Wei Jin’s shout immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
Everyone crowded forward.
“Disciple, what did you find? Anything tricky and cunning?”
Chu Tian glanced at Mo Qilin. This guy had been quite boastful since Chi Xue appeared.
Did male beasts have to constantly show off when seeking a mate?
Wei Jin ignored him directly, likely starting to find him annoying.
He pointed a finger at a spot high up on the box and said, “Xiao Tian, look at this!”
Chu Tian followed his finger and discovered a depression the size of a small pebble on the wooden board.
His eyes narrowed, and he quickly flew forward to inspect it.
He hadn’t detected it when he scanned the entire box with his divine sense earlier.
The box was enormous, and this tiny depression was incredibly inconspicuous.
Chu Tian reached out and touched it. The depression was oval-shaped and incredibly smooth inside.
Could it be some kind of mechanism lock?
That was the only explanation he could think of. He knew the hardness of this box all too well.
Even the sharpness of the Moon God’s Wrath had left no trace when it struck the box.
Therefore, this depression must mean something.
After observing it closely, the entire shape… Chu Tian felt a sense of familiarity as he touched it.
However… he couldn’t recall where he had seen an object of this size before.
For a while, everyone studied it with growing disinterest.
Even Chu Tian gave up, thinking the item was impossible to open.
Only Xiao Hei was still bombarding it with attacks, cycling through the four elements: wind, fire, water, and lightning.
He even borrowed Chi Xue’s Chi Xiao Sword and swung it with all his might.
However, it was all in vain.
Chu Tian shook his head as he watched. Chi Xue, however, stayed nearby, her beautiful eyes occasionally glancing at Xiao Hei.
This made Chu Tian feel utterly speechless; the aesthetic sense of beasts was truly extraordinary.
If Xiao Hei were to behave like this in front of a girl he liked on Blue Star, he would immediately experience the embarrassment of social death.
At best, he would receive a three-word evaluation: “Big idiot.”
“kh3106, what is Sui Xing doing?” Chu Tian saw that Sui Xing, the mecha, had its two massive arms inserted into the ground.
It remained motionless in that posture.
“Sui Xing is absorbing thermal energy to replenish its power. Look…” kh3106 said, displaying an image of Sui Xing on the screen of its arm.
“Energy level 8%?” Chu Tian exclaimed in surprise at the number displayed.
“Yes, this energy level isn’t Sui Xing’s, but the bead you gave me.
Sui Xing informed me that the energy bead seems to have been damaged, causing a massive energy leak.
However… Sui Xing has already begun repairing it and is now charging it, transferring geothermal heat into the energy bead.
Chu Tian… this thing of yours is incredible. It’s the most powerful item I’ve ever seen, apart from the super energy source that powers the ΩA001 Universe Mainframe.”
kh3106 excitedly said, pulling Chu Tian along.
Chu Tian was also surprised by this. He hadn’t expected that the Yan Mo Divine Core, rated as god-tier, only had 3% of its energy remaining.
If it were fully charged, what level would it reach?
“How long until it’s full? We need to find a way to get to the ninth level… this eighth level is a barren wasteland with nothing. We can only get rich on the ninth level.”
Chu Tian naturally hadn’t forgotten the purpose of participating in this trial.
He hadn’t obtained any good items so far.
He had caused the small world to explode when he was on the second level.
Several Ascension Ladders were destroyed without him even attempting the trials, and thus, the benefits were lost.
According to Xiao Hei, each Ascension Ladder had ten reward items on the highest platform.
Each person could only choose one, and whether the chosen item was good or bad depended on luck.
For example, when Xiao Hei ascended from the fifth level secret realm to the sixth level, he encountered the fifth Ascension Ladder.
He and Xiao Hong reached the top simultaneously.
Chi Xue retrieved a pill from one of the reward orbs; Xiao Hei didn’t mention its specific effects.
Xiao Hei, on the other hand, reached into another orb and pulled out something that made Chi Xue blush furiously.
It was a… pale pink… silk chest wrap!
It even had inexplicable stains on it… and it had clearly been worn by someone else!
Chu Tian was confident in his luck.
However, the will of this small world had issued a jade token demanding Chu Tian’s death before it would open the entrance to the ninth level.
This made him extremely frustrated. The so-called will of heaven and earth was something that couldn’t be seen or touched.
Otherwise, he would have loved to drag it out and give it a severe beating.
As Chu Tian asked his question, his mind wandered.
kh3106 looked at the operation screen and said, “It’s impossible to fill it completely… the geothermal heat quality here is insufficient. To fully charge this bead,
it would require at least the thermal energy produced by a star. However, once fully charged, it will become an infinite energy source.
As for when we can depart, we can do so at any time.
However, to break through to the ninth level entrance, it might require charging Sui Xing to over 20%.”
Chu Tian suddenly felt that conversing with kh3106 was incredibly comfortable.
This guy never spoke nonsense, and all his explanations were so detailed.
He was practically like a robot.
Most importantly, he said… it could break through to the ninth level entrance…
This made Chu Tian extremely delighted. He patted kh3106’s shoulder and said, “Alright, then we’ll wait for it to be charged to 20%.”
Chu Tian didn’t need to doubt anything kh3106 said, because… he knew that if kh3106 wasn’t confident, it wouldn’t say it.
As for how to find the entrance, that was not his concern.
An artifact from a high-tech universe was beyond Chu Tian’s comprehension.
[Beep beep beep… Anomaly detected… Unidentified creature or object invading the high-particle stealth shield!]
Sui Xing, which had been bowing its head, suddenly raised its head. A massive projection shot out from its eyes. In the projection, a semicircular shield could be seen.
Chu Tian knew that was the three-dimensional image of the high-particle stealth shield.
In the image, the shield was semi-transparent, but in one area of the shield,
there was a patch of intense red color. It was constantly moving, appearing to be attempting to infiltrate from the inside, but it hadn’t entered yet.
“What is it?” Chu Tian turned and asked kh3106.
kh3106 shook its head and said to Sui Xing, “Sui Xing, what is that? Initiate data analysis!”
“It’s already been analyzed. It’s an unidentified creature… or… an unidentified object…” Sui Xing’s answer left everyone speechless.
Is it a creature or an object?
kh3106 even frowned this time. It had cooperated with Sui Xing for so long, and this was the first time it felt that Sui Xing’s intelligent system had malfunctioned.
[Beep… Detection of impending invasion into the high-particle stealth shield. Countdown estimated at 30 seconds… Do you wish to enhance protection?]
Sui Xing issued another warning, asking kh3106 if it wanted to strengthen its defenses to prevent the intruder from entering.
“Enhance…”
“Let it in, then strengthen the defenses, and don’t let it escape!” Chu Tian interrupted kh3106’s words, saying thoughtfully. Da Feng Novel Network.
[Beep… Invasion concluded, enemy has vanished!]
As Chu Tian finished speaking, Sui Xing suddenly issued this notification.
In the four-dimensional image, the red area had also disappeared.
“Did it come in, or did it leave?” Chu Tian asked.
[Beep… Invasion was unsuccessful, enemy vanished into thin air!]
Sui Xing’s language was still mechanical.
But it conveyed clearly that the unknown entity had suddenly appeared.
And then, it had vanished into thin air, without entering their shield’s range.
“What on earth was that?” Xiao Hei asked.
“I don’t know. Where this was displayed on the image, I looked with my naked eye and saw nothing outside,” Miao Zuo replied.
Wei Jin remained silent, looking at Chu Tian and asking, “Xiao Tian, do you have any suspicions?”
Chu Tian frowned, nodded, and then shook his head.
He did have a guess, but… he couldn’t be certain of the validity of this idea.
“Do you guys still have that token on you?” Chu Tian looked up at everyone.
“I threw mine away long ago!” Xiao Hei pouted.
Wei Jin and Miao Zuo exchanged glances and shook their heads.
“Is it this one?” Chi Xue suddenly took out a jade-colored card from her embrace.
Chu Tian took it and handed it to kh3106, saying, “Take this and analyze what kind of substance it is, and compare it to see if there are any similarities with that thing from earlier.”