Learn one small skill every day

"Actually, I don't feel that much has changed. You said back then that you would definitely come and take me back to the ship, and now you have done it."

Kaguya said, raising her little fist: "Don't worry, Captain, I'm here. You won't be cloned again. I'll keep you alive."

This sounds like it means we'll never have to worry about surveillance again.

"Don't be so optimistic, there's still some cigarettes that haven't been found."

"Have Shi Yan and the others disembarked?"

Kaguya looked quite surprised: "Shiyan has prevented the Ark from being swallowed by sea monsters many times. There are many situations that even Holke could not fully predict."

"I don't know either. Time smoke can reverse time, right? Is there a limit to its range?"

Bai Miao was already somewhat prepared for what kind of underworld creatures he might encounter next.

However, Bai Miao truly felt somewhat powerless against Shi Yan's ability to forcibly reverse time.

It's like changing the past. Is that really possible?

"Oh right... Captain, you don't remember anything. I hope Shiyan will welcome you warmly, but I feel that's unlikely... She's always been cold."

Kaguya seemed to be quite familiar with Toki.

"Tell me in detail, otherwise there will be too many variables if we bring her back."

"The most important point is that Shi Yan's time reversal is not a time reversal in the strict sense. It's more like she pulls the part she wants to reverse into an independent spacetime and simulates it repeatedly. It keeps looping until she achieves her goal."

For example, when Noah's Ark is attacked by sea monsters, she can set the goal to escape the sea monsters' attack, and at this time, the entire Noah's Ark and the sea monsters will enter a loop.

"But no one in the loop will remember every loop, and any state will revert to the beginning. In other words, Captain, you may very well step into the loop she has set up and be looped millions of times without even realizing it. Please be very careful. It would be best if you figured out her loop goal first and tried to achieve it directly to break her loop."

Bai Miao gasped, "This...this isn't right. Shi Yan's abilities are clearly on a completely different level from yours!"

With such incredible power, Bai Miao couldn't think of a way to break the deadlock.

"Shiyan's ability has strong limitations. She needs to set the final goal of the loop and the conditions that trigger the loop failure. Moreover, the object of the loop is not under her control, but is determined by her final goal. During this period, if an outsider enters the loop range or has an intersection with the loop target, he will also be directly pulled into the loop."

Kaguya paused for a moment: "In other words, we can observe from outside the loop, witnessing how the entire loop proceeds and how it fails, thus anticipating the conditions for achieving our goal. We can then enter the loop once everything is ready."

"Does that mean at the beginning of the loop, other people see the people in the loop as if it were a program playing on repeat?"

Kaguya nodded: "That's a fair comparison."

"Once the goal is achieved, it can never be reversed, right?"

“That’s right. For example, if we encounter a sea monster attack, Shi Yan’s goal is to let you survive and escape the sea monster’s pursuit. So even if you are the only one who survives in the end, the goal is achieved and the cycle is broken. Even if she herself is destroyed, the cycle will not be broken. The cycle has existed from the beginning.”

Bai Miao sighed. Shi Yan's ability was too powerful. If it fell into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But judging from Kaguya's words, Tokiyama seems to be discovering the possibility she hopes for among infinite possibilities, and then replacing it with reality.

This can no longer be explained by science.

Bai Miao gave up on exploring the underlying principles, but at least he learned how to deal with it from Kaguya.

Bai Miao wasn't sure if it was the way he found the three main parts, but if Shi Yan had been in the order of finding them first, it would have taken a long time.

We also got a lot of information from Kaguya.

After that, they simply waited for the spaceship from the Endless Energy to come to the moon and pick them up to go back.

During this time, Bai Miao still chatted with Kaguya intermittently, partly to check on Kaguya's mental state, and partly because his own safety on the ship would depend on her in the future.

After estimating that the time was almost up, Bai Miao opened the hatch and went outside to wait.

The Endless Energy spaceship was flying directly overhead, slowly descending with a dazzling trail of flames.

Security Minister Nebeibivo personally came to greet them.

Upon seeing Kaguya, a hint of joy flashed in Nebeibov's eyes.

"Oh my, as expected of the captain, you've found another one so quickly. Kaguya, welcome back."

"Hmm...you look much worse. Have you been drinking again?"

"...Let's get on the boat first."

Nebebivo didn't ask about the extra thirteen people, nor did he ask Kaguya what had happened over the years.

Instead, he said to Bai Miao, "Captain, while you were searching for Kaguya, some little tails caught up with us. They're about a hundred nautical miles away now. They seem determined to kill us. You decide how they die."

"All weapons on the ship are ready and waiting for your order."

Chapter 133 Reunion

"There are actually people blind enough to try and cause trouble for the Endless Energy Ship?!"

After listening to the security minister's report, Bai Miao found it simply unbelievable.

Normal people would actually want to climb up and do something that's a kilometer long and only a few hundred meters wide and high.

What's the skill level of the opposing team?

Nebeibivo shrugged: "Cities at development level 5 generally have their own development plans and are more cautious about artifacts salvaged from the sea. However, they also pay more attention to their own safety. It's likely that the Endless Energy was spotted when it passed through their controlled area, and they see us as a threat and want to eliminate it."

As he spoke, he yawned again: "But most likely their observation system malfunctioned. Incorrect observations lead to incorrect judgments. When their carrier-based aircraft opened fire on the Endless Energy, they had no chance of escaping unscathed."

"Carrier-based aircraft? Are they that technologically advanced that they've already got aircraft carriers?"

"Who wants to use that thing?"

Nebebivo scoffed at this: "It's something that's been obsolete for so many years, only they treat it like a treasure."

Kaguya sat quietly to the side, listening intently, and asked softly, "So what will we use to protect ourselves now?"

"On the ship, there are all kinds of weapons made by Gong Ni, and individual soldiers also have armor. If needed, she can also put together a larger one on the spot."

"So, can we defeat these sea monsters now?"

Nebebivo's tone even carried a hint of pride, as if his position as Minister of Security was incredibly valuable: "I can easily deal with sea monsters that are a hundred meters in size, handle those that are a thousand meters in size, and even if I can't beat those that are more than ten thousand meters in size, I can run away."

"Yes, yes, and then the captain's life was in danger that night."

Bai Miao thought to himself, "Who gave you the right to show off?"

Directly undermine them.

Nebeibov was silent for a moment: "Captain, you can't make me do things that are outside my job scope."

"Besides, this model was set by you. It existed before Kaguya and the others disembarked. It's just that you completed it precisely every day back then, and later you had to clone it every now and then."

Nebeibivo became defiant.

"Okay, then you shouldn't drink alcohol for the next few days."

"captain……"

Kaguya looked at Nebeibivel curiously: "When did you start drinking?"

More than 10,000 years ago?

"You're not allowed to drink it anymore."

"……Row."

Seeing how Kaguya managed to stop Nebeibivel from drinking with just a few words, Bai Miao wondered if his authority as captain was actually less than Kaguya's.

“Captain… why are you looking at me like that… I’m their older sister, of course they have to listen to me. Before, you were always busy studying Emma on the ship, it was me who took care of them.”

Bai Miao increasingly felt that Noah was like an old father who was so engrossed in his work that he completely ignored his children, with the eldest sister taking on the heavy responsibility.

Noah was somewhat obsessed as well.

"Then you'll have to take good care of these troublesome ministers in the future. Oh, you probably don't know, but Ouyang has a daughter, the current Minister of Human Resources, named Weina."

"Nebe-ibivo, can this spaceship go any faster? I really want to get back to the Ark right now!"

Kaguya was very excited.

"It's already at its fastest speed. Once we enter Terra's gravitational field, it'll be fine. We're still changing orbits, and it should only take about three hours to get back."

The spaceship's materials have extremely high strength, exceeding Bai Miao's imagination in both heat insulation and shock absorption.

When breaking through the atmosphere, Bai Miao felt almost no discomfort. Zhuo Xinzhi was extremely envious, but he also knew that this had nothing to do with technical design; it was purely a generational gap in materials science.

Bai Miao saw through Zhuo Xinzhi's thoughts and patted him on the shoulder: "You did a great job this time. After you return to the ship, I will allow you to submit a reward application to your R&D director, Gong Ni. Within the scope of her approval, you can choose one item as your private collection."

Zhuo Xinzhi didn't really achieve anything significant on this trip; Bai Miao mainly wanted to take this opportunity to bring back more things.

As for the other knockers, Bai Miao really couldn't just give them away, otherwise it would definitely arouse Emma's suspicion again.

What happened after Zhuo Xinzhi went to the moon with me wasn't made up; in short, he made a contribution.

Above Terra, Bai Miao spotted two ships far apart.

The larger one is the Endless Energy, and the smaller one looks like a baby in comparison.

The spaceship has a ranging system that shows the distance between the two has increased to more than 200 nautical miles. They maintain a strange tacit understanding and do not attack each other.

"Oh, Captain, there's something I forgot to tell you. We've captured a few prisoners who seem to be trying to infiltrate the Endless Energy. We've hung them on the deck now, ready to be dealt with at your discretion."

The landing of the spacecraft was quite a commotion, especially since it was a sea-based rocket, which needed to land on a platform built on the sea surface.

The Gaia spacecraft could also hear the roaring sound coming from the sky from afar.

The major general stood on the deck, surrounded by the ship's high-ranking officers.

"Damn it, we misjudged their strength."

The major general never expected that the enemy would capture his staff officer so quietly and even hang their entire squad on the deck.

This made it impossible for him to launch an attack on the ghost ship.

"The other side is cunning, but I don't think they can easily threaten us, otherwise they wouldn't have spared the life of their staff officer. This might be a signal for negotiation."

Someone suggested.

"They launched a spaceship into space a dozen hours ago, and now that thing is back. Did they go to get reinforcements?"

"The ghost ship has the ability to leave Terra, but it's still drifting at sea. What is its purpose...?"

The crowd chimed in with their own opinions. Hearing the rumors about the ghost ship was one thing, but after witnessing its immense size and its illogical behavior, they all felt a strange sense of fear.

From the moment I left until now, the other party seems to have completely ignored me.

This indifferent attitude made them both angry and afraid.