Successful Jump

Time passed bit by bit.

Under Chen Fan's horrified gaze, the light spot emitting a soft glow in all directions gradually enlarged and quickly formed a rapidly rotating ring of light.

He didn't know the "true identity" of this light ring, nor did he know its function.

But one thing he was sure of: this light ring was unstable.

Like a deformed bicycle tire, the light ring showed obvious deformation during its rapid rotation.

Not only that, as the area covered by the light ring gradually expanded, the surrounding scenery also began to distort.

As time went on, the light ring gradually stopped expanding and formed a "light sphere" suspended in the air amidst the increasingly severe distortion effect.

At this moment, the distortion effect reached its peak, and a magical phenomenon appeared before Chen Fan's eyes: the desk, which should have been blocked by the light sphere, reappeared before Chen Fan at a magical and extremely distorted angle.

Chen Fan's eyes moved slightly. The scene before him touched memories buried deep in his mind.

After a difficult recollection, he successfully recalled some astronomical common sense he had inadvertently seen in his previous life: due to the strong gravitational effect, there is often a gravitational lensing effect around black holes.

In layman's terms, the immense gravity distorts light, causing light that should have been blocked to enter the observer's line of sight through a peculiar curved path.

Undoubtedly, the scene before him was a phenomenon caused by the gravitational lensing effect!

"So..."

Thinking of this, Chen Fan quickly connected the scene before him to his strange dream.

"That wasn't a dream?!"

Chen Fan swallowed hard, muttering hesitantly in a low voice, "Inter-universal... ultra-long-distance teleportation?!"

Looking at the increasingly unstable light sphere, Chen Fan suddenly felt numb.

Bro, are you serious?

Crossing over is one thing, but how did aliens get involved?!

He remembered clearly that the other party had explicitly stated their identity in the broadcast-like message in his "dream": Pan-Universal Human Alliance.

Putting everything else aside, just the name alone didn't sound like a minor character.

Perhaps it was a sequela of the impact from the obscure whispers, but Chen Fan's thoughts were exceptionally active at this moment, and all sorts of bizarre questions popped up in his mind like mushrooms after rain.

Aliens... wait! If it's inter-universal, can they still be considered aliens?

Also, how did this seemingly powerful alliance get involved with him for no reason? Did the other party misunderstand something?

He remembered, the other party seemed to be looking for a lost research ship...

Could the other party think that research ship was in his hands?!

The moment he thought of this possibility, Chen Fan's previously scattered thoughts instantly came to a halt.

After a brief daze, he once again let out a classic, timeless national essence:

"Holy crap!!!"

Reality didn't give Chen Fan much time to react or think.

Just as he realized that the other party might be coming for the lost research ship, the light sphere, which clearly had stability issues, showed an anomaly.

Amidst a rapid and violent flickering, a severely damaged hand, its surface flashing with faint electric light, slowly emerged from within and opened its palm towards Chen Fan.

The hand slowly extended, and behind it was an increasingly broken arm.

Blue-purple electric arcs pulsed irregularly on the arm, emitting a chilling aura around it—

The powerful electric charge brought by the arcs made Chen Fan's hair and body hair stand on end!

Chen Fan stared in horror at the scene before him, which was beyond his comprehension. Terrified to the extreme, he was like a frightened quail at this moment, only able to make some meaningless gasping sounds in his throat.

His brain almost crashed, and only one thought remained in his mind:

It's over!!!

Just as he was preparing to bow his head and beg for mercy, the arm, which was continuously extending outwards from the light sphere, seemed to lose some support and fell to the ground with a "clang".

The blue-purple electric light effect that had been flashing on the surface of the arm also suddenly disappeared, and even the extremely unstable light sphere dissipated into the air in an instant.

The room returned to its original darkness, and everything that had just happened seemed like a mere illusion.

Chen Fan looked in the direction where the arm had fallen and swallowed hard.

After much hesitation, he raised his numb hands and trembled as he made a praying gesture: "Lord... please grant light to the world..."

Whether it was due to excessive fright or some other reason, Chen Fan felt his voice was a bit strange—hoarse with a hint of electronic sound.

The dim yellow light came from above, once again dispelling the darkness in the room, and he was able to see the true appearance of the arm—

"...A mechanical arm?"

Chen Fan muttered in a low voice, his expression strange.

After realizing this, his worry and fear significantly subsided—compared to a fantastical creation that could traverse the void with its physical body, wrapped in lightning, a mechanical creation was clearly more in line with his understanding.

He mustered his courage, cautiously took a few steps forward, and carefully observed it under the dim yellow incandescent light.

The surface of the broken mechanical arm was covered with a layer of silver-white unknown metal. Under the impact just now, the metal layer had suffered extensive damage, revealing the complex wiring and structure inside.

The end of the mechanical arm was an incredibly smooth fracture surface.

Clearly, it had been subjected to an extremely high-intensity attack when it broke!

Just as Chen Fan was preparing to observe further, a faint light emanated from the palm of the mechanical arm.

Before he could react, a fan-shaped beam of fluorescent blue light swept over him.

The next second, an electronic synthesized voice sounded in the room.

Unlike the stiff electronic sound emitted by the God Statue, this electronic synthesized voice sounded very lively.

Surface thought reading successful, language module configuration complete.

Detecting spacetime node...

Jump successful, confirmed arrival in universe number EL13697101!

Target identity verification in progress...

Confirmed object is the target signal source!

Attempting to initiate Inter-Universal Hyperspace Membrane Broadcast...

Warning! No available communication nodes found, unable to connect to the Dangerous Technology Administration. Attempting to calculate feasible alternative solutions...

It was only then that Chen Fan belatedly realized what had happened.

He let out a hoarse gasp and retreated repeatedly.

It wasn't until his body hit the solid wall made of concrete and cement that Chen Fan stopped his continuous backward steps.

"You..."

Perhaps feeling that he shouldn't just sit and wait for death, Chen Fan swallowed hard and asked in a trembling voice, "What exactly are you?"

As the fluorescent blue light lit up in the palm of the mechanical arm, the electronic synthesized voice came again:

Human Alliance GT-52 Type Carbon-Based Lifeform Universal Intelligent Terminal.

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