I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world

Chapter 938 The Truth

Jemin and Jack arrived at the metal door at the end of the corridor.

The facade is smooth and spotless, with only a groove running across the entire facade.

Jemin reached out and used his mental energy to probe inside the door, quickly navigating through the complex protective mechanisms.

With his current computing power and the assistance of the Five Aggregates Transformation Rainbow Mirror, it would only take him a few minutes to crack this level of encryption.

The runic circuits inside the door rearranged, and a large amount of energy flowed from Jemin's palm into the groove to power it, allowing the metal door to slide open to both sides.

Behind the door were several huge laboratories.

The space was so open that it looked like several skyscrapers had been hollowed out and stacked together, with all sorts of instrument racks and storage compartments embedded in the four walls.

But most of the shelves were empty, and the doors to the storage compartments were wide open; the items inside had long been taken away.

Scattered on the ground were some odds and ends and discarded documents. Several metal tables leaned together crookedly, with traces of experimental equipment still remaining on the tabletops.

"The retreat was rather rushed." Jemin looked around, his gaze sweeping over the empty shelves and open storage compartments. "But all the important things were taken."

He walked to a metal table, on which sat a sealed safe that had lost its power supply.

The box lid was half open, and several paper documents were scattered inside.

He reached out, took out the document, and quickly glanced at it.

It's all just messy data; there's no complete research record.

It seems that the important things have indeed been moved.

Jemin did not linger there.

He walked to the corner of the laboratory, where there was a teleportation device, which was a circular platform with a diameter of two meters.

He placed his hand on the edge of the platform and channeled energy into it.

The platform slowly lit up, the light changing from pale blue to deep purple, eventually condensing into a semi-transparent light shield above the platform.

Jemin waved to Jack, and the two stepped into the light barrier.

A flash of light, and the surrounding scenery instantly changed.

They appeared in another corridor.

There are several metal doors on each side of the corridor, with thick walls separating the doors.

As Jemin walked forward, he said, "The core of these ruins should be a cluster of laboratories, each of which contains..."

The building is completely isolated, and can only be entered via a teleportation array. Adding to this the observer effect of the building materials, it would be impossible to infiltrate without using the teleportation arrays in the shallower laboratories to enter layer by layer.

Jack nodded in amazement: "In that case, it is indeed a very impressive anti-theft technology."

Following behind Jemin, Jack's gaze swept over the patterns on the wall.

He reached out to touch the wall, but Jemin stopped him with his hand.

"Don't touch it. The building materials here are different from before. Touching it rashly might trigger some kind of mechanism."

"Yes—I'm sorry, teacher." Jack withdrew his hand.

"No, it's good to stay curious. But remember to stay vigilant, because even after all this time, some protective measures may not have been completely eliminated."

Upon hearing Jemin's words, Jack subconsciously recalled the black mist figure he had just encountered and nodded with lingering fear.

The two quickly walked to a door at the end of the corridor.

Jemin bypassed the security measures again and pushed open the door.

This laboratory is slightly smaller than the previous one, but it contains significantly more artifacts.

The desktop was littered with files, and several drawers were left open, filled with thick notebooks.

The instruments standing in the corner had not been dismantled yet.

Several test tubes were still on the shelf on the lab bench, their liquids long since dried up.

"Huh? The evacuation here was faster than the labs outside." Jemin glanced around, quickly assessing what was valuable.

He collected those notebooks and documents and put them into his internal cave.

He didn't touch the equipment for the time being. Those things were connected to the ground, and it was uncertain whether there were any buried parts. He would have to let the black giant priests move them.

He walked to the back of the laboratory and found another teleportation platform.

The two stood on it and continued teleporting.

The deeper you go, the more things are left behind.

On the fifth floor, several large instruments were still in a semi-disassembled state, with parts scattered all over the floor.

The research drawings were spread out on the table, with the lines and annotations clearly visible.

"So it seems the crisis originated from the core." Jemin picked up a blueprint and looked at it, his voice turning somber. "The research data and equipment from the deep laboratories couldn't be evacuated in time, so although the laboratories further in are more important, the more things are left behind."

The two continued on their way.

When they were teleported to the ninth-floor laboratory, Jemin suddenly stopped in front of a laboratory door.

"What's wrong?" Jack instinctively became alert.

Jemin shook his head, signaling him to relax: "Don't worry, it's a good thing."

Without him making any move, a safe sealed by a magic array that had lost its energy opened automatically inside the laboratory, and the paper documents inside flew out and were arranged in front of Jemin.

Jemin glanced at it, and although he had already confirmed the contents with his mental power, he couldn't help but show a hint of surprise.

Because the contents of this file are actually research on mushroom people!

Moreover, the research is very in-depth, not only focusing on the research and recording of various intelligence about the Mushroom People, but also including subsequent ideas and research.

With a flick of his wrist, the documents in front of him automatically assembled and disappeared into his palm: "It seems that after exiling the Mushroom People, the human civilization of this world still couldn't resist conducting further research due to the formidable fighting power displayed by the Mushroom People race."

That's understandable, since mushroom-men are indeed very suitable as combat units, and even break through certain limitations to some extent.

This addresses the problem of higher life forms' inability to reproduce.

Unfortunately, due to this accident, the research data recorded in this document is incomplete.

However, the experimental data we have is already quite a good result.

Moreover, judging from the identification numbers on the experimental documents, this should be the second to last deepest laboratory, and the next one should be the deepest laboratory, which is the core of this laboratory complex.

"Let's go, let's see what good stuff is in the core laboratory."

With such a good haul despite not having done much sorting, Jemin smiled and led Jack toward the teleportation array.

However, the moment he was teleported to the deepest laboratory, Jemin's expression changed.

hum!

As soon as he was teleported in, the invisible force field of the Returning Void Armor on his body began to vibrate violently, like a drum skin being hit by a giant hammer.

The shock came without warning, as if it were pressing in from all directions at once, causing his mental energy to become briefly disordered.

This is his enhanced Return to Nothingness Armor, which can withstand several rounds of attacks from level eight creatures.

But now, just being exposed to this environment is causing such a shock?!

He turned to look at Jack and noticed that Jack's Void Armor was also vibrating, and even more violently than his own.

Without hesitation, Jemin shoved Jack back onto the teleportation platform and channeled energy into him.

"Go back first!" Jemin's voice came before the teleportation was complete.

A light flashed, and Jack's figure disappeared in the center of the platform.

After Jack left, Jemin stood alone in the laboratory.

He first unfolded a new layer of Void Armor, replacing the old layer of protection that was becoming increasingly unstable.

During the brief moment when the two force fields switched, he carefully sensed his surroundings.

The spatial structure here is unlike any other place I've been before.

If I had to put it in perspective, it would probably be a difference in "density" or "air pressure"—although theoretically, space itself doesn't have these two concepts.

The density of this space is abnormally high, as if it has been compressed from the outside by some force.

Space itself is very stable, even extremely stable.

However, the excessively high "density" makes the creatures inside feel as if they have entered the deep sea, enduring immense pressure at every moment, and even unable to release their spiritual energy.

He looked around.

A large number of documents and instrument wreckage were also scattered on the ground.

A metal table lay over at his feet, its surface as thin as a cicada's wing, yet still retaining its complete shape.

The four table legs are as thin as hair, but their height and spacing are no different from those of a normal table.

"This is----"

There is no doubt that the table's construction is unusual.

Jemin crouched down and carefully scanned the table with his True Deception-Piercing Eyes.

The metallic elements on the desktop were compressed to the extreme, and the interatomic spacing was reduced to the theoretical limit.

If the physical rules of this plane didn't prohibit the existence of degenerate matter, this table would have collapsed into a black hole long ago.

"This compression method—" Jemin stroked his chin.

If it's about shrinking within space, it should be either shrunk proportionally or its original form was destroyed.

Although the tabletop has become thinner and the legs have become more slender, the height and length of the table remain unchanged.

It's as if someone is applying a unidirectional compressive force to this table from the outside, compressing only the thickness direction and not other dimensions.

degree.

He continued searching through the documents scattered on the ground.

These documents were also compressed, making the paper extremely thin, but fortunately the text on them remained clear and legible.

Fortunately, the important research data was recorded directly in paper documents; otherwise, reading the data alone would have been a huge problem.

Jemin quickly flipped through the document, finding its contents increasingly intriguing.

The document contains research records called "World Nesting Technology," which, in general, is a technology that compresses one dimension into the interior of another.

Unlike the expanded spaces or artificial planes commonly found in wizarding civilizations, this technology aims to compress a complete plane into another plane while still maintaining a complete system of laws and ecological cycles.

In the wizarding civilization, even Jemin's level seven large elemental pool was essentially just an artificial elemental plane "suspended" next to the Infernal Sulfur Plane, and there was never any attempt to compress it into the plane.

While it cannot be said that the wizarding civilization did not possess such technology, it does illustrate the difficulty of this technology.

Evidence from the laboratory suggests that the previous human civilization did indeed research this technology.

Moreover, they have made substantial progress.

Jemin continued searching.

Among a pile of compressed and damaged mechanical documents, he finally found a paper experimental log.

The cover is labeled "Nested Experiment Phase 7".

He opened the journal and quickly browsed through it.

The log records the various problems the experimental team encountered when trying to compress a plane into the main plane.

The journal entries abruptly end on the very last page.

Jemin closed his journal, lost in thought.

"It seems that the loss of control over this technology is the cause of the dramatic changes in this plane."