Playing Is Playing, Fooling Around Is Fooling Around-Don't Joke Around with Spatial Magic

Jia Xiu had never seen such a thick instruction manual.

Just as the prototype delivered by the Ukmak Empire unfolded, a user manual popped out.

He nearly failed to catch it.

A hard cover, oversized dimensions, at least ten-odd centimeters thick, and with a solid heft to it.

The best proof that knowledge was power.

The last time he had seen a book with this much weight was an Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary. Those who had only ever used electronic dictionaries probably weren't familiar with this kind of heaviness.

Jia Xiu had never liked reading manuals. Not only manuals—he disliked tutorial guides in games and instructional prompts in apps too.

But when a manual was this thick, he really had no choice but to read it.

There had to be a reason the people at the Ukmak Empire Research Institute had done this.

If he fiddled with it carelessly, there was a very high chance he would blow himself up.

So, before reaching for the base that looked both complex and advanced, Jia Xiu solemnly opened the manual.

It was rather different from what he had imagined.

He had thought the whole book would be about how to use it and its specific principles.

But in reality, only a few pages covered usage. This thing's functions were not complicated. Compared to the flashy, high-tech unfolding process of the casing, it could be considered extremely simple.

There were only two functions. The first was attempting to open a portal to another plane. Why "attempting"? Because it had not succeeded—but neither could they confirm it had completely failed, because some of the deployed detection devices had been recovered. They were severely damaged, judged to have been destroyed by planar turbulence, though the damage was lighter than in previous cases.

So this could