Quantum Realm

No!

Realizing that what he was seeing seemed fundamentally different from the basic operation of the Ant-Man Suit shown in the movie, Li Congxin's heart immediately leaped into his throat.

Stay calm! He had to remain calm at a time like this!

Li Congxin carefully recalled the scenes from the movie. As he remembered it, the basic controls of the Ant-Man Suit were that the button at the base of the right thumb made him smaller, while the one on the left made him larger.

That was how it worked. No mistake!

He acted the moment he thought of it. Li Congxin immediately raised his left hand and pressed the red button for enlarging at the base of his thumb. "Make me bigger!"

However, it was completely useless!

"Big, big, big. Small, small, small. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven..."

After trying repeatedly, there was still no change. His body continued shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller. Even a tardigrade, a microorganism, looked enormous in his eyes before growing so large that he could no longer see it.

The scenery around him also grew increasingly dreamlike...

This was... the Quantum Realm!?

"Hope, you've doomed me!"

As he sank deeper and deeper into the Quantum Realm, Li Congxin, like the two Ant-Men in the movie, began to lose consciousness.

Li Congxin felt like he had truly been screwed over. He had only put on the Ant-Man Suit to show off, yet he had actually shown off all the way into the Quantum Realm.

Suddenly, Li Congxin noticed what seemed to be a vortex resembling a black hole ahead. The vortex appeared to possess some kind of magic. With just one glance, he found it impossible to tear his eyes away.

Just as his consciousness was growing hazy, Li Congxin seemed to see through the vortex that another vast starry sky existed on the other side. It appeared to be an endless universe, and that universe was slowly being devoured by a terrifying black energy!

Suddenly, a red sphere of light passed through the vortex from the other side and fled over here. Close behind it came a white sphere of light, and behind the white sphere was a blurry figure.

The two spheres of light and the figure were moving in exactly the opposite direction from Li Congxin. The white sphere was extremely fast. Although it had appeared later, it quickly overtook the red sphere ahead of it, brushing past Li Congxin's consciousness first. The red sphere followed, and then came the figure.

Li Congxin seemed to see the figure turn its head and glance at him at the instant they passed each other.

At that moment, the black energy on the other side of the circular opening seemed to realize that its prey had actually escaped. It immediately split into countless black tentacles, which drilled through the opening and twisted toward Li Congxin.

The sudden appearance of this enormous crisis made Li Congxin instinctively want to turn and run. But at that moment, the Quantum Realm's influence on his mental strength reached its peak, finally destroying the last shred of clarity in his mind and causing him to completely lose even his most basic ability to think...

Outside the Quantum Realm, no fewer than six or seven ants carrying cameras were perched on the headboard, desk, and walls in Li Congxin's home, staring blankly at the spot where he had disappeared.

Meanwhile, downstairs on the street, Hope drove around the block before turning back and parking in front of his building. In the vehicle behind hers sat a white-haired old man, who was frowning deeply as he watched more than a dozen surveillance feeds on the instrument in front of him.

"Where did that kid run off to? Why can't we find him anywhere after he activated the Ant-Man Suit? Even the tracking device has completely stopped working!" The old man stared at the empty surveillance feeds in disbelief. "My Ant-Man Suit can only make a person smaller. How did he suddenly disappear?"

"No way?" Hope nimbly climbed over the seats into the vehicle behind them. After glancing at the surveillance feeds, she asked, "Could he have accidentally disengaged the controller?"

"Impossible!" The old man shook his head firmly. "I watched every one of his movements through the surveillance equipment. He definitely never touched the regulator. He only pressed the switch on his hand that changed his body size. An operation that simple absolutely shouldn't send the user to the subatomic level. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see me either, would you?"

Hope frowned slightly. "Could his situation be special?"

The old man froze when he heard that, seemingly thinking of a possibility. He immediately said, "There's no point speculating. Let's go up and take a look."

Amid a soothing melody, Li Congxin's consciousness gradually returned to clarity.

What was this sound...

As his mind slowly cleared, Li Congxin finally remembered where the music playing beside his ears came from.

Qing Xin Zhou!

It was a Buddhist melody. Before transmigrating, Li Congxin had worked in the same office as a devout Buddhist layperson who had more than a dozen Buddhist songs stored on his phone and played them on a loop. He had heard this particular song, "Qing Xin Zhou," hundreds of times. Although he himself did not believe in Buddhism, hearing it so often had made the melody familiar to him.

Could his consciousness have recovered because of this Buddhist music?

When he opened the system interface, he saw that it contained some things that had not been there before.

BGM activated:

"Calories"

Level: 6 (0/1000000)

Effect: Increases the effectiveness of exercise by 60%, while reducing the exhaustion and damage caused by exercise by 60%.

" A Man Should Better Himself"

Level: 4 (0/1000000)

Effect: Maintains calm and composure in battle while increasing combat awareness by 80%!

"Chinese Kung Fu"

Level: 4 (0/1000000)

Effect: Increases the speed of training in combat techniques by 80%!

"Qing Xin Zhou"

Level: 1 (0/1000)

Effect: Calms the mind, eliminates inner demons, and resists various negative emotions and mental states.

Passive effect: When the host's mental state becomes abnormal, this music will play automatically to help the host regain clarity.

Active effect: When played actively, it affects everyone within the music's range.

(Note: The specific effects of this BGM depend on the host's own strength and the BGM's level.)

???

Level: ???

Effect: ???

(Note: This BGM is currently unavailable.)

Impression Points balance: 243576

How had two more BGM tracks suddenly appeared in such a short time?

Qing Xin Zhou was understandable, but what was that "???" supposed to be?

Could someone tell him what exactly had happened while he was unconscious?

While he was still puzzled, Li Congxin suddenly felt an excruciating pain erupt throughout his body. It was as if millions of steel needles were repeatedly stabbing every remaining inch of muscle beneath his skin. The agony nearly knocked him unconscious again.

Could this be a side effect of the Quantum Realm or the Ant-Man Suit?

But the First-Generation Wasp, Second-Generation Ant-Man, and First-Generation Ant-Man had all entered the Quantum Realm in the movie, and none of them had experienced anything like this!

With no time to think it through, Li Congxin hurriedly searched his body. Sure enough, he found two blue spinning discs, one red and one blue, inside the leather pouch on the right side of the Suit.

This was it!

Li Congxin was incredibly glad that his memory had improved by an unknown amount along with his training. His memories of the movie were exceptionally vivid.

Therefore, the moment he saw the two small discs, he immediately remembered what they did.

The red one made him smaller, while the blue one made him larger!

In the movie, Second-Generation Ant-Man Scott had used this very thing to escape from the Quantum Realm.

With that thought, Li Congxin immediately placed the blue disc into the controller at the Suit's waist, then fiercely pressed the red button at the base of his thumb.

"Tiga!"