Chapter 133 Entering the Space Outside the Time-Space Channel

As the black ball spun, crackling electrical sounds emanated from the experimental platform.

Ninghai was shocked. Wasn't the nuclear power plant above destroyed decades ago? How could it still be supplying electricity here?

"Mr. Ning, what's going on?" the mercenary captain asked.

Ning Hai calmed down and speculated, "Perhaps there's some kind of backup power supply in this underground laboratory, which your people just activated..."

"What kind of machine is this? What will happen after it's turned on?" The mercenary captain looked at the strange black sphere that was spinning faster and faster, and a strong sense of unease welled up in his heart.

The other mercenaries slowly retreated to the doorway, ready to flee at the slightest sign of trouble.

Ning Hai certainly couldn't tell the mercenaries that this was a machine related to time travel, but Ning Hai himself didn't know what would happen after it was activated, or whether it could really open a time portal.

However, he speculated that even if it could be opened, it would require an extremely large amount of energy.

The backup power remaining in this underground laboratory is not enough to keep the machine running effectively.

"Don't worry..." Ning Hai swallowed and said, "Nothing should happen. It will stop once the backup power is exhausted."

As soon as he finished speaking, the black ball did indeed begin to slow down.

The indicator lights on the control panel gradually dimmed.

The mercenaries breathed a sigh of relief.

Ning Hai relaxed and scoffed, "Heh, I told you nothing would happen. Look how scared you are. Mercenaries, huh? You're not even as brave as me."

Just as the last indicator light was about to go out due to low battery.

The thunderstorms that had been building up over the nuclear power plant from day to night had reached a critical point, and any slight energy fluctuation could trigger a release.

Due to the aging of the circuitry, some of the current generated by the experimental platform also flowed into the cable when the black ball was activated.

These cables, thicker than a human arm, were originally connected to the nuclear power plant at one end, but after the explosion, a significant portion of them were exposed to the open air.

As a result, a series of electric arcs crackled from the exposed cable and were transmitted into the air, which was already saturated with electrical charge.

Swish—

A massive bolt of lightning was instantly triggered and crashed down from mid-air.

In that instant, the pitch-black night sky became as bright as day.

Even the rescue team that was rescuing the trapped experts noticed that searchlights seemed to have suddenly appeared outside the collapsed wall next to them.

Immediately afterwards, a thunderclap rang out.

boom!

The enormous noise made the rescue team's eardrums ache!

The shockwave from the thunderstorm caused a noticeable vibration in everything around us.

At this moment, two experts have still not been rescued.

"Hurry, speed things up!" came the urgent voice of the rescue team leader over the walkie-talkie.

No sooner had he finished speaking than an even more dazzling bolt of lightning ripped through the night and crashed down vertically!

Boom!

The ground seemed to have exploded.

The lightning reacted with the accumulated nuclear material scattered throughout the area in some unknown way, unleashing terrifying energy that even caused black lightning to appear on the ground in the form of a spiderweb.

The black lightning was fleeting, but it distorted space wherever it went.

A loud bang.

Suddenly, the top of Ning Jinli's head collapsed.

The people who had just been rescued, along with all the rescue team members, all fell down in an instant.

Ning Jinli could only retreat quickly, protecting the two experts beside her.

With their lightning-fast reflexes, the rescue team members used their own bodies as cushions to carry the other experts to the ground, then immediately rolled over to shield themselves from the falling debris.

All of this happened too fast.

The rescue team members have demonstrated extraordinary response capabilities.

In an instant, a hole the size of a room collapsed above them, and more and more concrete blocks from the rubble kept falling down.

Seeing that the rescue team members who couldn't dodge in time were about to be hit, Ning Jinli used her internal energy to pounce forward, leaping two meters high in one step, while punching and kicking to knock away the falling rocks.

At this moment, in the deepest underground laboratory.

Ning and the mercenaries also felt the tremors coming from above.

And the machine, which had almost stopped, started running again.

Clap clap clap!

A series of firecracker-like sounds rang out.

On the control panel next to the experimental table, the indicator lights first lit up due to overload, and then exploded one by one.

Even the control panel cracked due to energy overload.

Streaks of electricity shot out from the cable, rushing towards it at high speed as if strongly attracted by the black sphere.

In the blink of an eye, the thick insulation layer of the densely packed cables on the underground laboratory walls began to melt and smoke due to the excessive energy passing through them.

The black sphere on the experimental table was spinning so fast that it was no longer visible, and faint black currents were forming around it.

The mercenaries had never seen anything like this before and were stunned for a moment.

"Run!" the mercenary captain roared.

The group then came to their senses and turned to crawl through the iron gate.

Ning Hai didn't move, staring intently at the black sphere. He saw that as the black current increased, the scene around the black sphere began to distort.

The mercenaries had already run out, but when the mercenary captain looked back, he saw Ning Hai was still inside. So he knelt by the round doorway and shouted, "Mr. Ning! Run!"

Ning Hai seemed not to hear at all, standing there muttering to himself, "Could it be... could this thing really open a time-space passage?"

boom--

Another strong tremor occurred in the surrounding area.

Seeing that Ning Hai was motionless as if he had lost his soul, the mercenary captain simply stopped paying attention to him and fled for his life along the route he had come in.

This situation is beyond their understanding and capabilities. They just took on a task to earn some money; it's not worth risking their lives here.

On the other side, Ning Jinli had just knocked away the falling rocks and hadn't even had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief when she noticed a surge in the nuclear radiation energy around her, as if the radiation from the entire restricted area was converging on her side.

And even more dazzling light shone down from above.

Ning Jinli looked up.

She, the rescue team, and the trapped experts were originally in a ruined building that had not yet completely collapsed.

But now, with the surroundings constantly collapsing, she can now see directly into the sky above.

Lightning surged and coalesced in the clouds, forming a massive vortex.

The closer you get to the center of the vortex, the more dazzling the light becomes.

Unfortunately, she was located directly below the center of the vortex.

The terrifying lightning energy in mid-air was accumulating further, and a large amount of radioactive energy was surging and gathering around.

The two energies intertwined and merged, seemingly capable of turning this place into dust.

Not only had she never seen anything like it, but even the experts had never heard of it before, and they all stared at the sky in disbelief.

Just then, the thunder in the sky gathered together, showing signs of being about to pour down at any moment!

Ning Jinli didn't know what was going on, but she knew without even thinking that once they were hit by this unprecedented thunderstorm, no one present would be left with even ashes!

In the blink of an eye.

Ning Jinli, quick-witted, used all her strength to absorb the nuclear radiation energy and simultaneously activated the Heavenly Profound Heart Technique to transform this immense energy into internal force.

There was no way to escape at this point.

She had no choice but to take a gamble and see if she could open an entrance to a time portal here and take the rescue team members and several experts with her!

Before this, she had never opened a second entrance/exit in this world.

Even the newly opened ones are all in the ancient parallel universe where Xiao Qidi is located, and in this world, they can only connect to her factory warehouse.

Furthermore, no living person other than her and Xiao Qidi had ever been able to pass through the time-space portal before.

Boom!!

The thick clouds in the sky suddenly burst open.

A thunderstorm raged down, the light so intense it blinded everyone.

In that instant, the rescue team and experts seemed to lose all sensation.

The eyes cannot see anything, and the ears cannot hear any sound.

Then, it seemed like there was nothing left around me.

My body seemed to be floating in the air.

"How are you? Can you hear me?" Ning Jinli's voice gradually rang in their ears.

A white mist slowly dissipated before everyone's eyes, as if a thick fog had lifted.

When they saw the situation in front of them, everyone was stunned, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Where is this?

"Am I...am I...already dead?"

"I'm dead too? We're all dead?"

"After death...do you enter outer space?"

Neither the rescue team members nor the experts could figure out the current situation.

They were floating in an environment that resembled outer space.

No matter which direction you look, there is no end in sight; everywhere is a gray and chaotic expanse.

“They’re not dead! They’re all still alive!” Ning Jinli’s voice rang out again.

Everyone then came to their senses and looked towards the sound. Ning Jinli was floating behind them, holding a safety rope in her hand. The rope connected them all together, which was why they hadn't drifted apart.

"Miss Ning, where is this place?" the mercenary captain asked.

Before Ning Jinli could answer, an expert exclaimed, "What are those?"

The group was astonished to see several fluorescent vortexes floating not far away.

Moreover, visible energy beams weave through these fluorescent vortexes, forming a chaotic net that connects multiple vortexes together.

As the energy surged and spread, it even tore cracks open in some chaotic, void-like areas.

But these torn cracks only last for a very short time, disappearing almost in the blink of an eye.

“If I’m not mistaken…” Ning Jinli stared intently at the fluorescent vortexes floating around them, “Those… are the entrances and exits of the spacetime tunnel. We are in a chaotic space outside the spacetime tunnel and do not belong to any world.”

"A portal to a time-space passage? You mean... a time-space gate?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

Ning Jinli stared intently at the scene that blurred into the other end of the vortex, carefully discerning it, and muttered to herself, "Medicine King Valley, the Royal Palace warehouse, the Yuqi Mountain training room... and... oh, Falling Eagle Gorge, and the small warehouse of my factory."

She remembered that after she had managed to open a new passageway in a moment of panic, she had pulled everyone in.

But I never expected to enter such a place.

In that instant, she saw that there was an energy connection between these spacetime portals. Initially, the four portals from the ancient world of the parallel universe were all connected to the spacetime portals of her factory's small warehouse.

But there is no connection between those four openings.

In other words, before this, she could travel from the factory's small warehouse to Medicine King Valley, the Royal Palace, Jade Qi Mountain, and Falling Eagle Gorge, but she couldn't travel directly between these four places, and that was the reason.

However, this situation may be about to change.

Because at that moment she saw that the several time portals outside the factory warehouse had also become connected to each other.

This might mean that in the future she won't need to use the factory warehouse as a transit point anymore. For example, she can go directly from Medicine King Valley to the Royal Palace, or from the Royal Palace directly to Jade Qi Mountain or Eagle Falling Gorge.

The four spacetime gates located in parallel universes can now communicate with each other.

"Wait..." Ning Jinli suddenly came to her senses, "Where is the portal to space and time that I just opened?"

She didn't have time to explain to everyone, and hurriedly turned around to look around for help.

At that moment, she saw black lightning-like energy surging in the distance behind her. The black energy was so strong that it obscured a fluorescent vortex.

That was the new passageway that Ning Jinli opened in the ruins of the nuclear power plant.

A large amount of high-intensity energy surged in when she brought everyone into this chaotic space, causing energy links to appear between the original spacetime gates.

"Oh no!" Ning Jinli's expression suddenly changed.

She discovered that the enormous energy from the nuclear power plant ruins was still spreading towards this side.

If she were to get close, she would probably be torn to pieces.

She immediately gripped the safety rope, channeled her inner energy, and "swam" towards the time portal in the factory warehouse.

The rescue team members and several experts were like kites, being pulled along by her ropes, swaying and moving through the void, and then one by one they passed through the fluorescent vortex.

Ning Jinli finally breathed a sigh of relief when everyone arrived at the factory's small warehouse.

The rescue team members and experts collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, staring at each other in disbelief.

Everything they had just experienced in such a short time felt like a dream to them.

No, it's more magical than a dream.

Even these research experts are struggling to keep up.

“Everyone,” Ning Jinli said after taking a breath, “you are all safe now. This is Xinghan City in China, and it’s one of my factories. Captain, please contact Sister Ying to report the situation to her and get these experts to the hospital as soon as possible.”

The captain composed himself, stood up, and said, "Yes, Miss Ning!"

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Right now.

Inside the secret laboratory deep beneath the ruins of the Kutcherberg nuclear power plant.

After absorbing enough energy, the black sphere emitted a swirling fluorescent glow.

Ning Hai plopped down on the ground, staring blankly at the fluorescent light that was expanding in front of him, within which scenes were beginning to appear.

The scene depicts a riverbank.

A bonfire was lit on the riverbank.

Beside the campfire knelt a strange man with long, dirty hair, tattered clothes, and a missing arm...