Of course We Can Go Back

"Good afternoon, everyone~ My name is Changqing." Zheng Yichen greeted the people who shared the same fate. Although some of them looked... not human?

Just like the dog-headed man earlier.

"..." No one responded to Zheng Yichen. The people cuffed here were observing their surroundings. Zheng Yichen looked down and tugged at the handcuffs on his wrists, confirming that these were not something he could tear apart with his own strength.

Also, while being here, he clearly felt a change occurring within his body, a kind of exhilarating joy spreading throughout him.

The Temporary Supervision Office also provided water, but no one here touched it. The dog-headed man arrived not long after, holding a stack of documents: "My name is George. I will now explain the specific situation to you."

George, the dog-headed man, distributed the documents as he spoke. Zheng Yichen raised an eyebrow slightly as he read the contents. He had been a bit confused earlier, but now he was certain that his ability to understand the clearly non-human speech wasn't due to any special reason, but because the written language used here was the same as his own.

The documents detailed their current predicament. Simply put, they had transmigrated... literally, from their own world to another.

This wasn't something just anyone could do. Normal people approaching a rift would lose consciousness due to the pressure and collapse nearby. Except for a very unlucky few who would be pulled into the rift, most wouldn't truly pass through.

Zheng Yichen immediately thought of the few Mist Walkers George had dragged out like corpses earlier. When he entered the anomaly, he had indeed felt a pressure, but it hadn't affected him much, and he had passed through smoothly after taking a few steps.

The documents stated that those who could withstand the pressure indicated good personal adaptability. The 'environment' of different worlds is different. Suddenly encountering another world was like sending someone from a normal environment directly to a plateau; no normal person could endure it.

Therefore, having this passive 'barrier' directly filtered out a large number of curious individuals. As for the remaining few, they were the members of this Temporary Supervision Office... including Zheng Yichen himself.

"Can we go back?" a person with scales on their hands raised their hand.

"Of course," George, the dog-headed man, replied calmly, clearly having dealt with this situation before.

"Look at the mist over there. The rifts in the mist are connected to this world, but the other end is connected to more than one world. You can come here through the rifts, but leaving from here will require multiple attempts. Also, finish reading the documents before asking questions."

Zheng Yichen continued to read the documents in his hand. Going back was indeed possible. A single rift could connect to multiple worlds, but these rifts were divided into primary and secondary sides. The primary side of a rift only connected to one world, while the secondary side could connect to multiple worlds. When people from the worlds connected to the secondary side of a rift passed through, they would only arrive at the primary side of the rift.

However, when people from the primary side of the rift passed through, they could appear in any of the worlds connected to the secondary side.

There was a lot of variability, and it wasn't something that could be controlled by humans. Zheng Yichen realized that he and the other 'people' who didn't look normal were gathered here because their respective rifts belonged to the 'secondary side.'

It wasn't difficult to go back; one just needed to try multiple times by repeatedly jumping back and forth. As long as one wasn't too unlucky, they could usually return. However, the documents mentioned that such unlucky individuals had indeed appeared. Some unlucky people had tried to jump back and forth several times without returning to their own world, eventually fainting in a world that wasn't their own due to the immense pressure they endured.

At that time, the rift had also disappeared due to its limited duration. There were also cases where the secondary rift connected to over a dozen worlds and had a very short duration.

And the most important point mentioned in the documents was the issue of power exertion. In the past, after some people arrived here and then returned, they encountered worlds with lower individual strength. That person then thought of relying on their own power to stay there and act with impunity after the rift disappeared.

As a result, that person died.

The reason was simple: that person's power exertion rate in the other world was not high. The environmental conditions of that world restricted the person's power, and they were directly shot and killed. It was a tragic end.

"A lot of the information in these documents is the result of the lives of people like you. You can choose not to take it seriously and try for yourselves," George said, a smile appearing on his dog-like face. "Then this document can be updated. Besides choosing to return, you have an additional option: to stay. We will arrange suitable identities for you here, and those who need work will be given a good job."

"I choose to leave," the person with scales on their hands, who had spoken first, said. "The environment here is too terrible. I can't adapt to it."

As they spoke, they grabbed a nearby bottle, unscrewed the cap, and poured it over their head: "I prefer a humid environment..."

"Oh~ No need to rush about that. We can arrange things on our side too. Talents like you are actually quite popular." George's dog head showed a smile, looking like a smiling Shiba Inu. He typed something into a device resembling a fax machine, then pulled out a few A4 papers and handed them to the man.

After reading them, the other party fell silent. Hesitation was a sign of interest.

Zheng Yichen had good eyesight and saw some of the content on the papers. It seemed to be a job recruitment for the ocean. Zheng Yichen also noticed that George's dog head's attention was always focused on those who were clearly not ordinary people, while standard humans like himself were often overlooked.

"Then what job arrangements will there be for people like me if I choose to stay?" Zheng Yichen asked at this moment.

"That depends on your personal education and combat ability."

The general meaning was that humans with higher education or extremely high combat power would be easier to arrange for, while ordinary ones would likely be left to their own devices.

"You can all consider it carefully. This rift is very stable, and it can last for more than six hours. Those who feel tired can rest for a while."

"You can choose to go back now, but if you sneak back here later, you won't be sent here."

George's dog head did not mention the matter of people deliberately staying in other worlds. The information clearly stated that even if one relied on their own high martial power to go to worlds with low martial power, they would not be able to do whatever they pleased due to adaptation issues, and might even be killed and become research material there.

They were not responsible for personal choices, nor did they need to maintain the public order of other worlds.

Zheng Yichen, having discovered a new world, naturally chose to return.