Abnormal crossing

Chapter 257 The drawbacks of the second technique
"Never mind the clones?"

Upon hearing Gu Wei's question...

The drill instructor glanced at him casually, as if an adult were looking at a child asking, "Why doesn't the sun have to work overtime like you, Daddy?"—a childish question.
"You're oversimplifying things. Let me put it this way: any technology that involves the realm of time, even if it only touches on the concept of time in the slightest, cannot be analyzed using common sense."

He paused, seemingly organizing his thoughts, then pointed to the spot where Gu Wei was standing and said, "For example, without considering time, if I froze you in place right now, you definitely wouldn't be able to escape, right?"

Gu Wei nodded slightly.

I'm not one of those sports students from before I time-traveled, so I definitely can't escape the situation where decay bubbles change the physical parameters of space.

“But it’s different when it comes to the timeline,” the instructor said, putting his five fingers together and making an upward gesture. “The timeline is not affected by any force field or decay bubble. No matter how many variations the vacuum energy levels in the decay bubble can have, it has nothing to do with it. In fact, the concept of ‘time’ is the core parameter that defines ‘decay,’ just like you can’t decide your parents’ height.”

"In this situation, if you move along the timeline, and there's a sufficiently high energy connection at the other end of the timeline, what do you think would happen?"

Before the instructor could finish speaking, Gu Wei's pupils suddenly contracted!
I think I vaguely understand now.
He had just been wondering why the golden mecha Xuanming, a Saint-level fighter, would suddenly become so stupid as to ignore Ling Su's main body and chase after the clone instead. Turns out, this was the reason.
According to the instructors.

Without considering the timeline, if Gu Wei were frozen, he would be a true ice bird, beyond saving.

But if time is involved...
Gu Wei cannot move within the three spatial axes XYZ, but he can travel back in time to the past or the future.

To use the earlier example of going to the toilet, it means moving from the seat to the bedside.

At this point, the Gu Wei you see in your original position is in an observational state where no one knows whether he is real or fake—he may be real or fake.

more importantly.
Although the Golden Mech Xuanming froze the Zero Element Mech, what it created was ultimately a highly localized pseudo-vacuum decay bubble.

Not only is the area covered by decaying bubbles limited, but they also decay over time, and most likely not for very long—a few seconds would be considered a lot.

As long as the Zero Element Mech survives the duration of the decay bubble on the timeline, it can reappear at the 'future' node when the freeze ends, thus completely breaking free from the blockade.

This point could be the first step after taking the first step, or it could be two or four steps later.

"Wait a minute!"

Thinking about this, Gu Wei belatedly realized something and quickly looked at the instructor: "Instructor, that clone that was blasted into pieces, could it be..."

“That’s right,” the instructor nodded, confirming Gu Wei’s guess: “That’s the future location where the Zero Element Mech has the highest probability of appearing. The Zero Element’s main body will indeed move to that coordinate in the next instant.”

"Therefore, when the attack landed at that coordinate, although it was a little earlier than the actual arrival time of the main body, due to the brief energy 'bridge' between the main body and that high-probability projection, some of the attack energy traveled back against the probability flow through this not-yet-completely-severed temporal connection, causing actual damage to the main body that had just arrived there."

"It's a pity that the Xuanming mech timed things a tiny bit off, otherwise the battle would have been different."

Speaking of it.

The instructor shook his head again, bringing the topic back to the original point: "This is actually a major drawback, or rather a weakness, of Amir's second mobile suit. Once someone accurately grasps the timing of the attack, it could very well be finished."

“Of course, it is precisely because of this drawback that this move is ranked second to last in Amir’s Seven Mobile Techniques – otherwise, do you think an operation linked to the timeline would be so cheap?” Gu Wei remained silent.

After the instructor's explanation, the information about Amir's second maneuver became quite clear.

Unlike Amir's first maneuver, which involves a leaping swing, the second maneuver is a maneuver with very obvious advantages and disadvantages:

It can perform a jump with a better effect than the Light Dome Thruster given by Iris, while removing almost all external control effects, which is equivalent to the combination of Mercury's Treads and Kassadin's ultimate in LoL.

But on the other hand.

The second technique requires an extremely large amount of energy to release the projection, and there is a possibility that it will be caught and thrown to the ground.

Overall, however, the Amir Type 2 is still quite excellent.

After all, compared to its advantages, the probability of a mech pilot being captured upon landing is actually very low—that golden mech Xuanming is a Saint-level fighter, and even he cannot fully control the landing time of the Zero Element, let alone other mech pilots.

Using Xuanming as a reference.

Gu Wei estimated that in actual combat, the proportion of cases where someone's landing point is caught out is probably even higher if it's a "bomb" (a winning hand in Mahjong).
be honest.

This should be Gu Wei's third encounter with concepts related to the timeline.

His first encounter with the timeline was when he was learning about civilization classification. Among them, the Congressional Civilization, which is a seventh-order civilization, not only needs to leave the galaxy, but also needs to be able to rewind/freeze the time flow within the entire galaxy to ≤15 Planck time.

One Planck time, converted to seconds, is 5.39 × 10⁻⁴⁴ seconds.

Don't be fooled by the short timeframe; it covers the entire galaxy, encompassing trillions of planets.
As for the second contact timeline, it is related to the tower model.

There are two timelines, t1 and t2, in the upper space of the tower. One of them fell into this universe along with the first civilization, which is the group of 'termites' that gnawed down the ceiling.

Therefore, when the creatures on the upper levels of the tower reach the time intersection, they will inevitably face a choice:

They either advance along the timeline T1, which is still at a higher level, or they come to this universe through the T2 timeline, become alien life forms, and are ganged up on by the civilizations of this universe.

At the time, Jin also mentioned that in some areas of the tower, the timelines were far more than just two separate discrepancies.

Some people have even encountered themselves at different points in time, thoroughly enjoying a self-inflicted spectacle.
Gu Wei then shook his head, bringing his attention back to reality, and said to the instructor, "Instructor, I roughly understand the principle and effect of the second type of maneuver, but there is still one question I don't quite understand."

The instructor seemed quite patient: "What's the problem?"

Gu Wei then gestured a few times in the air:
"How the hell is this thing associated with the word 'mobile'?"

(End of this chapter)