Chapter 136 Transparency

Bang!

At the aerospace base, Lin Xian pushed open the corridor door and strode towards the room deep inside.

"Wait, wait, wait a minute, Lin Xian!"

Behind him.

Gao Yang frantically rushed over to grab Lin Xian, seizing his arm from behind, and darted in front of Lin Xian, blocking his path:

"Lin Xian, don't get so worked up! Let's talk this through!"

Lin Xian pushed Gao Yang aside:

"I am talking calmly. Besides, we all share the responsibility for Chu Anqing's exit from the spacecraft… Everyone went to space to capture space-time particles for my sake."

"Huang Que has her own difficulties and limitations. But now, a million reasons won't change the fact that Chu Anqing has disappeared… I clearly promised her father, promised Chu Shanhe, that I would bring her home safely. What am I supposed to do now? How am I supposed to explain this to Chu Shanhe? Our friend is gone, Chu Shanhe's precious daughter is just gone."

"[Is she dead or alive? Where is she? Why did she disappear? What's the deal with the millennial stake Huang Que mentioned? We should at least know the truth, right?]"

Lin Xian finished his sentence.

Turned around.

And continued to stride forward.

Thud.

Gao Yang's thick hand pressed down on Lin Xian's shoulder:

"Lin Xian, you don't know what happened after you jumped out of the aerospace plane, do you?"

Lin Xian stopped.

He turned to look at Gao Yang…

After jumping from the aerospace plane at an altitude of 20,000 meters, grabbing Chu Anqing, pulling the parachute cord, and landing to discover Chu Anqing had disappeared, he immediately contacted rescue via radio communication.

Before long, the official Dragon Country helicopter arrived.

Then he went to the airport, boarded a plane, and flew straight to the domestic classified aerospace base.

As soon as he got off the plane, he handed the rice cooker containing the space-time particles to Liu Feng, and told Liu Feng about Chu Anqing's situation. Liu Feng briefly examined the space-time particles, but couldn't come to any definite conclusion.

So he immediately rushed here to find Huang Que, and was stopped by Gao Yang.

"What is it?" Lin Xian asked.

Gao Yang swallowed:

"Huang Que doesn't want us to tell you about this, but I definitely wouldn't keep it from you. I was planning to find an opportunity to tell you anyway, but as soon as you got off the plane, you darted off like a mouse and I couldn't stop you. You finally gave me a chance to speak…"

"When you jumped out of the plane, Huang Que passed out in fright. Actually, saying she passed out isn't quite accurate. I don't really know how to describe that state. It's just… do you remember? When Chu Anqing jumped off the wing, Huang Que shouted something about a millennial stake. At the time, I was only focused on you, so I didn't hear clearly or understand."

"Then you jumped down, and Huang Que just collapsed on the ground. We were so anxious that we couldn't think straight. We called out to you on the radio, but you didn't respond. Afterwards, Wei Cheng remotely controlled the main cabin door to close. We quickly went to see what was going on with Huang Que."

"She… her situation was very complicated. She was shaking on the ground, but her arms were tightly hugging her helmet, not letting us open it. But the situation was so urgent at the time, we definitely had to rescue her, so Liu Feng and I held her down and forced the helmet open."

"You… do you know what we saw?"

Gao Yang hesitated.

But it didn't seem like he was deliberately creating suspense. It seemed he was just at a loss for words.

After a pause, Gao Yang continued:

"It's really hard for me to describe that feeling. It was like… like Huang Que she… became transparent…"

"Transparent?"

Lin Xian frowned. He never expected that description.

Could a human become transparent?

But…

Considering that Chu Anqing had disappeared into thin air…

And Huang Que had been confirmed as a time-space traveler, becoming transparent wasn't entirely incomprehensible.

"Did her eye color also fade?" Lin Xian pressed.

Gao Yang was stunned:

"Ha! So you already knew!"

"I didn't know. I'm just asking. Tell me quickly, did it?" Lin Xian urged.

Gao Yang nodded:

"You guessed right. Weren't Huang Que's eyes blue before? Very bright, like a light bulb. But at that time, when Liu Feng and I forcibly pried open the spacesuit's visor… her eyes had completely turned black."

"Black… just like our eyes, without any light, without any blue. At that moment, I really felt like she was just like us… just an ordinary person. And Huang Que's expression was also very painful, as if someone had stabbed her."

"But she recovered quickly, stood up on her own, and immediately called out to you on the radio without catching her breath. But the remote communication equipment on our aerospace plane was broken, so the radio only had the range of a walkie-talkie. Naturally, you couldn't hear her. She quickly notified Wei Cheng to return and land."

"Later, after landing on the ground, we re-established contact with the ground control center and learned that you were safe and that the country had sent people to rescue you. Only then did everyone feel relieved. Then Huang Que told us not to tell you what had happened on the aerospace plane."

"But the two of us definitely wouldn't listen to her! We're not here to work for her… So later, Liu Feng and I discussed it and said we had to tell you about it. I only heard you just now talking about Chu Anqing's situation… I was wondering if there was some connection between these two things?"

…

After listening to Gao Yang's words, Lin Xian recalled what Chu Anqing had once told him.

It was similar to what Gao Yang said.

Back then, at the top-secret astronaut training base in Imperial City, Huang Que had also become weak and trembling in the washroom, kneeling on the ground with a painful expression.

The difference was.

That time, Huang Que hadn't become "transparent," and the color of her eyes… Thinking about it now, the brightness and color of Huang Que's eyes must have faded at that time, or like this time, turned into the black eyes of a normal person.

And she refused to look up and let Chu Anqing see her, probably because she was afraid that she would notice this.

Gao Yang's fat hand moved away from Lin Xian's shoulder.

He took a step back.

No longer blocking Lin Xian.

He raised his head and said softly:

"I didn't mean anything else by telling you this, and I'm not trying to defend Huang Que or anything. On the contrary, I've never liked Huang Que. I feel like she's full of lies, knows everything but says nothing, and doesn't value our lives at all."

"But… ugh, I'm bad with words and can't really explain it. I just feel conflicted. Anyway, I've told you everything I know, so you can judge for yourself."

"My thoughts are the same as yours. Chu Anqing is our friend, and she disappeared so inexplicably. I'm just as sad and angry as you are. But there's an old saying in Dragon Country: 'See the person alive, or see the body dead…' We haven't seen the person, and we haven't seen the body, so I don't think we should assume that Chu Anqing is dead."

"Look, we've seen so many supernatural phenomena recently, space-time particles, Huang Que becoming transparent, her eye color changing like a flashing light… Really, I don't think Chu Anqing is necessarily dead. Maybe there's some other hidden story! So don't think of this as such a bad thing. Space-time particles can become invisible. Maybe Chu Anqing is just invisible now?"

After speaking, Gao Yang spread his hands and looked at Lin Xian:

"Alright, that's all I wanted to say. That's it. Don't worry, Lin Xian, you're my best friend in life. Whatever you want to do, whether you're right or wrong, I'll always support you and stand by your side."

"So… go do what you want to do. Find Huang Que and get everything cleared up."

Lin Xian nodded.

He patted Gao Yang's shoulder:

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

…

Creak————

The iron door of the office was pushed open.

The hinges made a heart-wrenching sound.

Lin Xian walked in.

He looked up.

Huang Que seemed to be waiting for him. She wasn't sitting in the chair behind her desk.

Instead, she was standing in front of the desk.

Her buttocks rested on the edge of the desk, her arms crossed, and her clear, blue eyes were still looking at him like glass:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Lin Xian."

She said calmly:

"I'm surprised. I never thought you would dare to jump out of the plane… and land safely. I admit, I underestimated you before. You're much stronger than I thought, and you're growing faster than I expected."

Lin Xian closed the office's iron door, walked to the middle of the room:

"Since you knew I was coming, you naturally know what I want to ask. Tell me… What's going on with Chu Anqing? Why did she disappear into thin air?"

"I can't say."

"Is she dead? Did she disappear? Is she invisible? Or did she go somewhere else?"

"I can't tell you."

"Then what does 'millennial stake' mean? You can tell me that, right?"

Lin Xian asked:

"Otherwise, why would you say that word?"

"That's because the term 'millennial stake' is my own creation."

Huang Que blinked:

"The original term for 'millennial stake' isn't 'millennial stake.' It has a more accurate and definite name. If I directly said that name, you wouldn't have come to ask me these questions, because you would have understood what it meant as soon as you heard it."

After a pause, she continued:

"Lin Xian, even if you didn't come to me today, I would have called you over. The time has come… I have something very important to tell you, something very important for you."

"What is it?" Lin Xian asked.

Huang Que lowered her crossed arms, supported herself on the desk behind her, and looked at Lin Xian:

"Can you truly understand what kind of situation I mean when I keep saying 'I can't say'?"

Lin Xian shook his head.

He couldn't tell.

Huang Que raised her head:

"Look at me, Lin Xian. This is what I'm going to teach you today… Although it's sudden, now that you know about the millennial stake and want to find out the truth about it, this is something you must know."

Their eyes met.

Lin Xian's deep black eyes met Huang Que's clear blue eyes.

"Look at me carefully."

Huang Que stared unblinkingly at Lin Xian and said slowly, word by word:

"The millennial stake is—"

Suddenly, Huang Que seemed to have her throat grabbed! She was directly muted!

"What?"

Lin Xian thought he hadn't heard clearly and took a step forward.

Huang Que bit her lip, and sweat beaded on her forehead.

Her hands trembled, and she reached back to support herself on the desk:

"The millennial stake is—"

The same silence again…

It was like a music player suddenly having its power cord pulled, a phone call suddenly being hung up, a thrilling movie suddenly stopping!

Just like that!

Like someone suddenly losing their breath!

Huang Que was forcibly silenced without warning or reason!

Then—

Thump!

Huang Que lost her balance, leaned back, and knelt directly on the office floor.

Her body leaned forward.

And she fell directly onto the ground!

"Hey!"

Lin Xian hurried over, wanting to help Huang Que up.

But he discovered…

Transparency.

Transparency!

Huang Que had really become transparent all over, just like Gao Yang said!

He could still touch her.

But it felt…

So light.

He just picked her up.

What followed was…

A large amount of blue stardust falling from Huang Que's body!

Familiar.

Just like the tiny blue stardust inside Chu Anqing's spacesuit!

But these falling from Huang Que's body now.

Handfuls!

Clumps!

Like scattered fine sand, like a swarm of bees being scattered!

These clumps of blue stardust rapidly collapsed, dissipated, and disappeared in the air.

"What is this?"

Lin Xian witnessed this supernatural scene again.

What was going on?

Could it be as he had thought…

Blue.

Space-time particles, Huang Que's eyes, the stardust left behind when Chu Anqing disappeared into thin air, and now the large amount of blue, tiny, light quantum-state particles scattering from Huang Que's body…

All of them were blue!

This confirmed his previous guess!

[All things from other time-spaces that do not belong to this time-space will show a light-like blue, and when they collapse, they will turn into such tiny blue stardust and disappear…]

At this time.

Huang Que's eyes had turned completely black.

She was held in Lin Xian's arms, extremely weak, and even breathing seemed to take all her strength.

Gradually.

Her body recovered from semi-transparency, she no longer shed blue stardust, her breathing gradually calmed, and a wisp of blue light began to reappear in her eyes.

This time…

There was only a wisp.

It seemed to surround the black pupils faintly. If you didn't look closely, you couldn't see it at all.

"Lin… Xian…"

Huang Que raised her head from Lin Xian's arms and looked at the man above:

"This is… what I… wanted to teach you today. I also wanted to tell you what the millennial stake is, but I can't… You can only figure it all out yourself."

She swallowed and forced a smile:

"Don't… look like that. I was going to tell you sooner or later… It's also… what I must tell you… the laws of time-space. This is… the most important thing about my return…"

The laws of time-space?

Lin Xian opened his eyes wide.

The laws of time-space again.

"Historical lock…"

Huang Que gritted her teeth and said word by word.

Then she breathed a sigh of relief:

"I know you don't understand, but because you don't understand, I can say it. Don't ask me why… Never ask, think for yourself, think hard. Think… about the millennial stake… together…"

"This is the first law of time-space that I want to tell you. Next, there's a second one…"

Huang Que paused and continued:

"The second law of time-space that I want to tell you… I can't say it. That is, what I… told you to watch carefully just now, the changes happening to me."

"This kind of thing generally doesn't happen. Or rather… it will never happen in a normal time-space."

"Only when [time-space rejection] and [historical lock] exist at the same time… will this phenomenon be triggered."

Huang Que coughed lightly.

The light and blue in her eyes appeared at the same time, her complexion improved a lot, and her body became stronger.

She sat up from Lin Xian's arms, stood up, and looked down at Lin Xian:

"You need to think hard, Lin Xian…"

"What this law of time-space means, what it can bring you, and what it can make you understand."

She looked deeply at Lin Xian:

"This is really a very important thing. Perhaps… this is the last thing I can teach you."