Zhang Chen summoned everyone to the conference room, then shared the content of Xu Linna's surprise attack on the laboratory to abduct Mo Pai, and how she used the time meteorite core fragments to predict events.
After he finished, a silence fell upon the room.
Indeed, an enemy who could foresee the future was incredibly difficult to deal with.
It was highly likely that everyone in the room was discussing how to deal with Xu Linna, and even the countermeasures that would be developed in the future might already be within Xu Linna's calculations.
If that were the case, then everything they were doing in this meeting would be in vain, wouldn't it?
Previously, when fighting battles, everyone relied on analysis, prediction, and then planning.
Now, it was reversed. No matter what plan they made, the opponent would know about it. How could they possibly fight like this?
Everyone exchanged glances, unable to come up with a good countermeasure for a long time.
After a while, Zhao Xiyue seemed to recall something and suddenly asked,
“Chen Ge, do you remember Chen Xiao?”
“Chen Xiao? Which Chen Xiao?” Zhang Chen found the name familiar but couldn't recall who it was.
“Remember when we were in the seventh fortified city? They had a progressive space laboratory there.”
“That’s when a man named Chen Xiao came out of a portal and took us to his world.”
“He also had a Tang dao, which he said you gave him!”
Zhao Xiyue reminded him.
“Oh, right, I remember now. Chen Xiao. He also seemed to possess the ability of time. It felt like everything was within his expectations!”
Zhang Chen nodded.
“Exactly. He told me before that he had tried many ways to communicate with me, and only one method allowed him to bring me to his world. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, but looking back now, it’s highly probable that he also possessed the ability to control time!”
Zhao Xiyue said.
“Are you saying... Chen Xiao either has a constitution like mine, capable of naturally accepting the time meteorite core, or that the scientists in that world researched it and allowed him to master the ability of time!?”
“And that world itself possesses the time meteorite core. As long as we find Chen Xiao, it's equivalent to finding the time meteorite core, and then we can defeat Xu Linna, who only possesses fragments of the meteorite core?!”
Zhang Chen’s face broke into a smile as he spoke.
“That’s right, that’s the plan!”
Zhao Xiyue nodded repeatedly.
“That’s a good idea, but…”
Zhang Chen hesitated, looking at the people present, and then slowly said,
“I can’t guarantee that finding Chen Xiao by traversing to another world will be easy!”
“Furthermore, the flow of time in that world is constantly changing. These past two times were lucky; the temporal flows of both worlds were almost synchronized.”
“What if I travel there, and the temporal flow changes? For example, if staying in that world for 2 hours equates to two weeks, or even two months in this world…”
“During this time, if Xu Linna attacks the city…”
He didn’t finish his sentence, but the meaning was clear.
It meant that the strong individuals present might not be able to withstand the attack of the perfect form biochemical humans created by Xu Linna.
As for the combat power of the perfect form biochemical humans… one could refer to Xiao Bai who had absorbed the Destroyer…
With such strength, it was estimated that only reaching the level of a Supreme could stop them.
However, the energy required to advance to the level of a Supreme was simply not something that could be gathered in a short period through killing monsters or by Zhang Chen condensing his core.
What’s more, Xu Linna’s biochemical humans were mass-produced, while powerful beings like Supremes could not be mass-produced.
With this disparity, Xu Linna’s legion’s strength could absolutely sweep through the apocalypse—of course, except for Zhang Chen.
“I have an idea, perhaps it can be tried!”
Xiao Guanghan suddenly stood up and said.
Knowing that Xiao Guanghan was resourceful, everyone turned their gaze to him.
“Speak quickly, Professor Xiao!”
Zhang Chen said urgently.
“It’s like this. Based on the clues provided by the True God and the recent incidents, I’ve analyzed that although Xu Linna possesses fragments of the time meteorite core and has gained the ability to foresee the future, this ability has two limitations!”
“The first limitation is the scope of foreseeable future. As everyone knows, the further into the future time progresses, the greater the probability of uncontrollable events occurring!”
“For example, perhaps a person likes to eat instant noodles every morning. It’s like this today, it’s like this tomorrow, it might be like this for a week, or two weeks, but eventually, one day, he might suddenly get a craving for beef, and this day may or may not come.”
“This is like Schrödinger’s cat; many things have multiple choices. The more times the future is simulated, the more branches of choice there will be.”
“So, theoretically speaking, there is a limit to Xu Linna’s ability to predict a definite future. Beyond a certain time range, the future becomes a coexistence of multiple possibilities. It requires intervention to change some of the conditions, thereby making the future determinable again.”
“To use the previous example, it would be like eating all the beef in advance, so that the man would continue to eat instant noodles for a considerable period.”
After listening to Xiao Guanghan’s explanation, everyone’s expressions were quite varied.
Zheng Hao, Bai Hanlin, Guan Xin, and others immediately understood Xiao Guanghan’s meaning.
But those with well-developed muscles, like Qing Feng and Han Shuang, were either completely bewildered or had simply given up on themselves.
It was difficult enough to listen in class when they were students, who would have thought that they would still have to listen to professors lecture as adults? They were already drowsy.
“Then… what about the other limitation?”
Zhang Chen nodded and continued to ask.
“The other limitation is that a person possessing fragments of the time meteorite core can only see a future related to themselves!”
“That’s why Xu Linna buried her own husk and a biochemical human on our side. This way, she could establish a connection with us and foresee future events.”
“And when the True God directly traversed from the time meteorite dimension to Xu Linna’s secret base, this was something she absolutely did not anticipate.”
“Because if I were her, there would be many ways to place my husk within the high wall, and I certainly wouldn’t put myself at risk to do something like this. What if the True God directly destroyed the entire laboratory and several tens of kilometers around it? Then Xu Linna would have no remains, the risk would be too high.”
“As for the subsequent conspiracy, it was entirely the optimal choice Xu Linna made after seeing the True God and predicting the future.”
“For us, this limitation means we should avoid fighting Xu Linna and her biochemical humans as much as possible.”
“As long as we don’t appear, Xu Linna cannot see our future. And as long as we drag it out long enough, our plans will exceed Xu Linna’s predictable future time frame. In this way, we will surely win!”