Invincible Starting From Sword Art Online

Chapter 259

Main control room.

Crete looked at the bearded face of Bullig, who was twisting back and forth with two wires strung into the keyhole with a slight unease.

After all, a time-accelerated security mechanism is not the same as a cheap revolver lock.

His fingertips are moving faster and faster, and the swearing in his mouth is getting louder and louder.

Hans, who was standing behind Bullig, looked at the watch on his left hand and said happily, “Hey, it’s been three minutes. I’m going to give me fifty dollars in two minutes~ ”

“I’m so annoying, shut up Lao Tzu! Give me two minutes!”

……

“One minute left~ Almost ready to prepare the wallet~”

At this moment Brigg stood up suddenly and threw the cut end of the wire to the ground.

Crete felt relieved, thinking that he still gave up.

At this moment, Brigg silently drew the pistol from the holster around his waist and pointed the muzzle at the keyhole.

“Hey! Wait!!”

boom–

boom–

A gunshot, and then another.

Bullig took the pistol back to his waist in front of the speechless crowd.

Then he looked at Hans first, then at Crete, shrugged and said, “Go on.”

Crete opened his mouth wide, and moved his gaze to the keyhole that was now a two-inch diameter black hole.

In the depths of the darkness, after two or three sparks flashed, the joystick that had stopped in a tilted state moved again.

After the joystick moved about five inches, it stopped with a light click.

Crete looked at the number on the display, slightly higher than the 1200 times previously set, and the number set to the upper limit of ×5000 was shining brightly.

“Five, five thousand?!”

When Crete reflexively began to calculate how many minutes in the real world corresponds to one second in the real world, a dull metal sound rang again.

The joystick, which should have stopped at the limit value, tilted deeper.

“Hey hey hey… this is incredible…”

The number displayed on the screen exceeds 10,000.

“Don’t touch!! Don’t touch anyone!!”

14

Crete shouted immediately and waved Hans and Blig away from the console.

Then he walked gently to the joystick and stretched out his right hand.

Before his hand touched the joystick, there was a slight explosion.

The red OK button and the transparent protective cover were blown up together.

The large monitor on the front wall of the main control room was dyed red, and a harsh alarm sounded from the speakers.

The countdown display of the remaining fifteen minutes began to decline at a dizzying rate.

……

When Higa heard the alarm that the time acceleration function was being manipulated again, she wanted to sit up again, and turned her face in pain.”Biga! I told you not to mess around!”

Jindai Rinko ran over to support Higa’s body with her hands.

But at this time, the main display in the sub-control room was dyed red.

“what!?”

It was Kikuoka who shouted out. Over the shoulders of the commander who ran towards the console, Higa stood up supported and stared at the screen desperately.

Displayed in a huge font on the monitor is to notify that the three-stage limiter that restricts the time acceleration function has been lifted, and the whole UnderWorld will enter the 15-minute countdown of the “limit acceleration phase”.

Jindai Rinko hurriedly asked, “What is the ultimate acceleration!? Isn’t the upper limit of the FLA multiplier 1,200 times!?”

“That’s the limited magnification when someone sneaks into UnderWorld… When there is only artificial FluctLight, the upper limit is… five thousand times…”

Higa’s words rang from the side, causing Shindai Rinko to shudder.

“Five thousand!? That is to say… one second here corresponds to the internal eighty minutes.. Isn’t the eighteen seconds here a day over there!!”

Hearing Jindai’s voice, Higa and Kikuoka looked at each other, then shook their heads mechanically together.

“Is there something wrong?” Kamdai Rinko asked hurriedly.

“One thousand and two hundred times is the upper limit of safety set in consideration of the lifespan of human souls in the real world… Five thousand times is the upper limit of Under.World that can be observed from the outside…None of them is the limit magnification on the hardware level…”

Jindai Rinko’s arm trembled, “Then…then…the upper limit of the hardware level…what is…?”

“As you already know, UnderWorld is constructed and calculated with light quanta.”

“There is actually no limit to the communication speed… that is to say, the upper limit is determined by the architecture of the lower server…”

“Say it quickly! How many times is it!?” Jindai Rinko shouted.

Higa closed his eyes and said, “In the extreme acceleration phase, the FLA magnification will slightly exceed five million times.”

“The two STLs in Roppongi connected via a satellite link cannot handle that speed, so they will automatically disconnect. But for Han Yu-kun and Yūki-kun who use STL here…”

“One minute in the real world corresponds to the ten years of Under.World…”

Rinko Jindai, who calculated this correspondence instantly, slumped on the ground

“How come… like this… Hurry up and let Miss Asuna and Han Yu-kun come out of STL!”

This time Higa tightly pressed the doctor’s arm who was about to stand up.

“No, Miss Rinko! When you have entered the initial acceleration stage, just pull them out of the machine, Fluct.Light will be damaged!!”

“Then quickly start the disconnection process!!”

“I just thought about why I had to go down the cable duct deliberately! STL operation can only be carried out in the main control room!!!”

Higa retorted, turning his gaze to the commander in front of the console.

Kikuoka immediately noticed what he wanted to say.

“Mr. Kikuoka! I want to go down again.”

Hearing his words, Bai Xiao Meigan showed a worried expression and wanted to say something, but immediately closed her mouth.

She walked into Biga and only said “Then I will pull out the catheter”.

The commander nodded with a bitter expression and replied: “Understood, I will go too, I still have the physical strength to go down the ladder with you on my back.”

“No… can’t go! Sir.”

Lieutenant Nakanishi, who was the captain of the escort, called out. He stepped forward and said, “It’s too dangerous. I’ll do this task.”

“No, you must complete the task of protecting the stairs, and the partition wall will be opened again, and Ichiemon is no longer usable, and Niemon can’t move.”

Hearing what he said, everyone looked to the left corner of the deputy control room.

A silhouette supported by a hanger-like bracket.

The appearance of Ichiemon, which was used as a decoy and destroyed during the opening of the partition wall, has a much finer appearance, because this Niemon is a model used to carry the Light-cube.

Its head slot is empty, even if it is connected to a power source, it will not move at all.

It cannot be a shield capable of walking on its own like Ichiemon.

Kikuoka turned his head and gave an order to Nakanishi with a sharp expression that he had never seen before.

“Stick to your post!”

Hearing the commander’s words, Nakanishi opened his chin suddenly, and then saluted briefly: “Yes!”

Higa turned his head and looked at the screen. The display showed that the countdown to the “limit acceleration stage” was less than ten minutes.

However, even if the pressure-resistant partition wall is opened again now, and the long ladder is lowered, the STL cut-off operation through the interface will take 30 minutes no matter what.

In this twenty-minute time difference, the time in UnderWorld will have to pass two hundred years.

This is a time that far exceeds the life span of a human soul for one hundred and fifty years.

Prior to this, Under.World had spent almost unlimited years, but people in the real world still couldn’t bear it.

But inside UnderWorld…

“Yes… That’s right!!”

Higa yelled out and waved his left hand towards Kikuoka.

“Mr. Kikuoka!! When operating STL just now, I reserved the communication channel with Han Yu-kun! Please call line C12!!”

“But what do you want to say?” Kikuoka asked.

“Let them get away from the inside!! If they reach the system console in the remaining ten minutes, or if the HP returns to zero, the STL will automatically start to disconnect!!”

“But after the console enters the extreme acceleration phase, it won’t work. If it dies, it will become the worst case!!”

“They will spend two hundred years in a state where the nerve center is blocked. You must tell them the facts!”

……

Back to Crete in the passage, listening to the sound of rifle firing from above, he ran to the main control room.

Gabriel and Vasak were still not in the room.

Haven’t come out of the STL yet, obviously five minutes have passed since the acceleration of time started again.

Although thinking this in his mind, Crete was still at a loss as to whether or not to explain it to them.

He believed that the two who heard the news would definitely give the order to blow up the turtles immediately.

They are not people who care about how many civilians will be sacrificed in order to achieve their goals.

Crete couldn’t come to a conclusion, but opened the door of the first STL room in one breath.

“Captain Miller! Alice, by the enemy…”

The scene before him made Crete stunned.

Lying on the No. 2 STL bed, Gabriel Miller’s face showed an expression that he hadn’t seen before.

To be precise, Crete had never seen such an expression on anyone’s face.

The blue eyes opened wide as if about to fly out.

The jaw joints of the mouth were opened to the limit as if they were dislocated, and they were also slanted.

The protruding tongue twisted in a strange direction, just like another creature.

“Team… Captain…?” Crete swallowed in horror.

Now, if Gabriel’s prominent eyeballs were rolled, he believed he would scream.

It took several seconds for Crete to calm his breath, and tremblingly stretched out his hand, gently grasping the captain’s left wrist.

The pulse is gone.

The body is as cold as ice. Captain Gabriel Miller, the commander of the assault squad, clearly had no wounds on his body, but he was completely exasperated.

Desperately suppressing the tumbling rising from the stomach, Crete shouted in a hoarse voice:

“Vassak… get up! The captain… is dead…”

He dragged his feet around the second STL and looked at the position of the third machine inside.

This time Crete really screamed.

The deputy captain Vasak Cazars seemed to fall asleep peacefully at first glance.

There was no expression on his face with closed eyes, and his hands and body were stretched straight.

However, his long curly hair has now become dry white hair like a centenarian.

I don’t want to confirm Vasak’s pulse anymore.

Crete didn’t hear anything, and moved back with trembling knees.

Crete, a hacker who has always believed in science, was so scared at this moment by such a weird thing. He kept saying in his heart that he must leave this room quickly, otherwise he would end up like the two of them.

Stumbled around and ran out of the open entrance, closing the door with his right foot.

At this moment Crete repeated deep breaths, desperately trying to start thinking again.

Neither intends to investigate what happened to the captain and Vasak, nor does he want to know what happened.

What can be speculated is what happened in Under.World, so their souls are probably destroyed.

The battle has failed.

When the commander died, it was no longer possible to judge whether or not to destroy Alice with the ship, and it would make no sense to stay here.

Crete picked up the phone on the console and said in a hoarse voice:

“Hans…come back, Brig, Vasak, and the captain are all dead.”

After dozens of seconds, Hans stepped into the control room to talk to Crete about the situation.

“Brigg is dead!? Why!?”

“In the cable duct, shot from above…”

Crete desperately grabbed Hans, who didn’t know if he heard what he had just said, set up his rifle and was about to run out.

“Stop it! Alice’s Light-cube has been taken away, already, there is no point in fighting!”

Hans was silent for a while.

After that, he knocked on the wall and made a violent noise, then turned around and ran over.

“No, there is another order. If you can’t seize it, destroy it. Surely you have something to do?”

Crete was pressed by Hans’ aura and nodded: “It’s not nothing… No way… Without a captain, you can’t make a judgment.”

“Say, tell me!!”

Hans suddenly raised the muzzle of his rifle and pointed it at Crete.

Crete raised his hands and hurriedly said:

“Hair… the engine…”

“Engine? You mean this ship?”

“Yes… the engine of this big ship is a nuclear reactor…”.