Chapter 186: Successful Dismantling
Chapter 186: Chapter 186: Successful Dismantling
"How’s it going?" Lin Jingjing asked, frowning as she looked at the time on her Star Ring.
Three hours left.
Luo Xiaoying, who was sitting there, stretched out her legs, which had gone from numb to aching.
She lifted a hand to knead them. The sensation was unbearable.
"Not good." Luo Xiaoying shook her head. Then, looking at the five people in front of her, she urged, "Captain Lin, you all should leave S12 Star now."
"There are still three hours left, and I’m not sure I can actually defuse the bomb in time."
The others sighed in unison, raising their hands and waving them at her. "It’s fine. You keep going."
"We’ll stay here with you."
"We’ll leave on our own when the time comes."
Lin Jingjing replied. There was no way they were going to die here. They would wait another two hours.
If she still hadn’t succeeded when time was up, they would have to retreat, regardless of the people here.
Hearing this, Luo Xiaoying felt a knot of anxiety tighten in her chest. She didn’t want to die here either. Once her break was over, Luo Xiaoying threw herself back into her work.
Staring at the two core chips in front of her, she hesitated, not knowing which one to remove.
Removing the wrong one would trigger an explosion, but if she didn’t remove one, she couldn’t cut the wires connected inside.
The wires were a tangled mess. The slightest mistake—one wrong snip—would set it off.
Luo Xiaoying had no idea how many wires she’d cut. All she knew was that she had already sorted through and snipped a long, long series of them.
Now, only the last few steps remained. If she could just finish cutting these wires, she would succeed.
Everyone in the Empire was watching this critical moment, holding their breath, terrified that the slightest mistake from this young woman would lead to the entire planet’s destruction.
[My heart is pounding. What is this feeling?]
[You’re just too nervous. Don’t be scared. Have faith in the young lady.]
[That’s right! We’ve seen it all. A measly little bomb like this is nothing to us.]
[I’m still so nervous. Just looking at this makes me anxious.]
[Then don’t watch. You can look again when it’s over.]
The comment section was buzzing with discussion, a clear sign of how much everyone cared about the situation.
It wasn’t just the netizens watching; far away on the Capital Star, Yun Yiyou and the others were also following the events closely.
Yun Yiyou watched the young woman hunched over her work. In all this time, she hadn’t had a single drop of water, not even a sip of Nutrient Liquid.
Her lips were chapped from dehydration, her face deathly pale. It was obvious the young woman was suffering from a lack of water.
And it wasn’t just the young woman; Lin Jingjing and her team were in the same state.
Lin Jingjing was the most exhausted of them all. She had been releasing her spiritual power for several hours straight.
Watching this scene made Captain Li even more anxious. ’They have to succeed,’ he thought. ’Don’t let the soldiers I brought out here get scared to death on S12 Star.’
During this long wait, whenever Captain Li got agitated, he would start cursing Huang Bo Lin.
After cursing, he would pace back and forth, worried sick about them.
Under immense pressure, Luo Xiaoying finally identified the correct core chip. After dealing with it and pulling it out, she looked inside.
Luo Xiaoying felt like dying.
’No one told me there was another bomb attached inside!’
This bomb had even less time left—only a short half-hour.
"Captain Lin, you should all go," Luo Xiaoying said to the five of them, her brow furrowed. "There’s another bomb inside, and it’s set to go off in half an hour."
"S12 Star can’t be saved." Luo Xiaoying slumped to the ground, a strained smile on her face.
Hearing this, Shi Feng’s eyes widened, his voice rising several octaves. "What? A bomb within a bomb?!"
"That’s right."
"And it’s a very, very old model. One I’ve never seen before."
As she spoke, Luo Xiaoying’s voice began to choke up.
"S12 Star... is really doomed."
That single sentence struck countless people like a bolt of lightning.
But Huang Bo Lin laughed when he heard this. That particular bomb had been discovered by accident by one of his subordinates.
Its discovery had even killed a few of his men before his researchers finally figured it out after a period of study.
He had placed it there specifically to make things difficult for them.
An ancient bomb like that could be disarmed, but it took time.
With only half an hour left, he wanted to see how they could possibly save the day now.
When the others heard Luo Xiaoying’s words, they hurried over, got down, and peered inside.
The moment she saw the bomb, Lin Jingjing recognized it.
"I know this one!" Lin Jingjing shouted.
"Let me do it." With that, she switched places with Luo Xiaoying.
The other four quickly pulled Luo Xiaoying back to a safe distance, while Lin Jingjing, tools in hand, lay prone with her rear in the air, carefully working to extract the device bit by bit.
After a full 25 minutes, once she had removed the bomb, Lin Jingjing shouted to Luo Xiaoying, "Quick, come back and finish the rest."
Hearing this, Luo Xiaoying was completely dumbfounded. ’That’s it?’
"Captain Lin, you dealt with it that quickly?" Luo Xiaoying asked in disbelief.
"It’s simple. Now hurry up and take care of the rest," Lin Jingjing said with a smile.
’Was it really simple?’
Luo Xiaoying couldn’t believe it. She desperately wanted to ask how it was done, but now was not the time.
Suppressing her curiosity, Luo Xiaoying got back to work.
The netizens watching the live broadcast were shocked. And it wasn’t just them; Huang Bo Lin’s expression had turned impossibly dark.
He had never imagined that someone in this group would know how to disarm that bomb.
His own researchers had needed two days to study it, yet Lin Jingjing did it in 25 minutes.
"Damn it—" In his fury, Huang Bo Lin smashed the teacup from his desk onto the floor.
[It’s Captain Lin again! She really can do anything! Captain Lin is too amazing!]
[When I heard the young lady say S12 Star was doomed, my heart just died. I never expected such a sudden turnaround. Captain Lin solved such a difficult crisis in an instant.]
[Captain Lin is so awesome! S12 Star has to win!]
The bomb that could have destroyed S12 Star was finally, completely disarmed by Luo Xiaoying. The moment she saw the timer stop at 1:01:23...
Luo Xiaoying burst into tears. She collapsed onto the ground, looked at the five of them, and said, "It’s over."
"Successfully defused?" Gu Kaiwen asked.
"Yes! Everyone is safe!" Luo Xiaoying shouted.
Hearing this, the group erupted in cheers.
"AHHHH! We’re not gonna die! Nobody has to die!" Shi Feng was the most over-the-top, jumping up and shouting on the spiritual platform.
Seeing him like that, Gu Kaiwen called out a reminder, "Don’t fall off."
No sooner had he said it than Shi Feng missed his footing and fell right off. It was a three-meter drop; a fall from that height would cause injury.
"Holy shit, you actually fell!" Gu Kaiwen was stunned. Lin Jingjing, reacting fastest, immediately summoned an Eagle to catch Shi Feng.