The system handed me over to the state.

"Continue the search, be careful, and watch out for anomalous spatial readings."

"Understood, sir. We will keep an eye out for any abnormal readings."

After the communication ended, the team continued the search, which lasted for a full half hour. Most of the area had been searched, but nothing was found, not even the remains of the sacrificed ability user.

The squad leader used the mech's propulsion system and roller skates to reach the search team members and asked, "Still no results?"

The team member opened his helmet, his face full of helplessness. "No, Captain, we haven't found anything yet. The spatial readings have remained stable as they were when we arrived."

"Stability is a good thing. It means we won't get caught up in weird places due to spatial anomalies. What I hate most is being trapped in a maze."

The captain was a little scared. The last time, it was also a search and rescue mission carried out by their team, and the same team of ability users went missing. However, the situation was much better than today's because they were only missing, but no one died.

Later, during their exploration, they were drawn into a maze-like underground world, where they tried various methods, such as smashing through walls to make their way through or flying to the top of the maze to find an exit.

As a result, they were blocked by a barrier halfway through their flight. They spent more than two hours dismantling the wall but could not find an exit or a wall. Moreover, they often walked back to places they had already passed, even though the recorder confirmed that they had not taken the same or wrong route.

After being inexplicably trapped for a day, they were all sent back, and not a single one was missing.

So that incident left the captain with a considerable psychological scar.

Although the spatial readings were stable this time, it doesn't mean they won't encounter similar situations in the future, so it's best to be cautious.

"Put your helmet on. There's no air to breathe during teleportation. If you don't want to suffocate, you'd better wear it properly!"

The captain's stern reprimand made the team members put their helmets back on. There is no air inside the un-artificially constructed space tunnel. If a person enters the space tunnel without protection, they will suffocate and die before the teleportation ends or if they are torn apart by an abnormal space storm.

The exploration continued, and the team members searched quickly. Half an hour later, the entire area had been searched. At the same time, Bronya and Seele arrived at the scene. When the captain saw the two, he immediately came to them. After a simple salute, the captain began to tell Bronya about the situation.

"Nothing unusual, not even a body?"

Could it have been sucked into another dimension? But if it was sucked into another dimension, how did the signal from the life monitoring device get back?

Perhaps it is the existence of a spatial channel that allows signals to be transmitted from one space to another; this is the only reasonably plausible explanation.

Have you determined the coordinates of the spatial anomaly reading?

Every spatial anomaly has a core point, which is the origin of the anomaly. It then gradually spreads and affects the surrounding space, eventually leading to spatial anomalies in a large area.

If Bronya finds the core point, she might be able to open up a spatial passage using her own abilities.

"It's confirmed, it's just ahead."

Led by the captain, Bronya looked at the unremarkable grass in front of her, took out her goggles, and saw a crack about the height of a person. The edges of the crack were light blue, and the center was purple with a hint of red.

"Seele, step back a little, there might be some noise."

Seele nodded, and she and the captain took a few steps back. Bronya reached out and inserted her hand directly into the spatial rift in front of her.

Then she used her other hand, gripping both sides of the crack tightly, and began to forcefully widen it. However, the crack's strength still exceeded Bronya's expectations. Despite her best efforts, she could only open up a crack less than 3 centimeters wide.

Even the cracks in front of us are still healing.

This puzzled Bronya. This extremely difficult-to-expand rift was a typical inert space rift. Such rifts were very stable and almost impossible to change. Expanding them required a lot of energy and sometimes even required extremely violent methods.

Something's not right....

"Doctor, is something wrong?"

The captain stepped forward and asked, his figure almost twice Bronya's height against the backdrop of her mecha. Bronya nodded, "This is an inert spatial rift. Logically, there shouldn't be any possibility of it expanding or mutating. So why is it like this?"

"Where did the previous team go?"

Bronya sent a message to the command center to inform them of the relevant information, and learned from Lao Yu that Moss's condition had stabilized, indicating that she had successfully rescued herself.

This calmed Bronya down a bit, giving her more time to investigate what was going on. Besides... the color of the rift was strange. The spatial rifts Bronya had seen before were only blue, but this one was purple and red...

"Make some distance; I'm going to have to use a slightly more forceful approach."

Heavy Bunny appeared behind Bronya, its hands being clasped together with Bronya's at the edge of the crack, and then they began to expand together. When it felt strained, the bunny's arms even quickly deformed, increasing its strength by spraying energy.

The spatial rift was gradually widening. Just as Bronya was about to have Little Rabbit construct a stabilizing device to stabilize the spatial rift, a dark energy suddenly shot out from the spatial rift!

The little rabbit decisively abandoned the attempt to continue expanding the crack and instead grabbed Bronya, tightly protecting her with both arms.

The dark energy directly struck the rabbit's arms. The seemingly ordinary wisp of energy exploded the moment it touched the rabbit's arms!

The dark energy with a strong corrosive nature instantly transformed the surrounding lush green grass into black, dead land. After the energy explosion, the little rabbit erected a shield to protect Bronya.

Seele was startled by the sudden attack, but she pulled her foot back the moment she stepped on the black earth. She looked at the corroded sole of her shoe, took it off, and threw it away. The corrosion spread rapidly, turning the entire shoe into black slag.

"This... Bronya, are you alright?!"

Helpless, Seele could only shout at Bronya, who stood up and said, "I'm fine..."

After the bunny led her away from the corrosive area, Bronya's expression gradually turned serious as she looked at the large areas of rusted, brownish-yellow metal armor on the bunny's arms.

Chapter 388: The First Magical Otherworld

"What just happened to the rabbit's arms?"

Seele looked at the corroded arms of the bunny, while Bronya shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either. The bunny simply knocked off the corroded parts with her hands and then used the nanosystem to reconstruct them and restore them to their original state.

Bronya looked at the ground not far from her feet, opened her goggles and began to analyze it. She also took out a piece of metal and threw it onto the black ground. The metal was quickly corroded into rust and even collapsed into fragments a few minutes later.

"So... did those missing people also die like this?"

Seele felt very down. If the team members were wiped out by such a power and turned to ashes, there would be no way to find their remains.

"Not necessarily, it was someone from the other side of the rift who attacked me... Let me try again!"

Bronya floated up and arrived at the rift with Bunny. The rift had closed instantly after the attack, so it was clear that the being on the other side didn't want it to be open. So she opened it again! Until they could pass through normally.

Repeating what they had done before, Bronya and Rabbit pried open the crack in front of them again, but before Bronya could even take out the stabilizing device, a woman's angry roar suddenly came from the crack.

"Are you fucking done yet?! Close this crack right now!"

Immediately afterward, the same beam of light struck Bronya again, but this time Bronya was smarter. She instantly released her grip, allowing the force to pass through the rift and strike the ground behind her. She and Bunny immediately returned to the rift, tightly securing it, and then quickly took out a stabilizing device to stabilize the rift.

"Damn it! Are you guys crazy?!"

The loud cursing came again, but this time Bronya stabilized the spatial rift. No matter how hard the other side tried, the spatial rift would not close again. However, just as Bronya was about to go and see what was blocking her, a repulsive force came from inside the spatial rift, preventing her from entering.

A few seconds later, she saw a dark figure traversing the spatial passage. Bronya, who was trying to stop it, was a step too slow, and a figure emerged from the spatial passage.

She was dressed in a black gauze dress, which concealed the lower half of her face, but her purple eyes revealed that she was extremely angry.

"Are you guys out of your minds?! Why are you always thinking about opening this spatial rift? Do you think it's comfortable to let the wind blow over my backside?"

This sudden turn of events left Bronya and her group somewhat bewildered. Looking at the other person's ethereal lower body, which resembled a genie from a story, Bronya asked, "Are you a genie?"

"Screw you, genie! I'm not one of those weird gods. I'm the most powerful death mage on the entire Three Zen Continent!"

"I'll give you a chance. Tell me why you keep trying to open a spatial rift behind me. Don't you know how uncomfortable it is to feel the wind blowing out of a spatial rift?"

Bronya tilted her head. "Does wind blow out of the spatial rift?"

"Of course I can! How can you not even have such basic common sense! Hmm? No, we're speaking different languages, so why can I understand what you're saying?"

The woman in front of her suddenly realized that she was speaking a different language from Bronya's reply, but she could understand Bronya's words, and it seemed that Bronya could understand her as well.

Upon hearing the woman's words, Bronya suddenly realized, "That's right, the two sides speak different languages, so how do they understand each other?"

For a moment, neither side was clear on what was going on. "Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. I am a death mage from the Three Zen Continent. You'd better tell me what you want to do, or I will grant you a merciful death right now!"

Bronya furrowed her brow slightly, and the little rabbit behind her joined its hands together, quickly transforming and combining to create a huge laser cannon aimed at the woman in front of her who called herself a death mage.

"I'll give you a chance. Who are you? Where are you from? What's your name? What's your gender? Tell me everything honestly, or I'll shoot you right now."

"Furthermore, the space rift device can only remain open for a long time thanks to our stabilizing mechanism. Tell me, if I were to have the stabilizing mechanism turned off right now, and the rift were to close instantly, what would happen to your body?"

The woman glanced at the laser cannon pointed directly at her face, then at Seele floating to the side with her scythe on a stabilizing device. After looking at her several times, she said, "You're still the best... I give up!"

Bronya kept the laser cannon charged and operational, then took out a small notebook. "Now I'll ask you a question, and you answer it."

"name!"

"Karin Afra"

"gender!"

Can't you tell?

"I'll ask you a question, then you answer it, or else..."

The laser cannon's efficiency suddenly increased, and the destructive energy caused Karin to swallow hard, obediently answering, "Female...".

"Profession?"

"A death mage, and part-time advisor to the junior mage class at the Rice Bath Magic Academy on the Three Zen Continent..."

"Hmm...you mean this rice bath, is that your catchphrase, 'No way, bro'?"

"It seems like everyone on the entire continent knows this..."

"answer the questions!"

"Ah! Yes, yes, yes, that's her catchphrase."

Next, Bronya conducted a survey, asking one question and Karin answering it. After Bronya finished asking all the questions, she began to inquire about Moss's whereabouts. Karin denied it, saying she had never seen a girl named Moss, nor anyone who matched the description. She claimed Moss was simply resting and researching in her room.

"I don't know. Could it have been teleported to another place?"

Moreover, this is a very obvious spatial passage, a passage to another world. Should we preserve it?

"You should know that you're no longer in your world, right?"

"I knew it the moment I saw this thing. There are no magical devices like this on the Three Zen Continent... It's amazing. What's it made of? It can even transform, and many of the parts look so small and intricate. Hmm... If you're willing, could I take a look at it?"

Bronya decisively shook her head in refusal, turned around and tossed the booklet in her hand to the captain on the periphery, saying, "Report this matter upstairs. We might need a team capable of reliably opening spatial passages to help us solve the problem."

"Understood, Doctor!"

Chapter 389: You don't hide your XP at all?

Two hours later, after confirming that Moss's vital signs were still stable, Bronya looked at the gradually expanding spatial passage in front of her, her heart filled with doubt. If Karin was telling the truth, then where did Moss and the others go?

Could it be that these spatial channels can randomly teleport you to other places?

For example, her room is the relatively safe Miss Karin's room, while Moss and the others were teleported to other dangerous areas and attacked. Now that Moss's vital signs have stabilized, she must have been rescued or found a safe place and successfully saved herself.