When Xu Yi walked out of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's main office building, it was already pitch-black outside, with hardly any lights in sight.
He looked up and found the sky filled with stars, but there was not a trace of moonlight.
Gazing at the stars filling the night sky, far brighter and denser than anything he had seen at night on Earth, Xu Yi once again confirmed that the planet beneath his feet was not Earth in some other dimension. It had to be another planet somewhere in the vast universe.
Xu Yi raised a hand, looking at the planets above that seemed almost within reach but were actually at least dozens of light-years away, and sighed softly.
After coming to this world, he had been so eager to establish a complete industrial system here not only to satisfy his lifelong interests, but also for another important reason: he hoped that one day he could break through the atmosphere and head straight into the sea of stars.
He had been completely unaware when he first crossed over, and the whole thing had happened without him understanding any of it. But since his entire physical body had crossed over unharmed, that proved there was a way to cross back as well.
Xu Yi did not know how to cross between worlds, so he could only pin his hopes on reaching outer space and traveling through the universe in search of an Earth that might exist somewhere out there.
Yet Xu Yi knew perfectly well that the chances of success were infinitely close to zero.
Even if he successfully established a complete magic industry system in this world equivalent to Earth's industrial system, building a spacecraft capable of reaching space would still take an enormous amount of time.
And even with