Nuclear Warhead Cooked in Wine

It is an era of artificial superintelligences, interstellar travel, gene medicine, and virtual reality worlds. Far into Earth's future, 15-year-old Gu Ding is a student of Cerulean Military Academy by day, and tavern waiter by night. His ambition: Become the space pirate with the highest bounty offered by the Universal Federation Government. With the help of Neptune, a neonate super-intelligence, Gu Ding finds himself thrust into a galaxy of shadowy organizations, political underdealings, and otherworldly forces that lie beyond human comprehension…

The Highest Bounty

Normally, Neptune notifies the team in advance before the hull shakes, allowing Gu Ding and Liliath to brace themselves. But when the ship shook this time, Neptune did not give an early warning and both Gu Ding and Liliath nearly fell down. Instead, only Biggie stood steadily on the ground, as if there was a magnetic force between his soles and the floorboard.

"We... seem to have experienced the legendary space-time backtracking ..." Neptune's tone sounded grave.

"What is space-time backtracking?" Gu Ding thought it sounded a bit unpleasant.

Backtracking Upon Space-Time