Chapter 18 Aftermath

After chatting with the Tin Foil Man, Feng Bujue began to wander around the Yu Chao Lian’s (Universal Superhero Alliance) headquarters planet.

There were still several hours before the main headquarters finished testing him. That amount of time... to accept a mission, deal with a crisis... there definitely wasn't enough time.

So, Brother Jue decided to use these few hours to learn more about the local customs of this universe, as well as the Yu Chao Lian's own information and history.

Ordinary people might find this kind of "learning" thing troublesome, but Feng Bujue quite liked absorbing this miscellaneous knowledge—perhaps, this could also be considered a kind of occupational hazard.

To make a long story short...

Brother Jue wandered around this man-made planet for about two hours, then returned to the hero dormitory.

Then, he sat down at the computer and began to read written materials.

For the next hour or so, in addition to a lot of "common sense" in this universe, Brother Jue also checked a lot of information about the "Yu Chao Lian Supreme Committee" and records of some major events in the alliance's past.

Feng Bujue didn't know at this moment that the information he had seen and memorized during this period would soon come in handy...

...

Ding-dong—

After another few tens of minutes, just as Feng Bujue was engrossed in reading the information, the doorbell of the dormitory rang again.

Brother Jue glanced at the time, estimating that it was the main headquarters calling again after completing the test; so, he turned off the interface he was viewing, walked to the door, and opened it.

"Ah... as expected, it's you." After seeing Main Headquarters, Feng Bujue muttered weakly.

"Hehe... sorry to keep you waiting, Poker Man." As Main Headquarters spoke, he raised the hero ID card in his hand and waved it in front of Brother Jue. "I am now a planetary hero—'Park Man'."

"Why am I not at all surprised that you got such a low-sounding title..." Feng Bujue immediately quipped.

Main Headquarters still didn't get the joke and responded to himself, "Actually, I originally wanted to call myself 'Park War God', but it didn't pass the review... They said the name sounded like a hooligan looking for trouble in public places, without any heroic flavor." As he spoke, he showed a helpless expression and spread his hands.

"They're quite accurate..." Feng Bujue narrowed his eyes and muttered softly.

Because he said it very softly, Main Headquarters didn't hear clearly, and asked, "Huh? What did you say?"

"Ah... it's nothing." Feng Bujue took the opportunity to raise his voice and changed the subject, "I was thinking, since you have officially become a hero, then... as your senior, it shouldn't be a problem for me to take you to do a few missions as a 'newbie guide', right?"

"Oh?" Main Headquarters was overjoyed when he heard this. "Mr. Poker Man, are you agreeing to me being your assistant?"

"No." Feng Bujue said that "no" very decisively, then paused for two seconds before saying, "I said, I'm just taking you to do a few missions and guide the newbie."

"Okay, okay... whatever you say." Main Headquarters' enthusiasm was not affected in any way. In his opinion... it didn't matter whether he submitted an application for an assistant relationship, as long as he could learn a few tricks from Poker Man.

Just like that... the two who had reached a consensus immediately began searching for missions through the hero self-service terminal.

Before long, a C-level crisis entered Feng Bujue's sight...

...

Warm Ocean Star, the third largest planet in the Heavenly Mast Constellation, and also the planet closest to the Heavenly Mast β star.

Its stellar age is about one billion years, and it is in a stable period.

The Warm Ocean Star's day length is forty universe weeks, the gravity is 3 times BoingBoing, it has an atmosphere but no satellites, and the land and ocean area ratio is 1:1.4... Judging from these data alone, the planet's environment is suitable for many races of aliens to live on.

However, the population of this planet is... zero.

The reason is because: there is an extremely unique natural phenomenon on this planet—the Super Gravity Vortex (hereinafter referred to as the Super Vortex).

Volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis... these natural disasters that earthlings are familiar with can only be considered light rain compared to the Super Vortex.

The effects caused by the Super Vortex are not local damage to a certain area on the planet, but indiscriminate impact on the entire planet and its surrounding space-time.

When that huge and uncontrollable gravitational field becomes active, it will cause the surrounding space-time structure to bend, thereby triggering a series of unpredictable effects...

For example: the planet itself stops rotating or even rotates in reverse for a certain period of time, the physical structure of some substances undergoes self-disintegration at the molecular level, the thinking and bodies of some highly intelligent creatures collapse severely, and so on.

The above are just the known consequences; because very few intelligent beings have survived from the Super Vortex, and most of them have undergone varying degrees of physiological and psychological mutations... so people's understanding of the Super Vortex is only at the stage of long-distance observation.

Of course, someone once proposed that the rules of this natural phenomenon could be further studied by "logging into Warm Ocean Star during the intervals of the Super Vortex to conduct recording experiments."

So what was the result?

The person who proposed this suggestion, as well as the team led by him, including the data they collected... are all finished now.

There is no doubt that they were all swallowed by the Super Vortex...

Although in most cases, the occurrence of the Super Vortex is at least three hundred universe weeks apart, sometimes, when it goes crazy, a wave will come every two universe weeks; and once this phenomenon erupts... creatures within its range of action cannot escape.

That's why... this very habitable planet is always empty, and no race or individual dares to live here.

In fact, not to mention colonization, no one dares to even stay or approach.

However, today, a spaceship belonging to the Yu Chao Lian... resolutely sailed into the planet's atmosphere.

[Search completed.]

[Optical camouflage activated.]

[Switching to automatic landing mode.]

[Estimated landing three kilometers from the target.]

[Internal gravity and pressure have been synchronized with the current planet.]

[Landing countdown begins, thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight...]

"Ah... this spaceship is really convenient, it feels like even a fool can drive it..." Before Feng Bujue finished listening to the voice prompt, his hands left the spaceship's console, and he leaned back in the driver's seat and muttered, "If I had known that star system-level heroes could freely apply for this kind of 'small assault boat', I wouldn't have taken that mission before, just go and get a boat... and find some missions that I can do alone."

At this time, Brother Jue's attitude seemed very relaxed, but... Main Headquarters, who was traveling with him, was already pale and covered in sweat.

"Po... Poker Man..." Main Headquarters' tone was also stuttering and trembling, "Do... do we really need to land?"

"Then what do you think?" Feng Bujue asked in return.

"Of course, I mean staying outside the range of the Super Vortex to watch..." Main Headquarters replied quickly, "Anyway..."

"Anyway, as long as the Super Vortex comes, the wanted criminals hiding on this planet will be directly finished... right?" Feng Bujue interrupted Main Headquarters before he could finish speaking.

"Yes!" Main Headquarters replied.

"Heh..." Feng Bujue smiled, "According to your logic, our mission is meaningless..." He paused for half a second, then continued, "If the act of 'landing on Warm Ocean Star' is equivalent to 'definitely being finished', then when the intelligence department receives the news that 'Dr. Dian Dian has landed on Warm Ocean Star', wouldn't it be more convenient to directly cross his name off the wanted list?"

"If it were me, I would cross it out!" Main Headquarters replied loudly, "Sending people to Warm Ocean Star to carry out arrest missions is strange in itself, right?"

"No, I don't think it's strange, and... I think this action is very necessary." Feng Bujue replied in a calm tone.

Just as he said these words, the small assault boat they were riding in had already landed.

Before the spaceship had even stopped, Brother Jue had already unfastened his seat belt and stood up from his seat: "Alright, let's go."

"This..." Main Headquarters hesitated for two seconds, then sighed, "Sigh... alright."

At this point, he had no way out; after all, there was only one spaceship, and no matter how afraid of death Main Headquarters was, he couldn't leave Brother Jue alone and drive the ship away. What he was thinking now was... to complete the mission quickly, so that he could escape the planet before the next Super Vortex occurred.

"I know, you have doubts about the necessity of this mission." After the two got off the spaceship, Feng Bujue led the way, walking and talking.

"Yeah... When you encounter a job that is very likely to cost you your life, how can you not have doubts..." Main Headquarters replied.

"So, I'll take this opportunity to tell you why I said this trip is 'very necessary'." Feng Bujue continued.

"Hmm... I'm all ears." Main Headquarters replied.

Then, Feng Bujue paused for a few seconds before opening his mouth: "First of all, have you read the information about 'Dr. Dian Dian'?"

"Ah... I read it in the spaceship just now." Main Headquarters replied.

"What kind of super criminal do you think he is?" Feng Bujue asked again.

"Evil, cunning, knowledgeable, extremely intelligent..." Main Headquarters recalled the original words in the information while repeating them.

"That's enough..." Feng Bujue interrupted him before he could finish speaking, "Those few sentences are enough..." He paused for half a second, then continued, "Then... do you think such a person would not know the risks of stepping onto Warm Ocean Star?"

The moment he heard this question, Main Headquarters' expression suddenly changed: "Uh... that's right, he must know."

"Since he knows, why did he still come?" Feng Bujue asked again.

"Uh..." Main Headquarters didn't respond immediately. With his intelligence, it would take more time to consider this question.

"Let me tell you..." Brother Jue didn't intend to wait for him, so he directly gave the answer after three seconds, "There are only a few possibilities—first, he wants to commit suicide; second, there is a problem with his spirit or memory; third, in order to achieve a certain goal, he doesn't hesitate to take risks and gamble everything..."

"Oh..." Main Headquarters nodded, "Then... which of these situations is it now?"

"How would I know." Feng Bujue replied in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Huh? So there are things you don't know too?" Main Headquarters asked this question with genuine curiosity.

"Nonsense." Feng Bujue replied, "I'm not a god, there are too many things I don't know."

"Then why did you say this mission is necessary?" Main Headquarters asked.

Hearing this, Feng Bujue rolled his eyes and thought: I've already said it to this point, and this idiot still doesn't understand... Do I have to spell it out completely?

"Sigh..." After letting out a long sigh, Brother Jue continued, "Because... analyzing from Dr. Dian Dian's consistent cautious style, if he really came here to achieve a certain goal... then the plan he is brewing this time must be very amazing; if we leave it alone... it is very likely to develop into a major crisis of B-level or even A-level."

"But what if he really wants to commit suicide or is crazy?" Main Headquarters continued.

"Then we have to confirm it on the spot." Feng Bujue said, "Furthermore... think about it carefully... Although the possibility of suicide and loss of reason exists, it is far less likely than the third hypothesis, right?"

Main Headquarters thought for a while, then continued, "That's right... If he wants to commit suicide, there are many ways to do it, and the probability of specifically running to Warm Ocean Star to seek death is very low; and the probability of coming to this planet by chance in a state of mental disorder... is even lower."

"Huff... you finally understand, right." Feng Bujue exhaled a long breath and turned back to say.

"Hmm... I understand." When he replied to this sentence, the look of doubt on Main Headquarters' face finally dissipated.

"Then..." Feng Bujue took advantage of the situation and said, "How about we speed up a bit? You don't want to die in a natural disaster in your first mission, do you?"

...

At the same time, 2.5 kilometers away from the two...

Dr. Dian Dian was busy amidst a bunch of temporarily set up equipment.

As one of the most intelligent super criminals in this universe, his motive for coming to Warm Ocean Star was as Brother Jue expected—there was indeed a plan worth risking his life to implement.

What is this plan?

The answer can be summarized in four words: crossing time and space.

Like many evil scientists, Dr. Dian Dian's academic ability is very good; recently, he developed something called a "light cone vibrator".

I won't go into detail about the principle of this invention, because... I can't explain it clearly.

Even if I could explain it clearly, for most people, when reading this fictional space-time theory wrapped in a physics shell... it would be a mess in front of them. After casually scanning this mess, these people might even say that I am making up the word count; so, I won't go into detail about that setting. Directly using this mocking little section to make up a few dozen words shows my integrity and generosity.

In short...

Dr. Dian Dian came to this Warm Ocean Star in order to use the power of the "Super Vortex" to activate his "light cone vibrator", so as to achieve the purpose of traveling through time and space.

At this moment, he also did not expect that... his plan this time would truly "create history".