The Mission Failed Before It Began

Chapter 15: 1.15 Chapter: Setting Out Unsuccessfully, The Body Fails First~

"Welcome to Network Jia2983. Please relax as much as possible and return your consciousness inward. We will now traverse 3.4 dimensional distances."

A pleasant voice echoed in his consciousness, crisp, sweet, and gentle.

This kind of guidance was clearly different from the previous electronic program guidance.

Wei Keng felt his five senses gradually merge. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, and the sensation of hot and cold blended into one. This guidance had a unique flavor, like a pair of small hands caressing him.

Wei Keng's physical body had completely vanished from the void of the Shenzhou Plane.

During this process, Wei Keng felt the surrounding matter moving away from him.

For example, the pod bed he was lying on, the outer wall of the Space-Time Pod, the laboratory walls, the earth that bound him with Gravity Restraint, and the air that constantly enveloped him – all of it scattered away from his fused sensory range, like shadows receding from light.

He felt as if he had fallen into a void, like falling in a dream, but unlike a dream, his perception was very clear.

As all matter on Earth disappeared and was stripped from his perception, Wei Keng entered a void devoid of color, where even the concepts of matter and energy did not exist.

The System Interface was still there.

Wei Keng: "System, approximately when will we arrive?"

Before Wei Keng were fifteen Large Hourglasses. Below the first Large Hourglass, fifteen Medium Hourglasses were marked. Below the first Medium Hourglass, fifteen Small Hourglasses were marked. The sand in the first Small Hourglass was visibly falling to the bottom.

Wei Keng: "System, is the time this long?"

System: "Please wait with peace of mind."

Wei Keng: "Oh, then System."

System: "I am the Observer, not the System. If there is no necessary matter, please remain quiet."

After the first Medium Hourglass finished draining, Wei Keng: "Observer Girl?" He then called out again, "Beauty?"

Observer: "What is it?"

Wei Keng: "Your voice is nice, sing a song?"

Observer: "I'm sorry, Sir, we do not offer this service."

Wei Keng: "Um, your name?"

Observer: "We'll talk about it later."

After a long while, Wei Keng sighed and muttered to himself, "Looks like I shouldn't have been so confident."

During the dimensional traverse, it's easy to become overconfident, much like a middle-aged man who, after becoming rich, gradually feels he possesses masculine charm – it's all an illusion.

The minor chat disturbance didn't escalate. The dimensional traverse quickly opened Rookie Wei Keng's eyes.

Suddenly immersed in the vastness, Wei Keng felt a multitude of lights appear around him.

Expanding his senses to his surroundings, Wei Keng's entire attention was captivated by everything around him. The interest in chatting with the Observer was cast aside.

In this Void, there were such magnificent "Stars." Subsequently, Wei Keng realized he was but a speck among these vast Stars. Perhaps, the trace he left while traversing this Void also provided some 'sparkle' here.

Each Star had a different direction, but they were converging here, destined to descend upon different planes.

The current Main World was the "Sun," radiating "light" with all its might towards the surrounding areas.

Just as Wei Keng was gazing at this "Sea of Stars,"

Suddenly, ripples appeared directly in front of him, ring-shaped fluctuations continuously spreading.

At this moment, all the light spots around seemed to be affected, accelerating their speed – as if they perceived the ripples as a harmful interference. However, Wei Keng was too close. The ripples had already reached him. Immediately after, Wei Keng found his connection with the Observer seemed to have been severed.

If there were an explosion in the Void, Wei Keng would now be at the core of that explosion.

The ripples grew larger and larger. Wei Keng didn't know what this was, only watching it unfold. Suddenly, Wei Keng felt light.

Yes, at the center of the ripples, there seemed to be a super-bright existence that had broken through some kind of barrier. Now, it was about to descend near him.

This was the light of consciousness – far more brilliant than any Star Wei Keng had just seen in the dazzling Sea of Stars. And it possessed an ineffable vitality? It seemed to be trying to break through something. "Does it want to return?" This thought inexplicably appeared in Wei Keng's mind.

Wei Keng's attention was drawn to it, as if yearning for something, attempting to make contact.

However, the space broken open at the center of the ripples was not large. Only Wei Keng, who was extremely close, could see the very center of the ripples being torn open. But then, the ripples began to contract, and a powerful attraction pulled the light back. As the ripples finally converged, space-time returned to calm. The consciousness of light disappeared.

Wei Keng felt a sense of loss, as if he had lost something. As for his current situation? Well, he seemed to be able to contact the Observer again.

On the other side, chaos erupted at the Time-Space Administration Bureau. On the New Oriental Pearl Tower, the four indicator lights at the top turned from blue to red.

On the Earth Central Control Platform, the data of tens of thousands of Transmigrators jumped collectively. In East Asia, sixty thousand Supercomputing Centers received the message of particle scintillations in the Gravity Well, and were rapidly computing, printing particles in the Quantum Birth-Death Field, preparing to send them back.

The Unknown Fluctuation directly spread to all Traversal Channels in the Void. Almost all Transmigrators' consciousnesses were affected. Their original dimensional traverse directions were disturbed and needed to be corrected.

"What is the reason for this?" "Something like this has never happened before!"

In the Earth Eastern Time-Space Department, at various Dimensional Observation Facilities, this phenomenon was detected, so discussions about the situation began on the Public Channel. Half an hour later, inquiries also came from the Other Side of the Ocean. Clearly, this fluctuation had also affected their traverses.

Two Space-Time Exploration Organizations, which were originally competitors, tacitly reached a verbal agreement: temporarily do not expand the scale of plane conflicts, and establish a Joint Investigation Team.

Ninety percent of the disturbances affecting current Transmigrators can be corrected. The remaining ones have their space-time positioning slightly affected, meaning their space-time positioning is impacted, deviating slightly from the timeline, or missing the target time point by about ten years.

But there's this one guy, who happened to be in a Space Ripple and couldn't dodge it at all?

This guy is having a huge problem during his space-time traversal.

Shenzhou Plane, Hetu, in the command hall of the Space-Time Physics Department.

Ke Feijia had just sent Wei Keng off to leave this plane, and it hadn't even been an hour.

He was in the center, on the tallest building, overlooking the rugged Northern Shaanxi Plateau on the distant horizon. Suddenly, he abruptly looked up, turning his head to look at the golden, scaled spherical test base in the center.

Just now, on the interface column in his consciousness system, Wei Keng's various data during traversal had suddenly turned from blue to red. The magnitude of the fluctuating numbers and the current intensity of the unstable changes were like a small sampan in a storm.

Ke Feijia's expression changed.

He had just sent his teammate into the space-time traversal array, and his teammate suddenly "crashed." It looked like he was responsible for murder?

Worry made him lose his head, especially since he couldn't contact the Observer directly in this plane. He rushed to the Space-Time Test Field, found another Super Space-Time Pod, lay down in it, entered the Space-Time Rift, and then operated the system to enter the dialogue interface.

On the dimensional level, he found that Wei Qiang was already waiting for him, along with two Observers. One of the Observers had his head bowed.

Wei Qiang saw Ke Feijia and didn't give him a chance to speak first. He calmly said, "Don't panic. First, go back to that plane and make a space-time backup for him. He won't be able to return to complete the mission in the short term."

Ke Feijia still wanted to say something.

Wei Qiang added again, "No one could have predicted this! If it were me, I would have done the same." Then he turned to the Observer on his side, "Chunfen, where is my unlucky Older Brother now?"

This Observer, named Yang Chunfen, brought up the space-time data: "In Area 9834. The nearest safe plane to him is not close enough for him to reach. He has to make an emergency landing on a known plane and wait for rescue. All the known planes near him are high-risk. There are no—"

Wei Qiang: "I understand." He clicked on a timeline: "He can land here, and then have a Space Wormhole created on this timeline for resupply. Bai Linglu, I'm counting on you."

Bai Linglu was Wei Keng's Observer for this traversal. During the Space Ripple, she had escaped this violent disturbance due to the protection mechanism of the Gravity Well. However, for an Observer, an accident like this during traversal, if the Transmigrator isn't found, is very serious.

After assigning the tasks, Wei Qiang reported the situation. He had to return to the Main Plane, but Ke Feijia had to return first.

Shenzhou Plane, Ke Feijia returned from the Space-Time Pod. He glanced at the clock on the wall; it was exactly ten in the morning. The timeline of this world would henceforth be divided into two parallel timelines. This is now Line A.

The Wei Family had already sent people. Three years ago, the Luoshui Group had just changed its Patriarch, and now with another accident looming, the Luoshui Group couldn't withstand such turmoil.

Ke Feijia looked at the guests from the Wei Family and slowly said, "The space laboratory is still in progress. In a hundred days, he will return."

The Old Man from the Wei Family: "May I ask what guarantee Mr. Ke has?"

Ke Feijia: "Just as he entered the space-time zone, I connected with him. I will enter the laboratory immediately and increase the output power to bring him back."

Fifteen hours later on the Shenzhou Plane, Ke Feijia entered the Space-Time Pod again.

The time archive was complete. On this timeline, one hundred days after Ke Feijia entered the Space-Time Pod, Wei Keng would travel back, and Ke Feijia would not return.

Ke Feijia entered the Space-Time Pod and once again arrived in the higher dimension. At this time, Wei Qiang had already gone to the timeline where Ke Feijia had not archived.

When Ke Feijia emerged from the Space-Time Pod, it was now Line B, ten days after Wei Keng's disappearance.

However, five days ago, in the Hetu Laboratory in the Qinghai Yellow River Source region, the previous Patriarch, Wei Qiang, had emerged. He had already taken a plane to the Luoshu Laboratory in Northern Shaanxi, waiting for Ke Feijia's arrival.

Upon seeing Ke Feijia, Wei Qiang said, "It's over. You should do your own thing."

Ke Feijia looked at the expressionless Wei Qiang, guilt on his face.

Turning around, Wei Qiang took a deep breath and used Iron Mask on the Wei family members who had rushed over: "I'm not here, and it seems you all plan to divide the spoils. What do you want to do now? Wait for the funeral feast?!" The last word "feast" carried explosive sound waves.

Invisible air currents expanded from Wei Qiang's side to over a hundred meters away. The glass panels outside the hall bore the shock, cracking into a dense, grid-like pattern.

In this world, Wei Qiang was in the Innate Realm. Every word he spoke carried oppressive power. His return to this plane was like a tiger returning to the mountains. As for those who had played games with Wei Keng before, cold sweat was now pouring down their faces.

Six days later.

Wei Qiang stood on the helicopter, looking down at the industrial park in the northwest, which Wei Keng had spent three years building. Regarding this industrial park, after his return, someone in the family had reported to Wei Qiang, informing him of Wei Keng's useless investments that severely damaged the family's management.

As for these individuals who tried to "correct the wrongs" and "label certain people as rebels to step on,"

Wei Qiang recorded each of these informants in a small notebook on his system.

In the Wei Qiang era, Luoshui Group was an extremely heavy industrial enterprise group within Shenzhou, with very close ties to the military and the Imperial Court.

Relatively speaking, Wei Keng's path was somewhat "low-end."

But Wei Qiang did not feel that his older brother's efforts were misguided. Wei Keng was down-to-earth! This was also a strategy to deepen influence on the plane.

Wei Qiang knew what kind of honest person his older brother was. He couldn't be adept at navigating high society, nor could he haggle over every detail with Shenzhou's major interest groups. Therefore—he diligently worked on the foundational tasks, guarding the ancestral business very well.

Now, Wei Qiang had fully inherited Wei Keng's strategy. Since they had decided to abandon the internal competition in the Military-Industrial Complex Field and shift to civilian manufacturing, they could not stop now.

Wei Qiang opened communications and asked Ke Feijia, "Ke Feijia, what do you think of my older brother?"

Ke Feijia: "He's a good person, just a bit too honest."

Hearing this, Wei Qiang's lips curved slightly, and he sneered, "Yes, it's the same as his school teacher's evaluation of him."

Ke Feijia wanted to change the subject: "Everyone is like this when they first participate in Plane Travel. And everyone's travel style is different."

Wei Qiang glanced again at the gray and bright Solar Energy Collection Fields below.

These were Concave Mirrors Collecting Light, with the light all gathered and focused onto the heat-receiving tubes in the concave surface. Thus, from high in the sky, the colors weren't particularly vibrant.

Wei Qiang tapped on the cabin door, signaling the pilot to return, and continued chatting with Ke Feijia: "My Older Brother has another personality trait."

After a one-second pause, Wei Qiang said: "He sometimes has a personality where he won't turn back until he hits a brick wall, no, even after hitting a brick wall, he won't turn back. The first time you tell him he's honest, he smiles. The second time you hint to him 'you're too honest,' he still won't budge. The third time you hint to him 'you can't be too honest,' he still won't listen."

Wei Qiang narrated calmly and serenely: "If he and I were in this plane at the same time, I could make decisions on many issues. But on some issues, he would react passively."

Speaking to this point, Wei Qiang exhaled: "He has been to this plane before, so let's proceed according to his ideas."

Ke Feijia found it a bit strange, as it somewhat resembled the atmosphere of sorting through the belongings of a deceased relative.

So, what kind of plane had Wei Keng landed on?