After Captain Ling Feng and the others appeared, about 23 hours passed before the passage outside the granary opened again. A Daoist who looked utterly miserable stumbled out of it, his face filled with terror.
The research institute personnel stationed there quickly crowded around, racing against time to study the passage under Dr. Zhao's near-roaring commands.
Interestingly, the passage remained open for less than three seconds—and it was one-way.
But the Administration Bureau's researchers clearly weren't discouraged. Since there had been one, there could be two; and if there were two, there would naturally be three. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before it opened again.
Sure enough, just as they imagined, it opened again six hours later. The one who emerged was a Chicken Demon named Duffy.
The researchers swarmed him once again... thoroughly frightening Duffy, who had only just escaped danger. If he hadn't seen so many familiar faces, he would have thought he had fallen into danger all over again.
Based on Captain Ling Feng and the others' accounts, Dr. Zhao deduced that time flowed differently inside the Penglai Treasury than in the normal world. Roughly speaking, the ratio was probably between 260 and 275 to one.
Soon afterward, Yan Xiaoxi led people over, and everyone slowly pieced together what had happened in the Penglai Treasury from the mouths of the Daoists and demons who emerged.
They already knew that Baijie Daoist had been working hard inside the treasury, striving to rescue the surviving Daoists and demons. It was truly heartening news.
As for the Daoists and demons who had escaped, including the Administration Bureau agents led by Captain Ling Feng, they gradually learned what had happened outside during the period when they had been "missing."
However, the passage was one-way. Even if the people outside were worried