"These are... those monsters?" Shi Wanyun subconsciously took a step back.
This kind of monster left a huge shadow on her. Seeing a whole wall of monsters, she was able to hold back from screaming, which was already a very good performance.
"Follow me." No. 5 did not explain, but continued to walk forward.
Shi Wanyun took a deep breath and followed No. 5's steps.
No. 5's pace was not slow, and Shi Wanyun always felt that her pace was much lighter than before.
It's like...
As if afraid of waking up the monsters in the capsules.
This made her steps become cautious.
The entire wall was covered with densely packed monsters that were completely black.
Fortunately, although many eyes can be seen on these monsters, they are all closed.
This makes the scene much less impactful.
But for Shi Wanyun, who had just been under tremendous pressure in front of that monster, this scene still had an extremely huge impact.
As the distance got closer, she felt her legs getting weaker.
… Don’t be afraid!
Since No. 5 brought her here, it means there is no danger here.
Now is actually a good opportunity to observe these monsters.
She suppressed her discomfort, raised her head, and looked at the monsters in the capsules that looked like experimental subjects.
She, who had never dared to look directly at the monster before, began to observe these monsters carefully for the first time.
So... this is what they look like.
Head, limbs, and hair...
It looks somewhat similar to humans, but every part of it gives people a subtly different feeling.
Of course, the closed eyes on each monster still make people feel extremely uncomfortable.
She was now afraid that among these densely packed eyes, one would suddenly open.
She wanted to ask No. 5 what was going on, but No. 5 kept walking in front of her without looking back or saying anything. She was also afraid that her voice would alarm these monsters, so she finally lowered her head and followed No. 5 closely.
In this somewhat weird atmosphere, the two of them walked to the wall full of monster capsules.
At this moment, a faint sound suddenly came from the wall, and then a crack visible to the naked eye began to appear in the middle of the front wall.
Then, the front wall slowly opened to the left and right like a huge door.
The capsules on the front wall also moved slowly along with the movement of the wall.
This made Shi Wanyun shudder with fear.
Fortunately, the wall did not move on a large scale. It just opened up a gap of about half a meter and then stopped moving.
"Come with me."
No. 5 turned around and whispered, then walked into the gap.
Shi Wanyun took a last look at the capsule that was just a fingertip away, and immediately crawled into the gap.
Behind this wall is a much more normal room.
Although there are some very sophisticated-looking machines and consoles filled with buttons, they are much more normal than the monster wall just now.
Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a faint sound came from behind her again.
When she turned around, the half-meter gap behind her had just closed, leaving a smooth and seamless metal wall.
"Were you scared just now?" No. 5 asked with a smile.
"You deliberately didn't tell me that there were some... strange creatures in there, just to scare me?" Shi Wanyun turned to look at No. 5, feeling a little tired.
"That's the reason." No. 5 seemed very satisfied with Shi Wanyun's reaction and said with a smile, "Of course, the most important point is that I can't tell you where this place is now."
"You just said that this is where you live." Shi Wanyun looked at her.
"It's this garden where I live, not this pavilion." No. 5 corrected her, "The room I live in is the stone house on the other side. You saw it just now, right?"
Shi Wanyun recalled the small stone house she had just seen by the stream and said helplessly, "I thought that house was... a warehouse or a toilet."
The stone house was too inconspicuous compared to the attic that caught her eye as soon as she entered the area.
"Whose toilet is so big? Is it a public toilet?" No. 5 immediately said unhappily, "I'm the only one living in this area."
She lives here alone...
Before, No. 5 had never brought her near the central attic. She thought it was because there lived people there whom she had brought in and whom she didn't want Shi Wanyun to see, so she was not allowed to get close.
Unexpectedly, this place is not her residence, but a...
An experimental site
"Actually, this was my original residence." No. 5 walked to a console and sat on a metal chair. "But it was too empty for me to live alone in such a big house, so I built a stone house by the stream and moved out."
Thinking of the size of the room full of monsters she had just passed, Shi Wanyun nodded in agreement.
Indeed, it is too spacious for a person to live in such a large place.
At night, it's probably like a haunted house, and if it's not cleaned for a long time and is covered with dust, it will look even more like a haunted house.
but…
Shi Wanyun thought of those pebble-like crystal stones just now.
I'm afraid there is no night here.
"So... is this building now used for... experiments?" Shi Wanyun asked, pointing to the wall behind her that had just closed.
No. 5 nodded: "It's an experiment, but I can't tell you the content of the experiment for now."
"... Those are the same species as the 'master' here, right?" Shi Wanyun ignored her words of not telling and asked again.
No. 5 smiled and shook his head: "Of course not. Do you think I am qualified to experiment on the body of a creature with higher intelligence than us humans?"
That being said, indeed...
"So they are..."
"If you want to know, just complete this mission first." No. 5 did not reveal more information, but began to operate the console, pressing the buttons of the console with his hands, making a clicking sound.
Soon, a slight sound was heard from the other side of the room, and a hidden door slowly opened.
Don't attract Shi Wanyun's attention.
A secret door
There doesn’t seem to be a door on that wall just now
She looked inside the door.
On the other side of the door was a space as big as a factory building.
She let out a light exclamation, walked over, and then saw clearly what was inside the door.
"That's..." She was a little surprised.
"The teleportation device." No. 5 explained, "You can use it now."
"Teleportation... device?" Shi Wanyun carefully looked at the big thing in front of her, "Is it something similar to the teleportation array?"
Inside the door, in the middle of the entire factory, is a giant metal pillar with complex patterns on it, made up of several short pillars of different thicknesses. The thickest part is about two meters in diameter, and the thinnest part is about one and a half meters.
Just looking at the appearance, this metal column has a very technological feel.
At first glance, she thought it was a high-tech weapon in the hands of a giant humanoid robot.
"Yes. You should have seen the teleportation array pattern at the teleportation array, right?" No. 5 asked behind her.
"I have seen it. The prerequisite for activating the teleportation array is to activate the teleportation array pattern."
"The teleportation device is..." No. 5 explained to her the usage and function of the teleportation device.
"… Can we just bury it in the ground?" Shi Wanyun asked, "No energy is needed?"
"Just be near the tree house. The tree house will serve its function."
"I see. Transfer the coordinates..."
Shi Wanyun wanted to take a closer look at this high-tech metal pillar, and just as she was about to step into the door, she was stopped by No. 5.
"I have something else to tell you, don't go in yet."
At the same time, No. 5 handed her a ring.
"This is… "
"I said it's a space ring, can you understand?" No. 5 sat back in his seat.
"... I didn't expect that I could actually get something that I only see in novels..." Shi Wanyun exclaimed as she looked at the ring in her hand.
"This is actually something I researched. I'm the only one in the world that has it." No. 5 said with a smile.
Shi Wanyun held up the ring and looked at it in front of her eyes: "Did you make it? The material of this ring..."
The material of the ring looked like stone and metal, and was dark gray in color. It was a material she had never come into contact with before.
Space Ring (Blue): A ring with a small space for storage, which can only be used to store specific objects.
Can it only be used to store specific items
"You actually invented the space ring." Shi Wanyun looked up at her.
"I'm not that great." No. 5 waved his hand, "It's just that other people don't bother to do this kind of thing."
"Disdain? Why?" Shi Wanyun was puzzled.
Things like space rings are much better than storage backpacks.
"Because tools with space storage functions are all made of this special material, and the more material is used, the more storage space can be increased exponentially. One small portion of material can expand one cubic meter of space, and two small portions can expand ten cubic meters."
No. 5 explained: "In this case, the space storage tools must be made at least the size of a bracelet to have practical use value. The ring is too small and the material is too little, so the space that can be expanded is very, very small."
"Then this ring..."
Shi Wanyun gently turned the ring.
She had no way to control the ring and take anything out of it.
"Take it with you first."
Upon hearing this, Shi Wanyun put it on her finger and turned it gently.
Suddenly her eyes opened, and she immediately turned her head to look at the open door, and then looked at the ring on her finger again.
"Yes, there is a teleportation device inside." No. 5 looked at the ring on Shi Wanyun's hand. "My master asked me to give it to you and asked you to set it up next to your own tree house. It seems that you should have some missions that require you to go out in the future."
"I see... But the space inside this ring is not small."
This transmission device is not small, and it may not even fit in a large truck.
"That's because I've changed the way space is used through my research and modification. In order to expand the space, this ring has been specialized to only hold one item. The size of the teleportation device has also reached the limit of what the ring can accommodate, so it doesn't have much actual use value."
No. 5 laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "But there is no other way. The materials I have are few, and even this kind of ring can only be made into less than ten. If I follow the normal method, the storage space made of all the materials will not even be the size of a box."
"Then you are very strong, aren't you?" Shi Wanyun couldn't let it go and said softly, "At least, this ring can't feel the weight of the items inside."
Even a purple-level backpack has a 5% weight. Without this ring, it would be impossible for her to carry such a large metal pillar back.
"A space storage tool is, of course, weightless, after all, it directly opens up a piece of space. Your backpack is different. Your backpack can't actually be considered a space storage tool, it can only be considered a space compression tool."
“Is that so…” Shi Wanyun turned the ring and her heart became active.
This thing may come in handy in the future.
"Okay, I've said too much unnecessary words. This is for you."
Shi Wanyun took the card handed over by No. 5, on which was drawn...
Teleportation array
"If you want to teleport in the future, you can do so at any time..." No. 5 told her the method of teleportation.
There were some waves in Shi Wanyun's heart.
She could actually travel back and forth between her tree house and the World Tree at will!
"When you come back, you will appear in this room." No. 5 pointed to the room where the transmission device was located. "This room is closed, but you don't have to worry. As long as the device is activated, I will be able to detect it and take you out."
In other words, when she comes back, No. 5 will have already noticed it, and she will be released from here only after getting No. 5's permission.
Not that it’s impossible, but I always feel that…
"Is this the only teleportation device in this world tree?" Shi Wanyun asked tentatively.
"There's another one, but you can't use that one."
No. 5 shook his head. "That one is located in the area with the most inhabitants in this World Tree. As long as someone teleports in, they will be discovered by everyone. That teleportation device is usually used to transmit new members every year. Your mission this time is confidential and cannot be told to others."
Her mission... is secret
Only after No. 5 said this did she react.
Why is there such a laboratory and such a transfer device hidden so deeply in the residential area of No. 5
Is it also for confidentiality
Who are you trying to hide this from
There seems to be no point in hiding it from the people below...
No. 5 did these things, probably because the monster asked her to do them, right
Could it be that the "master", that monster, is hiding something from the other monsters...
Forget it, there is no need for her to explore this aspect.
What the monster wanted to do was not something she could think about right now.
"Okay, that's all I have to tell you. Now, you should set off. The crystal ball will tell you the rest."
Shi Wanyun nodded slightly, without hesitation, and walked into the room where the teleportation device was located.
The door behind her closed the moment she stepped in.
Immediately afterwards, the patterns on the transmission device in front of him suddenly lit up with a purple-black light!
Then her vision was instantly swallowed up, and when she opened her eyes again, she was already under her tree house.
Before she could be happy, the crystal ball in her hand suddenly lit up.
Then, she felt her body starting to become weak.
…
What's going on