“Is there really worse news than the destruction of the multi-billion-dollar Starlink?”

Jia Sike still couldn't believe it.

In his opinion, the Starlink incident was already the worst of the worst.

More than 20,000 satellites!

A project worth tens of billions of US dollars!

His dream and hard work!

If it wasn't to use it as bait for Kevin Walker, deliberately setting a trap to lure him in, and disrupt his historical loop… Jia Sike would never have been willing to destroy his Starlink satellites, which he cherished like children.

Most regrettable of all.

He didn't even get to see that unprecedented Starlink meteor shower in human history!

It was daytime in the US, with the sun shining brightly.

The meteor shower took place on the other side of the Atlantic, in a place of dawn or darkness. He essentially spent tens of billions to show a meteor shower to the people of the night hemisphere.

And he didn't even see it.

He kept his achievements hidden.

And was criticized, earning the reputation of "Jia Sike's technology is lacking, Starlink is being hacked every other day."

However.

As long as he disrupted Kevin Walker's historical loop and allowed history to move in the direction he wanted, it was all worth it.

It was a great sacrifice for him, but the rewards were also great.

But…

The secretary actually said that this wasn't the worst news.

This made him a bit serious.

"Speak."

Jia Sike closed his eyes:

"I'm mentally prepared… Could it be that my illegitimate child came to the door?"

"You're the real drama queen!"

The secretary glared at him:

"Can you please not be so dramatic at a time like this!"

She huffed.

And lowered her head.

Turning to the last page of the documents in her hand:

"This bad news may be much worse than you think. I originally wanted to tell you about it as the final bombshell after the three bad news."

"Haha, I'm relieved to hear you say that." Jia Sike laughed:

"If you can still joke like that, it means it's not a big deal."

The secretary chuckled and raised her eyebrows:

"Want to bet?"

She picked up the folder and read:

"Because you used a rocket to destroy the US Space Agency's X-37B aircraft, the US government has filed charges against you, including endangering national security, destroying state-owned spacecraft, and possessing private armed forces…"

"Wait a minute."

Jia Sike held out his hand:

"Kevin Walker hijacked the X-37B spaceplane. Don't tell me that the NASA idiots can't even figure that out!"

"Of course, they know very well."

The secretary looked up:

"As I said just now, Kevin Walker has always been bold and arrogant. It's obvious whether he launched the attack or not. So, NASA and the US government certainly know that Kevin Walker hijacked the spaceplane."

"At the same time, they also know that Kevin Walker was responsible for the hijacking and falling of the Starlink satellites. In addition, Kevin Walker also fooled the US government at the World Hacker Competition. He never intended to actually invade the Dragon Country's Tianwang system… The US government is also very angry and feels like they've been played."

"Because of this, with multiple offenses combined, the US government has issued a global arrest warrant for Kevin Walker, and many countries around the world have responded, with a total reward amount exceeding 2 billion US dollars. Kevin Walker can now be said to be a true global enemy, at war with the entire world."

…

"Isn't that the point?" Jia Sike spread his hands and paced on the observation deck of the tower:

"The one who caused the trouble should be the one to pay for it. All this was done by Kevin Walker, what does it have to do with me, Jia Sike? That hijacked X-37B spaceplane fell from the sky, and I kindly helped them intercept it. I should be a hero, and the US government should give me a medal, why are they biting the hand that feeds them?"

The secretary smiled.

Pushing up her red-framed glasses:

"It's obvious, Mr. Jia Sike, that your actions were too extreme. That hijacked spaceplane, let alone whether it could really fall or whether NASA could eventually regain control… Even if it did fall, it would fall into the Atlantic Ocean. The heat-resistant tiles on the X-37B are very thick, and there might be many problems and failures, but it's still better than you blowing it up directly, right?"

"Even if someone really needed to intercept it, it shouldn't be you. You don't have the right to do that. In Hollywood movies, anyone can be a hero. But that's just a movie. In the real world, you have to be qualified to be a hero."

"What's even more worrying is… your Starship rocket clearly has a navigation lock system that rockets don't need, which is very interesting and telling. You're now facing not only accusations from the US government, but also international organizations and the United Nations are concerned about the issue of this 'interstate missile' in your hands."

"That's right, you don't need to stare. That's what they're calling your rocket now. You should receive a formal summons soon to explain, clarify, and resolve the problem."

"What if the problem can't be solved?" Jia Sike asked.

"Then they'll solve you," the secretary said.

Jia Sike was amused:

"My omnipotent secretary, what should I do now? You don't want to lose your job, do you?"

"With my high level of education, I can find a job anywhere. And… other places don't require me to wear high heels and run up and down a tower without an elevator every day to find a boss who never brings a cell phone."

"I'll bring my cell phone next time," Jia Sike said anxiously:

"So, in this situation, what should I do?"

"There's no way."

The secretary shook her head:

"In this situation, no one can save you except the US president."

US…

President…

Jia Sike looked up at the sun, remembering his old blonde friend wearing a red hat:

"[Then at the next meeting, I'll ask and see who the next president is and who will win this election.]"

"If it's not him…"

He turned around, facing the sun, raised his right hand high, pointing his index finger to the sky, striking a pose:

"Let's correct history!"

"Can you stop acting!"

The secretary couldn't take it anymore and shouted, stomping her feet.

She finally understood!

Jia Sike's tense and solemn expression, a face that said "I'm finished," was just teasing her! Playing her!

She was seriously telling Jia Sike about things.

But he…

Was just treating her as part of an impromptu performance!

Her boss has always been so carefree, as if he's never serious.

He doesn't care about anything.

But he seems to be chasing something all the time.

Mysterious and unpredictable.

Impossible to see through.

She thought that this time, being accused by the US government and international organizations would teach this carefree playboy a lesson, right?

But the reality is!

He still doesn't care!

He even started acting like a drama queen!

"Oh, this kind of thing isn't important."

Jia Sike waved his hand, ended his performance, and returned to his original calmness and composure:

"As long as Kevin Walker becomes a global enemy, then my goal will be achieved. As I said just now, Kevin is very strong, very powerful, that's true. But now that he's lost his thousands of troops and his AI limit has been locked by me… can he really be at war with the whole world?"

He smiled:

"With his own strength, fighting against more than 200 countries and 6 billion people around the world, I don't think Kevin Walker has the ability or the qualification to become a global enemy."

"Besides, this isn't what I'm most concerned about. Just wait and see, it won't be long before the Dragon Country also issues a global arrest warrant for Kevin Walker. Although the whole world doesn't know what Kevin Walker's purpose is… the Dragon Country isn't easy to mess with. Attacking the Dragon Country's spacecraft and the astronauts on board is tantamount to declaring war on the Dragon Country."

"The Dragon Country's global arrest warrant is more useful than any other country's. After all… Lin Xian himself is from the Dragon Country."

"Of course, these are all future events, and it's too early to talk about them now. Right now, there's still one crucial thing that hasn't been completed."

He turned around.

And walked on the observation deck of the tower.

Coming to the eastern railing.

His strong arms rested on it.

Looking up.

Gazing at the distant east, the distant other side of the Atlantic, the distant tens of kilometers of atmosphere:

"[My loop… is missing the last step.]"

…

…

The border between the Eurasian continent and the Atlantic Ocean, above, 80 kilometers in the atmosphere.

Lin Xian took one last look at the black smoke of the explosion that had dissipated in the atmosphere, withdrew his gaze, and looked at Chu Anqing, who was next to him, letting out a breath:

"Didn't scare you?"

Chu Anqing took a few deep breaths and looked up:

"Scared, scared is definitely scared… but I'm fine now. Coach Wei Cheng also said that the spaceplane is fine, and it was a close call."

Lin Xian nodded.

And finally had time to think about what happened in that moment of lightning and flint.

It was too complicated and too dangerous…

First of all, it was the thousands of Starlink satellites that fell like a swarm of stars.

Although there is no evidence now, it can basically be determined that it was definitely Kevin Walker who did it.

Kevin Walker's target was not just the spaceplane.

He also considered the problem that the operation of the unmanned spaceplane was not sensitive enough. If it was observed in advance, it could be avoided by experienced pilots through manual operation and extreme operation.

Wei Cheng obviously had such strength.

Therefore.

To be on the safe side.

Kevin Walker first controlled 20,000 Starlink satellites to fall from high altitude, forcing the Dragon Country's spaceplane into the low altitude atmosphere.

He didn't intend to smash the spaceplane with the satellites in the first place.

His trump card and ultimate weapon had always been that X-37B US spaceplane.

When the Starlink satellite group fell like stars.

Kevin Walker also synchronously hijacked the unmanned spaceplane on the 1200-kilometer orbit, adjusted its posture, activated the reaction engine, and rushed towards the Earth's atmosphere like a fireball, a meteor.

Because all the radar, communication, and scanning devices on the spaceplane where Lin Xian was located were damaged, it naturally couldn't detect the violently crashing spaceplane.

Until.

The sharp-eyed Wei Cheng captured its trace with the naked eye.

The opponent was also a spaceplane, also had wings, and was very fast!

So, in a situation where the enemy had everything I had, and the enemy had things I didn't have, there was no way to avoid it.

But just then, a wild card came out of nowhere.

From the lower left of the field of view, an ultra-high-speed rocket with a Mach ring sprayed out, hitting the X-37B spaceplane head-on and successfully intercepting it.

This sudden situation that no one could understand caused Kevin Walker's meticulously planned plan to fail completely, and allowed the Xiaobai spaceplane to breathe…

At this point, there was no more threat in the sky.

"Space-T's Starship rocket, that's Jia Sike's rocket."

Lin Xian said to himself:

"Why did he come to help us?"

He thought that the sentence "We'll see each other in the sky" that Jia Sike said to him at the science charity gala was to snatch the space-time particles.

But he never expected.

That his "see you in the sky" was actually an ally!

Thinking about it now…

In fact, the reason why he previously believed that Jia Sike would come to snatch the space-time particles was still because he was preconceived, assuming that the Genius Club was evil and doing bad things, and then deduced it out of thin air.

If you have to say it.

Currently, except for Kevin Walker, who is suspected of being a member of the Genius Club, and has shown obvious hostility to him… the other known members, Huang Que, Jia Sike, and even Copernicus in Ji Xinshui's mouth, have not actually caused him any substantial harm.

Even Kevin Walker.

Maybe his goal is just the space-time particles, or he doesn't want himself to get the space-time particles. If you really want to say that Kevin has done anything to actually harm him personally… except for this time, when he hijacked the spaceplane to prevent himself from obtaining the space-time particles, there was no movement for so long before.

This is very intriguing.

Huang Que is not a bad person, and has always been doing the opposite of Copernicus.

Copernicus, on the other hand, is suspected of instigating Ji Xinshui to kill people, assuming that what Ji Xinshui said is true.

Kevin Walker wants to prevent himself from obtaining the space-time particles.

And Jia Sike is standing on the opposite side of Kevin Walker, launching a rocket to help himself intercept the attack of the spaceplane.

This…

Is the internal conflict of the Genius Club so chaotic?

Everyone doing their own thing?

Everyone having their own goals?

What's even more incredible is that, in the current situation of internal strife…

How did they manage to keep their original intentions unchanged for 600 years, and not reveal any information or leave any traces to the outside world for so long?

He couldn't understand.

But Lin Xian intuitively believed that the Genius Club was definitely not a loose organization without any rules or leaders.

Behind these seemingly "self-serving" actions, there must be a macro-controlled big hand, directing everyone's actions towards a common goal.

And the one who can control all of this.

Must be only one person—

[The president of the Genius Club! Or the founder!]

It's hard to imagine.

The influential tech madman and world's richest man Jia Sike,

The strongest genius hacker teenager on Earth, Kevin Walker,

The mysterious Copernicus who made the wealthy Ji Xinshui kneel and worship,

Plus the mysterious Huang Que, who is a time traveler from the future…

Which great god can make these "geniuses" so convinced?

Who can make them obedient, obediently listen to orders, and carry out the tasks assigned to them?

With Lin Xian's current knowledge.

He couldn't imagine it anyway.

Does this kind of genius above geniuses really exist?

"Lin Xian! Look quickly—"

Liu Feng's excited voice came from the cockpit:

"[Space-time particles!]"

…

Inside the passenger cabin, Lin Xian, Huang Que, Chu Anqing, and Gao Yang looked at each other.

Liu Feng was too excited.

He forgot to say the code word for alpha matter, and directly said the real name of the space-time particles in front of Wei Cheng.

"It doesn't matter."

Huang Que said softly:

"It's all come to this, it doesn't matter anymore."

"Wei Cheng is trustworthy anyway, but after all, we were on the ground at the time, and it's better for fewer people to know than more."

"Now, there are only these few people in the spaceplane, and it's the key stage of capturing the particles, so everyone can speak freely, and this restriction is lifted."

Nowadays.

The speed of the spaceplane has been reduced to Mach 1, and it is moving steadily forward in the 80-kilometer atmosphere, driven by a reaction engine.

Everyone unfastened their seat belts and came to the outside of the cockpit door together.

The cockpit was very small.

After Huang Que and Lin Xian squeezed in, Gao Yang and Chu Anqing couldn't get in.

Lin Xian's helmet was close to Liu Feng's helmet, and he looked towards the dark universe with twinkling stars in the direction he was pointing…

"Where?"

Lin Xian's eyes were almost popping out, and he couldn't see anything.

"It's still a bit far away now."

Liu Feng said:

"I only seemed to see it just now… it was a small blue spot, which flashed suddenly and then disappeared."

"But that must be the space-time particles, no doubt! Looking at the starry sky from this altitude of the atmosphere, the cosmic background is still black, and there are not so many objects that interfere with the line of sight. At this time, if there is a bright spot flashing, then it must be the space-time particles!"

Lin Xian lowered his head and looked at the space-time particle tracker in Liu Feng's hand:

"That is to say, it can be confirmed that the space-time particles are visible, can be seen with the naked eye, and can be photographed with a camera."

"Yes, that's good news, Lin Xian."

Liu Feng said excitedly:

"Since the human eye can see it, it means that the space-time particles can emit visible light, and the cameras outside the cabin can naturally photograph it! In that case… Gao Yang can operate the robotic arm through the monitor and use the rice cooker to capture the space-time particles!"

Lin Xian nodded.

This is great…

Before launching, the problem Lin Xian was most worried about was that the space-time particles were invisible to the naked eye.

If it was transparent.

Or if it was invisible itself.

Then the success rate of their space mission would directly drop by 99%.

Now this concern is gone.

It is indeed good news.

"Gao Yang, go back to the equipment cabin, start operating the robotic arm, release the robotic arm in advance, and get familiar with the operation."

"Liu Feng, from now on, you will be the navigator, giving Wei Cheng verbal directions, guiding the course through the display on the space-time particle tracker, so that the spaceplane can get as close as possible to the space-time particles, creating a suitable opportunity for Gao Yang to capture them."

In the radio communication channel, Huang Que issued instructions:

"Lin Xian and Anqing, you two don't have any specific tasks during the capture phase, you can watch in the cockpit for a while. But after the capture action officially starts, immediately follow the previous deployment, Anqing stands in the passenger cabin to communicate between the cockpit and the equipment cabin; Lin Xian stands behind Gao Yang to assist Gao Yang in mechanical operation."

"Received!" everyone replied.

Afterwards.

Huang Que directly turned and left the cockpit, and went to the equipment cabin with Gao Yang.

Chu Anqing was also able to squeeze in, opened her big eyes, and looked at the starry universe with Lin Xian…

Waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting…

Perhaps it was the first encounter with space-time particles in human history.

"Right, right, a little higher, forward, slow down, left, more left… it jumped to the right again, just this direction, keep this direction…"

There was no noise in the radio channel, no one spoke, only Liu Feng kept giving Wei Cheng direction instructions:

"Okay, up, increase altitude, a little higher! Position is correct! Speed is also correct! It's right above us! Continue to increase altitude! Almost there! Closer! The flashing frequency and direction of the space-time particles have been very stable during this time! We're about to meet! Wei Cheng! Be careful to keep your distance!"

Suddenly.

Chu Anqing widened her eyes and pointed her index finger to the upper right:

"Lin Xian senior! Look quickly! There!"

Lin Xian turned his head and looked in the direction of Chu Anqing's index finger—

Hiss…

He couldn't help but take a deep breath.

In the empty and boundless cosmic background, above the twinkling stars, a small blue light sphere the size of an apple was suspended in the air!

Because the speed of the spaceplane and its flashing forward was the same, it now looked as if the space-time particles were hanging still on the black curtain!

Lin Xian squinted his eyes and looked more closely.

The small light sphere was not very bright and was blue all over. Inside, there seemed to be electric charges and lightning intertwined, looking very active, like a living thing.

Before their eyes.

They were only less than 30 meters away from this apple-sized small blue sphere.

A creature from beyond the sky!

A visitor from another space-time!

Transcending the laws of physics, not in the constraints of the universe!

This…

Is what they have been looking for for a long time—

[Space-time particles!]

"Everyone to your positions."

Huang Que's solemn voice came from the radio communicator:

"Now I announce, the space-time particle capture action…"

"Officially begins!"