Chapter 25: The Hunter's Song
It is not difficult to make a sixty-ton thing stop in a very short time without any damage, it is not difficult to say that it is difficult, just teleport.
Calibrate a frame of reference, teleport to the past, and after reaching its destination, the thing is basically stationary relative to the frame of reference. And this area is an asteroid belt, large and small rocks, distant enemy ships, and imperial warships, relatively speaking, there is not much speed.
Transporting sixty tons of something at once, even just one centimeter, would be difficult for me to say - that's not appropriate, considering that it is very simple for psionics to want to go to heaven on their own, even if they don't mean to, the occasional leak of uncontrolled psionic energy can cause a small area of weightlessness - but it is not impossible.
Moreover, my purpose now is not to move, but to stop. I'll just teleport where I am. The teleportation distance is zero.
I gathered all the subspace power I could control, and suddenly unleashed it, tearing apart the real world in front of the plane, forming a plane where subspace and the real world intersected. After an instant, the plane and the torpedo warhead passed through that surface at the same time and entered subspace, and after another moment, the plane returned to reality. The subspace voyage of this ship is a truth, the difference is only that the time spent in the subspace is zero, and the distance traveled is also zero.
There wasn't any need for any deceleration process, and we stopped. In this asteroid swarm, we went from flying at a speed of nearly 100 kilometers per second to stationary in an instant.
Sylvia was about to make a maneuver to avoid the oncoming asteroid, when she suddenly found that the large rock that was approaching at high speed was frozen in front of her in a trance, and she was a little caught off guard, but fortunately, although the plane engine was still on, it needed to accelerate slowly from scratch, so as not to crash the plane headlong.
She stared around through the canopy with wide eyes, and it took her ten seconds to confirm her current situation, and she couldn't help but scream. Then she made a big turn and turned around and flew back. In a moment, her frustration had vanished, and she had reverted to the confident naval warrior.
Compared to the energetic captain's girl, I looked much more sluggish. In that moment of casting, I extracted a large amount of subspace energy, and I was exhausted by such a huge amount of energy. But the contact with the subspace is not something that can be stopped, more energy is coming than expected, and I feel that the backlash is coming...... What kind of terrible sight would it be?
I saw countless visions in front of me, countless sounds in my ears, my body was cold, and my brain even lost the ability to think from time to time—but in any case, the psionic disorder only worked on me, and did not leak out to hurt Sylvia. If it was before I had formal training, the torture of such a Cheng dù would have been enough to drive me crazy, but after graduating from the Psionic Academy, this kind of Cheng dù injury was not unbearable for me.
Grit your teeth and stick to it for half an hour. Anyway, there's nothing to do in the last half hour. After passing the enemy ship, it flew for only about half a minute, but it had already left almost 3,000 kilometers away, and it would take a long, long flight before it could return—how long it would take, I can't tell in my confusion now, but it must have been longer than half an hour.
I curled up in a small corner next to my seat, stiff and shivering. I couldn't help but babble gibberish, occasionally screaming miserably, sometimes opening my mouth wide and panting. I knew that my current image must be horrible and despicable, and the image I had built up in battle was long gone—and it didn't matter, I didn't expect anyone to like or respect us psionics.
But even in this state of near-mental breakdown, I still maintained a little control, and the last trace of spiritual power of my mind clung to the warhead outside the plane, preventing it from being thrown away because of the acceleration of the plane. This is our only weapon. …,
I've done my best. The next result can only depend on the girl next to me.
I don't know why I trusted her so much, pinning my hopes of victory and my life on her. Maybe she just has that kind of convincing charm, but how strong she is depends on the proof of the next battle.
Before I knew it, I seemed to be no longer curled up, and I didn't know when I was stretching. I struggled to open my eyes, and I saw Sylvia's condescending gaze. She leaned back on the back of her chair with her hands behind her head, and I seemed to be lying on her lap. Strange, isn't she disgusted with psykers? Especially after seeing me look so ugly?
"Uh-huh......" I couldn't speak, I could only hum a few times, and then struggled to get up, but she gently held me down with one hand and gently stroked my hair with the other, signaling me to be quiet.
"Rest in peace, you'll be fine for a while...... she seems to be familiar with psionics, "I'll have to rely on your power when I want to fight for a while." ”
Well, the Navy should be familiar with psykers, and she must have seen psionics in the Navy such as Star Whisperers or Navigators show what I just did.
"You don't blame me? I didn't even hit that big target. "I sent her a message with my psionic powers.
"It was weird, but now you haven't given me another chance. Now that we're so slow, we should be able to hit it easily. She looked relaxed, and she really didn't see any blame.
"Well, it's an honor to fight alongside you." This was the first time I had verbally endorsed her.
"Those who fight side by side are brothers!" It's a popular proverb among the military, but why does it feel awkward to hear it from her mouth?
After a moment of silence, she said, "I can often calm people down with my singing voice, is it just as effective for you?" ”
"yes, but I need a war song more now." I answered in consciousness.
The backlash of psionic energy brings pain and despair, and I desperately need something to motivate myself.
"Hmm...... Let me think about ......"
"No, I already heard you sing just now, now I'll replace you."
At this time, my visual and auditory hallucinations are no longer so strict, and I can concentrate my mind to recall some fragments of memory. I searched through the deepest memories of my life, before I left my homeland and entered the Empire. The tribe I was born in, the wilderness where I grew up, the frolic of children, the hunting songs of adults......
In my mind, I looked at the scenes of the past, accompanied by the ancient desolate songs, and shared those images and sounds with Sylvia in the exchange of consciousness. If I had sung it directly, she would not have understood the language of our tribe.
"The ghosts of the ancestors roam the wasteland,
The river no longer flows at night,
Oh, the winter is so long,
The grass and trees are withered and yellow, and you can no longer hunt goats,
How to survive the winter famine?
Good boy, pick up the gun, to the north,
We went mammoth hunting......
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Maybe you once strangled the frost wolf with your bare hands,
Or you can catch up with an antelope barefoot,
But, boy,
Have you ever tasted the nose and soles of a mammoth?
If not, how dare you boast of being brave and strong?
The mammoth is the most powerful beast in the world,
Its fur can break your sharpest javelin,
Its roar can shatter your heart,
It can stomp you into meat sauce with one kick.
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Look at me, boy,
I am the king of the wilderness!
In my hand is a javelin and a cane made of mammoth leg bones,
I have a wine vat made of mammoth heads in my house.
My bed is made of thick mammoth fur,
I also have a pair of tusks for the most beautiful girl......
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Boy, do you dream of being like me?
Don't wait any longer, go sharpen your javelin,
Bring enough dry food for ten days,
The strongest hunter is about to set out, and you have to hurry up to keep up.
Maybe you can't get the best of the best like adults,
But at least there will be a large chunk of meat and fat,
And then this winter you have to be careful,
Don't wait until the beginning of spring to get too fat......"