When the baby saw Zhou Wen walk into the valley, he released his pants and skipped ahead to lead the way.
The valley wasn't deep. After walking for less than half a kilometer, they reached the end. The baby pushed aside the grass in front of the mountain wall, revealing a hole that was half the height of a person.
If you want me to crawl in, I definitely won't, Zhou Wen thought to himself as he saw the baby crawl in and vanish.
Zhou Wen waited for a while, but the baby didn't come out. Instead, Li Xuan and Wang Lu chased after following the traces.
"Zhou Wen, that baby ran away by himself. What are you doing here?" Li Xuan asked in puzzlement when he saw Zhou Wen standing in front of the mountain wall without fighting any dimensional creatures.
"I saw that baby. He lured me here before crawling into this hole," Zhou Wen said as he pointed at the cave in the grass.
Just as Li Xuan was about to say something, he saw the baby peek his head out of the hole. His hands seemed to be dragging something. It looked very strenuous as his face flushed red.
After a few tugs, the baby finally dragged something out of the hole.
The three of them stared at the thing the baby was pulling. They saw that it was a vine or root of an unknown plant. The baby was pulling the vine with all his might. The vine was stretched taut as though it was pulling something very heavy.
When Zhou Wen saw this, he reached out to grab the vine and helped the baby pull it out. He was immediately alarmed. He originally imagined that the baby was weak, making it difficult to pull, but when he pulled, he felt that it was indeed very heavy. Even with all his strength, he could barely pull it out.
The vine was pulled out more than a meter long, but he still couldn't see what was inside. Wang Lu and Li Xuan came over to help. The four of them finally pulled out the vine completely and saw something tied to the other end of the vine.
"What's this?" Li Xuan looked at the thing they had pulled out, but he couldn't tell what it was. He couldn't help but turn to look at the baby.
The baby was babbling and gesticulating, but the three of them still didn't understand what he meant.
Zhou Wen carefully sized up the item tied by the withered vines. It looked like a large walnut, about the size of a football. It looked like a walnut, but from its texture, it was a metallic blackish-gray color.
"Is this an iron walnut?" Li Xuan tapped the Thundergod Sword's hilt twice and heard the sound of metal clashing. Then, he looked at Wang Lu and asked, "Wang Lu, do you know what this is?"
Wang Lu shook her head as well. "I think it looks like a walnut, but I've never heard of a metal-like walnut."
As the three of them were studying it, the baby pointed at Zhou Wen and then at the walnut, babbling something.
"Do you want to give this to me?" Zhou Wen asked the doll. He was only guessing.
Seeing that Zhou Wen finally understood, the child hurriedly nodded.
"Alright." Although Zhou Wen didn't know what it was, it looked like it had some origins. Since it was a free gift, he might as well accept it.
However, it was just too heavy. Zhou Wen had no choice but to summon the Mutated Stone Chi. The few of them worked together to move the metal walnut onto its back before getting the Mutated Stone Chi to carry it back.
After the three of them walked out of the valley, the doll watched them from afar. It had no intention of following them.
"This little fellow is rather interesting. Unfortunately, it's a dimensional creature." Li Xuan shook his head.
Although there were people who reared dimensional creatures, dimensional creatures were different from Companion Beasts. There was no way to completely control their actions. Once they entered human society, there would be serious consequences if a problem occurred.
Therefore, the Federation still maintained a stance against rearing dimensional creatures. However, there was no clear rule that forbade it.
Zhou Wen's rearing of the antelope and chick was done secretly. Thankfully, the other students and teachers always believed that the antelope had been brought out of Mount Laojun and wasn't aggressive, so they ignored Zhou Wen.
As for the chick, most people believed that it was Zhou Wen's Companion Beast.
By the time the three of them returned to school, the sky was almost dark. The main reason was that the metal walnut was just too heavy. The Stone Chi couldn't run fast while carrying it, so they could only walk slowly.
After returning to his dorm, Zhou Wen carefully moved the metal walnut down and placed it in the living room. Then, he took out his mysterious phone and took a picture of the metal walnut, hoping to see if the mysterious phone could tell what it was.
However, Zhou Wen was quickly disappointed. The mysterious phone didn't react, indicating that it wasn't something from the dimension. It was very likely a native product of Earth.
"What on earth is this thing?" Zhou Wen took a few photos and sent them to Wang Mingyuan. With Wang Mingyuan's vast knowledge, perhaps he would know what it was.
Wang Mingyuan was surprisingly free. After a while, he replied to Zhou Wen.
"I can't confirm it just by looking at the photos. After I'm done with my research, you can send it over. I'll help you study it."
"Teacher, how's the progress of your research?" Zhou Wen had never known what Wang Mingyuan's research was. He only knew that he was studying something beneath Dragon's Well. It was very likely that he was studying the white dragon.
Originally, Zhou Wen was somewhat worried that Wang Mingyuan would be killed by the white dragon if he angered it.
However, after seeing the power of his note, Zhou Wen felt that his worries were unnecessary. A person like Wang Mingyuan wouldn't easily put himself in danger.
"It's going quite smoothly. However, I still encountered some small problems. I'm currently thinking of a way to resolve them." Wang Mingyuan sighed and said, "Currently, there are signs all over the Federation that the chances of dimensional creatures breaking the restrictions are rapidly increasing. If this continues, dimensional zones might not have any restrictions on dimensional creatures in another three to five years. Or rather, they will be very weak. When the time comes, humanity's situation will be even more difficult than when the dimensional storms first erupted."
This wasn't the first time Zhou Wen had heard such words. An Sheng had said it to him in the past, but it wasn't as accurate as Wang Mingyuan's.
"Teacher, will the dimensional zones' restrictions really lose effect in three to five years?" Zhou Wen asked.
"It won't exceed ten years at most. When the time comes, the dimensional zones' restrictions will definitely be completely ineffective," Wang Mingyuan answered with certainty.
"Only ten years?" Zhou Wen felt that Wang Mingyuan wasn't the kind of person who spoke without thinking. If he said ten years, the possibility was very high.
"In fact, ten years refers to the dimensional zones completely losing their restrictions. During this period, the dimensional zones' restrictions will constantly decrease. Humanity's time isn't as long as ten years." Wang Mingyuan paused for a moment before suddenly asking Zhou Wen, "Little Wen, if you had to choose between pain and death, which would you choose?"
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