Zhang Chen couldn't reach Shirley, nor could he contact Xu Ruina.
Moreover, the entire experimental building was eerily quiet, filling him with a sense of foreboding.
"Everyone, stick close to me, don't wander off!"
Zhang Chen said with a grave expression.
"Okay, Dad!"
Xiaobai and Moran nodded, obediently following behind Zhang Chen.
As for Zuo Nan, there was no need to even mention him; as long as Zhang Chen didn't kill him, he was determined to follow Zhang Chen.
An opportunity to latch onto such a powerful figure didn't come often.
Furthermore, the current situation was rather bizarre, with even Zhang Chen looking cautious, Zuo Nan dared not act rashly.
He dutifully followed at the rear of the group.
The一行 slowly entered the experimental center building.
Unlike the military warehouse and the streets they had traversed, this place was in disarray, as if it had just undergone a battle.
The reception desk had a large hole punched through it, and broken bricks were scattered all over the floor from the walls.
One of the elevator doors was damaged, as if struck by immense force, its doors deformed and impossible to open.
"If there are no infected or mutated creatures here, then who was fighting whom?"
Zhang Chen walked to the ground and picked up a broken brick, examining it.
The broken edges were fresh, and a touch of his finger could still pick up dust from them.
"It must have been a recent battle!"
Zhang Chen narrowed his eyes and activated his absolute vision.
His gaze slowly swept across every corner.
There was no one on this floor.
He then looked up and began scanning floor by floor upwards.
With absolute vision, the entire building was like an X-ray photograph, with the building's frame, office supplies, and experimental equipment all clearly visible.
Still no one.
Only on the 13th floor did a few abnormal energy fluctuations appear.
Zhang Chen then looked down at his feet.
The natives loved building laboratories underground.
But not this time; below, apart from a parking lot, there were no other structures.
"Let's go upstairs!"
Zhang Chen decided without hesitation.
"Ah? Go upstairs in this situation? Shouldn't we search floor by floor to ensure we don't miss any spot?"
Zuo Nan asked worriedly.
In reality, what he meant by "ensure we don't miss any spot" was not about missing any places where Xu Ruina and Shirley might be, but rather any place where dangerous enemies might be hiding.
If they were attacked from behind, Zuo Nan, being at the back, would be the first cannon fodder.
"No need, I've already checked, and I didn't find anyone!"
"There are a few strange areas on the thirteenth floor that we need to investigate. They might be related to the disappearance of Xu Ruina and Shirley!"
Zhang Chen finished speaking, not offering further explanation, and walked directly into another normal elevator.
Fortunately, this elevator was indeed unaffected, and it quickly arrived at the 13th floor.
Ding! The elevator doors slowly opened!
Moran and Xiaobai instantly rushed out, one to secure the corridor, the other to secure the rooftop.
Zhang Chen, knowing there were no enemies on this floor, slowly walked out.
Zuo Nan followed closely behind.
To Zhang Chen's surprise, the corridor on this floor was remarkably clean, with no signs of fighting whatsoever.
Smooth marble floors, white shadowless lights, and on either side of the corridor were more than a dozen rooms, all labeled with names.
Zhang Chen entered a room labeled Observation Room.
Adjacent to this room, there was an unusual energy flow.
This room contained a large mirror that allowed direct observation of the situation in the adjacent room.
On the desk, several experimental data tables and a notebook were scattered.
The computer used for experiments was also running normally, displaying unknown graphics and text.
On the other side of the glass window, a spatial rift flickered in and out of existence.
"This is..."
Zuo Nan stared at the scene in front of him with astonishment, feeling that these things should belong in a science fiction movie, never expecting them to appear before his eyes!
"It looks like a spacetime rift leading to a parallel world, but this rift is unstable!"
Zhang Chen said, his eyes narrowed.
He had previously traveled through parallel worlds with Xiao Ruan, and the spatial portals opened by Xiao Ruan were very similar to the spacetime rift before him.
Considering the third high-wall city, the natives had once researched Gromos, who possessed spatial traversal abilities.
Therefore, it seemed not impossible for the natives to possess the technology to open doors to parallel worlds, but it was necessary to know the extent of their research!
Zhang Chen casually picked up the notebook on the desk.
The name written on the title page was: Senior Researcher Yang Haishan!
It was the same researcher whose work ID Zhang Chen had seen before!
He was a scientist responsible for bio-energy and physics research.
This notebook contained only meeting minutes.
Almost every time the progress faction had a meeting, he recorded all the content related to Yang Haishan's work in this book.
Zhang Chen flipped open the first page, which read:
Regrettably, the meeting announced the formal abandonment of the planar immigration plan!
After thousands of explorations, simulations, and actual attempts, we are simply incapable of long-term habitation in parallel worlds.
The current longest cross-planar habitation duration is 47 hours, 55 minutes, and 12 seconds. The tested plane is the tC005735 parallel world.
And the most heartbreaking thing is that at some point, humans have been infected by bio-energy.
In any parallel world we visit, even a pure and peaceful world, with our arrival, it will soon be eroded by bio-energy.
Basically, within 20 minutes, the first infected person will appear, followed by an infection wave, ultimately plunging the entire world into an apocalypse...
We have already destroyed over 700 worlds in this manner and can no longer continue.
It's not that we are worried about the lives of the humans in the destroyed worlds; they are essentially no different from lab rats.
It's mainly because... we don't have that much time to waste on the wrong path.
Zhang Chen flipped to the next page, which contained the minutes of another meeting.
Success! We have successfully absorbed energy from a parallel world into the main world and merged the two worlds!
We have successfully fused to create neat streets, clean shops, and brightly lit office buildings!
As long as we successfully defeat the mutated creatures, we can replicate a peaceful and orderly new world in the main world. This discovery will greatly reduce the pressure of post-disaster reconstruction!
My work is to lock onto all parallel worlds similar to the Water Blue Star world!
I believe I am saving all of humanity. We are the saviors of all humanity!