"The power here seems very strange."
Old Wei emerged from the shadows with some confusion, "After all, he doesn’t have Фэн Юань’s ability to discern the true nature of this place. Didn’t Agunas even recognize the problem?" Looking at Old Wei, Фэн Юань said,
"Ultimately, they plan to establish a space portal to a technological world. Estir is just a decoy, or rather a cover to hide the anomalies."
Hearing Фэн Юань’s words, Old Wei skeptically sized him up and whispered,
"I feel like you don’t seem to be in a hurry. Do you have a special plan?"
"Possibly. What do you think about taking this opportunity to visit their world? Although technological civilizations have tighter controls over people’s movements, no existence is perfect. They’re bound to inadvertently leave some loopholes."
"Counter invasion? Seems feasible, but I don’t understand their technological civilization and, moreover, are the life forms there consistent with ours? If they’re not..."
If the other side was entirely made of robots, even if they managed to infiltrate, what then? Could they turn into robots themselves?
"It’s unclear, but they’re probably not mechanical life forms, given that their devices are more similar to human thinking."
Фэн Юань casually remarked, while Old Wei looked at him somewhat incredulously,
"Are you certain?"
"More or less. The design of those mechanical creatures rarely reflects such characteristics. Almost all of them are complete utilitarians, whereas these devices sacrifice some practicality for aesthetics."
"Don’t humans also pursue practicality?"
Agunas asked curiously, staring at Agunas for a moment before Фэн Юань shook his head,
"Not quite the same. The design of those mechanical creatures is more rigid. You’ll understand if you really encounter them, but..."
Фэн Юань couldn’t be sure exactly what kind of life form it was, whether similar to humans or completely other entities. Although they had the ability to change, such ability would reveal abnormal energy fluctuations. There was no reason the others wouldn’t be aware, and they still needed to avoid detection by the other world.
"Who’s there?!"
"We’ve been found~"
Фэн Юань looked towards the loudly shouting Hunter as Old Wei sneered and, with a wave of his hand, the figure was engulfed by the shadows.
Old Wei said disdainfully in a low voice. If there had been a Укротитель зверей, he wouldn’t have been so helpless. It wasn’t like the old times when due to the scarcity of Духовные звери, there were few Укротители зверей. Unless due to personal issues, at the very least, everyone would have at least one Укротитель зверей companion.
"After all, betraying the world is quite normal."
Agunas said, shaking its tail, while Old Wei looked at Фэн Юань,
"Where is Estir? Can you sense him?"
"It should be in that direction. Although these metals have a strong suppressive effect on your strength, unfortunately, they don’t affect me~"
Veronia glanced at the metal walls that completely obstructed their view and also limited their spiritual power perception. Фэн Юань held back Xiao Ji, who was eager to take action, and moved aside,
"Don’t worry. If we trigger the security system, saving Estir might be troublesome."
He had already scanned with his Divine Sense; there wasn’t an extremely strict security system here. If there were a security system monitoring even the flow of energy, they likely would’ve been discovered upon entry. Moreover, the security system here was unusually lax, without even an active monitoring function unless passively activated.
Perhaps the Hunters lacked the ability to use it properly? Фэн Юань speculated silently. He had already noticed numerous surveillance devices around, but they were all turned off. It was likely because they themselves couldn’t handle it smoothly, and their own people would trigger alarms, hence they dealt with it this way.
"I wonder if it can be used."
Фэн Юань pulled out an antique Lantern; he drew two slender flames from the wisp of pale blue fire burning from the wick and lightly tapped the metal wall. With a smile, Фэн Юань placed the two flames into the metal wall, and just then, the wall seemed as if non-existent. Observing the screen that appeared and its displayed content, Фэн Юань said with some surprise,
"They’re really so bold? Not even a bit of data encryption."
"How’s it going?"
Agunas and Veronia floated curiously to Фэн Юань’s side to glance at the content displayed on the screen, but the jumble of text made them dizzy and they couldn’t even understand what it was.
Agunas looked at Фэн Юань with an inexplicable expression and said,
"Do you understand all this?"
"It’s alright. The other side seems to be in a world environment similar to the starry sky, but the level doesn’t seem to be very high. At least these things appear rather crude in many areas, probably due to the world’s level of development."
"Is there anything in common?"
Agunas looked at Фэн Юань in surprise. It hadn’t expected the other party to be able to analyze even this. Although Фэн Юань’s previous world was a technological one, this was still very strange. It was certain that the world on the other side wasn’t the one Фэн Юань had previously resided in—so why were there shared characteristics?
"Strange? Actually, the rules that constitute different worlds are not completely consistent, but they are similar in some general principles, just like the rules of our world can be found in other similar worlds."
Фэн Юань said this while processing the data, completely unaware of the smile Agunas sported upon hearing him say "our world", and the somewhat puzzled question from Veronia,
"Why not just break in? It shouldn’t be a big problem to go in directly."
The power of Estir was distributed outside this metallic barrier, not within it; otherwise, Estir could have used the forcefully extracted energy to annihilate those Hunters.
"I had intended to take a stroll in the other world, but it seems I’ve found something interesting."
Фэн Юань said with a sly smile. He had indeed found something intriguing in the data. Old Wei came over, glanced at the screen in front of Фэн Юань, and asked,
"What do you plan to do?"
"The surveillance on the other side is stricter than I thought. Although it’s not impossible to smuggle across, but..."
"What would happen if I created an unmanageable mechanic crisis?"
"What’s that?"
Old Wei looked at Фэн Юань, blank-faced. What the heck was that? He couldn’t understand a word. Agunas watched Фэн Юань with a speechless gaze for a moment before saying,
"We don’t understand this stuff—is a mechanic crisis serious?"
"It’s fine, I guess. It’s weaker than a destructive-level rules reversal, but still troublesome."
Фэн Юань continued working as he spoke. He was not only lifting the lockdown to the place where Estir was held but also writing a string of abnormal data into the communication system of this base.
That’s right, Фэн Юань had discovered that this device was maintaining a high-security communication link with the world on the other side—perhaps the other side wanted to gain more information through this? But this suited his plans perfectly.
"Hope their network system on the other side is robust enough so I can watch their mechanical devices rebel against life forms~"
Фэн Юань said proudly. At the time of compiling those special programs, he had used something similar to a divine language. That thing had now become a strange entity—if you call it a program, it could run in any device that meets the standard, no matter how its control system was written. If you say it’s not a program, but then again, it was created by Фэн Юань in the manner of a program.
"Mechanical devices rebelling against life forms? What have you done?"
Agunas looked at Фэн Юань with some confusion, not quite understanding what he just said. Фэн Юань, grinning with satisfaction, clung to the flame line and said,
"Put simply, I’ve given the mechanical devices on the other side the command to rebel against life forms. As for how they’ll rebel, that’s something I don’t know~"
"You’re what..."
Agunas twitched its tail, somewhat speechless. The outcome of his antics was uncertain, but causing chaos on the other side didn’t seem too difficult. Old Wei looked at Фэн Юань with suspicion and said,
"But how can you ensure They won’t make a move? If They do, it won’t matter how powerful the opposite side’s mechanical devices are."
"An Eclipse-type rule. As long as They are not foolish, They wouldn’t try to directly touch that thing."
Фэн Юань said unconcernedly. How could he have not considered this? It wasn’t his first time dealing with such matters, and he had some understanding of the troubles he might encounter.

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