Chapter 1505: Chapter 1503: Interlacing
Ma Qiu didn’t know what Frank was thinking. Watching Frank, he continued, "Honestly, after hearing about your experiences from Old Philip on the motorcycle, I don’t feel sorry for you; I feel envious. Because if you truly have the ’Calamity’ ability, even if it always leads to negative outcomes, it means you’re not an ordinary person—once you find the right path, you’ll surely accomplish unimaginable feats.
And someone like me, an ordinary person, just can’t do that. I can only rely on effort, taking risks and progressing step by step, but ultimately, I can’t break through the limitations of an ordinary person, just circling around in a loop. If, I mean if, your ability is real, I really wish we could exchange destinies."
If we could really exchange, I definitely wouldn’t refuse, but I’m afraid we can’t... Frank glanced at Ma Qiu, thinking to himself.
Ma Qiu raised his tone slightly, speaking to Frank with some imaginative flair, "If I had your ability, I could change everything around me at any time. For example, if I think this medal awarding ceremony is too long, I’d deliberately say the opposite—’Let this ceremony be even longer, it’d be better if something happened to greatly delay it.’"
Just as he spoke.
"Swish!"
All the lights in the city’s auditorium suddenly went out without warning, plunging everything into darkness.
...
The sudden blackout left everyone in the auditorium momentarily stunned, including those on the stage receiving medals.
Fortunately, the darkness lasted less than three seconds before the emergency lights in the auditorium came on.
Even so, the expressions on Bob, Doron Philip, and Frank looking at Ma Qiu changed a bit.
Bob and Doron Philip displayed an expression of suspicion, while Frank raised an eyebrow.
Ma Qiu was startled too; after realizing what happened, he chuckled, "Ha, you don’t really think my words took effect, do you? Just a coincidence, maybe something went wrong with the energy supply; it’ll be fixed soon."
Bob and Doron Philip still showed some doubt.
Ma Qiu looked around and couldn’t help saying, "You still don’t believe it? Then what do you think caused it? It can’t be that my casual words immediately changed things; that’s too illogical. Take the lighting for instance, I’d rather believe it’s Abnormal Creatures that appeared, disrupting the energy supply than I suddenly gained the ’Calamity’ ability.
If that were true, an army of Abnormal Creatures has invaded the center of Atlantis; we’d definitely need to sound the Level One combat alert, and we’d have to find a way to evacuate."
As soon as he spoke.
"Woo! Woo! Woooo!"
The piercing alarm sounded, echoing throughout the auditorium and beyond.
Ma Qiu’s expression froze on his face, while Bob and Doron Philip held their breath, instinctively moving their backsides a bit further away. Frank looked at Ma Qiu, his eyes lighting up bit by bit, as if in the water about to drown, he suddenly saw a life-saving straw—no, a person who’d rather drown themselves just to save him.
This somewhat moved him...
Frank was very moved, yet Ma Qiu was plunged into deep self-doubt, shaking his head and muttering, "This can’t be, it really can’t be! It can’t be that just when I speak, things change; there must be some other reason, there must be..."
...
Bright Castle, main control room.
After some busy activity, Steward Lorentz, Delage, Blak, and Xue Dinglei looked over, Richard exchanged a glance with them, asking, "All ready, everyone?"
"Ready, Lord Richard."
"Alright, let’s begin. Oh, display the real-time data of the Energy Level, Alpha Energy Indicator, and Beta Energy Indicator; I want to monitor them." Richard said.
"Okay." Lorentz nodded, walking to an instrument in front of the wall, operated it for a while, and a two-meter square crystal on the wall quickly lit up; three beams of blue, red, and green flashed across, representing the Energy Level, Alpha Energy Indicator, and Beta Energy Indicator respectively. Because it’s still in the preparatory stage, there are no specific values.
Steward Delage then walked to another instrument, solemnly pulling down a black operation lever, announcing, "Experiment begin."
"Buzz!"
Immediately, a rumbling sound rose up from all around, sounding like it came from deep beneath the feet.
As the rumbling continued, a blue light column representing the Energy Level emerged from the base of the square crystal, showing values starting at 10, quickly jumping to 100, then 1000, and then 2000.
After reaching 2000, the increase in values slowed down but ultimately stubbornly approached and exceeded 2400.
At this moment, a red curve representing the Alpha Energy Indicator and a green curve representing the Beta Energy Indicator appeared on the left side of the square crystal, steadily fluctuating and extending to the right.
In a moment, under the direction of several stewards, the Energy Level reached 2600, at which point the red curve showed a noticeable drop, while the green curve showed a significant rise, both exceeding 50% in magnitude.
The stewards exchanged glances, their eyes filled with surprise and... excitement.
Because they foresaw a potential success.
Richard watched from behind, his eyes filled with anticipation, as he spoke, "Continue to raise the Energy Level."
"Understood." The stewards nodded, motioning for their assistants to proceed.
On the square crystal, the blue light column continued to rise, quickly reaching 2650, then 2700.
At this time, the red curve dropped and the green curve rose even more steeply; originally, there was a large gap between the two curves, but now it had shrunk to less than one-tenth, suggesting that at this rate, the curves would definitely intersect.
"Hoo—Ho—"
The stewards in the room were breathing heavily, their eyes fixed on the square crystal.
The Energy Level kept climbing...2750...2770...2790...
The red and green curves were growing closer...
2800!
The red and green curves were almost overlapping, yet upon closer inspection, there was a slight gap.
The stewards’ eyes widened in determination, a desire to smash open the square crystal, forcibly pulling the curves together.
At this point, Richard spoke up, "Increase the Energy Level again; this time... directly raise it to 3600."
"Ah?!" The stewards were taken aback, but none of them refused, because this was exactly what they wanted to do.
They exchanged glances, and Lorentz stepped forward to a device, gripping a red control lever, "Then let’s take out all the backup energy."
"Clack!"
With those words, Lorentz forcefully pulled down the red control lever.
Immediately, the Energy Level on the square crystal rapidly soared to 3500, then surpassed 3600, reaching 3680, before slowly dropping back.
"Buzz buzz buzz!"
The deafening rumbling sound filled the space, as if the main control room was surrounded by a pack of roaring beasts, causing the once calm room to shake as if about to collapse.
But no one cared about that; their eyes were all focused on the square crystal.
They saw the previously stabilized, dormant red and green curves suddenly being pricked, jolting fiercely before crashing together.
Not only did they collide, but they intertwined, changing from red above green below to green above red below, maintaining this state as they rapidly extended to the right.
"Buzz buzz..."
"Buzz..."
The rumbling persisted while the shaking of the room gradually subsided, though no one spoke, the room filled with a terrifying silence as they stared at the square crystal.
