What had Madoka seen?
After the massive elevator slowly passed through the underground passage, the first thing she saw was a magnificent, enormous library. Dense rows of bookshelves stood all around, each more than a hundred meters tall. Magical Girls occasionally moved between them as well—though they were all guest appearances by Nanoha, Illya, and Sakura.
It looked like a vast, imposing library. At its center lay a circular lake and a gigantic cherry blossom tree that gave off a faint glow. Several wind chimes hung from its branches, tinkling crisply whenever a breeze passed through, while faintly glowing petals drifted through the air...
Wait, when had this secret base appeared?
Of course, Fang Zheng had dug it out himself for the sake of "production value"!
Excavating such a huge secret base naturally required an enormous amount of work, but that was no problem for Fang Zheng. Although he could not use his abilities, his inventory contained items for every possible situation.
In fact, this underground space had already existed. It was a hidden cavern. After Fang Zheng discovered it by scanning with his Personal Terminal, he took out several Probes from his inventory and had them connect the warehouse directly to the cave.
Wait, then where had all these bookshelves, cherry blossom trees, fountains, and everything else come from?
For that, they had to talk about the great Forerunner technology—hard light.
Ever since acquiring hard-light technology in Halo World, Fang Zheng had been exploring ways to use it, and he had actually found one!
As everyone knew, the defining trait of Forerunner hard-light technology was that it materialized light, allowing light to become solid. Fang Zheng immediately had an idea—everyone knew that virtual reality technology could use the structure of light to project it into the real world, creating