The detection equipment of the Esper Organization was quite advanced. It was the crystallization of humanity's most advanced technology. These Espers dealt with problems that normal people couldn't solve in the dark. They often came into contact with things that couldn't be explained by science. Naturally, they had a professional research team to analyze the mysterious items that the organization collected. They were experienced and had advanced equipment.
But it was all meaningless.
No matter how advanced the detection equipment was, it was still in the eyes of humanity's current technology. In Sandora's words, the equipment was no different from the tools used by primitive people.
And now, the researchers of the Esper Organization were using those crude tools to pry open a psionic core that was full of energy and didn't have any safety controls installed!
From Sandora's point of view, such an action was like taking a thousand-kilogram hammer and smashing a nuclear warhead that had its protective layer removed!
Lin Xue's face turned pale. Sandora immediately stood up, but she sat back down the next moment.
"It's too late …"
Sandora smiled bitterly. Then, we felt the ground beneath our feet shake.
When we came outside, Shallow Shallow and her sister were standing anxiously at the reception area of the hotel.
"What's wrong, Ah Jun?" When Shallow Shallow saw us, she seemed to have found her pillar of support. She pounced on me and hugged my arm anxiously. "There was a sudden explosion and a strong tremor. Could it be terrorists?"
I rubbed Shallow Shallow's head comfortingly and said softly, "Don't worry. There won't be any accidents. It's not like you don't know how powerful I am … Stay with your sister and don't run around. I will go check on the situation with Lin Xue."
Shallow Shallow nodded. This girl always had a kind of blind trust in me. Basically, as long as I promised that there would be no danger, she would immediately calm down.
For example, now.
Shallow Shallow nodded and pulled her sister into the room. Before she left, her sister turned around and seemed to want to say something to me. However, Shallow Shallow was really strong. She dragged her sister away before she could say anything.
Thanks to Shallow Shallow, I've saved myself a lot of trouble.
The explosion produced by the psionic core was extremely powerful. When Pandora blew away the surrounding smoke, a huge crater with a diameter of nearly one kilometer appeared in front of us.
The air was filled with a pungent smell, and the walls of the giant pit in front of us were covered with a layer of semi-solidified black material. It was molten sand that was solidified into glass, and at the bottom of the pit, we could vaguely see red lava flowing.
Sand continued to fall from the sky. It had been thrown into the air by the explosion. However, thanks to Pandora's defensive barrier, the sand didn't land on our heads. It only slightly hindered our vision.
The sunken pyramid and all the members of the superpower organization had become part of the molten rock beneath our feet and the acrid smoke in the air. Among them, there was also an ability user who followed the research team into the ruins.
No matter how strong the ability user was, it was impossible to resist the power of a nuclear explosion.
Lin Xue's expression wasn't good. It wasn't only because of the great sacrifice of her comrades in the organization, but also because this incident could have been avoided. If she had shown the black crystal to Sandora earlier, she would have been able to stop her comrades earlier.
Although the incident was caused by the explosion of something belonging to the Xiling Empire, Lin Xue couldn't hold a grudge against Sandora or me because of this. The Empire wasn't responsible for this incident. The superpower organization took the initiative to come into contact with something dangerous. Although this thing belonged to the Empire, Sandora and I didn't know that such a dangerous thing existed in this world. It was like trying to remove a high-voltage transformer out of curiosity. As a result, you had no one to blame but yourself. Could you ask the owner of the transformer, the government, to compensate you?
There weren't many people who came to the ruins this time. After all, this place wasn't the Taklamakan Desert. It was Egypt's territory. In order to avoid political disputes, the superpower organization only sent a small number of exploration teams approved by the Egyptian government. Since the ruins were suspected to be related to the Xiling Empire, Lin Xue didn't let too many people participate in the exploration. As a result, the number of people who entered the ruins was only one-third of the original plan. This was the only thing that comforted Lin Xue.
"Something isn't right …"
Shadora, who had been sensing something with her eyes closed, suddenly spoke. She opened her eyes, and a blue glow flashed in them.
"What isn't right?" I found it strange.
"The power is too weak." Sandora said and suddenly disappeared. In the next second, I saw her petite figure appear above the lava in the middle of the giant pit.
It seemed like Lin Xue's decision to send away all the people who needed to be excluded from the Xiling Empire's secrets was a wise decision. Sandora wouldn't care about the consequences once she decided to take action. If she wanted to fight, she wouldn't hesitate even if she had to summon a space fleet in front of the entire human race, let alone a small teleportation.
"You Shiring Apostles do have abilities that humans envy," Lin Xue praised sincerely.
I waved my hand. "Don't include me. Other than summoning the mother planet to attack me, I'm still a dabbler."
At that moment, Sandora had finished her exploration. A white light flashed and she was standing in front of us.
"The power of this explosion is too weak."
"Weak?!" Qian Qian and I exclaimed at the same time. Looking at the huge crater that looked like it had been hit by a meteor, I broke out in cold sweat. This kind of explosion was called small? Shadora, were you trying to muster up your cold humor cells?
However, Sandora didn't look like she was joking at all. Her expression was serious as she patiently explained to us, "I've said it before, the Psionic Core is extremely powerful. This isn't just because of the tremendous amount of energy in the core, but also because Psionic Core is an extremely special type of energy — this is related to the structure of the world.
The composition of worlds was similar to a bubble in water, with the universe being the space within the bubble, while the bubble's outer walls were a defense system that we call a combination of Time, Space, and Law. Further out, the 'water' between these 'bubbles' was a special existence that we call the Endless Void. It was the beginning and end of everything — time, space, Law, energy, matter — all concepts were utterly shattered and fused together. There, infinity was infinity, an instant was eternity, existence meant non-existence, and Order meant Chaos. It was immeasurably calm, since 'turbulence' that could be described had yet to be produced in the Void. It was also immeasurably violent, since you could not describe Order in the Void either. In the Endless Void, only Gods who are so powerful that they can ignore all Law — in fact, they are super lifeforms that are completely formed from Law and energy, as well as a small number of Shiring Apostles who can modify their own Law at will — can come and go freely.
Psionic Core is the energy residue extracted from the Endless Void.
Although it is just the residue of Void Energy, the energy that comes from the Origin of Worlds is still terrifying. It has all the characteristics of Void Energy, and can instantly reduce all matter and non-matter to Origin Energy, then amplify it by a thousand times. Even though we have carefully suppressed and transformed it after it was made into a Psionic Core, the explosion of a Psionic Core shouldn't have only created such a deep pit. "
After finishing her long speech, Sandora looked at us, who were all gaping in shock, and took a deep breath. "In fact, according to my calculations, half of the Sahara should have disappeared."
Lin Xue and I took a deep breath at the same time.
I was willing to bet that Lin Xue didn't dare to think about Psionic Core at all. Although it was good, it was useless if one didn't have their life to use it. The power of this thing was too exaggerated. Perhaps ten human nuclear power plants combined would only have the energy of a small Psionic Core. And now, a Psionic Core exploded, but it only formed a "small pit" with a diameter of one kilometer. Then, where did the remaining energy go?
"It's impossible for human equipment to absorb Psionic Core. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to withstand such an exaggerated energy release." Sandora bent her index finger and said, "To be able to completely absorb such a large amount of Psionic Core without any movement, it can only be a device of the Xiling Empire, and it must be a device that hasn't been replenished for a long time and is almost starving to death."
"All equipment of the Pandora Army is operating normally, and there is no report of external energy replenishment."
Seeing that Sandora was looking at her, Pandora shook her head and said.
Sandora also shook her head in confusion. "My subordinates didn't receive any energy replenishment either. Could it be that the energy disappeared into thin air?"
"No!" I suddenly thought of a very serious problem, something that we had neglected from the beginning. "There is also a Schilling device that isn't within your perception range! Shallow Shallow, Shallow Shallow still has that Ethereal Beacon on her! "
It was that Ethereal Beacon, the culprit that brought me, Pandora, and Lin Xue to another world. After we returned, Shallow Shallow had been carrying that thing with her as a souvenir and amulet. Because of that, I had even laughed at Shallow Shallow's weird sense of aesthetics. However, none of us paid much attention to this Ethereal Beacon because it was so old that it could barely complete a single teleportation. Seeing that Shallow Shallow liked that black thing a lot, I didn't pay too much attention to it, but who knew if it really couldn't be activated at all?
The items of the Xiling Empire were known for their quality!
For the first time in my life, I started to hope for the appearance of defective products.
That Ethereal Beacon didn't belong to the Pandora Army, so it was impossible for Pandora to know about its operation. Furthermore, Sandora had already removed that missing device from the list many years ago, so it was impossible for her to sense whether it was activated or not. From the looks of it, if there really was a Schilling device here that was absorbing psionic energy, it could only be the Ethereal Beacon in Shallow Shallow's hands.
At that moment, a strong spatial fluctuation suddenly came from nearby. Other than Lin Xue who couldn't connect to any Schilling device, everyone could clearly sense that an unidentified spatial device had been activated!
"We have successfully locked onto the destination of the spatial door." Pandora's mechanical voice quickly calmed me down. "The Dimensional Gemini have already rushed to Sister Shallow Shallow and Sister Chen Qian's side. We will start following them in five minutes …"
Alright … Let us all transmigrate together …
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