When in doubt, blame quantum mechanics.
This could describe Ejie's current situation.
His teleportation utilized quantum-related technology.
For him to teleport inside the ship, he needed to reach within a certain safe teleportation range of the ship before he could teleport.
The reason he jumped in alone and let himself be teleported, rather than having the Astartes and others also jump with him, wasn't because they weren't within the ship's authentication system or hadn't been registered.
In a sense, they weren't registered either, but this wasn't simply a matter of logging character information.
It also required marking their bodies with some quantum signature, giving them a quantum particle that could be entangled with one inside the ship, allowing teleportation through so-called quantum entanglement.
However, quantum entanglement doesn't seem to be able to transmit information. The two entangled particles have a special connection—no matter how far apart, they can instantly connect.
But this connection isn't about information transmission.
For example, give you a pair of gloves, place them in two separate boxes, and store them in different locations.
Before opening one of the boxes, you have no idea which box contains the left glove and which contains the right glove.
The moment you open the box in your hand, you definitely know which hand the other glove is for.
Perhaps this analogy isn't accurate either.
Someone tells you they're giving you a gift, packed in two boxes, and tells you this gift is of one type.
So when you open one box and see a left glove, you can assume the other box also contains a glove. But it's not necessarily a right glove, and the color might be the same, but it ultimately belongs to the glove category.
Quantum entanglement might be something like this.
But since there's such a special connection, there must be some kind of link.
His teleportation was developed by Golden Age humans who delved deep into the quantum entanglement phenomenon.
So, having successfully returned to this Golden Age technological crystal, his safety level skyrocketed.
As a squad captain of the Salamanders Chapter accepting the Arch-Mago's delivery mission—Airet—he naturally wouldn't simply hand over the cargo just because the other party said who they were and knew who the sender was.
Actually, when the Arch-Mago had him make the delivery, he hadn't specifically described what kind of person the recipient was, just giving the other party's name.
In that case, without information about the other party, how would he confirm the delivery target?
To this, the Arch-Mago said that when the time came, he would know—he should trust his instincts.
However, the Arch Mago still revealed some information, so he wouldn't be completely clueless.
First, the other party was a very special untouchable. As for how special, he would know when he encountered them.
After meeting him, he indeed noticed that this untouchable was somewhat strange—he seemed able to freely control the range of his untouchable influence.
Sometimes, when there were too many bugs, the range he released affected them too.
Second, the other party suddenly guessing who the deliverer was could also be considered a form of contact code.
On this point, he was correct.
Third, if the other party didn't die immediately upon putting on this power armor and operated it normally, then there was no need to say more—they had delivered to the right person.
Indeed, the other party put it on and used it normally without problems.
Finally, the Arch Mago also instructed that if the other party was in any danger at the time, they should rescue him even if their entire squad had to sacrifice themselves.
So when Airet heard that the other party had a way to deal with the hive nest, he continued to fight their way to the original destination with him.
Then the other party performed a truly astonishing act, jumping toward the huge abyssal hole. Although the power armor provided auxiliary thrust, he couldn't possibly fly across this several-kilometer-wide abyss.
Even worse, while airborne, he was targeted by the bugs' biochemical plasma.
At this moment, his expression changed drastically, after all, protecting the other party was also the Arch-Mago's order.
However, just as the beam was about to hit, his body instantly seemed to become like a mirage—an illusion, non-existent.
Then, like mist being blown away.
But because it happened so quickly, he felt it might be an illusion, that he really had been vaporized by the biochemical plasma beam.
No! That wasn't right!!!
With that biochemical plasma beam and the other party wearing such power armor, it was impossible for him to be directly vaporized.
But he had just vanished into thin air like that, without any trace remaining—obviously something was strange.
Then he had no time to continue observing, because the surrounding bugs launched their charge, forcing them to continuously contract their position, gradually being pushed toward the edge of this abyss.
At the same time, the ground anomalies were intensifying. The bugs were definitely destroying the edge of the land they were standing on, trying to make them fall.
Suddenly, something abnormal appeared—
"Captain!"
Rawls, who had been assigned to look after the recipient somewhat, suddenly indicated the situation above and behind them. He had naturally sensed it too.
Through a camera on the back of his power armor, the captured image was projected into a corner of his screen.
That was—
Airet couldn't help but look back and saw something descending from three hundred meters above behind them. This thing was gradually changing from invisible to visible.
From transparent to opaque.
It was a warship about two hundred meters or so—no, what kind of warship was two hundred meters? A fighter craft? Anyway, it was a model he'd never seen.
As it became increasingly clear and real, it looked like some kind of civilian intra-system cargo ship, but civilian ships couldn't do this kind of thing.
Look at how the bugs' biochemical plasma beams shot at it—they seemed to hit a phantom image, passing straight through while the ship remained completely undamaged.
As if the ship could only be seen visually but didn't actually exist in the real dimension.
This ship approached further, with its rear facing them, and opened up to reveal a strange smooth metallic surface.
After a moment of confusion, Airet understood—this strange aircraft's exterior was camouflaged.
Then the smooth wall also became transparent, forming a hatch opening.
Immediately, Airet directed his squad to retreat toward the craft.
Just as they got very close, the ground beneath their feet suddenly collapsed, and everyone slid into the abyss.
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