the alchemy chamber. Those violently pulsing rule curves were like venomous snakes suddenly yanked from the depths of a mire—twisting, convulsing, then forcibly pressed back into a trough after Skynet imposed silence upon them.
"I have to leave," Saine said.
"You're going there personally?" Duan Ning asked.
"Mm." Saine nodded. He raised a hand to shut down part of the observation light screens outside the alchemy chamber, then withdrew several preset Magic Cube models that were still spinning into the depths of his palm.
"Remote control over the Rule Nodes in Evil Swamp Time-Space is usable for now, but it still isn't stable enough."
With Saine's current Skynet system and Mechanical Civilization command-and-dispatch capabilities, most matters did not require his true body to arrive in person. But once Saine said it was "not stable enough," it meant the situation there had already touched a dangerous boundary that required his personal judgment.
The Evil Swamp Time-Space node project had originally only been an outer-layer probe.
Saine had set up three layers of compulsory locks in advance. He had not allowed the Mechanical Civilization engineering units to rashly penetrate the sleeping core of the Lord of Evil Swamp, nor had he permitted those observation anchors to actively absorb and expel Evil Swamp Origin.
Yet even so, tremors of awakening had still appeared in the depths of Evil Swamp Time-Space.
That was rather troublesome.
The reason the node project in Destruction Time-Space could advance was that, although the Level-12 Destruction Creatures there were powerful, most lacked clear judgment and acted only on instinct. Evil Swamp Time-Space was different. The Evil Swamp Halls remained