Frieza: ""
"Don't, I—I'll never go again!" Frieza's face went pale with fright as he waved his hands desperately.
"Whoosh!"
Indra waved his hand again.
Frieza vanished completely.
Krillin: ""
Piccolo: ""
Son Gohan: ""
Dende: ""
"All right, the Frieza incident has been successfully resolved," Indra announced loudly.
"Uh, Indra, I wanted to ask—where do people go after you erase them? Do they go to the Underworld?" Krillin leaned closer and asked curiously.
"Probably not the Underworld. If they were in the Underworld, Shenron should be able to revive them, right?" Piccolo guessed. "From what we've seen so far, people erased by Indra can't be brought back through Shenron."
"Huh? Even Shenron can't bring them back?" Son Goku was astonished.
"Krillin, how about you go take a look for me? Where exactly do you go after being erased?" Indra looked at Krillin and asked.
Krillin: ""
I'm not going!
I don't want to disappear!
"Don't, I—" Krillin's face turned pale with fear.
"Whoosh!"
Indra waved his hand.
Krillin vanished on the spot.
Son Goku: ""
Son Gohan: ""
Piccolo: ""
Vegeta's expression changed again and again.
Dende was so frightened that his entire body turned white.
How brutal.
He had just erased Krillin like that?
Who had Krillin even offended?
"Indra, you..." Son Goku did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Uncle Indra, Uncle Krillin will be all right, won't he?" Son Gohan grew anxious.
How could you just erase someone like that?
"Whoosh!"
Indra waved his hand again.
In an instant, the vanished Krillin mysteriously returned.
"Krillin, what did it feel like to be erased?" Son Goku hurried over and asked.
Krillin: ""
Goku, you've gone too far.
And you're asking me what it felt like?
You don't even care about me.
With everyone looking at him, Krillin was on the verge of tears.
Damn it, why did I have to run my mouth and ask Indra such a pointless question?
"There was nothing... I only saw endless darkness. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, couldn't see anything at all. There was only darkness. No—more accurately, 'void' would be a better word." Krillin scratched his head and described what had happened after he was erased.
"Krillin, what's the difference between darkness and a void?" Son Goku asked.
"Goku, when you close your eyes, all you see is darkness, right? Of course, that's assuming sunlight isn't shining through your eyelids." Krillin asked.
Son Goku closed his eyes, felt it out for a moment, and nodded slightly.
"That's darkness," Krillin explained. "Now, Goku, open one eye and close the other."
"Okay." Son Goku did as told.
"Now, what you see through the eye you've closed is a void. Do you understand what I mean?" Krillin replied.
"Huh? Is that so? That's amazing." Son Goku was utterly astonished.
Vegeta's body started trembling again.
An idiot like him could actually become a Super Saiyan!
Why couldn't I?!
Could it be that a peaceful heart was somehow linked to being an idiot?
"That's not right, Uncle Krillin. When I saw Frieza recover just now, his eyes were filled with fear. If it really were an endless void, he shouldn't have had that expression, right?" Son Gohan shook his head slightly.
"Gohan, why don't you give it a try?" Indra said with a smile.
"Don't..." Son Gohan was practically about to cry.
"Alright, enough joking. Let's talk about something serious," Indra said.
Son Goku and the others immediately perked up their ears.
"Although I stopped Planet Namek from exploding in time just now, the price was erasing Planet Namek's core." Indra pondered for a moment. "Do you know what happens when a planet loses its core?"
Son Goku and the others shook their heads blankly.
Who knew?
There had never been anything like this before, alright?
"What will happen, Uncle Indra?" Son Gohan hurriedly asked.
"I don't know exactly what will happen, but one thing is certain." Indra paused. "In about thirty seconds, this planet will probably stop rotating."
"Rotating? What does that mean?" Son Goku asked in confusion.
"Rotation means the planet spinning on its own!" Krillin hurriedly explained.
The next moment, Krillin suddenly realized something.
Holy crap!
Planet Namek was going to stop rotating!
This was the rhythm of total destruction!
Vegeta's pupils contracted sharply, and his expression changed again and again.
"So run. If you can't get away, there's nothing I can do either," Indra called out.
Son Goku: ""
Vegeta: ""
Everyone was stunned.
You should have said so earlier!
You were only telling us now, with so little time left—what were we supposed to do?
What a scam!
"Quick! Go to my spaceship! Maybe it can still be saved!" Son Goku hurriedly said.
Everyone immediately flew toward Son Goku's spaceship.
Very soon, when they arrived near Son Goku's spaceship, they were shocked to see that it was already smoking.
It seemed that during the earlier upheaval of the ground, the spaceship had sunk into the earth, and its engine had been struck and destroyed.
"We're done for! We're going to die here!" Krillin clutched his head and cried out. "I don't even have a girlfriend yet!"
"There's a large spaceship over there!" Piccolo shouted.
"That's Frieza's spaceship." Vegeta said grimly, "While I was healing, I destroyed it."
Piccolo: ""
"What do we do?" Krillin was completely out of ideas, panicking like an ant on a hot pan.
"Huh? Where's Uncle Indra?" Son Gohan looked around.
Indra had not followed them.
"He isn't with us!" Piccolo shouted. "Forget about him for now! We need to think of another way!"
At present, it seemed that every spaceship had already been destroyed.
Without a spaceship, none of them could survive in space.
For a time, the atmosphere was extremely grim.
"Vegeta, if the planet really stops rotating, what will happen?" Krillin looked at Vegeta.
"Hmph, don't ask me such boring questions." Vegeta snorted coldly.
You're asking me? How would I know?
It wasn't like I'd ever encountered this before.
"Uncle Krillin, at a time like this, you're still asking that?" Son Gohan was speechless.
"I was thinking, if the planet really stopped rotating, it wouldn't be destroyed immediately, would it?" Krillin pondered.
"Probably not, but the planet would undergo earth-shattering changes. Before long, the air clinging to the planet's surface would disappear, and we would die on this planet as well from the lack of air," Piccolo said gravely.
"It would take at least an hour for the air to disappear, right?" Krillin asked.
"More or less. It's hard to say for certain." Piccolo shook his head. "Besides, Planet Namek is enormous, several times larger than Earth. If a planet this large stopped rotating, I doubt it would even take an hour. At most, twenty minutes. The planet might even change its orbital path."
"That's enough!" Krillin made his decision and looked at Son Goku.
"Krillin, do you have a plan?" Son Goku asked.
"Son Goku, can you contact Earth's Guardian?" Krillin asked.
"I can't do that." Son Goku shook his head, then his eyes lit up. "But King Kai should be able to contact him."
"Ask King Kai immediately to contact Earth's Guardian. Hurry and gather the Dragon Balls, summon Shenron, and move all of us to Earth," Krillin laid out his plan.
"Rumble!"
Just then, Planet Namek's ground suddenly trembled.
Immediately afterward, as though the brakes had been slammed on, quite a few people present were flung forward.
"Oh no! The planet is about to stop rotating! We need to fly!" Piccolo cried out.
Krillin, Vegeta, and the others immediately floated into the air.
Son Goku did not waste any more time and immediately contacted King Kai.
"To be honest, I never expected you to defeat Frieza, Son Goku, much less become a Super Saiyan," King Kai's voice came through.
"King Kai, hurry and contact Earth's Guardian. We can talk about that after we get back—Planet Namek is about to have a problem," Son Goku urged.
"Don't worry. Just in case, Earth's Guardian started searching for the Dragon Balls long ago. I think they've probably gathered them all by now." King Kai smiled faintly.
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