Chapter 1841: Chapter 1838: Between the Cracks
Shattered Dimension
It can be simply understood as a ’gap’ between worlds, which expands over time due to the movement of matter.
However,
the myriad worlds directly associated with the Black Tower have established [channels] with it and undergo annual stability checks and maintenance on these channels.
It’s like the Black Tower serves as a central point, drawing sturdy ropes to hold these worlds, keeping their distances constant.
Therefore.
Apart from S-01, the ’gaps’ between other worlds are very small,
if one breaks through the boundary membranes of these worlds and conducts rapid transitions through the Shattered Dimension, they won’t travel far before reaching the boundary membrane of another world.
But S-01 is different,
as it lost contact with the Black Tower for years,
with ongoing expansion,
S-01 has distanced itself from the Black Tower and other worlds significantly, with gaps thousands or tens of thousands of times larger than other worlds.
The size of the [Shattered Dimension] here is beyond belief.
Moreover, there are ’other elements’ in this Shattered Dimension.
In ancient times, a special team formed by the Supreme Will of the Black Tower went to S-01 to exterminate humanity, only to be forced into a direct confrontation with the Old Kings,
which led to the occurrence of the "world catastrophe."
The battles between the original letter bearers and the Old Kings resulted in vast tears in S-01’s boundary membrane.
The star regions near these tears were devastatingly struck, and the demon civilizations built among these star regions were sucked into the rips, drifting into the [Shattered Dimension].
In theory, these civilizations would inevitably be shredded and obliterated.
But... there will always be unexpected incidents and coincidences.
Like the Truth Magic Sword in Han Dong’s hand, such substances that shouldn’t exist may be formed under various coincidences.
These civilizations, which should have perished,
some accidentally encountered the Remnant Pages of the Book of Dead Spirit during their drift,
or were ’drawn’ by certain pages, leading them to a special area stabilized by the remnant pages... Certain ’chemical reactions’ have already occurred within the Shattered Dimension.
Some reactions have even been completed.
...
[Plant Planet - Core Laboratory]
All planet-related controls can be conducted here.
Sensor plant roots are connected to Pope’s cerebral cortex, allowing the [Starlight Sensing] of Pope to spread through the planet’s plants via the roots.
Pope acts as a human positioning device, with an effect roughly ten times that of the planet’s built-in detector.
Eugenes is indeed generous,
after all, it involves the search for the "old corpse,"
he directly removed the main eyeball, embedding it in the control panel, with the eyeball surface also connected to the core roots, serving as the [Eye] of the plant planet,
capable of immediately spying on ruins and remnants drifting in the Shattered Dimension.
Since both are working so hard,
Han Dong can ’slack off,’
pretending to monitor and manage the internal and external state of the plant planet, but actually leaving this task to the Swollen Doctor...
He resides in the fleshy archival room given by Mr. Eugene, earnestly studying the clues gifted by the void.
"I can’t completely understand the shattered coordinate documents, so I handed them over to Pope... With him as the captain, there certainly won’t be issues with navigation and reaching the regions suspected to have lost remnant pages.
However.
Mr. Eugene’s calculation using [Void Dynamics] of the ’float range’ for remnant pages, needing to involve dimensional parameters, has accrued substantial error over the years.
The drift range error for each remnant page has reached 50~100 light-years.
It requires not only a long time but also a bit of luck."
All Han Dong can do is search to the best of his ability, postponing it if nothing is found.
Such a voyage passes by in just half a year (the plant planet has its own time system, allowing the perception of normal time flow within).
There has been little gain during this time.
The only gain is finding an old corpse on a certain island-like ruin,
its appearance is rather peculiar, with the upper part worm-like and the lower part similar to a human.
The fingers and toes all have feeding mouths, and the body surface is covered with embryo eggs.
According to Pope’s explanation, this is an Ancient Demon long extinct, the forebear of the crawler - [Ancient Worm].
The preservation of this Ancient Worm’s corpse is due to its special identity during its lifetime... It was a patriarch, sealed in a high-purity crystal before the catastrophe arrived.
When the Scripture of the Corpse Eating Cult was pasted on, it emitted a green light for the first time, representing a successful verification.
At the same time,
The Ancient Worm, deemed ’completely dead,’ miraculously revived, and its worm head began to move actively, with the huge mouth opening and closing evenly.
Just as the Ancient Worm was about to take action,
the cover of the Scripture of the Corpse Eating Cult split open a mouth, swallowing the newly revived Ancient Worm into the book.
The book also lit up with a green light dot.
When all nine light points are fully illuminated, the subsequent content of the second volume will completely emerge... Eugene will touch the deeper layers of the demon book, the forbidden knowledge that even the previous holder M.O. had not explored.
Due to this,
Eugenes tirelessly assists in navigation, even enduring severely bloodshot eyes several times, still gritting his teeth to persist.
Roughly estimating, the work shifts for Eugenes and Han Dong’s eyeballs are approximately 5:1.
...
[Dimension Navigation, Day 119]
"Nicholas, it’s your turn... I need a break."
After more than a hundred days of interaction, Eugenes speaks to Han Dong without any hostility, just indifferently.
Han Dong, idling away in the brain world (overseeing the expansion of the brain world construction project, which is nearing completion), slowly opens his eyes, shocked by Eugenes’ appearance.
Not to mention the bloodshot eyes,
Eugenes appears in a state of cultivation, similar to a young person who has battled continuously in an internet cafe for three days and nights... The whole person seems virtual.
"Damn! Eugenes, sleep a bit more..."
"Mm."
Eugenes doesn’t need a bed or anything, curling up in a corner and immediately falling asleep,
a distinctively foul-smelling saliva trickling from the corner of his mouth, with an intense stench released from his body.
Within merely three seconds, it creates a summer outhouse ambiance.
However, Han Dong and Pope are already accustomed to this bathroom business atmosphere.
Connecting the main root to the "True Demon Eye," the plants on the planet immediately sprout small eyeballs, grain-sized, clearly observing the situation within the Shattered Dimension.
Just as Han Dong prepares to work as usual.
"Huh? What’s that?"
In a certain direction within the Shattered Dimension,
there is surprisingly a faint light, readable only by the Demon Eye, with other views unable to capture it.
Immediately changing course.
As the plant planet approaches the light, the detectors report anomalous value fluctuations.
"Huh? Space parameters are gradually stabilizing... Is there actually a stable and certain rules-compliant area within the Shattered Dimension? Although there is still a big gap compared to the normal world, this is too strange.
Pope, can you explain?"
"I don’t know either, let’s go over and have a look."
As the navigation continues.
A landmass floating within the dimensions gradually comes into view.
In sharp contrast to the decayed ruins previously encountered,
the size and scale are entirely unmatched,
this piece of land before them is quite stable, seemingly ’rooted’ within the Shattered Dimension.
The light captured by the Demon Eye is indeed emanating from here.