56: Matryoshka dolls? A secret realm within a secret realm

The Secret Realm, which should have closed after being cleared, was abnormally maintaining its stability.

There was only one explanation for this: the "core rules" of the Secret Realm had undergone some kind of unknown change.

"How could this be?"

Wang Qian was very confused. Bai Ye had already defeated the Secret Realm Master; logically, they should have been out three days ago.

However, she wasn't particularly panicked. With the existence of the Transfer Stone, they could leave the Secret Realm at any time.

Bai Ye calmed down from the excitement of obtaining the rewards and began to seriously consider their current situation.

From the beginning, this Secret Realm had been full of oddities.

First, there was that steel plate recording the "Iron Man Rebellion," and now there was this eerie situation of being unable to leave after clearing it.

Boom!

A muffled, thunderous sound came from the mountain of Mechanical Tyrant remains not far away.

The entire ground began to shake violently.

"Is it an earthquake?"

The camera in Zhao Dezhu's hands was almost shaken out of his grip.

Everyone immediately sprang up from the ground, summoning their respective beast pets and assuming a combat stance.

No enemies appeared.

The mountain-like metal remains seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand and began to collapse toward the center.

Countless metal parts melted amidst violent friction, emitting teeth-gritting "crack" sounds.

"Captain, the energy reaction over there has exploded; my detector is about to go off the charts."

Looking at the energy index on his terminal that had instantly spiked into the red, Zhang Yu felt his lips go dry, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

An energy fluctuation even more terrifying than when the Mechanical Tyrant had self-destructed erupted from the center of the remains.

Fortunately, the energy did not spread outward but instead collapsed inward, forming a fist-sized singularity emitting a faint blue light.

After the singularity appeared, it expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In front of everyone's incredulous gazes, a spatial vortex about three meters in diameter, with unstable electric arcs flickering at its edges, appeared above the metal ruins.

A new Secret Realm entrance.

"A Secret Realm appeared inside another Secret Realm?"

"Am I dreaming?"

Zhao Dezhu aimed his camera fixedly at the new vortex, his mouth wide enough to fit an egg.

It was already shocking enough that things like cities and civilizations appeared in the Secret Realm.

But this "Matryoshka" Secret Realm situation made him feel even more shocked.

"Zhang Yu, can you detect the Rank of this new Secret Realm?"

Li Feng forced himself to calm down and asked anxiously.

"No, absolutely not."

Zhang Yu's face was pale as he operated his terminal rapidly with both hands.

"As soon as my detector gets close, the signal is cut off, and the energy readings go blank; I can't measure anything."

A powerful data detector would have several Mechanical System beast pets with strong computing power by their side.

In times of crisis, they might even be able to fight better than ordinary Beast Tamers.

But Zhang Yu, who was only a Second-Tier, clearly couldn't do that.

The Rank of this Secret Realm exceeded his detection range.

The unknown is what is most terrifying.

"Interesting."

Bai Ye looked at the black vortex, his face showing a hint of curiosity.

"I didn't manage to get the Secret Realm core; I guess it has something to do with this new Secret Realm."

Bai Ye shrugged, but his gaze never left the new Secret Realm entrance for a moment.

"Bai Ye, you aren't thinking of going in, are you?"

Seeing his eager expression, Wang Qian quickly tugged on the corner of his clothes, telling him not to be impulsive.

No one knew what existed inside the new Secret Realm.

If it happened to be a high-Rank Secret Realm, even Bai Ye would be in danger.

Bai Ye grinned: "Let's try it. Since we're already here, we should at least give it a try, right?"

His intuition told him there were good things inside.

"No, it's too dangerous!"

Li Feng rejected it immediately without thinking: "We know nothing about it. Rushing in blindly is no different from throwing our lives away."

Bai Ye shook the Transfer Stone in his hand at Li Feng.

Signaling that he would keep this thing in his hand; the Transfer Stone was already emitting flashes of light and was in an activated state.

As long as he wanted, he could exit the Secret Realm at any time.

Immediately, he lifted his foot and moved forward, preparing to enter that mysterious vortex.

Just at the moment he was about to step into the vortex's range.

A repulsive force so powerful it could not be resisted erupted from the center of the Secret Realm without warning.

It didn't carry any lethality; it just pushed everyone backward.

"My body can't move."

Bai Ye frowned, discovering that no matter how much force he exerted, he couldn't break free from the restraint.

Then let's try full-power mode!

The next second, a sense of dizziness a hundred times stronger than before struck him.

The scene before his eyes began to distort, turning into a multi-colored band of light.

They were forcibly teleported away.

The world spun around.

The Mechanical Tyrant was just a goalkeeper, or rather, a target pushed out into the open.

The newly appeared Secret Realm might be the key to maintaining the operation of the entire ruin.

Countless questions made Bai Ye feel like his brain wasn't enough to process it all.

For a mere Second-Tier Secret Realm, it really had a lot of secrets.

Soon, the pulling force of space finally began to weaken.

The band of light before his eyes gradually dissipated, and the familiar world reappeared before him.

Under his feet was a solid plastic walkway.

They were back.

A crisp sound of metal colliding pulled Bai Ye's thoughts back to reality.

He looked down and saw that the loot he had scavenged from the Mechanical Tyrant's remains was scattered at his feet.

The spatial vortex was not far behind them.

He looked around and discovered that long cordon lines had been set up around the teaching building at some point.

Dozens of staff members in Beast Tamer Association uniforms, as well as armed security personnel, had surrounded the place tightly.

"They're out, they're out!"

"Quick, medical team, get ready!"

"Everyone, stay alert and closely monitor the energy fluctuations at the Secret Realm entrance."

The sudden appearance of Bai Ye and the others caused the scene to erupt in chaos.

A group of medical personnel in white coats, carrying various instruments, rushed over immediately.

"It seems the pictures of the Secret Realm civilization from before were transmitted out; I thought the signal had been completely blocked."

Zhao Dezhu looked at the battle-ready posture of the surroundings and explained to Bai Ye.

Signals occasionally appear between the Secret Realm and the outside world.

As a photographer, he needed to use the signals that appeared in the Secret Realm for an instant to transmit the intelligence from inside.

In case any accident occurred, he wouldn't come away empty-handed.

After all, this was the first time a civilization had been discovered in a Secret Realm; he could very well understand why the Association would take such major action.

His clearance was too low, and he didn't know if the Association had discovered other Secret Realm civilizations before.

At the very front of the crowd was a man wearing a black trench coat, bundled up tightly.

Even though it was the middle of the night, he was actually wearing a pair of sunglasses.

Seeing this man, the corners of Bai Ye's mouth curled up slightly.

Revealing an expression of wanting to laugh but not being able to.

Isn't this that unlucky guy who was arrested on the high-speed train last time for being an accomplice to the robbers?

It seems his status in the Association isn't low at all.

"Don't move!"

The trench coat man, who was the Fourth-Tier Beast Tamer Wang Qiang who had been ordered to come and secretly protect Bai Ye, shouted in a deep voice.

He walked quickly to the group, his gaze sweeping over everyone.

Finally, it rested on Bai Ye.

"What exactly happened inside?"

Li Feng and the others felt their breathing become difficult under the pressure of his Aura.

It was an Aura that only a Fourth-Tier Beast Tamer could have.

"We..."

Li Feng just wanted to start explaining when Wang Qiang raised his hand to interrupt him.

"I didn't ask you."

Wang Qiang's gaze remained locked on Bai Ye.

"You tell me."

Bai Ye looked at the unlucky guy with the "I am a professional" expression, feeling a bit like laughing inside.

He was so miserable when they last met, but now he looks like he's living quite well.

"Nothing much, just cleared the Secret Realm and then found out we couldn't get out."

Bai Ye shrugged, simply summarizing their experiences over the past few days.

"We stayed inside for a few more days, and then a new Secret Realm popped up inside the Secret Realm. We wanted to go in and take a look, but we were forcibly ejected by some kind of force."

Not us, it was you!

The support team all stared at Bai Ye, shouting in their hearts.

They didn't have Bai Ye's powerful physical fitness; if they really entered a high-Rank Secret Realm, their bodies would probably die from being unable to adapt to the environment.