My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 462: Time

On the central big screen of the combat command center, the footage transmitted back by the probe was displayed, attracting the attention of everyone present.

The lunar surface in the footage was riddled with pits, and the tracked probe was traveling in such an environment, completely silent throughout, inexplicably giving off a somewhat eerie atmosphere.

A single launch would naturally not carry just one probe.

In fact, when facing the Mona people, the military’s practice was to conduct saturation probing whenever conditions allowed.

Probes like these tracked ones had been carried in a full ten units.

The technician standing next to Lu Bai timely reminded: “Probe One is about to reach the shadow edge.”

The entire process had gone so smoothly that it sent chills down their spines, so when the probe abruptly stalled just as it was about to touch the shadow, some of the technicians actually felt a sense of relief in their hearts.

They had lost control of Probe One, but the transmitted footage had not been interrupted.

“Quickly confirm the cause of the malfunction.”

“Activate Probe Two and Probe Three to scout the shadow.”

They had not yet obtained any effective information for the time being, but fortunately, they had prepared enough probes, providing a certain degree of fault tolerance.

Soon, two new tracked probes headed toward the shadow.

Without a doubt, these two probes also stalled on the spot just like Probe One when they were about to touch the shadow.

No matter how they tried to reconnect, they could not restore control; it was not like a simple disconnection, but more like the core control unit had been damaged.

But with these successive samples, the technicians in the combat command center could at least judge some information.

“It can basically be determined that it was affected by the gravity present around the shadow.”

Although this shadow’s area was large, no energy reactions had been detected at all. By normal logic, the only thing left was that special gravity layer always maintained at the shadow edge, which could cause such a result.

Listening to the technicians’ report, the uniformed elder did not question why they had previously judged that this gravity layer posed no threat.

After all, regarding the technology possessed by the Mona people, humanity knew next to nothing about it.

Making judgment errors was really the most normal thing.

“Don’t panic, all departments hold on to your posts. So what if it’s unknown technical means? When we decided to face the Mona people, didn’t we already know this point long ago?”

The uniformed elder turned and scanned the room, solemnly encouraging: “What everyone needs to do now is to quickly analyze the principles involved and come up with corresponding countermeasures. You don’t need to worry about other things.”

Although this dose of chicken soup did not boost morale, just as he said, everyone present, whether technicians or military high-level officials, had long been prepared to fight electromagnetic cannons with stone axes.

Emotions like surprise and panic were indeed present, but they were not at the point of despairing to the extent of giving up resistance.

Sensing the overall atmosphere in the combat command center, Lu Bai said no more and focused on observing the footage transmitted back by the probe on the large screen.

If that shadow was just diffusing, it would still take a very long time at its current diffusion speed to cover Earth.

He reckoned that the Mona people’s actions would definitely not be this simple.

Unfortunately, it was still unclear for the time being what the Mona people’s next action would be.

However, this doubt did not persist for long.

Lu Bai soon noticed that the shadow shown in the screen footage was gradually undergoing new changes.

Simply put, the color of the shadow had deepened.

Deep enough that the lunar surface could no longer be observed.

The key point was that it was not pure black; even with the naked eye, it could be clearly judged that it was more like a profound depth, as if it absorbed even the surrounding light sources.

It was not something like a black hole.

Very strange; this change gave Lu Bai an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Thanks to the probes that had previously stalled at the shadow edge, which had been engulfed by the shadow’s diffusion, allowing other probes to observe up close the effect of this change on the probes.

A high-ranking uniformed officer watched as that probe gradually restored its brand-new factory sheen, shocked into blurting out: “That’s… time reversal?”

The word “time” made Lu Bai realize why this change felt somewhat familiar to him.

First, one fact must be made clear: time itself is a concept invented by humanity for the convenient understanding of the world.

One Earth rotation is defined as one day; the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom is positioned as one second.

Notice it? Essentially, time is actually the state change of matter; humanity merely defines the periodic changes of a certain substance as time.

So even the [Flash Time] possessed by Lu Bai, this seemingly unscientific supernatural power, is, in principle, merely a brief stagnation of the motion state of atoms in a certain area.

This was already very exaggerated.

However, the change in this shadow on the lunar surface was reversing the state changes of these substances.

Why is a time machine impossible?

Because traveling to the past essentially requires precisely resetting every atom in the entire universe to a certain state; the precision and energy consumption required for this process would be impossible even if all matter in the universe were to consume.

Fortunately, the Mona people had not achieved this degree.

But even just reversing the material state in this shadow was a technology so absurd it bordered on fantasy.

The more one understood about technology, the more one could realize just how inconceivable this means was.

Some technicians even dejectedly removed their hands from the console, murmuring as if in a dream: “A civilization like this, is it really something we can resist?”

……

“Mo Na Civilization?”

In the newly built area of the forward base, a young person stood among the panicked crowd, gazing up at the moon in the night sky that was mostly covered by the shadow.

“This world is really interesting.”

The young person lowered his head, hiding the surprised expression in his eyes.

In the cultivation world he came from, humanity held absolute dominance and had never experienced being deterred by another civilization.

If it were a righteous person, they might hold the idea that different races must have different hearts and see if they could lend a hand.

Unfortunately, a great power from the demonic path like him would not care about such things.

On the contrary, he thought it was good if things got chaotic, as it would make it more convenient for his actions.

The young person curved the corner of his mouth, reached out to push through the crowd, and walked toward the direction of the combat command center.

Facing the Mona people’s strikes that could appear at any time, the armed forces responsible for maintaining order had little mind to focus on these ordinary civilians.

Therefore, the young person proceeded very smoothly along the way and arrived at the entrance of the building where the combat command center was located without taking much time.