The organization once dispatched a reinforcement squad to set up a post near the simulated space in the rainforest, hoping to find a way to enter it, but no matter how they searched, they couldn't find the entrance. Instead, they were chased by the luminous dot matrix until they had nowhere to retreat.

In the end, they all died in the attack of the luminous dot matrix, burned to ashes by the eerie green fire.

Later, Strange sent several more squads deep into the rainforest to explore and search, but the result was still the annihilation of the entire army.

All the phenomena indicated that the Dodge-led squad was highly likely to have been attacked and killed by the luminous dot matrix.

Everyone believed that Dodge's squad had been wiped out, with no survivors, but Strange did not think so. He firmly believed that Dodge and the others were still alive, and Han Yu shared the same opinion.

Han Yu was also convinced that Fatty and Joey were still alive, but they now existed in another space that could not be observed. Although she said so, Han Yu could not provide proof of their survival.

Fatty, Joey, and the other members of Dodge's squad were listed as missing persons rather than casualties by the organization.

Strange initially refused to order the withdrawal of the search and rescue team from the rainforest (mainly because Han Yu insisted).

The search and rescue work lasted for a year.

But reality finally hit Strange and Han Yu hard. During this period, the organization did not receive any feedback from that closed space. From a normal person's perspective, no one could survive for more than a year without food or water.

They had to accept the conclusion that Dodge's squad had failed its mission and all members had died.

Because Strange did not keep his promise to Han Yu, the deaths of Fatty and Joey led to a complete break between Strange and Han Yu.

Strange did not give Han Yu freedom, and Han Yu refused to continue working for Strange.

Strange placed Han Yu under house arrest, but did not do anything else to hurt her, nor did he harm her parents, family, classmates, or friends. The house arrest allowed Han Yu to go out, but someone had to follow her at all times.

During this period, Han Yu did not give up her research on the meteorite, but conducted it secretly and privately.

And so, another year passed.

One day, a large explosion occurred deep in the rainforest, with the center of the explosion in the area of the luminous dot matrix.

This news rekindled hope in Han Yu. She believed that the explosion must be related to Fatty and Joey.

Therefore, the organization's search and rescue team rushed into the rainforest as soon as possible, ahead of other forces, to explore and search for survivors.

Just when everyone thought Han Yu was overreacting.

Strange things happened. As Han Yu had predicted, the search and rescue team found Fatty, Joey, and others alive at the center of the explosion.

At the same time, the dangerous luminous dot matrix and the previously detected unknown space disappeared into thin air.

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Hearing this, Fatty's heart skipped a beat.

"Two years...?" Fatty thought.

Fatty's memory told him that from the time they entered the simulated space until it collapsed, Fatty personally felt that the time they spent inside was less than a month. How could two years have passed outside?

Fatty remembered reading a story when he was in school about a woodcutter named Wang Zhi in the mid-Jin Dynasty who went up a mountain to chop wood and encountered two children playing Go. He watched them from the side, and when he returned home, he found that more than eight hundred years had passed since he had gone up the mountain.

One day in the cave is like a thousand years in the world.

Fatty never thought that something similar would happen to him.

Jennifer saw Fatty's confusion, sighed, and said to Fatty, "I feel like I just took a nap. I didn't expect two years to pass by so quickly. When we learned the truth, not only I, but Joey and Dodge were all helpless about the disappearance of these two years. It took us a long time to accept this reality."

After Fatty and the other four were rescued, the organization performed an extremely detailed examination of their entire bodies, checking every pore.

The test results showed that their bodies and indicators were all normal. Except for Fatty, Joey, Jennifer, and Dodge were all clear-headed and had no aftereffects. The most surprising thing was that the excessive radiation produced by the explosion had no effect on them at all.

During the conversation, Jennifer couldn't fight the sleepiness. As she was talking, she leaned against Fatty and fell asleep.

Fatty was still digesting what Jennifer had just told him.

Two years had passed in a hurry. He had missed two years with this world.

Fatty didn't know what had happened in this world during these two years, but he knew that Han Yu had experienced too much during these two years. Missing these two years with Han Yu made Fatty a little regretful.

The rain outside the window was much gentler, no longer hitting the window indiscriminately.

Fatty turned his head slightly and looked at the rain幕 vaguely visible in the light outside the window.

Summer rainy nights are the easiest to fall asleep, but at this moment, Fatty couldn't sleep at all.