vncnus Chapter 140 In a Moment
Chapter 140 In a Moment
Lu Chen spent two weeks studying the contents of the book in depth, exploring how to manipulate time, from the easy to the difficult, including controlling the increase and decrease of one's own time, manipulating the time of others and the surrounding space and time, to the most complex large-scale time reversal, that is, time reversal.
Lu Chen decided to start with the basics and learn how to speed up and slow down his own time. He could interfere with the flow of his own time through magic or spiritual power, which was a bit like Tokisaki Kurumi's first and second bullets in the anime.
Although he does not have magical abilities in the traditional sense, he can convert the power emitted by the Rubik's Cube and achieve the same goal.
"Thor, come and help me practice!" After understanding the theoretical knowledge, Lu Chen called his partner, Dragon Lady Thor, to come to the study.
Since it involves dragon magic, Thor, as a dragon girl, naturally knows something about it. "Oh? You want to learn this?" After listening to Lu Chen's plan, Thor scratched her head, then showed the large magic circle in front of her and sat down cross-legged.
The two sat side by side on the floor, communicating face to face. "I'm not as good as Lukoa in time manipulation... but it shouldn't be a problem for me to teach you." Thor drew a red magic circle in the air and gestured to Lu Chen.
"I will first teach you how to accelerate your own time. This magic comes at the cost of sacrificing your own time, but it shouldn't be a big deal for you." She reminded Lu Chen to pay attention to the shape of the magic circle, and guided him to mobilize the magic power or spiritual power contained in his body, trying to distort and accelerate his own "law of time."
Lu Chen quickly understood and began to practice. He closed his eyes, concentrated his energy, and a large amount of energy gathered in his body. He followed Thor's instructions to change his own "time rules". Suddenly, with a "click", a stream of energy was released from his body.
Lu Chen felt dazed, as if he had experienced an infinitely long time, but it also seemed like just a moment, and his concept of time was subtly distorted. When he opened his eyes again, everything slowed down.
The world around them seemed to be at a standstill: Thor stood there, mouth slightly open, a serious expression on his face, his red eyes reflecting him.
"Has time stopped? No, it should be that my perception speed and reaction speed have accelerated." Lu Chen turned his head and looked around. In the fish tank on the table, the tropical fish seemed to be hovering in the water, but in fact they were still swinging their tails extremely slowly.
Looking out the window at the city outside, everything was slowed down countless times: the little loli on the street, the angels in the sky, the ship girls on the sea... their movements seemed to be frozen at this moment.
Self-time acceleration gave Lu Chen the ability to use his own time as a cost, greatly improving his reaction speed and efficiency. In simple terms, at this moment, one second in the outside world was equivalent to one hour or even longer for him.
However, without sufficient lifespan support, this time-consuming gameplay is undoubtedly tantamount to suicide. But thanks to the infinite lifespan brought by the integration of man and ship, this skill has a huge advantage in battle. Under the time acceleration of more than 2000 times, any action of the enemy is like a still picture to him.
"Hey……"
Lu Chen walked closer to Thor, stroked her golden hair, and kissed her forehead gently, but did not take the opportunity to do anything. "It looks like time has been paused."
Thor was as quiet as a doll, her beautiful face was lifelike, and her tail stuck out from her skirt, floating in the air. "So cute." He praised softly, helped her tidy up her hair, then sat on the sofa, staring at the atomic timer.
The time displayed on the timer remained at 22:27:15. Under the effect of self-time acceleration, he began to silently calculate how long his acceleration effect would last.
After a long period of hard work, and after nearly 2000 accelerations, the time on the timer jumped to 27 minutes and 16 seconds. "It actually achieved an acceleration effect of about 2500 times!"
He was surprised by such a degree of acceleration. If a person's life is accelerated by 2500 times, to the outside world, his aging speed will also increase by 2500 times. If the acceleration continues for one day, it will consume about seven years of life. Fortunately, he has an infinite lifespan, otherwise the side effects of this skill would be terrible.
After releasing the state of self-time acceleration, the world returned to its normal rhythm. Thor looked around in confusion and found that Lu Chen, who was originally sitting opposite him, had moved to a sofa in the distance.
"Commander, you learn so fast. Do you know how many times you have accelerated?" Dragon Lady Thor noticed what was happening and was deeply surprised at Lu Chen's speed of progress.
"About 2500 times." Lu Chen replied.
"Oh - you have reached the level of an adult dragon." Thor nodded in approval and rubbed his forehead shyly. "However, Commander, it is not a good idea to take advantage of me at this time."
"Huh? Did you notice it?" Lu Chen was a little surprised. After all, his movements at an acceleration of more than 2,000 times should be difficult to detect.
"Commander, I am a dragon. Don't underestimate our perception ability. I taught you this skill." Thor wagged his tail and looked at him cunningly. "If you do that to Lukoa, who knows how she will punish you."
"Punishment?" Lu Chen thought about the mysterious dragon lady, unsure of how she would react.
Then he went forward, hugged Thor, and said gratefully, "Thank you."
"Hehehe, wouldn't it be better if you just said that earlier? I won't reject you."
After learning to accelerate your own time, the next step is to decelerate your own time. Compared with the former, this ability seems a bit weird, and is the exact opposite of accelerating your own time. After starting, your own time will be slowed down by more than 2000 times, and it will seem to others that you are moving abnormally slowly.
"Hey……"
The Wannian Fengxue was floating on the sea outside the city. Dafeng, Richelieu, Yixian, Mio and Thor, who was watching the fun, were all called on board by Lu Chen. They gathered in the bridge, curious about what Lu Chen was up to.
"Honey, are you going to challenge your physical limits today?"
"If it's just the two of us, that's fine. Call everyone here. Are you planning to take a day off tomorrow?"
Tokisaki Kurumi sat on the table, one leg crossed over the other, joking with a sly look in her eyes.
In front of this group of familiar people, Kurumi gets along well with the other ship girls. Except for the Origin Spirit, Kurumi has a good relationship with several ship girls.
"Actually, I hope the Commander can spare some time to be alone with me..."
Yixian took off her silk vest and glanced at her companions, her cheeks flushed. She knew Lu Chen's purpose, but as a reserved Donghuang ship girl, she preferred a world of two.
"Da Feng, no problem! I'm willing to accompany either one!"
"The duty of a royal maid is to be on call at all times and serve the commander no matter where or when."
The remaining girls expressed their attitudes one after another.
"cough!"
Richelieu cleared his throat and said awkwardly:
"There are so many people here, don't go too far, we still have work to do tomorrow."
"So, dear, what is it you want to do by calling us all here?"
"And Thor is here too, what's going on?"
Mio skipped to Lu Chen's side, took his arm and asked. The warmth and softness of his hand made her heart warm.
"Well... Actually, I recently acquired a new ability that allows me to distort my own time and freely adjust the speed of acceleration or deceleration within a range of 2500 times."
"This ship is part of my body, and I want to see if I can have the same effect on it and the people on board."
Before starting the party, Lu Chen decided to do something serious first.
"Oh, dear, you have also mastered the ability to control time. In this case, my fourth bullet seems to be of no use to you."
Kuang San snuggled in Lu Chen's arms, and her tone of voice was more like she was acting coquettishly than feeling ashamed, as if she was relying on Lu Chen.
"But you can use the fourth bullet to help others recover."
Lu Chen pinched Kuang San's cheek, then closed his eyes and focused on feeling the connection between himself and the Ten Thousand Years of Snowstorm, trying to distort the time of this huge 10-kilometer-long battleship just as he had distorted his own time before.
The spaceship shook violently, and everyone was startled. They stood up to check, but found that everything was normal.
"Commander, is this what you call time distortion? Why didn't I feel it?"
Nagato shook his fox ears and tilted his head in confusion.
“Everyone look outside.”
Lu Chen raised his chin toward the porthole. The girls gathered around and leaned against the window to look at the city below.
They held their breath and concentrated.
The brightly lit city seemed to have been paused, and everything in the night sky seemed to be still.
"Ouch--"
Soon, Yixian noticed that the Brie fleet, which was traveling at supersonic speed in the distance, now looked like it was moving slowly in the air.
"This is the time distortion I used at the maximum rate on the Ten Thousand Years Snowstorm. The energy consumed is much greater than my previous self-time distortion, so it can't last long."
"Except for combat, there is little need to use such a high-magnification space-time distortion in daily life."
Lu Chen explained, and then gradually reduced the acceleration rate.
The pace of people's activities in the city below began to pick up.
Until Lu Chen fixed the time distortion at fifteen times the speed, fifteen hours inside the ship was equal to one hour outside.
"That is to say, we stayed on the boat for five or six days, but only one night passed outside."
“Wow!——”
The expressions of the ship girls and the elves became more and more surprised.
While looking at Lu Chen, they glanced at Thor next to them.
"Does this mean that the commander can freely control the time in this area?"
"In fact, the commander just cleverly used his ability to distort his own time. Because he and the Ten Thousand Years Snowstorm are one, he can also control the speed of time in this starship."
Thor spread his hands and explained.
Magic and technology from different worlds interweave to create wonderful effects.
“Can we learn this skill in the future?”
Yat-sen asked.
"For those of you who don't have the Commander's compatibility with alien powers, it's more difficult, but perhaps after a few years of learning, it should be possible to master one or two times the speed of time distortion."
Long Niang thought about it and answered.
The ship girls felt a little disappointed when they heard this. After all, they were technological creatures. Their combat effectiveness increased quickly because they could do so by constantly upgrading their equipment, but they could not perform fancy operations like the elves, heroic spirits, and dragon girls in terms of magic skills.
"In this way, the Wannian Fengxue will be like a secluded place with its own independent little world."
Yixian sat on the sofa, took a sip of tea and smiled calmly.
"Commander, if you are tired from work, you can come here and take a few days off to rest."
Lu Chen nodded in agreement.
"Then the work efficiency here is extremely high, right? It's very suitable for working overtime."
Secretary ship Richelieu reflexively took out a pile of documents and placed them on the table.
"One hour here is equivalent to fifteen hours outside. I don't have to worry about not finishing all the documents anymore."
“We can even complete the amount of work that would otherwise take several days in just one day…”
"Commander, let's start dealing with the rest now."
"???"
Lu Chen and Thor looked at Richelieu in shock.
"Richelieu, do you think that those who have the ability to stop time are the chosen ones to work overtime?!"
"This is exactly the candidate for the best employee medal that capitalists would give!"
Dafeng hugged Lu Chen and said with a pout:
"Just follow your work reports.