348: Disappearing stone, chaotic spatial lines

Lost in thought, Yang Dian took out his phone from his spatial ring and powered it on.

Then, messages popped up on his screen one after another.

Quantum communication phones, capable of real-time cross-space communication, were still a rarity and couldn't be popularized.

Moreover, quantum communication consumed an enormous amount of energy.

Therefore, ordinary people, including most members of the Special Administration Bureau and Martial Security Bureau, still used regular phones.

Quantum communicators were only used in emergencies when people couldn't be reached otherwise.

It was like a secure phone.

Under normal circumstances, secure phones were not activated.

He ignored some unimportant messages and replied to messages from more important people.

After checking and processing the message from the Fuzhou Paranormal Management Bureau, Yang Dian's eyes narrowed.

"Shi Sheng disappeared three days ago?"

Frowning, Yang Dian clicked on the mission Shi Sheng had accepted before his disappearance.

"Sanli Plaza Anomaly Disappearance Incident."

"Sanli Plaza."

Yang Dian mumbled, and information about Sanli Plaza came to mind.

Sanli Plaza was originally Sanli Community, where the sisters Chen Wenqian and Chen Wenya lived.

The first batch of Mutated Cockroaches was caught in their home.

Besides the Mutated Cockroaches, their home also had a calico cat that could control wind.

At that time, the fact that two Awakened and two Mutant creatures came from the sisters' family shocked the Special Administration Bureau for a long time.

Subsequently, after professional Detection, it was confirmed that the Spiritual Qi concentration around Sanli Community was higher than other places.

The sisters' utility room was even a Spiritual Qi rich spot, suspected to have once contained gaseous heaven and earth treasures.

So, not long after, Sanli Community was designated as a demolition zone under the guise of "old community optimization."

After demolition, it became a plaza, a place for citizens to gather and practice martial arts, hoping to increase the speed of martial arts practice for ordinary people.

Additionally, based on the idea that friendly Mutant creatures were also a part of China's future combat strength, Sanli Plaza did not restrict Mutant creatures from entering.

"Sanli Plaza underwent changes half a month ago."

"Spiritual Qi concentration increased significantly in a short period, but this was immediately followed by incidents of Mutant creatures disappearing."

"The calico cat from Chen Wenqian and Chen Wenya's home was the first to disappear."

"Then, a total of 13 Mutant creatures, including a mutated cockatiel, a mutated Samoyed, and a mutated chinchilla, abruptly vanished."

"One Samoyed was being walked by its owner one second, and the next second it suddenly disappeared, leaving only its leash and collar."

"Seven days ago, Combat Team Five investigated Sanli Plaza but found nothing."

"Five days ago, a mutated orange cat disappeared in Sanli Plaza."

"On the same day, Shi Sheng, along with Su Mengyao and a temporary worker, joined the investigation team."

"Three days ago, Shi Sheng, Su Mengyao, and the temporary worker abruptly disappeared right under Uncle Xiao's nose."

"The day before yesterday, Research Institute scientists moved into Sanli Plaza with instruments but temporarily found no anomalies."

"Yesterday, a space ability user from Zhe Province came to assist and instantly disappeared after stepping into Sanli Plaza."

"On the same day, Uncle Lei arrived at Sanli Plaza with one ice-element and one wind-element City-Level combatant."

"However, even now, no anomalies have been found, and there have been no further disappearances of Awakened or Mutant creatures."

After reading the mission log, Yang Dian opened the map to pinpoint the location and then headed towards Sanli Plaza.

Shi Sheng was, after all, one of his few friends.

Now that he was in trouble, how could he not go and check?

As for why he didn't just fold space and fly over directly?

The remaining energy of the Dimension Butterfly was almost depleted, and the "Anomaly Disappearance Incident" at Sanli Plaza was related to space.

He had to save some energy for unforeseen needs.

With the magnetic field rotation, his flying speed instantly broke through 35 times the speed of sound.

Looking at the rapidly passing land beneath his feet, Yang Dian couldn't help but sigh that it was good to be on Earth.

On the Alien Planet, how could he start at 35 times the speed of sound, and silently at that?

'Then again, besides increasing Earth's own gravity, what other ways are there to increase the influence range of Earth's magnetic field?'

'The advantage of fighting on home ground seems pretty cool...'

Under super-speed flight, gradually accelerating to 50 times the speed of sound, Yang Dian took less than two short minutes to cross a distance of over 1500 kilometers, flying from Chengdu back to Fuzhou City.

"Earth's circumference is only 40075 kilometers; at 50 times the speed of sound, it would take less than 40 minutes to reach anywhere on the globe."

"Tsk."

"Without concealment, the sonic boom cloud alone, at 50 times the speed of sound, could be world-ending."

"My combat Rank should be considered world-ending (surface) level, right?"

In thought, he landed outside Sanli Plaza.

It wasn't that Yang Dian didn't want to enter Sanli Plaza directly.

It was because the space inside Sanli Plaza was somewhat chaotic.

The dense spatial lines were like a ball of yarn haphazardly tangled together; just one glance made Yang Dian's neural system start to throb wildly.

"How can there be such chaotic space?"

No sooner had his murmur fallen than Uncle Lei approached Yang Dian with two people:

"Weren't you on the Alien Planet? Why are you back?"

Yang Dian looked at the two people behind Uncle Lei, nodded to them amidst their slightly excited gazes, then turned to Uncle Lei and said:

"I came back after dealing with the matters on the Alien Planet."

"After returning, I received news of Shi Sheng's disappearance, so I rushed over immediately."

Uncle Lei rubbed his temples twice upon hearing this:

"We haven't found Shi Sheng, the others, or the Mutant creatures yet."

"But we can basically confirm it's due to spatial power."

"Yesterday, when Wang Li disappeared, the Research Institute detected abnormal spatial fluctuations."

"However, the spatial fluctuations only lasted for an instant, and they are currently researching methods to replicate it."

Yang Dian looked at the chaotic, occasionally wriggling ball of spatial lines and shook his head:

"Tell them to come out."

"It is indeed influenced by spatial power, but it's quite complex and beyond current technology to handle."

Uncle Lei was stunned, then quickly reacted:

"I forgot, you're the expert when it comes to space."

Yang Dian shook his head:

"Not me, it's my butterfly."

"Is there a difference?"

As he spoke, Uncle Lei waved his hand behind him as a signal.

The two City-Level Awakened following him immediately ran back into Sanli Plaza and began evacuating the crowd.

After they left, Uncle Lei asked again:

"What exactly is the situation inside the plaza?"

Yang Dian sorted through for a long time and finally found the end of the spatial thread:

"The plaza is covered by spatial lines."

"Shi Sheng and those Mutant creatures are inside the spatial lines."

"I can forcibly bring them out with spatial power, but I'm afraid something bad might happen."

Uncle Lei raised an eyebrow:

"Spacetime collapse?"

Yang Dian glanced at Uncle Lei askance:

"Uncle Lei, don't pretend to understand what you don't; spacetime collapse isn't that easy to occur."

Uncle Lei chuckled, not embarrassed:

"Who told me that's the only term I know?"

After laughing, he asked again:

"Since it's not spacetime collapse, what 'bad thing' are you referring to?"

Yang Dian stared at the dense spatial lines and said:

"There's a dense ball of spatial lines in Sanli Plaza."

"Spatial lines can be considered spatial channels."

"The Spiritual Qi concentration here is higher than other places because the spatial line ball is 'spitting out' Spiritual Qi."

"It's converting ordinary energy into Spiritual Qi using a method I don't understand."

"This method might be related to its chaotic spatial lines."

"I'm afraid that if I forcibly bring Shi Sheng and the others out, it might disrupt these spatial lines and cause it to lose its Spiritual Qi conversion effect."

At this point, Yang Dian looked up at the sky.

That was once the location of Chen Wenqian and Chen Wenya's home.

"Also there, at the core of the line ball, there seems to be some rare treasure..."