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We have previously counted the change of these high school students and estimated that they carried about a week's worth of supplies, which means they can carry out an expedition for up to ten days at most... But what surprised Merry and I the most was that it was a different space inside. You know, the last time we met was in the misty realm of the Coved Forest, but this time we entered a different space, and our previous experience and cognition were completely useless here."

Supporter B: "So, the space connected to the Mist Realm will change? This seems to explain why so many people have disappeared in the past few hundred years, because they all went to different spaces."

Lucas: "I think it's more than that. This operation made me figure out something. Let me demonstrate it to you so that you can understand the spatial structure of the Mistland more intuitively."

The staff lifted a larger glass fish tank, filled half of it with clean water using a pipe, and then poured various balls into it, including ping-pong balls and toy balls, in different colors and sizes.

Lucas picked up a ping-pong ball first: "This is the space where Meri and I first met."

Then he picked up a black toy that looked like a ball: "This is the second time that Meri and I entered the space to rescue high school students."

He threw both balls into the fish tank and held a bigger basketball in his hand: "This is our Earth."

Place the basketball in the top of the tub.

"When our world interacts with these small spaces below, the space entrance appears."

Lucas took off his jacket, rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt, and stirred his hands in the bathtub.

"The small spaces in the misty realm, I guess, are like celestial bodies in the universe, operating according to certain rules at all times and in all places."

“In this process, the small space that interacts with our world is constantly changing.”

This demonstration is very intuitive. Anyone with a normal IQ who has read this far in the book will basically understand what Lucas wants to express, or the reason why the "Misty Realm" has swallowed up so many people over the past few hundred years.

Because these populations are scattered in different spheres, that is, in space, if they cannot find an entrance that is unobservable to the naked eye in time, the entrance will disappear after a period of time, and these people will completely lose the possibility of returning to Earth.

There are hundreds of spheres of various sizes in the bathtub, symbolizing that the small spaces connected by the misty realm may be endless.

If you don't understand its operating rules and accurately locate the entrance to the space that appears, which is the small space opposite, it will be useless no matter how many people you put in.

Supporter A: "It seems that this is the secret of the Mistland."

0020

Half a month had passed, and everything had been settled... but not completely settled. However, things were indeed moving in the direction that Lucas had expected.

At this time, there was an endless stream of news about the "Misty Realm" in newspapers and on TV, but it had nothing to do with him anymore.

For example, the Flower Kingdom officially restarted several research projects on the "Realm of Mist", three of which are located in the Flower Kingdom, two in Europe, and one in Asia.

In this regard, the other pole of the world naturally did not want to be outdone, and publicly announced that it would also launch the "Dream Alice" project within the Soviet Union. "Dream Alice" is the name of the Soviet side's scientific research and exploration project plan on the "Realm of Mist".

On the civilian side, there is relatively detailed information about the "space entrance" provided by Lucas. Although it is impossible to build equipment that can observe the "space entrance", the "space entrance" on the earth's side is located in the fog. If you bring high-power fog lights and act cautiously, it is not difficult to observe subtle traces of the "space entrance" with the naked eye.

In the "small space", although it is impossible to witness the existence of the "space entrance", after repeated tests and following the principle of one-way passage, the location of the "space entrance" can be roughly confirmed.

The so-called "one-way passage" principle means that if the "space entrance" is regarded as a mirror, only one side can be used for entry and exit.

There have been many people who are brave enough, have sufficient funds and can organize people to conduct exploration and have confirmed the existence of the "space entrance". However, many accidents have occurred when they selected some slowly changing "space entrances" to enter the exploration.

Some expeditions encountered strange natural phenomena on the other side, resulting in large-scale deaths or even total destruction. For example, the entire "small space" was filled with poisonous gases, or spore mist that could parasitize the human body; some encountered unimaginable monsters on the other side; and some fought with ancient forces on the other side, with both sides suffering damage. As a result, when the other side's captives were brought out for interrogation, it was discovered that they were actually descendants of the United Kingdom in the Victorian era who were exiled there hundreds of years ago. This "misty realm" is also located in the Flower Kingdom, but it is not the one in the Corved Forest.

All kinds of explosive news filled the public opinion, but these had nothing to do with Lucas. Although it was only half a month, many media occasionally mentioned him when talking about the "Misty Realm", but more of them were various emerging "explorers" that emerged.

These people have dominated the headlines and become the new media darlings.

Lucas is slowly fading from public view.

And in this process, he cleared his identity... This is not accurate. Apart from accidentally entering the territory of Flower Country, he did not commit any crime. He became a legal citizen of Flower Country and did not use any means that violated the law. Although there was suspicion of crossing the line, it was all legal.

In short, compared to the past, now even the Hua government can't use his identity and past to force him to do anything.

His experience of entering the Flower Kingdom and becoming a legal citizen has given his "Flower Kingdom Dream" some legendary color, and he is regarded as positive material by people, rather than a illegal immigrant or a person with a tainted background.

……

It was September and Emily had already started school.

After the "Misty Realm Rescue Operation", Lucas' life gradually returned to leisure and peace.

After this incident, their relationship was naturally exposed by the gossip media, but Lucas had completed his identity transformation and became a legendary heroic figure, accepted by the vast majority of the Chinese people. Most media have a positive attitude towards their relationship.

Emily was originally the top student on campus, and now she is a popular idol star in the whole Flower Country. She has also become Lucas' girlfriend. The few female students who were her enemies have also resolved their hostility, and she has truly become the top student in Crown Eagle High School.

Although she herself didn't care about this and never thought of doing anything with this privilege.

She has now fully entered into the little girl mode of falling in love, and is inseparable from Lucas every day. Although the two of them have not had any intimate contact other than Type A contact, Emily is extremely satisfied. Speaking of which, she took the initiative to ask Lucas for sex, which was mainly influenced by the general environment. In her mind, it is natural for boyfriends and girlfriends to have sex.

In addition, as for some gossip, the girl who was pregnant by Zack who died in the "Misty Realm" may have lost the confidence to become a mother due to the torture of the newborn, and chose to give away the child who had lost his father... to other childless families to raise.

She and some other little girls who were infatuated with Zack's handsome looks were indeed sad for a few days, but they were soon attracted by the big arms and perky buttocks of other strong boys and soon became pairs.

Also, although the news about the "Misty Realm" is very popular in the outside world, the area around Crown Eagle Mountain is very peaceful, and no residents want to form an expedition team, even though they have the "Misty Realm" location, the Coved Forest, here.

Not only that, the mayor's office also allocated money to repair the protective barbed wire around the Coved Forest. The county bureau where Meili works now also has a daily patrol mission to inspect the roads leading to the Coved Forest and surrounding areas to prevent any more ignorant children from breaking in.

In fact, Lucas had communicated with the mayor privately, asking whether some vacant land around Crown Eagle Mountain could be developed into an industrial zone. The answer was no.

It would be fine if he bought the land to live in himself or develop it into a residential area with villas, but for industrial land...Crown Eagle Mountain is surrounded by high-end communities. Although there are some low-income families, the voices of these families obviously cannot represent the will of the community. If Lucas wants to be a good person, he can let members of these low-income families work in his factory, but if he wants to open a factory here, don't even think about it.

Lucas could only express regret about this, as he just wanted to be closer to his weekly commute.

……

When Lucas woke up in the morning, he felt something warm in his chest.

For a moment, he was a little confused.

But then he felt relieved, he realized that this thing felt very familiar?

When he lifted the blanket, he saw, as expected, a small animal with a black back and yellow belly lying on his chest - the crying monster in the background space of the full moon night.

"Scared me..."

I put my hands under its ribs, pulled the little thing out, and rubbed its head and found that it was a little dirtier than before, and there was eye boogers from sleeping. It might be related to leaving the strange space and coming to the real world.

Lucas took two pieces of paper from the bedside tissue box, held it in his arms and picked out the boogers in his eyes.

The crying monster had been woken up by him a long time ago. It was whimpering in dissatisfaction and waving its claws and teeth, but it did not struggle hard. It did not hurt at all when it bit his hand. When he was wiping its eye boogers, it did not move at all. It was very smart and well-behaved. It was indeed worthy of being a monster with a very high intelligence.

If it were a cat with a bad temper, his hands would have been covered with scratches long ago.

“I thought you stayed in that place.”

"It's been almost a month. Where have you been playing, you heartless little thing?"

After wiping the boogers off its eyes, Lucas got out of bed and saw a blanket on the ground that had disappeared with it that day. He thought it must have been taken away with it, and he didn't know how it got it on its body.

He was too lazy to find out how it got in. This little thing had the ability to travel through space and was a nocturnal creature that was elusive. Ordinary protective facilities, including cages, could not stop it at all.

The blanket was naturally quite dirty, and there was a layer of black ash on the carpet.

Lucas picked it up with two fingers in disgust and threw it into the smart washing machine in the bathroom used to wash miscellaneous items. He poured in enough cleaning liquid, adjusted the washing and rinsing times to the maximum, clicked the start washing button, and after coming out, he used a vacuum cleaner to clean up all the traces.

I went downstairs to the kitchen and Emily was already waiting there.

After she gained access to Lucas's house last time, she never cancelled it so that she could come over by herself.

"Ah, what kind of animal is this? A raccoon digging through the trash can?"

The crying monster followed Lucas closely. Emily took a quick look.

I thought it was a raccoon which is common around here.

"what"

Hearing her words, the Yingying monster stood up and snorted at her.

“Ah, it’s still fierce to me.”

"Huh? It doesn't look like a raccoon. It's bigger and much cuter. What kind of animal is this?"

"I don't know either. I met it in the foggy realm. I fed it a few times and it got to know it. I didn't see it when I came out and thought I had lost it. I didn't expect it to appear in my bedroom this morning, just like it appeared in my car that day."

Lucas opened the refrigerator, took out the milk carton, and took out a bowl from the closet for the Yingying monster. He placed it on the table and poured it a bowl of milk.

The crying monster glanced at Emily, then nimbly jumped from the ground onto the chair and table, and squatted beside the bowl to drink milk.

Emily seemed very interested in it. She wanted to reach out and touch it but was afraid of being bitten. Then she suddenly remembered something.

"Ah, I forgot about it because it interrupted me."

She couldn't pet the pet, but she could "mummify" her boyfriend. She sat on the chair for a while, and was so excited that she even forgot to drink her milk. She tilted her head and stared at the two of them with her two small black button-like eyes.

Because her schedule is synchronized with Lucas', Emily has also been accustomed to doing morning exercises recently.

After the usual good morning kiss, the two went out the back door from the kitchen, walked for a distance to do some stretching and warm-up exercises, and then jogged along the path on the hill.

"Amy, I'm going on a long trip next week."

"On official business?"

"That's not the case, it's a private matter."

"What personal matter? It's not a personal matter about a business trip to Vegas, right?"

Emily glanced sideways.

"That's not the case, haha."

Lucas laughed and glanced at her.

Lucas was physically strong, and Emily was also in good physical condition, so ordinary jogging did not affect their conversation at all except for making them slightly out of breath.

"Let me make this clear first. If you want to go out and have fun, just tell me, but don't lie to me..."

Emily continued to squint, "But you're leaving me, a youthful and beautiful girlfriend, to enjoy your life, and instead go to Vegas to have fun. Isn't that a little unreasonable?"

When she turned her head again, she saw Lucas's hand was on her forehead, and he flicked her head hard.

"Oops!" Amy crouched down with her head in her hands, but immediately stood up and caught up with Lucas.

"I want to go back to the old misty land, the same misty land where I met Merry."

I was originally planning to act coquettishly and playfully, but after hearing these words, Emily's attention was instantly drawn. She rubbed her forehead and asked curiously:

"Hey, what's going on? Can you find a way to get back there? Aren't the channels connecting those strange spaces to the Earth random and irregular?"

"Don't tell anyone about this, not even Merry."

Emily made a zippering motion in front of her mouth.

"Don't worry, the person in front of you is the most secretive princess of the year. I haven't revealed a single word of what shouldn't be said to outsiders."

Lucas looked around subconsciously, but then burst into laughter in surprise.

After watching too many American TV dramas, I always thought that America's monitoring technology was pervasive, but this is a flower kingdom in a parallel universe, and half of the property rights of the hill under our feet belong to the Johnsons... or to be exact, to Emily and Claire, because the hill is not the property of the Johnson family, but the marital property of Emily's father and Claire.

He is the owner of the other half of the property rights. This was a bonus when he bought the house. When he renovated the new villa, he also installed surveillance equipment on the hill. If there are any lurking people around, they basically cannot escape detection by the surveillance equipment.

"I have a way to travel freely between this world and that space, but due to time constraints, the number of times I can travel back and forth each month is fixed. I originally thought that I would not use this ability in the future, but after so many things happened, I am also a little curious about the strange space opposite the foggy realm, and I want to see the changes there."

"I mainly want to see if there is any threat to the real world..."

Lucas added in his mind.

"Wow, no wonder you said last time that you were absolutely sure you could return safely from there. Is this related to this?"

Emily's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she then said in an exaggerated tone, holding her face:

"Ah, you told me such an important thing, so I can't break up with you in the future!? Ah, to be honest, Lucas, do you really want to do that with me?"

Lucas tapped her head unhappily, "Hey, don't always think about these things. Between the two of us, I should be the one playing the dirty role."

Emily laughed and jumped on him, letting him run with her on his back.

"Then why can't you get into character? I'm worried about you."

"Of course, it's to pass the trial..."

Lucas answered in his mind.

……

After running around the mountain path for more than ten laps, both of them felt hot and sweaty.

When I got home, it was only 6:30, which was still early for school.

But Lucas still had to make breakfast, and they both needed to take a shower.

"Oh, by the way, Amy, you can take this little guy with you and give him a bath. He has been gone for a month and his body is a little dirty. You can use your shower gel for the time being.