Don't follow the rules

Chapter 526: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (One Hundred and Two)
In "Haojiu Home Furnishing City", a position that completely belonged to the enemy, Ning Yao forcibly gained a second of time that belonged entirely to him.

This is the time-stopping technique that Zhong Ming had used on the Fa Fa Fa cruise ship. It can cover the entire huge ship.

Of course, this technique does not really "stop" time on a physical level, but bends a short period of time within a designated area and stretches it to the desired length.

People and objects in it and constrained by the macroscopic physical properties will fall into a stagnation that they are unable to perceive, just like the astronauts in "Interstellar" approaching a black hole with huge mass. The time near them is stretched and bent, and people close to the black hole only feel that they have stayed there for a very short time, but in fact several years have passed in the outside world.

Generally speaking, only the "Time Lord" who casts the spell can move freely in this area and switch the flow of time freely.

Within this second, Ning Yao can open the Eye of Horus at full power without worrying about its damage (although Horus is the God of Fall and can be undisturbed, as long as he himself recognizes Ning Yao's time stop, he can still be affected by this one second of time stop).

The Eye of Horus is now fully capable of withstanding the full power state for just one second.

click
As the second hand in the main control room stopped moving, the time in the entire building fell into a distorted vortex, flowing at an imperceptible speed, abnormally slowly, and the world was almost suspended.

“Ahem…”

Before Ning Yao could show off, he suddenly coughed up blood.

"Well, even though I've already used the time stop, I still have to 'hurry up' to do things. Both the spear and the shield are hitting me." He wiped his mouth nonchalantly.

Time stop can reduce the usage loss of the Eye of Horus, but it will cause huge consumption to Ning Yao himself.

Although theoretically, the regional time stop technique can "infinitely" extend this second, it still has to follow the basic law of conservation of energy. The energy required to stretch the time is all supported by the caster burning his own health bar.

Unlike Zhong Ming who used time stop at will, Ning Yao did not have a "pocket watch owner" behind him who could help him repair damage and replace parts at any time. He had to bear all the backlash brought about by such a heaven-defying move as time stop.

How many petals he can break into in this second depends entirely on how long his health bar can burn.

He didn't dare to delay. Under the full-powered Eye of Horus, everything would be exposed.

"This is..." Ning Yao widened his eyes in slight shock.

For the first time, he could finally see the entire frame of the building clearly - this was indeed not an ordinary building, but a giant Rubik's Cube.

All the places he had been to in this building before, the shopping mall, the garage, the cold storage... were all evenly spread out on the surface of this Rubik's Cube Building.

Only the place where he is standing now, the so-called "signing hall", is on the opposite side of the shopping mall grid. Although it is still located in the outermost layer of the Rubik's Cube, he is no longer walking on the surface of the Rubik's Cube. His head is facing the inner space of the Rubik's Cube.

He raised his head and looked inside the Rubik's Cube. His sight, like the perception tentacles before, was drawn into a strange formation and then thrown out the same way it came.

"…What is this? How can there be a mirror that even the All-Seeing Eye cannot see through?" The projected line of sight was retracted along the original path, so in his eyes, the core of the Rubik's Cube above his head was a huge mirror.

My mind judged that there must be an enemy hiding behind this, but my perception was still unable to capture the specific location.

He lowered his head and shook his fingers. The silk thread in his hand remained floating in the air and did not fall immediately along the gravity. What entangled the cracked silk thread were completely transparent ripples that could not be seen in shape, but spread all over the Rubik's Cube Building. These ripples that gradually became clear were the electromagnetic waves that Ning Yao had been trying so hard to find.

Since the enemy took the opportunity to seize the only communication channel between the dream core and the outside world, they must be communicating directly with the world inside the core. As long as the source of these entangled electromagnetic waves is traced back, the enemy headquarters hidden behind the formation can be found!

Ning Yao stretched out all his sensory tentacles again, but this time he was no longer like a clueless headless fly. Instead, he tracked the source of the radio waves and moved through the formation accurately.

The sophisticated formation laid out by the planner could not be changed in this stagnant time and space, and with the guidance of the radio waves, Ning Yao's tentacles were like entering an empty space, and he easily discovered the existence of the Rubik's Cube's core control room.

"Yidan?" Ning Yao saw an old acquaintance. He was not surprised, but he was curious. "Why did the alliance send a pure liberal arts student to sit in the middle of the complex magic cube and formation? I thought at least he would be a good judge."

But this is not a big deal. Since the enemy made a mistake in selecting their generals, it is an advantage for our army.

As for the man next to Yi Dan, he was dressed in a suit and looked very respectable, with the coffee on the table still steaming, a typical petty bourgeois. He had his hands on the keyboard and mouse, and his whole body was completely devoted in front of the operating table. He was probably the actual controller of this Rubik's Cube.

Yi Dan sat behind him with his arms folded across his chest. From his posture, Ning Yao was more inclined to think that Yi Dan was the leader between the two.

"When an amateur manages the experts, problems can easily arise..." Ning Yao took the time to comment, but before he could finish his words, blood rushed to his throat again.

"Okay, okay, I get it," Ning Yao said helplessly, "Hurry up~"

He warmed up slightly, and his neck made a crisp sound of bones: "Now that we have found the core, we should just capture the thief and the king."

click
The hour hand finally moved through one second with difficulty.

The next moment, the two people in the Rubik's Cube control room immediately realized that something was wrong.

Ning Yao's aura, which was originally very far away, swept across the entire core of the Rubik's Cube in an instant. The outer wall of the main control room was entangled by dense tentacles, which began to exert force continuously, shrinking and tightening little by little.

creak
The main control room's structure made a sound of being unable to bear the weight, and the surrounding walls showed horrible bulging marks. The room looked shaky, as if the tentacles outside could immediately pinch this solid core control room into a crumpled ball like a ball of paper.

The external power was destroyed the moment the time stop ended. Although the internal emergency power supply was immediately restored, all the circuits and screens in the room were alarming at this moment.

"What's going on!" Yi Dan shouted, "How did he find this place?"

The planner gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that there are still many mistakes and omissions in the intelligence collection, but it is too late to remedy it now."

Yi Dan glanced around, pulled out a pen from his chest pocket, and said simply, "Let's retreat."

"It's not over yet, it's not over yet!" The planner rarely resisted Yi Dan's order in a stiff tone, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes. "I still have a plan. We have already made it this far. There is only a little bit left. Lord Yi, please let me try again!"

Yi Dan's face turned cold: "It's not 'we', it's just 'you'. You have done a lot of unnecessary things."