Genius Club-Chapter 513 - 86: The Hidden Truth (24k Monthly Votes Additional Update)_3
"Altitude, 62 kilometers; speed, 0.97 Mach; still approaching; manually maintain speed balance; nearing the Space-Time Particle; visual distance 20 meters...15 meters...10 meters..."
In the radio communicator, Wei Cheng’s report came through:
"Close now! 5 meters! Maintain capture distance! Please start capturing!"
Having heard Wei Cheng’s signal.
Lin Xian and Gao Yang’s gazes immediately turned to the adjacent monitor.
On it, they saw the first-person view of the Mechanical Arm, transmitted by the camera on top of it—
So close!
From just a few meters away, observing the mysterious Space-Time Particle, Lin Xian looked even more carefully.
Just as Liu Feng had said.
From a close view, one could see that the Space-Time Particle really seemed very unstable, like a wailing child, a raging strong man, a bomb about to explode.
The surface was spreading with intense electricity, like lightning; it also resembled millions of blue worms, thin and frantic.
Its interior appeared even more violent.
A clear blue light cluster, like a constrained beast, constantly bouncing within the sphere of lightning, colliding as if trying to escape.
Each collision made the Space-Time Particle emit a sharp blue glimmer, then darken, and again a hit and a flash... The speed of impacts was so fast it was hard to follow.
Indeed...
It was really unstable, as if it could explode at any moment.
Just as Lin Xian was staring at the Space-Time Particle—
Whoosh!
It disappeared on the spot! Teleported to a location further away.
Gao Yang was just about to operate the Mechanical Arm forward.
But the next second!
The Space-Time Particle teleported again! Directly in front of the camera! Almost within reach! Nearly close enough to see every filament of lightning!
Gao Yang hadn’t even had time to scream when the Space-Time Particle instantly teleported away again, much longer than the last interval, but once slightly farther away, the frequency of teleportation slowed down.
"This is too hard!"
Gao Yang exclaimed:
"It teleports too fast, we must predict its pattern, but it seems like it has no pattern at all! I’ll try first!"
Having said that, he operated the Mechanical Arm swiftly like facing a great enemy, using both hands and feet.
Click! Clack! Whoosh!
The Mechanical Arm was like a drawn sword! Like a cobra flicking its tongue! Striking at the Space-Time Particle time and again, vigorously lunging!
However...
The Space-Time Particle seemed like it could sense the impending capture as if it were a rice cooker, always managing to teleport away in time.
This infuriated Gao Yang immensely:
"You little vixen! I’ll pin you down for sure!"
His eyes were as sharp as a lion’s, already in a serious mode, fixated on the Space-Time Particle... letting the Mechanical Arm move slightly left and right, ready to strike... ready to strike...
"Now!!"
Zoom!
Gao Yang seemed to have caught onto a pattern! He reached out into the space on the right side of the Space-Time Particle!
There was clearly nothing there!
But Gao Yang was so confident!
Sure enough!
Just as the Mechanical Arm and the rice cooker’s mouth were moving forward, the Space-Time Particle that had just been on the left teleported! Instantly appearing in front of the rice cooker!
But the position was off!
Gao Yang nearly predicted it right, but the inner part of the rice cooker was just a bit low, the lid of the rice cooker directly passed over the sphere of the Space-Time Particle!
"Awesome!" "Isn’t that cool!"
Lin Xian couldn’t help cheering, and Gao Yang also proudly roared!
Although they didn’t capture it this time, facing a Space-Time Particle that teleported so swiftly... just touching it was already a miracle!
If they could touch it, there was a chance to capture it!
Victory was in sight!
"Wait a second!"
In the radio communicator, suddenly Liu Feng’s shout came through:
"Something’s not right! The energy of the Space-Time Particle has weakened!"
"What?"
Lin Xian heard him, abruptly looked at the monitor.
But discovered...
The Space-Time Particle, which had just been emitting a deep blue glow, now had its brightness significantly dimmed! The light wasn’t even half as bright as before!
"What’s the situation?" Lin Xian asked:
"Can’t we touch this Space-Time Particle?"
"How can we capture it if we can’t touch it!"
Gao Yang, now furious with frustration, his eyes bloodshot, grinding his teeth, grabbed another opportunity:
"Here we go!!!"
Whoosh————
The Mechanical Arm suddenly stretched forward!
However, this time their luck wasn’t as good as before, the prediction utterly failed, the Space-Time Particle flashed to the other side.
"This side!"
Gao Yang launched another attack.
This time it missed even worse, the rice cooker didn’t touch the Space-Time Particle, instead, the particle, which had no physical form, went through the steel mechanical arm like a ghost.
Silent,
Mute and fine,
It passed through without any clash, any impact at all...
It was as if it passed through not a steel frame, but through a mass of air, without stirring any ripples!
But when the Space-Time Particle flashed out again,
It had completely lost its light!
In the pitch-dark backdrop of the universe, it nearly became invisible! It couldn’t be seen with the naked eye at all!
"No good!"
Liu Feng’s roar once again transmitted from the wireless communicator:
"We can’t grab it anymore! The energy of the Space-Time Particle is extremely weak now! One more touch, and it will go completely undetectable! No more touching!"
However...
It was as if it was intentionally mocking everyone.
Right in front of everyone’s eyes, that mischievous Space-Time Particle instantly flashed in front of the Skyspace Aircraft wing!
There was no time for anything amid the rapid and electrifying motion!
The wing of the Skyspace Aircraft went directly toward the Space-Time Particle!
Beep————————
Liu Feng’s tracker emitted a flat beep without any fluctuation.
Wei Cheng quickly turned his head to take a look.
He saw that the Space-Time Particle Tracker, which had always been guiding them... now lay dead silent without a single stir.
No fluctuations,
No signals,
No data,
Empty...
Absolutely void.
"What happened?" Gao Yang yelled:
"I haven’t grabbed it yet! How could it just disappear! Where is the Space-Time Particle? Wei, did you guys lose track of it?"
Silence.
In the radio communicator, a prolonged silence.
Eventually.
Liu Feng clenched his teeth, sighed:
"We lost it... it can’t be tracked anymore."
"I now realize that this Space-Time Particle, the reason it’s so unstable and irascible, is because it inherently keeps avoiding and resisting everything from this space-time!"
"So, when Gao Yang tried to capture it with the rice cooker, it fled like it was trying to escape, evasively flashing away."
"Moreover! Every time it collided with an object from this space-time, its visible energy would drastically drop! I noticed this from the moment it entered the atmosphere, but the atmosphere was very thin then, so the decrease in visible energy wasn’t prominent."
"But, this kind of direct collision with physical matter, it’s too stimulating for the Space-Time Particle... just these three contacts made all its visible energy disappear!"
"[In fact, that Space-Time Particle is still moving along the original route, pulsing, flashing! Only... only we can’t see it! Nor can we track it anymore!!]"
Liu Feng’s voice was filled with despair, instantly bringing a heavy atmosphere to the entire Skyspace Aircraft.
No one spoke a word.
Silence, that’s the greatest loss.
Bang!
Gao Yang’s hefty hand fiercely slammed down on the control panel:
"Damn it! What is this! We’ve tried so hard and it just disappears! Can’t even see it! How can we capture what we cannot see!"
"Liu Feng, what’s going on! Such an important issue and you didn’t clarify it earlier, what do we do now?!"
Lin Xian also furrowed his brows, not knowing what to say, only managing to hold Gao Yang’s shoulder.
Quiet.
This Skyspace Aircraft had never been so quiet since it took off.
So much so...
That even the ticking sound of the second hand on the clock was clearly audible.
"Uh... that, that one."
Chu Anqing tiptoed into the equipment cabin, looking left at Lin Xian and the irascible Gao Yang, looking right at Huang Que leaning against the cabin wall, head down, saying nothing.
She swallowed.
Chu Anqing timidly raised her right hand.
She extended her index finger.
Pointing out the empty window, at the empty black night sky:
"That one, the Space-Time Particle… isn’t it just flying there?"
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She blinked her puzzled large eyes, looking at everyone:
"[Don’t you all... see it?]"
