Gravity Source
What is this?
Su Luo left the Laboratory alone and took two steps toward the "Vacuum Domain" in front of her.
After two days of full-speed sailing, covering an immeasurable distance, we came to a halt at this moment.
The Laboratory is currently suspended outside a strange area that cannot be captured by conventional vision.
Ahead, based on the data collected by Su Luo, there exists a nearly Perfect spherical "Vacuum Domain" with a radius of several hundred kilometers.
It is emptier than the space within Fixed Star system; it is an absolute realm where all matter has been forcibly emptied and energy flow is extremely thin.
Su Luo controlled the Laboratory to completely circle the edge of this area, but found no maintenance devices. Any air that entered seemed to disappear into thin air, and occasionally highly concentrated energy streams were emitted.
It was like a pure void that suddenly appeared in Land of Darkness, with abnormally clear boundaries, and the Vacuum inside contrasted with the Chaos mess outside.
That's fine, after all, there are plenty of strange and unusual places in the Land of Darkness.
Su Luo's current Exploration Quest was to climb the gravity mountain she hadn't finished climbing before.
The gravity at the summit was nearly ten thousand times greater. At that time, Su Luo parked the Laboratory halfway up the mountain and climbed to the top carrying various components of constant, densely packed Spell.
The summit was empty, except for a faint light in the Void. When he touched that point of light, the system notification arrived as expected:
[Exploration Quest activated]
[Mission Objective: Directions have been given; explore the area and any remaining ancient structures.]
This is the updated Out-of-Zone Exploration. According to information exchanged by Song Shige and snippets of conversation on the World Channel, before the update, there wasn't even such a clear mission objective; there was only a vague directional guide.
After arriving at the location, I inspected it inch by inch, wasting a lot of time before the task was finally completed.
The mission locations are either some kind of strange terrain or some kind of ruins.
However, the distances were all quite far. Su Luo ran at full speed for two days, only to stop at this Vacuum zone in front of her.
The Land of Darkness are never short of wonders, but this was the first time Su Luo had ever seen such a well-organized and pure Vacuum Domain. Her first thought was whether it could be turned into an experimental area.
After all, high-energy and precision experiments have very high environmental requirements.
This was the second most unusual terrain Su Luo had ever seen. The first was the "Great Rift," where she could freely move and alter space. According to exchanges among the world's top professionals, this geological phenomenon was found to be widespread, and thus it was named the [Abyss].
He conducted a simple experiment, peeling a Fist- sized rock from the platform beneath his feet, enveloping it in his Divine Power, and gently pushing it forward.
After entering the Vacuum zone, the stone inexplicably accelerated and rushed towards the center of the Vacuum Domain. It was so fast that the Divine Power that Su Luo was attached to the stone for positioning and observation was stretched and torn off in an instant, and the connection was lost.
The instant the Divine Power connection was severed, a condensed ray of light shot out from the center of the Vacuum Domain at an unavoidable speed, its direction being roughly where Su Luo was located.
The ray struck precisely three meters from his body—where layers of energy shields were positioned.
Since leaving Zone 76, Su Luo has been surrounded by various kinds of shields, prioritizing her life safety above all else.
A rapid hissing sound of energy Annihilation followed, and Su Luo murmured:
"Matter entered... and was transformed into high-energy rays?"
This conversion efficiency is astonishingly high, and the process is extremely fast.
He repeated the experiment, using even more methods: a constant positioning Spell inside the stone, attaching simple dust that could transmit blurry images over short distances, and even trying to send a small piece of Mutation flesh.
Without exception, all objects entering the Vacuum Domain are immediately accelerated and pulled toward the center, disappearing in a very short time, and then high-energy rays are randomly emitted from the central region in all directions.
All the attached detection methods failed, as if there was something at the center that could crush matter and recombine it into pure energy.
"I wish I could see it."
Su Luo's observation method is a combination of Mana perception and Divine Power vision. She mainly relies on the Spread Divine Power and the acquisition of information through Mana and elemental sensing, which is then transformed into images.
It's not about visually capturing light, since light can be inexplicably swallowed up, and light-sensing observation methods are too limited in Land of Darkness.
However, the observation distance in this way is definitely not very far, and it is absolutely impossible to cross the Vacuum zone of hundreds of kilometers to observe the unknown at the center. Moreover, Divine Power will be inexplicably absorbed when entering the Vacuum Domain.
After estimating the initial velocity of the object and testing the disturbance upon exiting, Su Luo took out [The Genli Zhi Mo (Legendary)] and calculated it. His expression was strange. "Why... does it feel so much like simple gravity?"
When an object enters Vacuum Domain, it instantly gains an extremely large acceleration and becomes very stable, as if there were a gigantic Gravity Source at the center of the Vacuum Domain.
In other words, setting aside the bizarre high-energy ray conversion phenomenon, and simply looking at the trajectory of the object after entering it, it's almost like a pure gravitational field generated by a supermassive celestial body.
Furthermore, calculations show that the center of the Vacuum Domain is almost "empty," with only a small, unknown area of a few cubic meters.
Is it some kind of device that absorbs matter and releases energy? Is it a gravity-related device?
Upon recalculation, Su Luo discovered something terrifying.
The mass of the Australian Continent plate before Crossing was approximately 8.4 × 10²⁰ kg, while the mass required for the "unknown" object to generate gravity was approximately one-thousandth of the mass of the Australian Continent.
One-thousandth the mass of the Australian Continent... compressed into an area of a few cubic meters?
A... Black Hole? No, that's too big. It must be some kind of device.
Su Luo silently observed and calculated for a while, and finally left the Laboratory.
The amazing terrains they saw along the way were all extremely valuable, and Su Luo recorded them to study later.
Furthermore, deep within each dangerous or wondrous place, there may be a system-generated glowing spot; entering it will grant you an [Exploration Quest].
There was likely a point of light at the center of that Vacuum Domain.
This is the third point Su Luo recorded, called [Gravity Source].
There was a spot the day before yesterday called [Kaleidoscope].
The Mana there seemed to have become extremely capricious; light refracted at impossible angles, color lost its meaning, the outline of the Laboratory was constantly distorted and deformed in Su Luo's observation, and she could even occasionally "see" her own afterimage flashing in front of her.
The elements in that place were in a state of complete chaos. Fire and water were transforming into each other erratically, the boundary between earth and wind was blurred, and small storms composed purely of chaotic elements would occasionally form, crashing into the shield and creating bursts of high energy.
Anyway, Su Luo only glanced at it from the edge a few times; going in might be life-threatening.