Chapter 139 The Truth of this Space

“The Cristi Civilization sent an anomaly report, claiming that two unfamiliar Supreme-tier powerhouses violated the ban and appeared out of thin air in the capital of the Tudor Province. They refused to cooperate and engaged in a fierce battle. Afterward, the two escaped into the starry sky and disappeared without a trace… This is the video data they recorded.”

The huge stepped conference room was filled with people, all watching the video on the virtual screen intently. The scene on the screen was Han Xiao and Kasuyi fighting the Tudor Province defense force.

The video was short and ended quickly with the Mechanical Deity's earth-shattering slash.

The screen went black, and the room was silent for a while before the sound of discussion began.

“Confirmed, these two are indeed Supreme-tier.”

“There is no information about them in the archives. Their origins are unknown, their identities are unknown, their races are unknown, and there are no recorded activity reports.”

“Strange. Even in our Superpower Security Department, these two individuals would be given a separate division based on their strength. How could such powerful individuals have been willing to remain so obscure and unknown before?”

“Hmm… Their concealment of their existence suggests they are plotting something big.”

“Could it be related to the World Restart Plan? Why else would they jump out at this crucial time when the entire universe is under martial law?”

“This matter must be taken seriously. We cannot allow any factors that might interfere with the World Restart Plan.”

At this moment, a high-ranking official who appeared to be the department leader knocked on the table, interrupting the discussion. He said in an unquestionable tone, “This matter will be handled by the Fifth, Seventh, and Eleventh Divisions. I ask the three division chiefs to arrest these two and thoroughly investigate their origins.”

In the room, three high-ranking officials of different races stood up, nodded slightly, and indicated their acceptance of the mission.

The department leader nodded and said slowly, “This is a critical period. We don't have time to play cat and mouse with them. It's best to make a quick decision. I approve the use of the Cosmic Treasure, the 'Location Star Chart,' to lock onto their position coordinates.”

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room showed a faint smile.

The “Location Star Chart” was an important trump card of their Superpower Security Department, a Cosmic Treasure of unknown origin. It contained a complete star chart, and by inputting the target's information, it could locate the target's coordinates in the starry sky in real time.

No fugitive could escape this tool!

…

Several days later.

Deep beneath a barren, grayish-brown planet, Han Xiao had transformed the area into a temporary base. Automated mining devices dug deep into the earth's crust, collecting various mineral resources, which were transported through an assembly line to material processing and refining areas to be made into various types of raw materials, and then put into the production line.

Because materials were scarce, Han Xiao had only assembled a portion of the basic mechanical production line. Most of them were collection and assistant machines, used to expand initial production capacity.

In the control room of the temporary base, Han Xiao sat in a simple quantum vision amplification device, surrounded by densely packed virtual screens. A shocking stream of data constantly flashed across them as he spent several days deciphering the basic compiled language of this space's quantum network.

Kasuyi sat on a metal bench beside him, leaning his head back against the rock wall, watching Han Xiao work with boredom. He had maintained this posture for quite a while.

Black Star had taken care of all the work, and Kasuyi couldn't help at all. These past few days, he could only stand by and wait.

Just then, Han Xiao's eyelids twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes, exhaling.

“Decryption complete.”

Kasuyi's spirits lifted, and he quickly sat up straight. “So fast?”

“It's alright. Their basic compiled language isn't complex. As long as you find the entry point, the rest is simple.”

Han Xiao waved his hand.

The difficulty of this decryption was far lower than that of the Virtual Rebellion Virus. The Domino Virus was a weapon containing multiple keys, and without a reference target, they could only keep trying and making mistakes. But this time, the target was the basic coding of the quantum network, which already had many similarities with the main universe's quantum network, and it was open source with many references. Plus, Han Xiao had also obtained \[Virtual Technology Innovation - Mainyson], which greatly enhanced his virtual technology, making decryption even easier.

Now that he had completed the decryption, he could use his virtual methods normally here.

“Then what are you waiting for? Quickly use your invincible virtual intrusion to gather intelligence,” Kasuyi said impatiently.

“Mm.”

Han Xiao nodded, closed his eyes, and sank into the quantum network vision, collecting data from this space on a large scale.

Kasuyi paced back and forth for more than ten rounds before he finally saw Han Xiao open his eyes again. He immediately asked, “How is it? What did you find?”

Hearing this, Han Xiao's face became extremely strange.

He took a deep breath, and the next moment, he suddenly erupted, grabbing Kasuyi's neck with both hands, shaking him repeatedly, and gnashing his teeth.

“What the hell did you bring me to?!”

Kasuyi's head was shaken into afterimages, and he was completely bewildered.

“W-What do you mean?”

“See for yourself!”

Han Xiao let go, opened a virtual screen, and displayed all the collected data on it.

Kasuyi quickly stepped forward to browse, his eyes widening more and more, and an expression of disbelief gradually appearing on his face.

“This… How is this possible?!”

Kasuyi subconsciously took two steps back, his face full of disbelief.

This information was not top-secret. It was all the basic information that Han Xiao had collected. However, the content exceeded both of their expectations.

The cosmic area of this secondary dimension was actually more vast than the explored universe! There were as many as thirty-three star clusters and six or seven hundred star systems, with countless civilizations of all levels!

Ruling the universe was a top-tier civilization alliance called the Star Cluster Alliance. Just from the introduction, it was obviously more powerful than the three great civilizations, and its history was even longer. Even the oldest of the three great civilizations was only a fraction of the age of the Star Cluster Alliance.

There were also five superpower systems here: machinery, psionics, martial arts, superpowers, and magic. However, their name for Qi was “Source Power”, and the names of each tier were also completely different. Their “Saint Body tier” corresponded to Beyond Grade A, and “Supreme tier” corresponded to the peak of Beyond Grade A.

In terms of individual power, this secondary dimension was also unbelievably strong. According to the data, there were nearly ten thousand “Saint Body tier” powerhouses recorded throughout the universe! The number of Beyond Grade As reached nearly ten thousand, and there were hundreds of peak Beyond Grade As! The first reaction of the two was that it was impossible!

What kind of concept was this? Although Beyond Grade As had long lifespans, most of them would still be born, grow old, get sick, and die. With nearly ten thousand living Beyond Grade As accumulated, how long had this secondary dimension existed?!

The two had originally thought that this secondary dimension was at most a secondary dimensional universe that had developed by chance, but they didn't expect that there seemed to be a civilization far more powerful than the three great civilizations.

“Black Star, are you kidding me? Did you make up this information?” Kasuyi asked in shock.

“Would I joke with you at a time like this? This information is all I scraped from the internet, all the most basic intelligence.”

Han Xiao frowned. The moment he saw this information online, he also suspected its authenticity, but after repeated confirmation, he found that it was all true.

Could it be that this secondary dimension was really a place even more powerful than the explored universe? The Star Cluster Alliance was more ancient and powerful than the three great civilizations? That was too exaggerated! Could there really be such a monster in the secondary dimensional world?!

Or was this really the unexplored area of the main universe?

What did Kasuyi and Mainyson do when they came here in his previous life? And how did they go back?!

Han Xiao's brain was running at high speed. His information from his previous life was limited, and he didn't know what was going on for a while.

Kasuyi had not yet recovered from his shock and muttered to himself, “If the civilizations of this secondary dimension ran out, then…”

Hearing this, Han Xiao suddenly flashed his eyes and hurriedly went back online, intending to search for this universe's views on the secondary dimensional world. If the Star Cluster Alliance really existed in the secondary dimension, then they couldn't have not explored the outside world.

Soon, Han Xiao found what he wanted, but the search results surprised him again.

This universe had no secondary dimensional world!

There was no division between the "main universe" and the "secondary dimension"!

What they had was a single universe space, and they could not explore any "outside world" at all. They knew nothing about the Empty Bugs and the "Supreme Guardians" outside the secondary dimension.

Weird!

Too weird!

Han Xiao's curiosity grew stronger.

“Right, when we first came in, those six Beyond Grade As seemed to have said something about universal martial law. Let's see what's going on…”

With a thought, Han Xiao suddenly remembered this and quickly entered keywords to search the internet. His vision was quickly filled with a term

–《World Restart Plan》!

The announcement stated that this was a universe-level plan launched by the Star Cluster Alliance. This was a precautionary measure to prevent an unresolvable doomsday disaster in the future.

The information that Han Xiao found was all announcements and news, so he could only understand the general idea. It seemed that the Star Cluster Alliance wanted to use a new type of informational technology to replicate the information of the entire universe as a seed bank. If they encountered an insurmountable disaster in the future, they would use the seed bank as a blueprint to restart the world.

The replication process was the period of universal martial law. The Star Cluster Alliance required everyone to stay in one place and not move around, preventing interference with the construction of the seed bank. So the interstellar space was quite deserted, and there were almost no spaceships to be seen.

As for the specific details of the plan, the Star Cluster Alliance had not disclosed them to the public, so Han Xiao did not know yet.

“I have a feeling that this plan is not some kind of insurance…”

Han Xiao muttered secretly, seeing that Kasuyi was still stunned, he went up and knocked on him, and said helplessly:

“What do we do now? The area of this space is far beyond what you and I imagined, and your senses are out of order again. It may take hundreds of years to find the so-called opportunity.”

In his opinion, this should be the task difficulty represented by 4500e experience.

Kasuyi came back to his senses, his expression uncertain, and he didn't speak for a while.

Looking at his reaction, Han Xiao sighed in his heart.

He was fine, after all, his growth system was different, and he also knew about the existence of the World Tree, so although he was shocked at this time, he had no other emotions.

But Old Kasuyi was different. He had spent countless years finally reaching the peak of individual power in the explored universe, but suddenly discovered that there were people beyond people and heavens beyond heavens, and there were hundreds of people at the same level as him. It was normal for his mentality to have problems.

Han Xiao thought for a while and comforted him: “Old Kasuyi, don't be discouraged. This secondary dimension has existed for I don't know how long, and the number of Beyond Grade As has accumulated over many years. There's nothing to envy. If you want to be jealous, you might as well be jealous of me. I only spent a few decades to surpass your accumulation of hundreds or thousands of years. Isn't that hateful?”

Kasuyi: “…”

Are you really comforting me?

I have a 'mmp' I don't know if I should say it.

Looking at Kasuyi's constipated expression, Han Xiao was about to continue comforting him when the intelligent system suddenly sounded a notification.

“Di Di – You have received a new message.”

“Eh, who would it be at this time…”

Han Xiao subconsciously said half a sentence, and suddenly reacted.

That's right, no one here knows my communication method, who could contact me?!

Han Xiao's expression changed slightly. He opened the quantum network and found that he had inexplicably received a message, and the sender was actually a garbled code. He operated for a while, but could not trace the source of the message. The other party did not leave any path clues, as if it appeared out of thin air.

He frowned and opened the message, and found that it actually contained a set of complex mechanical blueprints, as well as a short message:

“Learn this technology as soon as possible, otherwise you will have nowhere to escape. If you can get rid of the pursuers, go to a place and wait, and I will contact you again then, the coordinates are as follows…”

“Who is this again?”

Han Xiao wanted to communicate with the other party, but there was no path and he couldn't reply.

He had no choice but to turn around and browse the blueprints sent by the mysterious person. They recorded a strange instrument that seemed to have a special stealth function. He didn't know what detection device it was used to defend against.

“Things seem to be getting more and more interesting…”

Han Xiao's eyes flickered.

From the strange "Supreme Guardians" outside the secondary dimension at the beginning, to the Star Cluster Alliance that was stronger than expected, and now to the mysterious person who inexplicably contacted him, things were becoming more and more confusing, and he seemed to be involved in an unknown storm.

He decided to stay here to explore, not only to help Kasuyi, and not only to collect technology, but also to find out the truth of this space, otherwise not only him, but the entire explored universe would be restless.

However, since entering this secondary dimension, the situation had been out of control. He lacked information, there was an information gap, and all he could see were things floating on the surface, and he didn't know who to trust.

“Ding~”

At this moment, the panel suddenly popped up a prompt.

\[You have triggered a Hidden S-Rank Mission \[Relay Across Iterations]!]

\[This mission is a series mission, currently the first ring]

\[First Ring Requirement: Get rid of the pursuit squad and successfully meet up with the mysterious person who sent the message]

\[Failure Condition: The mysterious person dies]

\[Reward: 1000e experience, unlocks the next ring of the mission]

\[Warning! This mission will cause unpredictable effects, please choose carefully!]