Zhao Xiyue hesitated for a moment, then nodded and followed Chen Xiao into the spatial rift.
Just two seconds after the two entered the time rift, the entire rift instantly vanished.
After another dozen seconds, the parallel world teleportation gate trembled.
Zhang Chen and the big man Sean returned to the apocalyptic world.
"Xiyue?"
Zhang Chen shouted.
The entire room, the entire corridor were empty, with no response.
Zhang Chen simultaneously activated Absolute Sight and scanned the entire building.
No biological energy fluctuations were detected.
He then expanded the range of Absolute Sight to the entire walled city, still with no success.
Occasional energy fluctuations of mutated creatures were detected within the high-tech city, but they were not human.
"Guji!"
At this moment, Xiao Ruan crawled out of Zhang Chen's pocket, slowly floating in mid-air, circling where the spatial rift had just appeared.
"What? Did you find something?"
Zhang Chen asked.
"Guji~"
Xiao Ruan slowly wriggled its eight tentacles, making Sean too scared to even breathe.
He had heard of Gromos's name. No matter how strong you were, your internal energy was but a drop in the ocean before Gromos.
He could drain you dry or make you explode; he could play with you however he pleased.
So far, only the Supreme had been known to kill Gromos. Other than that, most people who saw Gromos were no more.
"What? A spatial rift appeared here?"
Zhang Chen frowned upon hearing Xiao Ruan's words.
"Can you track the origin of this spatial rift?"
"Guji! Guji!"
"This energy is very similar to the world you connected to in the World Core?"
"Very good, then open the teleportation gate to that world again!"
Zhang Chen said.
"Guji~"
Xiao Ruan slowly opened its large eyes, and then a beam of energy shot out from its pupils.
A spatial teleportation gate slowly appeared before the two of them.
"Um... I... I won't go then..."
Sean said tremblingly.
Zhang Chen was already terrifying enough, and with Gromos added, and now going to an unknown world...
It was a sin! Wouldn't it be better to just stay in one place honestly?!
"Oh? You're not going?"
Zhang Chen slowly raised his right hand again.
"No, no, I mean I'll go with you, I'll go together!"
Seeing the unfavorable situation, Sean quickly corrected himself.
"Oh, I thought you didn't want to go!"
Zhang Chen raised his right hand and scratched his chin, then walked directly into the spatial rift with Xiao Ruan.
"Sigh... what a sin..."
Sean sighed helplessly and quickly followed.
Where else could he go if he didn't go?
Within the walled city, Zhang Chen could find him at any time.
If he fled into a parallel world... Zhang Chen wouldn't even need to look for him. He would just need to wait patiently at the teleportation gate for 20 minutes, and he would be forcibly teleported back.
The vision blurred for a moment, and Zhang Chen, with Xiao Ruan and Sean, entered the parallel world.
The location was also on the rooftop, and the world before them was still devastated.
Buildings and streets burned by fire still emitted wisps of black smoke.
On the road, surging hordes of zombies could occasionally be seen, rushing forward like a tide from afar, making strange cries, and then frantically running away into the distance.
Besides ordinary zombies, there were also many zombies in the zombie horde that Zhang Chen had never seen before.
[Current World Ecological Level: Ominous, Time Flow: Unmeasurable, with countless temporal turbulences and branching time worlds. Good luck!]
Zhang Chen looked at the prompt before him, speechless.
It seemed that as he became stronger, the abilities of the prompts had relatively weakened.
However, this also suggested that the prompts were not omnipotent, and the power behind them might not far exceed the world's power system.
Zhang Chen speculated.
Activate Absolute Sight!
Although the prompt couldn't indicate how powerful the monsters in this world were, Zhang Chen could roughly judge the enemy's strength through energy fluctuations.
Zhang Chen looked at a zombie shaped like Kayako from The Grudge.
It crawled quickly on the ground and on cars, its long hair covering its entire face.
If he saw her at night, although Zhang Chen's strength wouldn't be threatened by her, he would definitely be startled.
"Hmm... the strength is not strong!"
He then turned to look at other strangely shaped zombies.
Similarly, the energy fluctuations within them were extremely weak. The strongest among them were only around the level of a mutated V-class.
Zombies of this strength, if placed in the apocalyptic world he came from, would be at the bottom of the food chain.
Zhang Chen continued to use Absolute Sight for scanning.
With Zhao Xiyue's strength, her energy flow would be very conspicuous in this world. As long as he could scan her, he could identify her immediately.
Zhang Chen slowly closed his eyes and expanded his perception to its maximum.
In the current city... none...
Expanding the range a thousand times... still none...
Expanding another thousand times...
At this moment, beads of sweat appeared on Zhang Chen's forehead.
Fortunately, he only needed to search for the most conspicuous energy waves, not to probe the energy fluctuations in every inch of land or every floor of a tall building. If that were the case, Zhang Chen's energy consumption and time would have been much greater!
"Hoo... there are no energy fluctuations of Zhao Xiyue in this area..."
"We need to find a map. Xiao Ruan, you open the teleportation gate, and we'll switch to another area to continue searching!"
Zhang Chen said.
"Guji!"
Xiao Ruan's tentacles coiled into a circle, indicating no problem.
"Boss, there's a travel agency here, there should be a map!"
Sean said, then jumped directly from the rooftop and rushed into the travel agency.
After rummaging for a while, he jumped back with a map and a pale blue planet device, his face excited.
To survive, one must constantly prove their worth.
Sean understood this point quite clearly.
"Boss, look, this is a map of the state this city is in, this is a map of this country, and this pale blue planet device can show the situation of the entire world!"
Zhang Chen nodded and began to search on the pale blue planet device.
He quickly located his position. His perception had already explored the entire country.
Switching to the next area...
Suddenly, Zhang Chen was attracted by a line of small text on the pale blue planet device: Tengxiang Country!
This world is a parallel world of Water Blue Star, and it also has Tengxiang Country!
This place also experienced a zombie outbreak, and it's possible they also built walled cities.
If someone from this world came to Zhang Chen's world, that person might be within the walled city!
Zhang Chen gently squeezed Xiao Ruan and said:
"Let's go here!"
"Guji!" Xiao Ruan wriggled its tentacles, meaning to give it a try.
After all, opening a spatial teleportation gate to an unvisited location was a first.