Black Tower Mid-level Zone
A colossal circular pillar symbolizing the Black Tower's highest containment technology stood rooted at the very center.
Its height ran through the entire Mid-level Zone.
Its construction material had been extracted from concentrated world essence, then forged in the Black Tower's finest furnace chambers... At a casual glance, it appeared to be ordinary black stone.
But if observed through advanced ocular techniques, one would discover that every slab of black rock seemed to contain a galaxy, perhaps even a severely collapsed miniature universe.
The pillar was the Containment Tower Han Dong was about to "visit."
However.
Han Dong had many doubts regarding the purpose of the Containment Tower.
Why had such a dangerous containment structure been built at the Black Tower's very core? And why were Uncontrolled Ones contained rather than simply eradicated and killed?
To answer that question, one had to trace things back to the Black Tower's earliest days.
As more and more worlds became connected to the Black Tower,
the Black Tower High-Level became increasingly aware of a problem: if they wished to maintain the stability of the world system, they had to strictly monitor every world and promptly remove unstable individuals.
This was especially true for abnormal individuals whose inherent values were anomalous and completely contrary to their worlds.
Their existence would only hinder and damage the worlds themselves, even though they might not subjectively harbor any intention of opposing their worlds.
Such existences were collectively known as:
Uncontrolled Ones
When this concept was first proposed, the Black Tower High-Level experienced a rather serious division of opinion.
One faction took the stance of "destroy on sight," believing that Uncontrolled Ones were merely erroneous parameters generated during the operation of worlds and possessed no meaning whatsoever.
The other faction believed that since Uncontrolled