Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

Chapter 228 Pocket Universe Space

Jingyuan looked at Qin Yufeng. This old man must be very old, but he still looked to be in good spirits.

Jingyuan said, "You established your home by using some method to shield it from the pollution of the Mana ecosystem. If I'm not mistaken, this place shouldn't be very big."

Jingyuan scanned the entire village with his telekinetic powers and knew that there were only 156 people in the whole village.

This number of people is less than the population of Dragon Bone Village.

"Mana ecosystem?" Qin Yufeng's eyes widened. "To this day, humanity still hasn't eradicated the mana ecosystem?"

"Exterminate?" Jing Yuan said, "Humanity is almost extinct. On the entire Earth, there are only a little over 10,000 people left in our Lighthouse, a few hundred in Dragon Bone Village and a few other settlements, and with you, there are only a little over 10,000 people left in total."

After saying that, Jingyuan realized something was wrong, "You don't know what's going on outside?"

"We have no way of knowing what's going on outside."

Jing Yuan seemed to understand. He said, "The Devouring Beasts can't get into this place, but you can't get out either!"

"What is a Devouring Beast?" asked Qin Bohan.

"You don't even know about the Devouring Beast?" Jing Yuan looked at the three people in front of him and asked in confusion, "Who exactly are you people? And where is this place?"

Qin Yufeng looked at Jing Yuan, suppressing his emotions, and said, "Young man, tell me about the situation outside first, then I'll know how to explain our situation to you."

“Outside!” Jing Yuan thought for a moment and said, “About fifty or sixty years ago, the Mana ecosystem appeared on Earth. The creeping vines caused a lot of geological disasters, and the Earth gradually became uninhabitable.”

Later, the Mana ecosystem gave birth to the Devourer Beasts, monsters that could absorb human life essence, making Earth no longer suitable for survival.

Our lighthouse is a prison suspended in the air, which is why it was able to hide from the Devouring Beasts and survive to this day.

"A floating prison?" Qin Yufeng said. "Tartars?"

"Yes! It's Tartarus Prison. Later, it became humanity's last refuge, so we renamed it The Lighthouse!"

Qin Yufeng's expression turned complicated. He slowly said, "I never imagined the outside world would become like this! Humanity... is almost extinct!"

Qin Bohan said with great emotion, "Dad, it seems you've actually turned misfortune into blessing."

Jingyuan asked, puzzled, "Why do you say that?"

Qin Yufeng looked at Jing Yuan, "I used to be a scientist researching space physics. Back then... around 2040, Earth gradually became uninhabitable due to the effects of the Mana ecosystem. So, all the countries of the Coastal Alliance launched extraterrestrial immigration programs."

The ultra-long-distance space teleportation technology I'm researching is one of the core projects of our Heluo Kingdom. If successful, it will allow us to send spaceships to other star systems and find a new home.

Unfortunately, an accident occurred during our experiment; the hyperspace reactor exploded, and everyone in our research institute was transported here. Based on our observations, this should be another dimension outside of Earth.

Jingyuan and Penny stared wide-eyed. "Another space?"

Qin Bohan added, "This is a pocket universe, not very large, about twenty square kilometers. This universe is different from the universe where Earth is located. My father and the others came here by accident, so they had no choice but to settle here."

Xu Wen also said, "Moreover, there are no other animals in this pocket universe, only some plants and microorganisms, which can only provide us with simple survival. When my parents' generation came here, they were teleported from the research institute."

Fortunately, Uncle Li from the research institute had cultivated a small vegetable garden on the institute's vacant land and raised a few chickens and dogs, which were also transferred with us. That's how we've been able to survive by farming and raising chickens all these years.”

Qin Yufeng looked at Jing Yuan and asked, "How did you get here?"

Jingyuan looked at Penny and said, "Her source potential can transform her into a wave state, thus enabling her to travel through space. When I was fighting the Devouring Beast, I was almost killed by it. In order to save me, she overused her potential while escaping, and we kept traveling through space until we saw a gap. I entered it and came here."

"Since you're here, settle in comfortably!" Qin Bohan said. "Once you enter this space, you can't get out. You can stay at our house for now! I'll help you build a house later."

Upon hearing about building a house, Jingyuan quickly asked, "Wait a minute, we don't plan to stay here, we still need to go back!"

"There's no way to go back! If there were a way, we wouldn't be staying here." Qin Bohan shook his head repeatedly.

Xu Wen also said, "We still held onto a sliver of hope about going back. But I just heard you say that humanity on the other side of Earth is on the verge of extinction. Well, if that's the case, what difference does it make where we are?"

“But…” Jingyuan said worriedly, “If we don’t go back, humanity might really become extinct!”

Qin Bohan laughed and said, "Do you think you can save humanity if you go back?"

Jingyuan was taken aback. "We're also fighting for that sliver of hope."

Jing Yuan looked at Qin Yufeng and asked, "Old Qin, is there really no way to go back?"

Qin Yufeng remained silent for a moment, then shook his head.

Penny said from the side, "Jingyuan, let's go back the way we came. I'll try to travel back again and see if I can get back!"

Qin Yufeng looked at Penny and asked, "Little girl, your special ability can transform the particles that make up your body into quantum wave states, right?"

Penny nodded. "Yes."

Qin Yufeng said, "Can you use your willpower to restore yourself from a wave state to a particle state?"

Penny was taken aback, then shook her head. "I can't do that. Every time I travel through time, as long as I control the timing, my body can automatically recover within the limited time!"

"If you can't even control your body to switch freely, then I advise you not to try to travel through time!"

"why?"

"We developed this long-distance spatial teleportation technology by studying the potential of a superhuman. This superhuman's ability is the same as yours."

He came to this space with us back then.

He could even control his own movement freely between particle and wave states, but after he left, he never returned!

"He failed?"

"It failed. Even with this ability, you can't pinpoint Earth's location. Aimlessly traversing hyperspace is extremely dangerous."

Jingyuan and Penny both fell silent.

They never imagined that once they entered this place, they would never be able to get out!

After having dinner at Qin Bohan's house, Jingyuan said he wanted to go out for a walk, so he left with Penny.

Qin Bohan simply nodded and smiled, saying, "Okay!" He didn't say anything else, not even a "be careful."

As Jingyuan and Penny walked through the village, people in each courtyard cast curious glances at them.

Just then, a little boy, about seven or eight years old, walked up to them and asked, "Uncle, I heard you come from that very prosperous world, is that right?"

"Very bustling?" Jing Yuan asked, puzzled.

He looked up at the other villagers and thought about how when their fathers came here, the earth was indeed very prosperous.

Their memories are still stuck in that era.

Jingyuan didn't want to spoil the little boy's fun, so he said, "Yes."

Chapter 229 Mysterious Runes

The boy's name was Xiaowu. He was very curious about the outside world, but his parents always spoke vaguely about it whenever they tried to tell him about it.

This cannot be blamed on the child's parents, because they had only heard stories about the outside world from his grandparents.

Xiao Wu heard that people from the outside world had come in, so he came looking for them out of curiosity.

Jingyuan found the child adorable, so he said, "You show us around here, and I'll tell you stories about the outside world, how about that?"

"Okay!"

Xiao Wu walked ahead and said, "Wherever you want to visit, I know this place very well!"

Could you give us a brief introduction to your place?

"Great!" Xiao Wu said enthusiastically, "We're in the village now. Outside the village are farmlands, and beyond that are forests and a mountain. That's it!"

"It's gone?"

"What lies on the other side of the forest?"

"I'm back."

Jingyuan didn't understand. Seeing Jingyuan's bewildered look, Xiaowu said, "Hey, I'll show you around and you'll see!"

"Shall we take a walk? Is that alright?"

"What's not allowed?"

Should we tell your parents?

"Need not!"

As Xiao Wu spoke, he walked ahead.

Jingyuan and Penny exchanged a glance and had no choice but to follow. The village only had a few dozen households, and it was just a short walk out of the village.

Upon arriving near the farmland, Xiao Wu excitedly introduced, "This is our farmland. Everything we eat grows here."

As Xiao Wu was speaking, he suddenly jumped into the field and grabbed a fat earthworm from the ground.

"Do you want to eat?" Xiao Wu asked, holding up an earthworm.

Jingyuan laughed and said, "It tastes better if you deep-fry it and add some chili powder."

"Hey, you said the same thing as my dad. Wait a minute! Didn't you guys say you don't eat bugs outside?"

"I eat it occasionally!"

Jingyuan smiled awkwardly, only then realizing that they also ate insects.

Just now at Qin Bohan's house, there were no earthworms in the dishes on the table, and he thought that people here didn't eat insects.