Green World

Huang Si's mental field expanded, buffeted and swept along by the wind as it drifted continuously.

Because Huang Si's soul strength was greater than before, his mental field extended even further this time.

Huang Si held on in the wind for fifteen minutes before he could no longer sustain it and retreated, his soul injured once again as expected.

However, Huang Si could tell that this injury was akin to a strained ligament after intense physical exercise; it was not a harmful injury. Once recovered, his spirit would become even more resilient.

After the wind subsided, Huang Si took out a dozen new small robots and an extremely long Ethernet cable.

"Charge, little robots! The Ring world awaits your exploration and development!"

Huang Si charged them up and released them outside the house.

In the days that followed, Huang Si grasped the patterns of the Dark Space vortex storms, allowing him to make arrangements in advance.

Through the tireless exploration and heroic sacrifices of the small robots (several fell after losing their footing), Huang Si finally figured out many things about the Ring world on the other side.

First, the opposite side did not seem to be Earth, or at least not the 21st-century Earth of his memories, because even when he brought a mobile phone over, it could not receive any signal.

This might have been related to the Ring being suspended at an altitude of 5,000 meters, but even at that height, there should have been a faint signal. If mobile phones could receive signals while commercial aircraft flew above the clouds, why not at a mere 5,000 meters?

Huang Si could only helplessly speculate that the world on the other side was likely not Earth, or at least not the Earth of his era.

This Ring was very likely a portal that traversed time and space.

Second, he also discovered that on the other side of the Ring exit, the Ring hovered in the air in an upright state, which meant that things could be hung from its top.

Moreover, the Ring was not smooth; it had many uneven surfaces. As long as one paid attention to the balance of the clips, many things could be hung upon it.

Furthermore, although the Ring was a portal, when the hurricane blew, it only swept items from within the Dark Space through the Ring, causing them to fall to the ground.

However, there were no storms on the other side of the Ring.

This gave Huang Si the idea of establishing a communication base with the Ring as the core.

Two months later.

As the saying goes, "The bolder the person, the greater the yield." In June 2023, the communication base outside the Ring was finally constructed.

Huang Si used a set of locking mechanisms to secure it firmly to the Ring, then supported a bracket above it, within which he installed a high-power signal transmission device similar to a telecommunications base station.

Surrounding this device, eight black panels extended outward like flower petals; these were the Sunflower Solar Arrays.

Although he did not know if this was Earth, nor the specific time or location, solar energy could be used as long as there was a sun. Therefore, Huang Si began to manufacture solar cells at the house, gradually moving them over until the construction of the Sunflower Solar Arrays was complete.

After several generations of research and development, the performance of the solar cells Huang Si manufactured was already very high, with a photoelectric conversion efficiency reaching 20%.

Although the operation of a telecommunications base station required a large amount of electrical energy, the connection of so many solar cells was sufficient to provide it.

During the construction of the base station, Huang Si discovered something that surprised him immensely.

This place was likely not Earth, or at least it was a highly peculiar space-time.

Because the flow of time here was more than three hundred times faster than Huang Si's own.

The specific situation, as discovered by Huang Si after testing with clock photography, was 323 times faster.

This caused some difficulties in processing the video signal. If he wanted to play it in real-time, "frame drops" were inevitable, meaning the real-time video from the other side appeared like time-lapse photography.

If he treated it as a recording to be watched later, the video transmitted from there could not be played in real-time; for every minute Huang Si waited, he had to watch 323 minutes of footage.

Huang Si ultimately adopted the former method; although he could not monitor it in detail, at least the footage was real-time.

After discovering this, Huang Si felt quite unsettled.

He had originally thought he could return to Earth through this Ring, but he had not expected it to lead to another world.

Even the time flow of this world was different.

This either meant that this planet was located at the edge of the universe, as the Big Bang theory suggested that galaxies at the edge of the universe had faster time flows.

Or, it was an entirely different space-time system.

Therefore, there was simply no hope of returning to Earth from here.

From despair to hope and back to despair, Huang Si felt dejected for a while, but he soon returned to normal.

There were very few things left that could shake him now.

After the base station was built, Huang Si began to arrange for a new generation of small robots to land on the ground. These new-generation robots had been re-developed to walk on four mechanical legs and used high-energy batteries as a power source, allowing them to operate for over 20 hours without charging.

The method of deployment, of course, was by parachute.

Huang Si arranged for 6 small robots, but 4 were destroyed during the landing, with only two surviving.

After all, falling from an altitude of 5,000 meters, Huang Si could have anticipated this result.

The two remaining small robots contacted the base station to confirm their orientation, then each sped off in opposite directions.

Because the time flow differed by a factor of three hundred, the 20 hours the small robots spent traveling appeared to be only a few minutes from Huang Si's perspective.

Soon, the small robots stopped, set up their solar panels on their own, and while charging, continued to transmit images back as fixed-point cameras.

Huang Si watched the video, feeling as if he were watching time-lapse footage of a nature documentary.

In the lush, verdant forest, the robot struggled to move forward as birds chirped, beasts called, and insects and butterflies fluttered all around.

At one point, the robot arrived at a small stream, startling a creature that resembled both a sheep and a deer as it drank. A moment later, a furry paw stepped right in front of the robot's camera before rustling away into the distance.

This was a planet teeming with life. Although it was unclear if these species were similar to those on Earth, one could imagine it must be a beautiful place.

The video feed continued to transmit.

Huang Si had been watching for three hours, but forty days had already passed on the other side.

During these forty days, the small robots were harassed by wild beasts; one was destroyed, while the other survived because it had stopped in a more concealed location.

However, even after forty days, the camera had not observed a single trace of "human" presence.

When Huang Si had observed from high altitude earlier, he had noticed that there seemed to be no signs of human activity here. Logically speaking, as long as a human civilization existed—whether low-level or high-level—they would fell trees, build houses, and so on. At the very least, the landscape would be partially altered, leaving traces of intelligence visible in long-range aerial views.

But the vegetation here was distributed very evenly, showing no signs of having been tampered with by humans.

Therefore, Huang Si decided to name the world on the other side of the Ring the Green World.

In the time that followed, Huang Si began to set up a ground base for the Green World.

He intended to generate the materials required for the ground base directly using his Creation Power.

Currently, his Creation Power cap had reached a terrifying 10,570 points. This five-digit limit allowed him to easily generate objects of any size and complexity, provided he could understand and record them.

Furthermore, Huang Si's Creation Power recovery rate had reached 2,751 points per hour. This meant he almost never needed to wait for his power to recover; instead, he often had to use some up because it replenished too quickly.

It was technological research that truly took up the bulk of his time.

With the strengthening of his soul, although Huang Si's soul level was still at the "Perceive" stage, its intensity was incomparable to when he had first reached the "Perceive" level years ago.

Moreover, over these past two months, by frequently allowing the wind to permeate his spiritual field, Huang Si's mental diffusion capability had reached a spherical range with a radius of 80 meters centered on himself.

Now, Huang Si could freely mass-produce small exploration robots to probe the Dark Space. He had dispatched over 100 small robots into the surrounding Dark Space; besides those dedicated to exploration, there were others dedicated to charging, responsible for traveling between the Dark Space and Huang Si's location to replenish their energy.

Huang Si's method of charging them was, of course, to simply pop off their batteries and generate new ones.

Setting aside the exploration of the Dark Space, the Green World was currently the major concern occupying Huang Si's mind.

The first priority was to develop transport robots. After all, the Ring was at an altitude of 5,000 meters; anything dropped directly would be smashed to pieces.

Because of the thorough technical preparations made earlier, it took Huang Si one month to develop a functional transport robot. When it jumped from high altitude, it could deploy a pair of gliding wings and adjust its direction and landing spot at any time based on air currents and the environment.

With these transport robots, the success rate of landing could reach over 99%.

Huang Si drew up the blueprints for the ground base and then generated various metal plates according to the design, letting the transport robots carry them down.

Then, specialized assembly robots would assemble them below.

The plates and the assembly robots also took up another month of Huang Si's time.

As for the construction of the ground base, due to the time dilation factor of 323 times, it took almost no time at all.

In August 2023, the Green World ground base was completed.

The ground base was integrated from hundreds of metal plates and utilized a rivet-style design, making it very easy to disassemble while remaining sturdy. It covered an area of over 1,000 square meters, and the roof stood like an antenna with over 1,300 solar panels. These panels could rotate at any time according to the direction of the sun to maximize power generation.

Currently, the base only contained charging devices for the robots, with further improvements to be made later.

Ever since the ground base was established, the robots Huang Si deployed to the Green World felt as if they had a home.

They had a place to charge, just like eating in a cafeteria.

Their safety was guaranteed, as the base's built-in laser weapons could strike down any invading enemies.

Life was good, and they no longer had to worry about being discarded by Huang Si once their power ran out.