The Final Battle (5)

If he had been an ordinary person, he would certainly still have been able to see the starlight. After all, the starlight ordinary eyes saw consisted of light particles traveling at light speed. Though the Antimatter Energy Cannon traveled incredibly fast, it was in fact only moving at light speed. When ordinary people truly could no longer see the starlight, that would be when the antimatter touched their bodies and erased them.

Xiao Hen was different. His gaze was far, far faster than light, and the range covered by his spiritual perception was vastly larger than a stellar system.

Spiritual power was a form of intangible power, like the power of emotions, Faith Power, and so on. Antimatter could not erase such intangible forces; it could only cancel out positive matter in the universe.

Under Xiao Hen’s spiritual perception, the antimatter sphere formed after closing in was advancing at light speed. In just over an hour, it would become a solid antimatter sphere with a diameter of 1.6 million kilometers. It was even more terrifying than a black hole. If there were no matter to offset its existence, it would remain in the universe, endlessly devouring and canceling out cosmic matter until it had consumed matter equal to its own mass, at which point it would vanish.

"Just over an hour…" Xiao Hen smiled faintly, standing proudly in the void with his hands behind his back, as though he did not regard the crisis before him as anything at all. The Prada people watching through quantum surveillance satellites felt a chill in their hearts. The delight on their faces vanished. Faced with such a horrifying attack, this mysterious man was still utterly calm. Could he possibly have a way to escape this calamity?

All the Prada people able to observe this scene tensed up. Then, at that very moment, alarms suddenly began blaring wildly.

Woooooo! Woooooo! Woooooo!

"What’s going on?"

"What happened?"

"Why is the alarm sounding? Investigate it immediately!"

Every member of Prada’s upper ranks was trembling with fear. Had something gone wrong with this attack again? Could even such a terrifying antimatter sphere and an all-encompassing cosmic-space attack fail to kill the man before them?

"Y-Your Majesty, we have identified the cause of the alarm!" A scientist approached the Lion Emperor, his face pale.

"What is it?" the Lion Emperor asked grimly.

"Please look, Your Majesty!" The scientist hurried over to the observation instruments and pointed.

Xiao Hen, displayed on the monitoring device, suddenly vanished. Then the holographic projection shifted to the outside of the antimatter energy sphere. In the stretch of void the antimatter had just passed through, Xiao Hen had already appeared. His expression remained utterly calm as he stood proudly there with his hands behind his back.

"Th-this… what is going on?" The Lion Emperor’s usual imposing composure shattered as he asked in shock.

"W-we don’t know either. He suddenly disappeared from a place a billion kilometers away, then suddenly appeared outside the antimatter sphere. Th-this is simply a supernatural occurrence! W-we don’t know why either!" Cold sweat streamed down the scientist’s face.

"Bastard! Find out immediately! How could this guy instantly move such a vast distance while space is locked down? Are our instruments broken? Or is his spatial ability so powerful that our lockdown has no effect at all?" the Lion Emperor roared furiously.

"Your Majesty, o-our scientific team is urgently discussing and researching it. Please wait a moment. The results will certainly be out soon!" The scientist fled in panic to investigate how Xiao Hen had escaped the antimatter sphere’s encirclement and blockade.

Huff, huff, huff…

Watching the scientist leave, the Lion Emperor’s expression was exceedingly grim. This attack on that demon-like mysterious man had mobilized eight million warships, two hundred Mecha Divisions, and twenty million mech pilots—nearly ninety percent of the entire Prada Civilization’s Combat Power. The plan had originally been foolproof, yet now an unexpected complication had appeared again.

"What a terrifying enemy…" the Lion Emperor murmured, slowly closing his eyes.

On the front lines, aboard the marshal’s flagship, the sharp-faced fox-headed man stood behind the Leopard Head Marshal with an ugly expression, staring at the star map as cold sweat ran down his face.

"M-Marshal, w-what is happening?" the fox-headed man stammered.

"You are the military adviser. Shouldn’t that be a question for you?" The Leopard Head Marshal’s expression was icy. His tightly furrowed brow revealed that he was anything but calm inside. Such a foolproof plan had actually failed, leaving even this commander, who had always strategized from afar, uncertain. At last, he understood that this demon-like mysterious man simply could not be judged by common sense.

"I-I don’t know either. H-how did this demon suddenly vanish and suddenly reappear? The entire 1.3 light-year area around him has been sealed off. It should be impossible to use Spatial Power. But without using Spatial Power, how could he cross such an immense distance? Th-this is insane!" The fox-headed man muttered blankly, his eyes unfocused. He had no clue at all why Xiao Hen had suddenly disappeared from inside the antimatter sphere and appeared outside it. His face was full of confusion.

On the Prada Homeworld, the Imperial Central Academy of Sciences held an emergency discussion. They understood the power of the Spatial Wave Oscillation Frequency Locking Device they had developed better than any other Prada people. It could absolutely lock down any Spatial Power. This equipment had specifically been designed to counter Spatial Power—how could it possibly fail?

"This is impossible! There is absolutely no error in the spatial wave locking device! Absolutely impossible!" An elderly cat-headed scientist clawed frantically at his hair.

Beside him, an elderly goat-headed man wandered around with his head lowered and lifeless eyes, muttering, "Impossible… impossible. How did he do it? Why?"

The other scientists were equally frantic. Some sat before tables, wildly calculating physical constants. Others inspected the spatial wave locking device. Still others desperately tugged at their own hair, tormenting their brains as they tried to understand what was happening.

What Xiao Hen had done was undoubtedly a supernatural occurrence to these rigorous scientists. If they could not understand the principle behind it, half of them would probably be driven mad.

Just as the scientists were going frantic, the academy’s intelligence department suddenly received a report from the front lines. This report made every scientist trapped in madness light up.

"Everyone, come look at this report! Quickly!"

A scientist standing before a Holographic Screen shouted, "I think I already know why this mysterious man was able to cross such a great distance!"

"What? Really?"

"Really? Quick, let me see what report it is!"

"Let me see! I have to know how he instantly moved such a vast distance despite the spatial lockdown!"

At once, all the scientists gathered before the Holographic Screen and watched the video sent from the front lines. After watching it, they looked at one another. Their expressions shook, their bodies trembled, and terror filled their faces.

"Th-this… it was actually…"

Everyone, please guess how Xiao Hen appeared a billion kilometers away despite the spatial lockdown. Please leave your answers in this book’s review section on Qidian Chinese. Those who answer correctly will have their posts featured and pinned!