Actually, there wasn't anything special that needed to be explained.
Because Jack was managing the company, and he basically didn't have to worry about it normally; even if he were gone for a year or two, no problems would arise.
As for the Base, Uncle Li was in charge, so there wouldn't be any big issues there either.
If there really were any problems, the group of soldiers led by Little San, Xiao Liu, and Xiao Wu—whose bodies had been enhanced and injected with Extremis—were nothing to scoff at, not to mention the newly joined Inhumans.
After making all the phone calls, the Octopus spaceship had also finished its adjustments.
"Let's go!"
After giving Uncle Li a final word, Li Chuan took Wanda and walked into the spaceship.
At this moment, in the pilot's seat, the green-skinned Gamora was already seated, flicking the control buttons in front of her:
"The ship will take off in three minutes. You'd better sit in the back and fasten your seatbelts in advance."
And Nebula, sitting in the co-pilot seat next to her, inserted her metal finger into a port, beginning to upload the interstellar coordinate map of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Hearing this, Li Chuan performed a Taoist hand seal. A white cloud instantly lifted him and the Scarlet Witch, bringing them to the glass window best suited for viewing the scenery on the ship.
"You don't need to worry about us; just pilot the ship well."
With his and Wanda's strength, even if the spaceship were to disintegrate in the sky, there wouldn't be any danger. At most, they would just use sword escape to fly on their own.
Seeing this, Gamora didn't waste any words; she pressed the launch button and pushed the control stick all the way down.
The ceiling of the Sokovia science laboratory hall slowly opened, and the Octopus spaceship spewed out eight streams of fire, turning into a streak of light and disappearing from sight.
"Looking at it like this, Earth is truly beautiful!"
Inside the ship, looking through the glass at Earth as it became smaller and smaller, Wanda couldn't help but exclaim.
Li Chuan, standing to the side, nodded in agreement.
Although he often saw such space scenes on his phone and television, when you actually flew out of Earth and saw it for yourself, the feeling and the awe were completely different.
Especially unlike Wanda, who was just admiring the view, Li Chuan was at this moment thinking of the powerful beings in this World.
With his current strength, seeing the sky and seeing Earth, he still couldn't help but sigh at his own insignificance.
That Eternity who symbolized the essence of the Universe, the Celestials who manufactured the Sun and created Planets, as well as those Demon Gods who devoured Worlds or created their own dimensional spaces—how powerful must they be?
By comparison, his own strength was still Worlds apart from theirs.
"Nebula, about how long until we reach Xandar?"
"If nothing goes wrong, at this ship's speed, we can reach the nearest wormhole to Earth in about ten days. Then, we'll fly for another five days to reach the next wormhole. After passing through that one and flying for ten more days, we'll arrive at Xandar."
"The main thing is that this ship's performance is still too poor; its speed is quite a bit slower than a normal spaceship."
Nebula couldn't help but complain when she answered.
There was no help for it. Although her chip contained some data regarding spaceship design, she wasn't a professional after all. Her specialty, like her sister Gamora's, was espionage, infiltration, and assassination.
Therefore, when building the ship, she wasn't the main manufacturer. The main manufacturers were Ivan and other professional human scientists.
Many spaceship parts and equipment that were very easy to buy in the Universe simply didn't exist on Earth. They required Ivan and the other human scientists to find substitutes based on Nebula's data descriptions, or simply find a way to replicate them.
In the end, the ship could still be used normally, but the performance was definitely quite a bit worse.
"Twenty-five days. That's fine, not too long."
Li Chuan nodded. He had originally thought it would take at least a month or two.
Twenty-two days later, having experienced two wormhole jumps, they were only three days away from their destination, Xandar.
On this day, Li Chuan, who had long since lost interest in the outer space scenery, was cultivating with Wanda in their room.
Interstellar travel was just like this. At the beginning, everything felt very awe-inspiring, but if you flew for too long without seeing any new, living Planets, you would start to feel bored.
Because most of the time, the scenery of outer space was all the same.
So, apart from their fixed daily cultivation, the four of them would play cards or chat together.
After spending a long time together, their relationship had become much better.
From the initial mutual utilization, they could now barely be considered friends.
After their cultivation session ended, the two of them, feeling refreshed, had just stepped out of the room when Li Chuan's body suddenly stiffened, and a smile appeared on his face.
"The upgrade is finally finished."
It turned out he had heard the notification that the panel's upgrade was complete.
Letting Wanda go find Gamora and the others first, Li Chuan returned to his room and began to check his upgraded panel.
"It can actually control time now!"
A moment later, after checking the panel thoroughly, he understood all the functions of the upgraded panel.
Actually, there weren't any major changes in general, just the addition of two time-control abilities.
The first was that he could now freely control the time spent entering a Small World.
Before, when he accumulated one or two years of time from completing missions, choosing to enter a Small World would result in all that accumulated time being used up at once.
By the time he returned to the Main World, he would certainly be in a state of having no time left.
But now it was different. Before entering a Small World, he could set the time to be spent in advance.
For example, if he currently had a year and a half of Small World time, he could choose to spend two months when entering any Small World. Then, two months later, when he returned from the Small World, he would still have one year and four months remaining.
If he wanted, he could even split his year and a half of Small World time and enter all three Small Worlds in succession.
The benefit of this was that in the future, if he needed to go to a Small World to handle something, he wouldn't need to worry too much about the time. He could just allocate a little bit without affecting his entry into the next World.
Just like before, when he had been accumulating Small World time so he could have enough time to go to the World of Shu Mountain Biography, not daring to go to the other two Small Worlds.
Now, if a similar situation arose, he could simply spend a very small amount of time to get things done.
The second ability was also a time-control ability, but unlike the first, this one controlled the time of the Small World itself.
According to the explanation on the panel, every time Li Chuan left the Main World, the panel would use the laws of time to anchor a point in time. When he returned from the Small World, it would still be that same point in time.
Therefore, people in the Main World would feel as if Li Chuan had never left.
Similarly, the Small World worked on the same principle. Every time Li Chuan entered, he would return to the point in time he had left, so no one in the Small World would feel that Li Chuan had ever left.
Now, this right was in Li Chuan's hands.
Whether it was the Main World or a Small World, he could choose whether or not to anchor the time point when he left.
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