The stars, but they become the gray wind

After disarming Johnson Carter, who was subdued by several people, Angel and others tied up Johnson Carter with ropes and discussed how to deal with the suspect who was captured and was suspected to be the mastermind behind the bomb theft.

"Let the recovery team take him away, and then hand him over to the higher-ups." Dorothy suggested to her two companions.

"Oh, you want to hand me over to your leader? I hope he is a reasonable man." Even with his hands tied behind his back and the muzzle of a pistol against his head, Johnson Carter still did not show any panic or fear.

"You are really calm." Anjie looked at Johnson Carter, who seemed very tough and calm, with an expressionless face. She moved the pistol in her right hand forward slightly, further reducing the distance between her and Johnson Carter's head, until the muzzle was almost touching Johnson Carter's forehead.

Just when the three people's attention was on Johnson Carter in front of them, there was a sudden violent vibration and noise from behind the stage curtain beside them. A sharp metal claw directly tore open the stage curtain and slammed towards the three people.

"Tsk... Is this... the mechanical dragon used in previous stage performances?" Dorothy quickly jumped back from where she was, dodging the mechanical dragon's sharp claws that were sent flying from mid-air. With her sharp eyes, she recognized that this was the prop mechanical dragon used in previous theater performances.

Billy, who was sitting on the console on the back of the mechanical dragon with a crazy expression, saw that his claw attack just now did not hit the few people, so he pulled a joystick on the console, and the mechanical dragon opened its mouth, revealing a flamethrower stored in its mouth. A stream of hot flame shot out from the nozzle of the flamethrower towards the three people. The three people tacitly dispersed quickly and avoided the billowing flames, and the flames spewed out from the mechanical dragon's mouth ignited the stage curtain, and the whole stage instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire burning everywhere.

Seeing that the three were busy dodging the mechanical dragon's attack, Johnson Carter saw an opportunity and decisively broke free from the rope tied to his feet. He stood up and spread his legs and fled in panic towards the audience seats away from the burning stage.

"Stop!" Seeing that the captured suspect was about to escape, Qianshi drew his sword and wanted to chase him, but was blocked by a flame spewed out by the mechanical dragon.

"Tsk...Oh no!" Just as Angie was about to catch up with Johnson Carter who was about to escape, the huge claws of the mechanical dragon in front of her smashed towards Angie again.

"Haha! You bastards, all go to hell!" Billy, who was sitting on the back of the mechanical dragon and operating the mechanical dragon to wreak havoc in the theater, had fallen into a somewhat crazy mood.

Angel focused all her attention on dodging the attack launched by the mechanical dragon in front of her and opened the C ball in her hand. With the help of the anti-gravity field of the C ball, Angel jumped directly into the air, attracting almost all the attention of the mechanical dragon and Billy, while Dorothy on the side took this opportunity to chase the fleeing Johnson Carter.

After jumping off the burning stage and pulling out a small knife hidden in his pants from his waist to cut the rope that tied his hands behind his back, Johnson Carter quickly crossed the stairs in the aisle of the auditorium and reached the exit door of the theater performance hall. Just before he stretched out his hand to touch the door handle, a bullet accurately hit the door handle in front of him.

"Don't move! I won't miss next time." Dorothy raised the muzzle of the gun that was emitting white smoke and threatened Johnson Carter in the distance.

"Tsk!" Johnson Carter, who was only a few steps away from the door behind him, gritted his teeth as he looked at Dorothy who was pointing the gun at him.

"What happened this time?"

As the two of them were confronting each other, a voice full of doubt suddenly came from behind the door behind Johnson Carter.

The theater director, accompanied by a military policeman, pushed open the door and was shocked to see the theater stage on fire.

Johnson Carter, who was already at the door, saw that the door had been opened, so he slammed open the door and rushed towards the military police behind the giant director who had just walked in and was unaware of the situation.

"What are you doing... Ouch!!" The military policeman, who had not yet reacted, felt a sharp pain in his chest. A dagger was inserted into the military policeman's heart by Johnson Carter from his chest.

The military policeman whose heart was pierced slowly fell to the ground, and Johnson Carter took the pistol from the military policeman's waist and ran quickly towards the exit of the theater hall.

On the stage, Chise finally got rid of the mechanical dragon's entanglement, came to Dorothy, and followed Dorothy out of the aisle of the performance hall, trying to catch up with Johnson Carter who was fleeing in panic.

As the two rushed to the exit door of the performance hall, several bullets hit the door frame. They could only duck behind the half-open door to avoid Johnson Carter, who was shooting randomly behind him while fleeing in the distance.

Seeing that his shots behind him had missed, Johnson Carter decisively continued to run towards the theater exit.

"Oh no, that guy is trying to escape." Qianshi said as he looked at Johnson Carter who was getting closer and closer to the theater entrance in the distance.

"I know, leave it to me." Dorothy skillfully changed the bullets in the long-barreled revolver in her hand and aimed the gun at Johnson Carter who was fleeing in the distance.

Just as Dorothy had aimed at Johnson Carter and was about to pull the trigger, a dull gunshot suddenly came from the side of Johnson Carter's escape route. A 5.56mm caliber bullet accurately penetrated Johnson Carter's left knee, and Johnson Carter fell to the ground in pain.

"Huh?" Dorothy was obviously stunned by the hidden gunshot that came from nowhere. She turned her head to look in the direction of the gunshot. A familiar figure with purple hair slowly walked out from behind a pillar, holding a peculiarly shaped black gun in her hand.

Carlisle, holding the HK416D equipped with a holographic sight and a muzzle silencer, glanced at Johnson Carter who was lying on the ground not far away. She did not pay too much attention to the insignificant man in front of her, but turned to look at Dorothy who was about to raise her gun to shoot in the distance and Chise beside her.

"Hello, Miss Dorothy and Miss Chise, it looks like you're in some trouble." Carisi walked up and greeted Dorothy.

"Why... are you here?" Dorothy frowned, looking at the suspicious guy in front of her.

"Like I said, I have my own intelligence agent. And since I know about B52 Chestnut Lane, which was full of traps, it's only natural that I know where this group hid the bomb, right?"

"What's more, the Republic is making quite a big noise this time." Carlisle said as she watched several Republic intelligence officers with guns flash by and rush into a room on the second floor of the theater.

"It's the Republic's action team that came in through the back door. I have to say that it's impossible for me not to know about this commotion even if I wanted to." Carlisle pointed at the group of people who had just rushed over upstairs and said to Dorothy in front of her.

"Tsk... Never mind. We don't have time to waste here with you. Chishi, let the other teams handle this. We'll go back and help Ange." Dorothy obviously didn't have time to find out why this guy Calisi suddenly showed up here and interfered. The two of them turned around and ran back to the performance hall behind them to help Ange, who was still being entangled by the mechanical dragon.

.........

On the stage in the performance hall, Billy, with a crazy expression on his face, controlled the mechanical dragon to attack Anjie by spitting flames. After several attacks failed, he became angry and operated the mechanical dragon to smash the stage area where Anjie was.

"How...what happened, did you...did you do it?" Billy looked at the stage that was smashed to pieces by the mechanical dragon with an expression of helplessness and fury. Behind him, the tall creditor climbed up the mechanical dragon's operating table from its back with great effort, raised the cane in his hand and hit Billy's forehead hard, scolding him loudly.

"You idiot, just doing your boss a favor is enough. Why don't you run away? If you die, who will pay me back?"

"Ouch! It hurts!" Billy released the joystick in pain. The second his hands left the console, a bullet pierced through it with pinpoint accuracy, shocking both Billy and the tall creditor. Meanwhile, Anjie, atop the mechanical dragon, aimed a smoking revolver at Billy on the control panel. She spoke icily to the frivolous young man who had caused her so much trouble, "Save me the trouble of looking for your address. I have a lot to get out of you."

Billy and the tall creditor on the operating table also wisely raised their hands to Angel and gave up resistance.

Billy, who was tied with a rope to the tall creditor, was thrown into the corner of the theater by Anjie. Next to them were two other creditors who had been subdued by Qianshi and tied to the wall.

"This has nothing to do with me!" The tall creditor was obviously not a tough guy who would rather die than surrender. Under the threat of a gun, he immediately began to distance himself from the incident.

"Tell me! Where was the bomb sent?" Angel pulled the hammer of the revolver with her right thumb, and pointed the gun at Billy who was tied to the wall in front of her and threatened him.

"This...how should I know..." Billy wanted to be vague but before he could finish his words, Anhuo pulled the trigger and a bullet hit the ground between Billy's open legs.

"Ah! Let's talk it over, don't shoot." Billy, who was frightened to death by the bullet that almost hit his crotch, begged for mercy to Angel in front of him without caring about his image.

"Didn't you say before that the item had been delivered? As long as you tell me where you delivered it, I'll spare your life."

"Huh?" Billy, still frightened by the gunshot, was stunned for a moment.

"Hey, you bastard! Hurry up and do what we are told! Otherwise, we will both die." The tall creditor who was tied behind Billy obviously did not want to lose his life with the brat who owed him money.

"I told you! I told you, it's at... at the port. I delivered it to the port!"

"Which one?" Anjie asked.

"London Port! They said it was for some ceremony?" Under the threat of gunpoint, Billy decisively revealed the whereabouts of the bomb.

When Anjie heard the word "ceremony" come out of Billy's mouth, her usually calm expression instantly turned into shock.

"Oh no, it's a ceremony on the ship, let's go." After realizing that her lover might be in danger, Ange decisively called Dorothy and Chise and rushed to the nearest exit of the theater.

"Damn it, we should have noticed earlier. Their target is Princess Mary. They hid the bomb for so long, waiting for this ceremony." Dorothy, Qianshi An, Lin Qishi, Vjiu, and IV Jiubajie were running quickly in a corridor leading to the theater exit.

"What do you mean?" Qianshi asked doubtfully, still not quite understanding the specific situation.

"The anti-gravity bomb is too powerful, so they plan to wait until the ship is far out to sea before detonating it."

"Killing the innocent passengers on board as well? How shameless!"

"The passengers on board were dignitaries from various countries, more than 300 people in total. For us, this was the worst possible situation."

"how do I say this?"

"The Princess and Beata were both on the bomb-laden Londinium."

.........

On the waters of London Harbor, the luxury cruise ship named Londinium was slowly sailing away from the harbor. The setting sun illuminated the neat upper deck of the ship. At this moment, an important ceremony was being held in the luxurious restaurant inside the ship, inviting more than 300 foreign dignitaries. Neither the dignitaries toasting in the restaurant nor the crew working on the ship knew that the ship they were on had been loaded with a bomb that could reduce the entire ship to ashes.

On a coastal highway in London, Dorothy stepped on the accelerator and drove the car almost to the maximum speed, finally barely catching up with the luxury cruise ship that was sailing parallel to the coastal highway on the sea.

"The cruise ship is traveling at 16 knots and will be out of the coast in less than an hour. Dorothy, can you go faster?"

"I understand."

"We'll soon be leaving the coastal waters." Rossi looked at the ship on the sea in the distance and reminded Anjie.

"I'll jump over from here with the C-ball. Qianshi, let's go." Anjie said, standing up from the back seat of the car and holding the wrist of her companion. Then she activated the C-ball in her other hand. The two of them flew from the back seat of the car like an arrow and flew towards the cruise ship on the sea in the distance.

When Anjie and Chise used the C-ball to fly to the cruise ship to save the lives of Charlotte and others, a new conspiracy gradually emerged in the palace.

"I wonder if Mary behaved appropriately?" Edward walked through a corridor in the palace accompanied by his secretary.

"We should be almost reaching the Tiberias Sea by now, right?" The secretary beside him glanced at the watch on his wrist and answered Prince Edward's question.

"Does this concern you much?"

"Similar official duties will continue to increase in the future, and she must learn to cope with them."

"Her Royal Highness Charlotte is also with Mary this time, so there should be no problem." The secretary smiled and told Prince Edward not to worry.

"Charlotte... Really... Everyone dotes on Mary too much." Prince Edward complained helplessly, and walked around the corner of the corridor with his secretary. The sound of their conversation gradually faded away.

And in another corner of the corridor that they had not noticed just now, an Indian figure in cowboy clothes slowly walked out from the shadows of the corridor and followed Prince Edward's footsteps without making a sound.

On the other side, Anjie and Chise, who had jumped onto the deck of the cruise ship via the C-ball, hid beside a water tank on the rear deck of the cruise ship and briefly discussed their next action plan.

"Where exactly should we find the bomb?" Qianshi asked.

"Anti-gravity bombs will use a lot of steam. They should be next to the ship's boilers. Let's go to the engine room at the bottom of the ship!"

Anjie immediately led Chise to the engine room at the bottom of the ship to find the exact location of the bomb.

Less than two minutes after the two of them left, a two-dimensional portal with a green glow appeared where they had just stood. Kalisi, with hexagonal green lines like those of the Necromancer on her face, jumped out of the portal with Yuuki. In Kalisi's right hand, she was still holding the HK416D equipped with a grenade launcher.

"Looks like we've arrived just in time," Carlisle said, looking at the empty rear deck of the cruise ship.

"An hour is plenty of time for just a simple bomb. But first, let me ask you, how do you plan to dismantle it?"

"Actually, I don't plan to tear it down myself." Carlisle spread her hands and said to Yuuki.

"what?"

"Even without us, Miss Anjie can successfully dismantle the bomb. Even in the worst case scenario, if they flip over, it will just be a matter of opening a portal and dropping the bomb to a safe place before it explodes."

"Hmm... that seems to be true..." Yuki sighed. Just in case, she was cautious and had a little backup plan of her own—a high-powered Gaussian disintegration ray weapon. This weapon, which generated a focused bipolar magnetic field, "pulled" any object struck toward the muzzle at a subatomic level. A special pulsed current generated a magnetic field that stripped the target's atoms apart, destroying the target's atomic bonds and completely shredding it at a microscopic level.

If the bomb encounters an uncontrollable accident, a high-power Gaussian disintegration ray is enough to instantly turn the entire bomb into a pile of harmless atoms.

The reason why Yuuki prepared such a thing before coming here was not because he did not trust Kahlesh, but simply because Kahlesh's weird style of painting was the same as that of the Necrons every time she opened a portal made his aesthetic sense a little bit problematic, so he impulsively created such a weapon with an appearance that was too 40k style. If Kahlesh had not particularly liked the HK416D equipped with a grenade launcher, Yuuki might really not be able to resist making a nerve crusher gun specially used by the Necrons' Death Mark Assassin and force it on Kahlesh.

Chapter 60: The Microscopic World of Nanounits at the Planck Scale

While Anjie and others on the ship were searching for the bomb installed on the ship, on a distant Pacific island, the dragon girl Renlong, who lived underground and operated various facilities on Taylor Island, was also exploring the limits of her own understanding and the use of her power.

"After all, our understanding of the application of von Neumann self-replicators like Gray Wind is still superficial." Ren Long, who was sitting in the supercomputer server cluster area of ​​the data center, muttered to himself as he looked at the densely packed server cabinets in front of him.

"Hiss... If the application of nanomachines like Gray Wind only stays on the surface, it will be no different from the emperor's golden shovel. We must further explore our limits in this area." Renlong put one hand on the humming server cabinet and thought.

"Maybe... I can give it a try? Go deeper into the limits of the application of nano-mechanical products?" Ren Long pulled out a cable from a Yiyi Qisi Wujiu Siba server cabinet beside him and skillfully connected it to the brain-computer interface behind his head.

As Renlong closed her eyes and focused all her perception on herself, her perspective and thoughts continued to sink in the thought network along with the huge torrent of data.

The moment he sank into the depths of his thinking network, Renlong felt that his brain's thinking and information processing speed had reached an unprecedented height. It seemed as if he had more perceptions in his field of vision. A sense of microscopic, time and space, energy, and information beyond the five senses instantly flooded into Renlong's mind.

Under the impact of the huge torrent of information, Ren Long even felt a momentary blank in his brain.

Ren Long, who was slightly dazed by the impact of the flood of information, shook his head and released the unique perception ability of the nanomechanical aggregate towards the data center where his body was located. At this time, Ren You's spirit, perception, and thinking abilities seemed to break through the constraints of this material body and extend to the entire island, the entire ocean, and even the entire planet.

For Renlong, this is a feeling that is difficult to describe in words. If I have to describe it, I can probably use this word: transparent. Everything around seems to become so transparent.

Countless lines poured out layer by layer in Renlong's vision, until they expanded to the limit of the known spectrum of the material universe.

Within the range of Renlong's visual perception, countless microscopic structures composed of strings were stacked and spread out in front of her, forming an extremely complex space-time with nine coordinate axes and eighteen positive directions.

Renlong's consciousness, which seemed extremely small in this nine-dimensional time structure, looked around at this world curled up at the microscopic scale with a shocked expression.

"This is really... shocking!" Ren Long sighed as he looked at the nine-dimensional space-time that extended to infinite scales in his perception while his consciousness was deep in the microscopic scale.

"Sure enough, the most microscopic sub-individual units that make up advanced nanomachines like Grey Wind have reached a level close to the Planck scale."

"And this... is the world seen by the nanounits that make up the Gray Wind at its most microscopic scale?"

"You're still underestimating it. How could a Von Noltemann self-replicator like Gray Wind, which can already modify the most microscopic structure of quarks and gluons, possibly have its most microscopic nanometer units limited to the scale of an atomic nucleus?"

"The most microscopic nano units that make up it must be intelligent beings that have already curled up in the high-dimensional microscopic physical field below the Planck scale, and Gray Wind's body that appears in the three-dimensional material world is just a part of its entity. It is a one-sided projection and an interactive interface between their high-dimensional and three-dimensional space-time in a more microscopic field and a three-dimensional material level, just like an arc on a sphere or a face on a cube. Simply destroying this face is like a two-dimensional creature destroying the shadow of a three-dimensional life. It cannot really kill a nanomachine like Gray Wind, right?" Renlong pondered, rubbing his temples that felt a little painful.

Renlong sighed after realizing how superficial his previous use of Gray Wind was. After taking one last look at the spectacular microscopic high-dimensional world before him, he retracted the perception of his consciousness back into his body in the three-dimensional macroscopic world.

"Huh... so tired." After returning to the macroscopic world, Renlong felt exhausted. Although she had become a nanomechanical aggregate and would not actually experience fatigue like a living organism, she still felt an inexplicable fatigue mentally. The information shock brought by the high-dimensional microscopic perspective just now still made her feel unable to adapt. It felt as if she had just experienced a high-intensity brain storm, and even made Renlong feel dizzy.

"Hiss... A single gray wind nanounit at the most microscopic level of gray wind is indeed a collection of elementary particles close to the Planck scale, rather than some microscopic machine." Renlong summarized his thoughts on the composition of gray wind at the most microscopic scale.

"Even the most basic microscopic nanounits are smaller than the Higgs boson. It truly is the most advanced von Neumann self-replicator that can theoretically be created, isn't it?"

"It seems that the way we used it before was just like an ignorant child using a nuclear bomb as a club."

"Even the energy source for a single nanounit's self-replication and growth isn't some microscopic nuclear reactor, but rather energy generated by annihilating space?"

"Vacuum zero-point energy... and it's not the zero-point energy I'm familiar with, obtained through the Casimir effect... The source of vacuum zero-point energy within microscopic nano-units is generated through extremely strong distortion, causing space to paradoxically fold and annihilate itself."

"To be more precise in terms of principle, perhaps it should be more vividly described as obtaining and utilizing vacuum zero-point energy by fracturing space?"

"Wow, this is already mythical technology, right? No wonder it can be used to create a wormhole-like, superluminal transportation network across the entire Milky Way."

"With technology of this level, the way we used it before was really a bit of a waste, wasn't it?"

"In that case, perhaps I can create something that truly transcends the current understanding of the physics system?" Renlong said as he began to gather the silver-white nanomachines in his palm, intending to start a small experiment.

(My stomach feels a little uncomfortable late at night, so I will stop here for today. I am really sorry. As for the problems mentioned by readers, I will try my best to improve them later.)

Chapter 61 Experiment to break the quark confinement effect and bomb disposal?