Give a physicist a lever and a fulcrum, and he could move a planet.
Give Jing Jiu a wire, and he could control this world.
In a very short time, his consciousness entered the warship's internal control system and retrieved the complete records of that earlier moment.
He was like a thief who had obtained a key, strolling at will through someone else's home, stopping outside each room to listen for a while.
The atmosphere aboard the warship was tense. Everyone had been strictly ordered to remain at their posts. There was a deathly silence, broken by voices in only a few places.
In the captain's quarters, a faintly trembling voice could be heard. It was unclear whether it trembled with anger or fear.
"If we can't find out, we can just wait for the military tribunal to try us."
The speaker was the captain of the Blazing Sun. Clearly, he did not know what had caused that concentrated laser attack either.
The self-check procedure had begun but had yet to yield results. A staff officer mentioned Ran Handong's name, prompting some speculation, followed by another deathly silence.
Jing Jiu's consciousness continued along the data channels, gathering more information, but found no trace of that person.
All surveillance records had been erased at the very instant the Laser Main Cannon fired.
The warship had a complete set of procedures for activating its Laser Main Cannon, but that person had possessed sufficiently high clearance to bypass them outright.
After thinking and calculating for a while, he decided to take control of the warship first, then investigate at leisure.
Just then, from deep within that dark data channel, which seemed almost physically real, came the faintest hint of a sigh.
The sigh seemed to come from the depths of a well, carrying