Chapter 120: Chapter 120: Teleporting the Hive Nest to a Star's Surface for Destruction!
Airet was now on the bridge.
All of the Astartes and nearly thirty Planetary Defense Force members had survived.
The collapsing ground had made them slide into the abyss, but the recipient controlled his ship, and the open hatch had received them like the mouth of a giant beast, swallowing them up.
"Quantum ghost mode amplification in progress. Twenty percent remaining until maximum amplification range is reached."
Accompanied by this mechanical voice, Airet saw a screen on the bridge changing. The screen displayed this ship and the environmental images of the surrounding exterior.
With the ship at the center, ripples were radiating outward in all directions, spreading to cover almost the entire hive nest.
The hive nest, also sensing something was wrong, was directing massive amounts of biochemical plasma toward this ship.
So Airet watched in amazement as the beams passed through the ship, through the bridge, and even affected him, but he actually felt nothing from being hit.
The ship they were on seemed to have become non-physical, more air-like than air itself, like nothingness. So the Tyranids' attacks had no effect whatsoever.
"Warning: jumping within the current selected range will exceed the tolerance limit of the quantum beacon at the selected coordinates."
Ejie at the control console frowned slightly upon seeing this warning.
In that case, he wasn't sure if he could transfer the entire hive nest away.
The so-called quantum beacon could be thought of as an entangled particle, with its corresponding particle on the ship.
This way, no matter where the ship was, it could directly jump to the placed coordinates.
Quantum beacons also came in different specifications. The larger the specification, the more mass could be jumped.
He hadn't anticipated that the planet where he was excavating the STC would become like this, so the beacon he had placed was naturally not the highest-grade specification.
Of course, quantum beacons existed not only at the currently selected location but also in other star systems, including maximum-specification beacons.
The problem was that the farther the distance, the longer the jump preparation time.
Don't think that in the current state, with the hive nest's frantic attacks below, it was like hitting air—this had a tolerance limit.
Looking at a window on the screen, it showed how long they could last under the bugs' concentrated fire.
The ship's current state was similar to a plot he had seen in "The Three-Body Problem," where during the escape from the Trisolaran water droplet attack, they accidentally entered another dimensional space. In this dimensional space, contact with the warship from real space was like air—the warship was just a projection of this dimension into real space.
This state effect was like the relationship between subspace and the real world being reversed.
If they weren't also amplifying and expanding the range, the bugs wouldn't be able to observe the ship's existence at all.
It was this amplification process that created spatial ripples. Like light being affected by something and causing refraction, projecting a distant scene to form a mirage that could be seen but not touched.
Moreover, this projection could only be seen with the naked eye. Electronic instruments couldn't observe it, like ghosts in ghost stories that couldn't be captured on camera—only spiritual life forms could see them.
Anyway, these were all Ejie's own explorations and speculative descriptions. Don't ask him about the actual technical principles—he didn't understand them.
"Coordinates locked. Hyperspace quantum engine entering..."
The jump's cooldown timer began.
"Jump preparation complete."
However, Ejie didn't immediately confirm the jump. Because the quantum ghost mode's range circle hadn't expanded to that beacon's tolerance limit yet.
He noted that the time limit for the current untouchable ghost state was also shortening.
The tolerance time was pre-allocated time, already calculating the energy consumed when the quantum ghost mode expanded to the set range circle and the entire area entered quantum ghost state, with the remaining energy determining how long the current ship could last.
At the moment when the entire area entered this state, it meant the bugs would be in the same dimension as his ship, and the bugs' attacks could hit his ship.
However, they had also calculated the current firepower of the bugs and how long the ship's surface energy layer could withstand it. The time was sufficient.
"Maximum amplification range reached."
At this moment, Ejie confirmed the jump without hesitation.
Time seemed to disappear, and space itself seemed to become nothingness.
But this was just a feeling.
In the field of vision captured by the eyeballs, the change was like this: everything became transparent. It felt like being suddenly wrapped in endless transparency.
Then, consciousness felt like it was pulled through endless time, and for a moment it felt like glimpsing the universe's myriad phenomena. But when he came to his senses, his vision was flooded with intense light, though it didn't feel blinding.
This was because it was filtered by the ship.
The next second, vision returned to normal, and the scene that came into view was—
"This is—"
"Moved near a star?"
"This close!"
The Astartes were astonished. Right before them was an unimaginably large ball of flame—obviously a star.
Of course, if they were looking through portholes, they wouldn't be able to realize they were on the sun's surface—it was too close. This was confirmed through information displayed on the ship's screens.
They could see solar coronas erupting from the star's surface, making it seem like the ship could be hit by ejected matter at any moment.
Then they understood how the hive nest was being destroyed—they saw the massive hive nest had also been teleported over.
The ship shook slightly a few times—the bugs' attacks had hit.
But the shaking stopped after a few times, because countless bugs and the hive nest were being baked by the star's ultra-high temperature and pulled by the star's gravity.
At the same time, the ship was also affected by the gravitational pull, appearing to have exited that untouchable state.
So they could feel the cabin temperature rising.
But soon that state reactivated, and the ship stabilized.
"Quantum beacon recovered."
After confirming recovery, Ejie immediately had the ship move away from this star.
He didn't perform another quantum jump, because jumping would only take them to other star systems—only this one beacon was placed in this system.
Now he wanted to return to that planet to drop off the Astartes and others from the ship.
He didn't plan to land. The hangar contained two Thunderhawk gunships—he'd give them one and have them take what he wanted to give the Great Sage.
Using sublight speed, after half an hour, they had reached orbit above one side of the planet.
He was also preparing to open the hangar and launch the Thunderhawk already loaded with people.
Just one second before launch, a sudden change made his finger instantly freeze one centimeter before confirmation, then he watched the planet's sudden transformation in extreme silence.
Was this a step too late?
It seemed his transfer of the hive nest was unnecessary—a waste of effort.
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