Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

"What?" The captain raised an eyebrow.

"From my observation, you are the kind of person who prefers to use strength." Latio looked at the captain. This was not nonsense, but a conclusion he came to through careful observation and judgment.

"For now, I think I understand the benefits of strength." The captain shrugged, "But everyone grows up from being weak, at least for me. When I was weak, I had no strength to use, only my brain and momentum to use."

"Don't get tired at any time, or your brain will rust." Latio looked at the captain and said something that was half an admonition and half a lesson.

"Of course I remember how to use my brain." The captain smiled and didn't take Latio's attitude to heart.

Latio didn't say much, and there was a vague sense of tacit understanding between the two.

Next, the three of them had to go to the base module and go to the main monitoring room to call up the overall monitoring of the space station. They tried to follow Estelle's ideas to see if there were any abnormalities in the space parameters inside the space station and see if they could find the missing clerk.

Latio felt that this was a futile effort, or rather, there was no point in getting the person back, as this could not resolve the nature of the [Phase Spirit Fire] controlled by the Grand Duke of Hellfire, which always posed a threat to the space station.

But the captain and Latio have different opinions.

"She is the manager of the space station. It is Esta's duty and responsibility to be responsible for the staff. Otherwise, she can't even hold on to this position, let alone have subsequent development in the space station." The captain looked at Latio, who was silent and thinking.

"Okay..." Latio shrugged, "But I still stick to my opinion. After all, I can never understand mediocrity."

The two stopped communicating, but Yuexia suddenly spoke up, "To be honest, I don't think there's anything wrong with Estelle."

So the captain and Latio both looked at her.

"No one is a jack of all trades." Yuexia raised her hand and tapped her chin. "After all, Ester is not even 20 years old yet. It's normal that she can't handle these things well. After all, Heita doesn't look like a good teacher who will do his best in these aspects, right?"

Ratio was stunned for a moment, and looked at the captain. They both saw the sudden realization in each other's eyes.

It seems...it's true.

Neither of them continued to ask this question, and Yuexia just smiled.

The detection records were still rapidly self-checking. Latio and the captain were quietly waiting for the results. Within ten minutes, seven abnormal spatial fluctuations were selected by the self-checking system and displayed in front of the captain and Latio.

"There are only records of fluctuations, but no mutual mapping or response, and it's odd." Latio looked at the captain, "Next, I'll leave it to you?" "Yes." The captain nodded, raised his phone, and took a picture of the large surveillance screen.

The three of them quickly arrived at the location of the first spatial fluctuation under the abnormal entry.

In a deserted and empty warehouse in the rare item storage department.

"I can indeed feel the aftermath of the space." The captain raised his eyebrows, "I can try to trace back the traces."

"Let's begin." Latio stepped back a few steps and gave the field to the captain.

The captain did not disappoint Latio. He got the result in just a few minutes. However...

"The direction of the spatial fluctuations is not within any range of the space station that I know of." The captain sensed it vaguely and looked a little strange. "It is deep in the space station. It is most likely the space hidden by the black tower."

"So it's best if we don't rush in." Latio shrugged, not finding the situation strange at all.

"Let's go back to Estelle and Screw."

Chapter 141: The Benefits of Strength

The jumping and shuttling of space will leave traces on the coordinates of the folds and fluctuations of space that are difficult for ordinary people to perceive.

As long as the traces are obvious enough, the traces left by the space jump will be mapped to each other at the starting point and the end point.

The captain can see the flow of imaginary energy, has a talent for space, and has the knowledge he learned from the Black Tower, plus the experience of an unknown Envoy of the Order of Fertility sent by [Liuguang Yiting] in understanding the universe.

Combining the four points, his observations were even more accurate than those of machines.

"According to the captain's instructions, the area mapped by the space transmission is not within my management scope." Estelle sighed helplessly. She waved her hand in the air and used the projection to dispatch a map of the entire space station. She pointed her finger at a lower circular area in the center of the space station. "It should be here."

"Aren't you the stationmaster of the space station?" Yuexia looked at Estelle curiously, who looked a little powerless. "Are there any areas of the space station that are beyond your management?"

"The space station is Ms. Black Tower's personal property. I am responsible for helping her manage and operate it, so I am indeed the stationmaster in terms of duties." Estelle nodded, confirming Yuexia's doubts. "This is called the [confinement section], and it is not within the scope of Ms. Black Tower's 'personal property', so it is naturally not within my management scope."

"Ms. Black Tower gave this [confinement section] to a member of the [Genius Club] in her personal name." Estelle looked around at everyone, "At the same time, this member is also the creator of the [Phase Spirit Fire], Genius Club #81, Ruan Mei."

"The ceiling of the field of life sciences." Latio added his evaluation of Ruan Mei, "I very much agree with [Dr. Original]'s evaluation of this genius. She is an irresponsible 'mother', which extends to her being a terrifying 'madman'."

"Irresponsible mother? A horrible lunatic?" The captain raised his eyebrows and looked at Latio.

"She is in charge of giving birth but not raising her, and she doesn't know how to educate her." Latio showed his disgust and impatience at this moment. "She can easily create a life with intelligence and power, but she doesn't know how to educate and guide. Her creativity and destructive power are completely equal. On the one hand, she is a true genius, and on the other hand, she is also a pure idiot."

"Is there a grudge between you two?" The captain raised his eyebrows and looked at Doctor Zhenli who seemed to be quite resentful.

"The [Educational Society] and the [Genius Club] have never gotten along, and the [Genius Club] also has connections with the [Company]. As a scholar from the [Educational Society] and a technical consultant for the [Company], I sometimes have to step in to help some [Geniuses] clean up their 'genius ideas'." Latio is indeed very good at controlling his emotions. The moment the captain asked the question just now, Latio had already controlled his temper. When he was narrating the above, his voice had gradually calmed down.

"Correction, the 'genius' Mr. Latio complained about does not include me." There was a gentle smile in Screwgum's voice, "Let's get back to the current incident."

"Okay, let's talk about the current situation." Latio took a breath, quickly calmed down, and threw all the unnecessary distractions into the corner. "According to the captain's perception, the first missing officer, Adler from the Strange Objects Department, was transferred to the [confinement compartment] mentioned by Estelle. Can we go in and look for him and the fire at the same time?"

"Okay, I agree." An elegant female voice that had never been heard before echoed in the office of Black Tower.

The captain raised an eyebrow and asked tentatively, "Nguyen Mei?"

"Yes, I remotely controlled and authorized the control of the [confinement compartment] to the stationmaster. You can enter, but I have a request."

"Your magic item got out of control and turned into a projector of the power of the Duke of Hellfire. We helped you deal with the problem. Do you want to make more requests?" Latio didn't seem to care at all that he had just scolded Ruan Mei in person. His attitude was very tough and his tone was full of doubt.

"The responsibility for the loss of control of the artifact is not mine, but the Black Tower's." The genius named Ruan Mei's tone did not change at all. "You cannot destroy the [Phase Spirit Fire], you must capture it alive. This is my only request. It can be incomplete, but it cannot be extinguished. This is not difficult for you, Captain."

"Oh?" The captain raised an eyebrow in confusion, "I didn't know I could do such a thing."

The fate of [Abundance] is tied to vitality. No matter how deformed or desecrated the body is, it simply depends on whether it is alive or not.

Not to mention [Destruction], the manifestation of power is just as its name suggests.

"I heard that you control the power of [Order]'s destiny. Whether it is a strange object or a simple destiny, as long as it is the power of [Order], you can definitely do it."

The power of [Order]... The bond of restraint, the oath of Judah...

The captain noticed that everyone was looking at him strangely. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Ms. Ruan Mei, you may have some misunderstandings. It's just a weapon, and when the power of the weapon is released, you should understand what will happen, right?"

"Yes, I know." Ruan Mei's voice was still calm, and she spoke slowly. "But the [Phase Spirit Fire] I created is not a fragile life. I believe in my creation, and I also believe in your illusory record of repelling the [Lord of Extinction]. But it is precisely because I understand that I made a request. This is not difficult for you."

"I can agree, but I can't guarantee the results. I can't even guarantee that events will develop according to your ideas. I can only give you a verbal promise." The captain didn't dare to say too much. He didn't know the manifestation of the [Order] destiny at all, nor did he know whether there was any difference between the power of the Key of Constraint and the [Order] destiny.

Ruan Mei fell silent.

She seemed to be thinking, with only her soft breathing echoing over the office radio.

The captain waited for a moment, but he couldn't wait any longer, so he took the initiative to ask, "Have we made a deal?"

Ruan Mei's gentle voice sounded on the radio, "I understand."

The captain heaved a sigh of relief, but the second half of Ruan Mei's words rang out over the radio, "I'm sorry I can't accept that."

The captain's brows immediately raised.

I can’t accept this, so what’s next?

Asta was thinking the same thing as the captain, and she immediately said, "Ms. Ruan Mei, the missing officer in the [confinement compartment]."

"I withdrew the authorization." Ruan Mei's voice was calm but carried a sense of matter-of-factness.

The captain narrowed his eyes, as if he could understand Latio's feelings to some extent, and turned to look at Doctor Zhenli.

Latio simply shrugged at the captain.

"To be honest, I can go in even without your authorization." The captain narrowed his eyes and spoke slowly, "But if I go in by my own means, your [Phase Spirit Fire] will definitely not be preserved. I'll give you a chance to reconsider it?"

**Naked threats.

Ruan Mei on the other end of the line didn't even think about it, "Then I will authorize Estelle."

It's just a matter of making choices. For a genius like Tian Tian, it doesn't even require thinking.

"You see, this is the benefit of power." The captain was speechless and turned to look at Latio.

"In the past, this matter would have taken a while."

"But now, just one threat and it's solved."

"Rude..." Latio commented in a low voice, "But efficient."

Chapter 142: Strange Creatures

Although Ruan Mei gave authorization again, the captain and Latio still decided to use space teleportation directly to enter the [confinement section].

After all, it is convenient and fast.

"This is... my first time experiencing this type of space teleportation." Latio covered his forehead and looked around the dark hall. "It's a strange experience."

"It's not that my transmission has a problem." The captain frowned, and his eyes looked around the dark hall of the [confinement compartment], "It's that the space here has a problem."

After hearing what the captain said, Latio raised his eyebrows, casually took out a monocle from his jacket pocket and put it on his right eye, and then immediately observed the specific situation of the "problem in space" mentioned by the captain.

The space was wrinkled, like a piece of paper that was crumpled and then flattened. The flatness and continuity of the space were destroyed. Although it was becoming flat again, it was still abnormal. Such wrinkles appeared at the landing point where the captain was transferred. The two of them landed safely, but they felt a little dizzy. They did not die suddenly with half of their bodies stuck in the wall. This was enough to show the captain's control over space.

Latio can see the anomalies in space with the help of the magic object, but the captain can see more with his naked eyes.

The wrinkled space was filled with messy traces of imaginary energy, like a tangled ball of wool, with knots and independent parts without a beginning or an end.

"I saw something, wait a moment." The captain frowned.

Latio turned around and glanced at the captain in surprise.

The captain ignored Latio. Relying on his intuition, he felt that the traces left by the imaginary energy in the space were a bit strange. He observed the traces left in the space and tried to disassemble and restore them.

"We have a conclusion." The captain narrowed his eyes. "There was a phase change here, a secondary phase change, which was caused by the continuous folding and compression of space."

"Are you sure?" Latio narrowed his eyes.

His magic weapon can only observe some basic conditions of space. Folded space and phase are not within the observation range of this magic monocle.

Moreover, if what the captain said was true, it meant that the [Phase Spirit Fire] controlled by the [Grand Duke of Hellfire] had begun to slowly erode Latio's phase blockade of the entire space station.

"Well, the space has been folded. You step back a little. I will try to restore the folded space." The captain narrowed his eyes, gave orders with his mouth, but his hands had already started to move.

Latio stepped back quickly, watching the captain standing in the middle of the dark hall raise his finger and slide it in the air.

As the captain moved, a strange scene appeared in Latio's eyes.

In his sight, many scenes appeared in layers as the captain waved his fingers, and the continuity of space was broken under the captain's control, just like dismantling a box that had both refraction and reflection and was transparent in itself. As the box was dismantled, an arm appeared in Latio's field of vision.

The arm appeared with the folded space. In Latio's eyes, the arm was nested in the space and moved along with the layered space as the captain moved.

"There's someone there." Latio couldn't help but remind him in a low voice.

He had to remind him because he was afraid that the captain would make a mistake in operation. This hand and its owner would be fixed in the space and then folded and hidden. If the captain made a mistake in operation and the continuity of space was broken, the people nested in this layered space would die.

"I know, don't worry." The captain responded in a low voice. He was also a little nervous. After all, this was the first time. Even if there was an operation error in the space itself, it would automatically reset over time, but the people inside did not have this function.

But fortunately everything went well.

The knowledge he had learned carefully, coupled with countless teleportation experiments in the space station, allowed the captain to accumulate enough experience. Finally, with the traces of imaginary energy as a guide, he finally dismantled the first layer of stacked space.

And in the space station [Black Tower], Adler, a clerk belonging to the Department of Strange Objects, was also safely "restored" by the captain.

"Huh..." The short boy frantically touched and pressed his body, confirming that his head was still on his neck and that his hands and feet were not misplaced. "I'm still alive! I'm still alive!"

"Calm down and don't disturb him." Latio walked up to the noisy clerk, grabbed his collar and dragged him away from the captain.

"We know that you were following the orders of the Black Tower to search for the Phase Fire that had failed to be contained." Latio stared at the short young man. "What happened next?"

"[Phase Spirit Fire], yes... [Phase Spirit Fire]." Adler pressed his chest as if in fear, turned his head to look at the captain who was still restoring the space in the hall, and lowered his voice, "That is not the strange object I am familiar with at all. It was occupied by something foreign. I almost caught the fire, but it suddenly turned around and rushed towards me. I couldn't resist at all, and my spatial position and coordinates were changed. After coming here, the fire has been chasing me."

"I was not familiar with this place. I ran for a while, and then I was caught up when I tripped over something in this hall. I watched myself being folded, and finally the continuity of the light disappeared. My vision was pitch black, and I knew nothing."

Latio shook his head helplessly.

Well, it seems that Adler, who disappeared first, could not provide any useful clues to himself and the captain.

"Pah~" A strange sound, accompanied by a cry of pain, came from the captain.

Latio thought that there were still missing clerks in the hall, but when he turned around, he met the eyes of a strange creature on the ground.

A dark creature curled up in a dark 'shell'.

Its outer shell resembles the appearance of mooncakes, a traditional snack produced in abundance on the planet where the space station is located, while the creature inside looks like a cat, with upright triangular ears, reflective irises, and a tail.

Hermit crab? Hermit cat!

"What is this?" The captain squatted down and spoke. At that time, the cat's head born in the mooncake shell also raised its head and met the captain's eyes.

"I encountered bad things!" It made a shrill, childish voice, as if it was complaining to the captain.

"Bad guy?" The captain raised his eyebrows.

"How could there be such a bad creature among the creatures created by Ruan Mei! It lied to me and locked me up!" The black cat head covered with a pitch-black shell looked a little indignant, "I don't recognize it as the creation of the great Ruan Mei!"