200: A month later...

Yang Dian was still happy.

Because of Dudu, that understanding little darling, he didn't end up like a certain surnamed Zhang alien, earning the nickname 'strolling a bird under the moon'.

Of course, the spatial node has now been completely surrounded by the Walled City, and the sky is covered by a steel canopy, so it's unknown whether it's day or night outside.

But back to the main topic.

After jumping out of the spatial node, Yang Dian surveyed his surroundings.

After realizing there was no one around, he was about to wave at a nearby camera when he felt a cold sensation in his lower body.

He looked down and saw Dudu had extended a tentacle and covered his vitals.

“Damn, I forgot all my clothes were corroded by radiation energy...”

While he was annoyed, Yue Shan jumped out of the spatial node.

Seeing Yang Dian's awkward predicament, he grinned silently, then swapped the clothes in his hand for a bath towel and tossed it to Yang Dian:

“New bath towel, never used.”

“Why were you down there for so long, and why are you in this state?”

“Even your spatial bracelet is broken.”

“And what about that super weapon of yours that can change forms, the one you often use to show off?”

“What's going on with the Dimension Overlap Zone? How did it expand so much all of a sudden?”

“Oh, and those creatures from the Alien Planet, why do they all seem to be going crazy?”

Yang Dian took the bath towel and wrapped it around his waist, then patted Dudu, signaling it to retract its tentacles, before speaking:

“Uncle Yue, how long was I down there?”

“35 days.”

Yang Dian's pupils constricted sharply:

“Huh?”

“Doesn't that mean it's mid-October?”

“The predicted Southeast Tsunami is about to erupt?”

As he spoke, Yang Dian reached out and clenched his hand towards the spatial passage.

A hundred-meter giant bird that had just flown out of the spatial passage was seized by the large Qi and blood hand he conjured, its neck gripped, and slammed heavily to the ground.

“Never mind, let’s talk later, I need to say a few words to the smart AI first.”

He then waved at the camera that had been focused on him:

“The Alien Planet Dimension Overlap Zone has expanded by more than 50 times, Alien Planet creatures are rioting, countless Alien Planet creatures are preparing to invade Earth through the Dimension Barrier. Immediately sound the alarm and prepare for battle.”

“Note, it’s countless; there’s no way to count how many Alien Planet creatures there are.”

As he spoke, Yang Dian’s Qi and blood surged, transforming into a large hand that grabbed three strange, shuttle-shaped creatures that burst out of the spatial passage, moving faster than the speed of sound.

Smelling the fishy scent emanating from the shuttle-shaped creatures, he couldn't help but frown.

“Fishy smell?”

“From the seaside?”

“Even if its speed exceeds the speed of sound, how can it run so fast?”

Hearing Yang Dian mutter, Yue Shan couldn't help but interject:

“When I came up, I glanced at the Dimension Barrier, and it seems those Alien Planet creatures get help from spatial power when climbing along the Dimension Barrier; they flash as they move.”

Yang Dian suddenly understood:

“That’s very reasonable.”

“When we go down and come up, there’s spatial power for delivery and reception.”

“It’s also normal for Alien Planet creatures to have spatial power helping them if they want to counterattack us.”

“Otherwise, with such a long distance, the Alien Planet creatures wouldn’t even be able to counterattack; they’d die of exhaustion or starvation halfway through climbing.”

Clipping the towel and jumping above the spatial node, Yang Dian began playing whack-a-mole.

Each Alien Planet flying creature that came up was knocked out and then tossed aside, waiting for the smart AI to send engineering robots to clean up.

Once he had a moment, he began to explain to Yue Shan:

“That day, after I entered the Dimension Crystal Mine, I first dealt with the Crystal Lizardman.”

Speaking of the Crystal Lizardman, Yang Dian couldn't help but add an explanation:

“It's the Crystal Lizardman that Uncle Lei brought back to Earth and gave to Scar.”

“The Crystal Lizardman is a guardian of the Dimension Crystal Mine and possesses immortality.”

“Only by throwing it out of the Dimension Crystal Mine can its strength be weakened and its height reduced...”

After explaining the Crystal Lizardman in detail, Yang Dian continued:

“After dealing with the Crystal Lizardman, I began to delve deeper into the Dimension Crystal Mine.”

“Uncle Yue, I’ve mentioned before that the deeper you go into the Dimension Crystal Mine, the greater the radiation. My super weapon was rendered useless by the radiation and needs to be re-refined with Qi and blood before it can be used.”

“In short, just before I was about to run out of resources and prepare for a desperate fight, this little guy exerted some power.”

Yang Dian touched the unknown creature's egg attached to his chest:

“It opened a Dimension Gate and sent me into a deeper dimensional space.”

“There, I encountered a spherical object called a star core.”

Seeing Yue Shan open his mouth as if to speak, Yang Dian preempted him:

“Don’t ask, I don’t know why it’s called a star core either.”

“In any case, after I saw it, I naturally knew it was called a star core.”

“There was a golden energy around the star core.”

“Under the nourishment of the golden energy, my injuries healed almost instantly.”

“And the amount I consumed was less than one-tenth of the golden energy.”

As he spoke, Yang Dian stroked the unknown creature's egg, which had grown slightly larger.

Yue Shan clearly saw a golden vertical line appear in the center of the unknown creature's egg.

“Most of the remaining energy was eaten by this little thing, and some of it nourished my spirit.”

“Finally, before I left, I punched the star core and broke off a small fragment from it...”

Yang Dian, who was about to open his hand to show Yue Shan the small fragment, suddenly froze.

Only the three peculiar items he had intentionally kept remained in his palm; where was the star core fragment?

He searched left and right, felt up and down, but couldn't find the star core fragment, leaving Yang Dian a bit bewildered:

“No, where’s my star core fragment?”

After two rounds of searching yielded nothing, Yang Dian’s gaze fell back to his chest.

With a “Pa~” sound, he pulled off the unknown creature's egg that was attached to his chest.

As expected, the star core, which was less than 1 centimeter long and half a centimeter wide, and had turned into a rhomboid shape for some unknown reason after being broken, had indeed been absorbed into its body.

“Give it back!”

As if sensing Yang Dian's desire to retrieve the star core, the unknown creature's egg flickered and appeared on Yang Dian's left shoulder.

Yang Dian reached for his left shoulder, it flickered to his right shoulder; Yang Dian grabbed his right shoulder, it flickered to his head.

When Yang Dian reached for his head, it again... Sensing where the unknown creature's egg had attached itself, Yang Dian stiffened and turned to Yue Shan with a slightly embarrassed expression:

“Uncle Yue, you hold the fort here, I’m going back to find some clothes to wear...”

Yue Shan watched Yang Dian hastily fly towards the city wall, then paused before shaking his head with a wry smile, finally looking at the drone that had just flown down nearby. After carefully considering his words, he began:

“Chengdu Dimension Overlap Zone, Alien Planet creatures are rioting.”

“Deputy Director of the Fuzhou Paranormal Management Bureau, Martial Arts Grandmaster Yang Dian, entered the Alien Planet Dimension Crystal Mine and discovered...”

He paused here before continuing:

“Discovered an unknown divine object: the star core.”

“Comrade Yang Dian broke off a small fragment from the star core, causing the Dimension Overlap Zone to expand by more than 50 times. The current area of the Dimension Overlap Zone now exceeds 100 million square kilometers.”

“Therefore, I speculate that the star core is some kind of divine object closely related to the planet itself...”