Arashi, an underground shelter.

"It worked!"

"The link is stable...... The channel is opening! ”

The researcher in charge of the link cheered.

"Let me see...... Not bad, not bad...... It really worked! We really succeeded!! After Lao Xia looked at the data on the screen, he exclaimed in surprise.

"Tide Gate...... Opening ......"

……

At the same time, thousands of light-years away on Earth.

In the depths of the Earth Shield secret base under the Rocky Mountains in the United States, El Lockoma communicates with the Black Ball in a language that the earthlings do not understand:

"The Heavenly Thorn system is ready, please instruct."

"Search for the nearest Tidal link." Locktoma ordered.

"The search is complete, the tidal link has been found." The black ball replied.

Invert Input Tidal Link ......

"Please set the number of input connections......" Blackball continued.

“…… 100 pieces! Locktoma's eyes flashed with pleasure, and the black agent standing beside him didn't even know what a horrific trick the usually peaceful-looking El had used......

The tidal generation devices of small civilizations do not have overload protection and inverting link denial systems, and the characteristics of tidal links determine that no matter who or where, as long as they know the coordinates, they can try to connect with the cosmic background at the time of the interstellar tide.

In this way, there is a small probability that the same node will have an incoming and outgoing link at the same time.

Generally speaking, the probability of this happening is very low, and it can be said that the occurrence of natural occurrences is very, very rare, and even if it occurs occasionally, it is only a slower transmission rate and an increase in energy consumption, and it does not cause catastrophic consequences.

However, the El's tidal interference system has a very strong detection ability, although it is not possible to determine the coordinates of the other party based on the tidal link, but during the formation of the tidal link, it can easily connect directly to the opponent's node.

And Locktoma's order is to reverse the link 100!

It's like connecting 100 cables in parallel and then connecting them to a normal power system...... The result is a "short circuit"!

And it is not an ordinary "short circuit", at that moment, a large amount of consumption of zero crystal internal pressure will suddenly cross a critical point...... And when the zero crystal reaches that critical point, all its matter will be released as energy!

In a nutshell...... Zero Crystal will turn into a big bomb that is even more terrifying than a hydrogen bomb!

In this way, high-level civilizations can easily destroy the research results of low-level civilizations for hundreds of years, and even if they don't blow up the other party's tidal gates, at least their research can be paralyzed.

At this time, what Chen Zheng and others encountered was such a thing.

"Tidal Gate Stabilization ......"

"Huh!? What is it!? One of the researchers exclaimed, "There's a link to us!?" ”

"What's going on!?" Lao Xia frowned and ran over.

The trial operation of this tidal gate can be regarded as a lot of disasters and difficulties, and every time success is close at hand, there will be such and such strange problems......

"Connect to access!? What's going on here? Chen Zheng asked.

"It's the target planet that also wants to come to us, so let's ......" The man with glasses was talking, and a huge spark suddenly erupted from Lao Xia's side, and countless arcs climbed out of the energy supply module......

Chen Zheng pushed away the glasses man, and his figure suddenly rushed in the direction of Lao Xia!

"Not good!"

"Energy overload!"

"Circuit breaker! Cut off the supply of zero crystals! Lao Xia didn't care about the sparkling arc around him, and desperately pulled the fuse switch down.

The tidal device used by the Blue Gold Empire is quite advanced, but Chen Zheng's conditions are limited, and they don't have the resources to make an automatic fuse device, so after careful research by Lao Xia, the automatic fuse device was replaced by the current manual fuse gate.

However, it was such a small and inconspicuous change that put Lao Xia himself in danger.

Although the energy supply is cut off as soon as something is wrong, the manual response is much slower than that of an automatically controlled system.

Because of this difference of just a second or two, the tide gate has already inhaled too much zero crystalline powder and is overloaded in countless connections!

At this time, the black hole in the center of the tide gate has faintly taken on a trace of silver! The zero-crystal energy contained in it is about to break through the constraints of the black hole......

Once this energy leaks out, the entire underground lab will be blown into powder!

"Be careful!" Chen Zheng grabbed Lao Xia's hand.

"No! It's a shame to go now! We don't have the resources to build a new tide gate! Lao Xia struggled frantically, "As long as we let the system flow backwards and export the energy, we still have hope!" ”

"There is hope only if you are alive!" Saying that, Chen Zheng ignored Lao Xia's objections, grabbed him and prepared to leave......

However, it was already too late...... The energy in the black hole has begun to overflow!

Flashing!!!

Seeing that the explosion was about to form, Chen Zheng's eyebrows lit up with that familiar rune, and then his body emitted a faint blue light...... In the next second, he, Lao Xia, and another researcher would appear above the surface!

However, at this moment, something happened that no one expected!

The runes that lit up on Chen Zheng's forehead suddenly magnified in the tidal turbulence, like a magnet being sucked into a runaway black hole!

Then the black hole suddenly lit up! A huge amount of light shot out of the black hole like a nuclear bomb explosion, and even if he closed his eyes and covered his eyes with his hands, he couldn't stop the intense light at all......

I don't know how long this violent light blast lasted...... When everyone finally regained their sight, they were shocked to find that they had nothing to do! In addition to the tears that caused the eyes to be stimulated, not even a single cold hair was hurt!

Around, the huge iron ring of the tide gate had stopped, looking slightly bent, and there were slight signs of melting on the surface.

The various lines next to it are even more curling with green smoke, and the air is filled with a pungent smell of burning.

Other than that, though, everything around is unharmed.

"Great...... Saved ......" Lao Xia looked at everything around him "safe and sound", and couldn't help but sigh deeply, and the whole person relaxed.

"Really!? We...... Still alive!? The man in glasses wiped his tears and squinted his swollen eyes and exclaimed in surprise.

“…… Yes. After a long time, only Lao Xia replied.

It was only at this time that Lao Xia felt that something seemed to be wrong, raised his head and looked around, and shouted tentatively: "Xiao Chen! What about you? Why don't you talk......? ”

“……”

The air around them was suddenly quiet.

"Not good! What about Xiao Chen!? ”

In the empty laboratory, no matter how you count, there were only five people left......

Lao Xia, the glasses man, and his three subordinates.

Xiao Chen...... Xiao Chen is missing!! ”