Chapter 1376 A Glimpse

Having already pinpointed the location, Hao Ren brought out the fragment of Gungnir when he left Kuiper Station. The weapon fragment was now in the onboard laboratory of the Petrified Tortoise, under Nolan's control.

The upper armor of the Petrified Tortoise slowly opened, and an antenna array composed of multiple hexagonal prisms emitting azure light rose from the storage area. It was the ship's onboard scanning antenna. Although limited by its design purpose, the power of this antenna array could not compare with the giant antenna array of Kuiper Station, it could still amplify Gungnir's resonance signal enough to open the other dimension: with just one inversion, the detection antenna could be turned into a powerful signal transmitter.

While activating her antenna system, Nolan started the corresponding equipment in the onboard laboratory, projecting the status of all systems onto the console in front of Hao Ren. Hao Ren saw that the Gungnir fragment had been placed in a crystal clear hexagonal prism container. As the ship's antenna array activated, a layer of electric light filled the inside of the crystal container. The broken metal object emitted regular flickers under the electric light. With the help of Nolan's computing power, the resonance between the fragments of Gungnir was enhanced, gradually becoming the key force to open the other dimension.

"Induction wave is stable... increasing... spatial structure changes detected, being inversely recorded into the warp drive," Nolan's holographic projection flickered. The human expression quickly faded from her face, replaced by the inorganic expression and voice unique to AI. Her eyes stared blankly at a certain direction in the void, and in the space outside the ship, the starlight and clouds on the surface of Jupiter were visibly distorted, "Abnormal space entrance locked."

The Data Terminal was not idle either. It jammed itself into the console slot, and while Nolan was focused on operating the spatial equipment, it took over part of the ship's radar: "Two Jupiter probes from Earth have been searched, although it is unlikely to see us... but they have been interfered with."

As the distortion of starlight in the universe became more and more obvious, the entrance of the other dimension was almost stable to the naked eye. About one kilometer away from the Petrified Tortoise, a continuous dark fault was emerging, which was Asgard, the realm of the gods that had been disconnected from the main material plane for more than two thousand years. Watching this scene, Vivian's expression was not as calm as before. She subconsciously grabbed Hao Ren's arm and whispered, "I don't know what Yggdrasil has become... Two thousand years have passed, even it should have withered..."

Hao Ren held Vivian's hand to reassure her. He knew that for this vampire, there were two alien families on Earth that had the deepest relationship with her, namely the Zeus family of Greece and the Odin pantheon of Northern Europe—in her thousands of years of wandering, only these two families had maintained friendly contact with Vivian for a long time. They could even be called close friends. Now that she was about to see the remnants left by her old friends, he could understand Vivian's emotion and nervousness.

Friends of old, now turned into a handful of yellow earth, would be an unforgettable experience for ordinary people even if they only experienced it once, but Vivian had experienced it countless times.

"It seems like we can see something..." Izhaks pointed to the holographic projection, "There are things in those shadows, it should be the continent in the other dimension."

The spatial crack in space was getting bigger and bigger, and quickly changed from virtual to real. Against the bright background of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this dark crack was particularly conspicuous. This was completely different from the Olympus ruins Hao Ren found in the Athens Sanctuary: the Olympus ruins were just a negligible spatial fragment, containing only a palace, while here, Nolan was opening the door to the Nine Realms! The entire Yggdrasil spatial chain was here. Even in ancient times, it was the largest "God Realm"!

A blue light flashed in Nolan's eyes: "Link completely stabilized, fully opened!"

The Petrified Tortoise was instantly enveloped by a "membrane" like a water wave, and then this "membrane" quickly reversed and spread in all directions. The spatial crack in space was stimulated by the warp drive and opened completely.

Hao Ren only saw that the looming dark crack suddenly became extremely clear, and the gloomy things in the darkness suddenly had color. Through the spatial crack, he saw the huge land floating in the distant other space, the magnificent rainbow connecting those lands, and countless green vines that grew arbitrarily in the space like pillars supporting the sky. The moment he saw those green vines, Hao Ren's heart suddenly moved, and his eyes became solemn.

However, he didn't have time to see more—when the gate of the Nine Realms finally opened completely, the originally stable spatial boundary suddenly trembled violently. The edge of the spatial crack began to collapse rapidly like broken glass. Hao Ren only saw countless bright silver runes suddenly appear on the surface of those green vines that were growing arbitrarily in the other dimension, and then Nolan shouted, "Spatial stability is decreasing! I lost the link... the door is closing!"

"Wh..." Hao Ren only had time to say this one word before he saw the crack in space collapse. All the scenes were quickly covered with cracks like a shattered stained glass mural, and then disappeared in two seconds.

An alarm sounded in the bridge of the Petrified Tortoise. The sudden transition from a high-load state to an idle state caused a slight energy backflow, and a grating sound came from the depths of the ship. Nolan quickly shut down the system safely, her figure flickered violently in the air twice before stabilizing: "The connection is interrupted."

"Are you okay?" Hao Ren looked at his ship girl a little nervously.

Nolan rubbed her stomach: "... The power furnace had a little backflow, a little bloated, nothing serious."

"... Uh," Hao Ren thought for a while, and felt that he probably couldn't discuss health issues with a ship girl, "It's good that you're okay. What happened just now?"

"We thought that the other dimension was a 'dead thing', and it could be connected directly when placed there, but in fact... it is 'alive', or rather, there is an active thing inside it," Nolan's face was gloomy, obviously quite unhappy about being taken advantage of, "Just now, a powerful force directly cut off the connection between this ship and the other dimension, and now I can't sense the location of that gate anymore."

Hao Ren exchanged a look with Vivian, and the latter hesitantly asked, "Did you just... see those things?"

Hao Ren frowned and nodded lightly: "If I'm not mistaken, it's indeed the tentacles of the First Born."

Vivian also frowned: "But it's not quite the same as the tentacles we've seen before."

"That's right, those runes, the emerald green color, the leaves on the tentacles, are all characteristics that the First Born we've seen before don't have," Hao Ren squinted his eyes slightly, recalling the scene he had just caught a glimpse of. The huge plant structures that were growing arbitrarily between heaven and earth appeared in his mind, and their scale made it difficult not to associate them with the "First Born", but the details were different from what he remembered, "More importantly... the sudden collapse of the other dimension entrance was obviously the work of those tentacles. It seems that those runes are playing a role."

Hao Ren had already experienced the power of the First Born and their various abilities in the Dream Realm, but he did not remember that these powerful guardians had such a degree of spatial control talent. Of course, the First Born were born with a certain ability to manipulate magic, but their main skills seemed to be reflected in mental power and physical strength. In terms of magic, they were more accustomed to using simple and crude destructive spells and the even more simple and crude Tide of the Source Blood to solve problems.

The silver-white runes and the method of interrupting the spatial link were completely different from the First Born he had seen before.

Izhaks suddenly said, "Expand the search range, can you still find the other dimension signal?"

Nolan shook her head: "The entire area within two astronomical units around Jupiter has been searched, the other dimension signal has completely disappeared, even increasing the resonance induction of Gungnir is useless. If that thing hasn't completely shielded this ship's radar, then the entire other dimension has left this area."

The Petrified Tortoise was ultimately just a ship for the Inspectors to travel and resolve minor regional conflicts, positioned equivalent to a bicycle ridden by local cops. Hao Ren couldn't expect this bicycle to anchor a super-large other dimension in the universe, so he could only helplessly accept the fact: the Nine Realms he had just found... ran away.

"Return to Kuiper Station," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Please ask the old man to activate the antenna one more time to see if he can still find the whereabouts of the abnormal space."