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Ge Xiaolun didn't say anything, he just stared blankly at the screen.
He thought of the "male core" within his body, his so-called "galactic power," and then looked at the "childcare robot" on the screen that could freely control the evolution of life.
For the first time, he felt that his status as a "god" was so humble and ridiculous.
"The invention of a childcare robot... isn't that just too outrageous?"
"I really envy Nobita. He has such a terrifying childcare robot to take care of him."
He finally let out a lemon-flavored exclamation.
"We're working so hard here, leveling up and fighting aliens, and worrying about the safety of Earth every day."
"This elementary school student has a god-level babysitter from the future taking care of him, and he can even play around with these overpowered gadgets..."
"The gap between people is sometimes greater than the gap between people and gods!"
[The regressed Gian, driven by instinct, begins to wreak havoc in the room.]
Nobita and Doraemon finally managed to wrest the beam gun back from the snail man after a great deal of effort.
They quickly turned the knob back to the "plus" sign, aimed it at Fat Tiger who was swinging the curtains, and turned him back to normal.
[Now back to normal, Gian has no recollection of what just happened.]
After experiencing this chaos, Nobita truly understood how terrifying this gadget was.
Finally, they used a beam gun to reduce the snail-man, who had begun contemplating a "snail-centric governance plan," back to an ordinary snail.
Nobita gently placed it back in the corner of the yard and watched it slowly crawl away.
He decided that he would have to complete his homework himself, bit by bit.
"Finally... we've turned that clever snail person back to normal."
"Otherwise, who knows what kind of trouble he would cause? He might actually build a snail empire."
"Thank goodness that the guy named Fat Tiger has recovered as well."
"But what was the point of all that trouble and chaos?"
"Wait...look at the last sentence..."
Nobita has decided that he will have to complete his homework himself, bit by bit...
"..."
"..."
"So... so this is what 'education' is?!"
"After causing so much trouble, creating a new species with extraordinary intelligence, then destroying it with your own hands, and almost causing a human to permanently degenerate into an ape..."
"The ultimate goal is simply to make Nobita realize that he has to complete his homework step by step by himself, instead of relying on inventions?!"
"What...what an extravagant educational method!"
"Using a magical artifact capable of changing the world order and creating a new civilization to tutor an elementary school student with their homework?"
"I feel like my brain isn't working properly."
"Is Doraemon a childcare robot or the universe's greatest 'performance artist'?"
"This is no longer spoiling; it's a higher level of 'parenting' that we mortals simply cannot understand?"
"This is so shocking! This educational philosophy is more shocking than any battle or invention I've ever seen before!"
The 29th Time Pause: Pause time at will!
[Third invention revealed: A time-stopping device!]
The story takes place during the final match of a community baseball game.
The situation is extremely tense; it's the last chance to be eliminated in the final round.
Nobita and his team are still down by one run, but the bases are already full.
This means that as long as the batter can get a hit, they can turn the tide and win.
And the last hitter was Nobita Nobi.
All eyes were on him.
[Gian shouts from the sidelines, "If Nobita loses the match because of this, I'm going to beat him to a pulp!"]
[Xiao Fu was also sighing and lamenting, feeling that the game was already lost.]
Nobita gripped the baseball bat, his palms sweaty, his legs trembling.
He knew his chances of getting a hit were practically zero.
The pitcher was ready, and he threw a very tricky fastball.
The white baseball grew larger and larger in Nobita's eyes, moving as fast as a bullet.
He couldn't react at all and was about to strike out.
At this critical moment, Doraemon, hidden in the audience, secretly teleported a pocket watch-like gadget into Nobita's pocket.
That's a "time-stopping device."
In despair, Nobita instinctively pressed the button in the middle of his pocket watch.
The moment he pressed the button, the whole world changed.
The noise of the baseball game, Gian's roars, and his teammates' cheers all disappeared.
The world fell into an absolute, eerie silence.
The baseball, about to fly into the catcher's glove, defied the laws of physics and came to a standstill in mid-air, just centimeters from home plate.
The pitcher remained motionless, leaning forward after throwing the ball, like a statue.
The catcher was half-crouched, and his outstretched glove had stopped.
[Gian's mouth gaped open, his expression frozen in the moment of his roar.]
A pigeon flew across the sky, its wings spread, and hovered in mid-air.
The wind stopped, and the dust that had been blown up floated in the air like a still oil painting.
Only Nobita is still free to think and act.
This is the incredible power of the time-stopping device: it grants users absolute control over the dimension of time.
For everyone else in the world, time has not passed at all.
But for Nobita, he had unlimited time to act.
Nobita snapped out of his nervousness, took a couple of tentative steps, and found that it was indeed alright.
He walked over and poked the baseball floating in mid-air with his finger.
The baseball remained motionless, like a nail driven into thin air.
He walked around the stadium and saw everyone who was "frozen in time."
He even ran up to Gian and drew a circle on his frozen face with his finger.
After confirming the safety of this static world, Nobita returned to the strike zone.
He knew this wasn't the time for fooling around.
He intends to use this unlimited time to accomplish the impossible task—to hit a walk-off single.
He stood before the stationary baseball, carefully observing its trajectory and spin.
Then he started practicing his swing.
Once, twice, ten times, a hundred times.
Since time has stopped, he can keep practicing until he finds the perfect swing form and timing.
[In the initial swings, I always missed the point I imagined.]
But after countless practices, his movements became more and more precise, and he grew more and more confident.
He adjusted his posture and changed how he gripped the baton.
He felt he had never known baseball so well before.
Finally, he struck a perfect, professional-like swing.
He knew it was now.
He walked back to his original position, adjusting his body posture to be exactly the same as before he pressed pause.
Then, he pressed the time-pause button again.
【"Whoosh—"
The world has returned to normal.
The seal was broken in an instant, affecting the sounds, the wind, and everyone's movements.
The baseball continued its flight towards home plate at its original speed.
The instant it entered the batter's box, Nobita swung his bat—his most perfect swing, one he had practiced hundreds and thousands of times.
“Clang!”
A crisp metallic clang echoed throughout the stadium.
The baseball, like a white shooting star, flew towards the distant outfield.
Everyone was stunned.
"Another...another incredible invention! A time-stopping device!"
"Time around the user is frozen, and only the user can move freely... This invention is simply incredible!"
"My God, in a world where time has stopped, the user is the only god! They can do whatever they want! This is more terrifying than any previous invention!"
"Did you guys understand? It wasn't just a simple matter of him stopping time to play baseball!"
"He used the paused time to practice hundreds, even thousands of times! This means he had almost unlimited 'learning time' and 'thinking time'!"