Ling Cage: Twelve Talismans? I have everything I need.

Chapter 85 Possibility

The Swift landed gracefully outside Longgu Village on the dedicated take-off and landing pad of the ecological base, and the hum of its engine gradually subsided.

The cockpit canopy slid open, and Bai Yuetian jumped out first, stretching.

Yang Chen followed closely behind, gently pushing Wumen, who was still hesitating at the cabin door: "We're here, get down."

Wumen stood at the cabin door, then slowly walked out.

Looking at the enormous metal structure before him, which was beyond imagination, his eyes were filled with vigilance and bewilderment.

ASH's gentle voice rang out inside the Swift: "The Swift will return to Ecological Base No. 3 according to the preset procedure."

"Yue Tian, ​​Yang Chen, Yue Kui, and Xia Tianlai are waiting inside."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Swift started up again, rose vertically, and flew away into the distance.

"Let's go, what are you standing there for?" Bai Yuetian patted Wumen's shoulder with considerable force, almost making him stumble.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Ash already explained it to you on the way here."

"Now you have a general understanding of the situation, right?"

Wumen was passively sandwiched between Bai Yuetian and Yang Chen as they walked toward the heavy, massive alloy door of the ecological base.

"But I still find it a little hard to believe."

He had been vigilantly observing his surroundings the whole way, and looking at the few sections of the starship in the distance, Wumen couldn't help but ask a question.

"This...this used to be a space launch site?" Wumen's voice was dry.

“That’s right,” Yang Chen said, walking ahead in a steady voice.

"When the disaster struck, the location was relatively remote and the structure was sturdy enough that it was not destroyed by the disaster."

"In addition, it had complete and large facilities and an independent energy system. The survivors relied on it to establish their initial stronghold, which later gradually developed into the current ecological base."

As they talked, they arrived at a large alloy door. A faint blue scanning light flickered beside the door.

Yang Chen stepped forward, and a blue light swept across his iris and facial contours.

"Identity confirmed: Yang Chen." A cold, synthesized electronic voice announced.

The doors slid open silently to both sides, revealing a bright and clean passageway inside.

Bai Yuetian patted Wumen, who was standing there dumbfounded, and then swaggered inside.

They walked along the passage for several dozen meters and came to a door marked "Integrated Medical and Life Sciences Research Area".

The door opened automatically.

Inside the door is a spacious and bright area, more like a small, well-equipped medical center combined with a laboratory observation area.

Various sophisticated instruments stood quietly in standby mode, their data screens flashing.

In the center of the room, several figures were already waiting.

Bai Yuekui stood at the front, his gaze immediately falling on the three people who entered, especially lingering on Wumen for a moment with a scrutinizing look.

A little further down the line, Summer and Tasia were also there.

"Yue Kui! I'm back." Bai Yuetian greeted him with a grin.

Unexpectedly, Bai Yuekui simply rolled his eyes, causing Bai Yuetian's smile to vanish instantly.

He touched his nose dejectedly and very consciously moved to a corner where miscellaneous items were placed.

He pretended to be very interested in the equipment manual on the wall, using himself as a backdrop.

Bai Yuekui's gaze then passed over Yang Chen and locked onto Wumen, who looked somewhat uneasy.

"Your potential," Bai Yuekui asked directly, without any pleasantries.

"Is it quantum tunneling?"

She had seen everything that had just happened clearly through ASH's broadcast.

Wumen was taken aback by her question; the word was both unfamiliar to him and seemed to vaguely touch upon the core of his abilities.

"I...I don't know what it's called." Wumen's voice was uncertain.

"I can... make myself or any object I'm carrying pass through. Just now in the escape pod, I tried to run through the wall, but..."

He glanced at Yang Chen with lingering fear, clearly deeply impressed by that invisible "grab".

"Hmm," Bai Yuekui pondered for a moment, then asked again.

Are there any risks associated with your potential? For example, could it cause any negative harm to yourself?

Wumen glanced at Yang Chen.

"If you try to carry people or objects through the obstacle, it could result in the death of the living being or the complete destruction of the object."

"As expected," Bai Yuekui murmured.

Potential always carries potential risks, only the magnitude of those risks varies.

However, this tranquility was suddenly disrupted by an exaggerated "Oh~" from the corner.

Bai Yuetian suddenly turned around and strode to Wumen.

His tall stature brought an invisible sense of oppression, and his sharp gaze was fixed on Wumen's slightly pale face.

"You just tried to kill Chengzi?" Bai Yuetian's voice was not loud.

But Wumen was so startled by this sudden question that his heart stopped for a moment.

He shook his head violently, almost instinctively, his voice trembling slightly: "No! No! Absolutely not!"

"I just... I just wanted to pin him to the ground and restrain him, so he couldn't move for the time being. I never intended to kill him, I swear!"

He was puzzled.

His ability seemed to have no effect on Yang Chen; the ability to alter the structure of matter could not change Yang Chen.

This was unprecedented in his past experience using his abilities.

"Just kidding, you can't kill him anyway." Bai Yuetian's expression changed, then he became cheerful again.

"Ah!" Wumen was stunned by Bai Yuetian's words.

At this moment, Yang Chen walked to Bai Yuekui's side and leaned slightly towards her.

“Just now, in the escape pod, when he reached out and pressed it,” Yang Chen’s gaze flickered toward Wumen.

"That feeling was somewhat similar to the feeling I had when Tasia first unleashed her potential."

Bai Yuekui turned his head to look at Yang Chen, gesturing for him to continue.

Yang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly: "Tasia's ability feels like it's trying to force me into the same state as her, and there's no way to achieve it."

He looked at Wumen, who subconsciously shrank back under his gaze.

"The feeling he gave me was that he was trying to directly change the structure of my body itself."

However, all these external forces were blocked by the horse talisman and had no effect whatsoever.

Hearing Yang Chen say this, Bai Yuekui also came to a conclusion in his mind.

“Back in the old world, scientists studied the active control of the disassembly and recombination of the outer electron cloud of atoms. The potential of the doorless may be somewhat similar to this.”

She stopped asking questions and turned directly to Xia Tianlai and Tasia: "Xia Tianlai, Tasia, get ready to record."

"No way. We need to conduct a few tests, is that alright?"

Wumen nodded quickly, since he had often been used as a test subject in experiments before anyway.

In the summer, sensors were attached to the doorless device to detect its state when it used its potential. Bai Yuekui pointed to a high-strength composite isolation wall about half a meter thick on one side of the research area: "Target, go through it, without carrying anything."

Wumen walked to the wall, took a step forward, and his body sank into the solid wall without any hindrance, as if merging into the water.

Then, his figure appeared on the other side of the wall, the whole process was smooth and natural.

"Vitality signs are stable, and the sensors on his body show no changes." Xia Tianlai stared at the screen and quickly reported.

Tasia nodded slightly, indicating that she had not seen any other unstable data.

"Mm." Bai Yuekui nodded.

He then handed Wumen a large piece of metal structure that appeared out of nowhere: "Now, take it and go through the same wall."

Wumen took it, and he activated his ability again, the blue light enveloping both him and the metal in his hand.

He tried to step towards the wall.

This time, the process was not smooth.

When he touched the wall with the metal, he almost gritted his teeth and used all his strength to try to get through.

However, when the door tried to pass through the wall, the metal piece got stuck in the wall, and it looked as if it had become one with the wall.

The group gathered around the high-strength composite isolation wall, their eyes focused on the metal structure that was wedged in the center of the wall and almost integrated with it.

The metal block, which was originally sharp-edged and smooth, now presents a distorted shape.

It is no longer a regular cube; the edges have become blurred and jagged.

The smooth metallic luster of the surface disappeared, replaced by a dense network of depressions and protrusions, creating an extremely rough texture.

As soon as summer arrives, immediately operate the scanner next to you and align it with the fusion area.

A magnified microscopic image instantly appeared on the screen, showing that the atomic arrangement in the edge region where the metal block came into contact with and fused with the wall had become misaligned.

“This potential is very unstable.” Xia Tian glanced at Tasia.

Both of them possessed potential that, if not properly controlled, could be fatal.

The auxiliary device for Tasia was just completed, and now we have to make one for this guy called Wumen.

Will Belenkov be worked to death?

"Alright, that's enough for today," Bai Yuekui said softly.

This is not something that can be fully understood in a short time; it requires time to accumulate knowledge.

Even now, they still have only a vague understanding of the principles of Tasia's potential, and now they are at a complete loss.

"Brother, why don't you take Wumen to stay in the village and let him get familiar with the environment?" Bai Yuekui said to Bai Yuetian.

Upon hearing this, Bai Yuetian was about to retort, "Why should I be the tour guide?"

Seeing Bai Yuekui's gaze, Bai Yuetian instantly deflated due to the bloodline suppression.

"Yes, Moon Queen."

He sighed resignedly and waved to Wumen.

"Alright, alright, come with me, Brother Wumen!" Bai Yuetian walked to Wumen's side, put his arm around Wumen's shoulder, and the force was so intimate that Wumen felt a little uncomfortable.

"Forget about these researchers, let them worry about it themselves. I'll take you to see our village."

As he spoke, he half-pushed and half-pulled Wumen toward the door, not forgetting to turn back and wink at Bai Yuekui and Yang Chen.

"Don't worry, Yue Kui, I promise I'll keep a good eye on him for you. I'll come to your house for dinner tonight."

Yang Chen smiled helplessly, while Bai Yuekui simply nodded slightly, his gaze already turning back to Tasia.

"Tasia, you should go back too. You must be tired today."

Bai Yuekui reached out and touched Tasia's soft, golden hair.

Tasia nodded obediently, packed up the disc Belenkov had made for him, and left with Summer.

Bai Yuekui's gaze lingered for a moment on the departing figures of Tasia and the other person before turning to Yang Chen, a hint of weariness in his eyes.

“His abilities… are more difficult to understand than expected.” Bai Yuekui’s voice was very soft.

As if speaking to Yang Chen, yet also as if organizing his own thoughts: "If we can understand the principles behind their potential, then time travel might be able to achieve a breakthrough."

Yang Chen gently put his arm around her shoulder: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Now that it's confirmed that I'm going back to the past, it's definitely possible."

Bai Yuekui tilted her head slightly, leaned on his arm, and softly hummed in agreement.

After spending some time at the ecological base, Bai Yuekui took Yang Chen's arm, and the two walked side by side along the path leading to the village.

“ASH has been analyzed before,” Yang Chen said on the way.

"The escape pod without a door, according to ASH's database comparison, is most likely a space station deployed in near-Earth orbit by the Hela Empire of the Old World, or... an escape system配套 with their early interstellar migration plan."

Bai Yuekui walked steadily, and she nodded slightly.

"Yes, before the disaster broke out, the major powers of the old world had already invested a lot in interstellar migration."

"And the Hela Empire, back then, even deployed a fleet in near-Earth orbit in order to seize ASH."

Yang Chen continued, "So Wumen is very likely an experimental subject left behind by the fleet at that time?"

"It's very likely."

Bai Yuekui's tone was firm: "That kind of escape system has pre-set hibernation and wake-up programs and landing navigation. The target location is either a designated area in the Empire or an absolutely safe allied base overseas. It will never crash randomly in a deserted place."

"Perhaps the original landing site set by the program was this ecological base, but the coordinates have changed due to the shift of the continental plate."

Upon hearing Bai Yuekui's words, Yang Chen pondered for a moment.

"So that means there's still a chance that survivors exist in near-Earth space."

The two talked all the way back to the village without realizing it.

As I pushed open the door, a familiar scent, mixed with a faint woody fragrance, wafted towards me.

Bai Yuekui entered the house and walked to the window, his gaze falling on a corner of the village outside.

At this moment, on the training field, Ulan Aodeng seemed to still be instructing several prospective practitioners.

Maiduo's small figure had disappeared; she had probably been taken back to rest.

Bai Yuekui stepped back, sat on the sofa, and let out a soft sigh of relief, as if he had unloaded an invisible burden.

Yang Chen gently reached out and put his arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace.

Bai Yuekui did not resist and obediently leaned against his chest, her cheek pressed against his warm neck.

She closed her eyes and felt the rise and fall of his chest.

Yang Chen lowered his head, gently rubbed his chin against the top of her soft hair, and tightened his arms around her.

"By the way, it seems your brother is coming over for dinner later?" His voice rang in her ear.

"He's just bored. The body ASH made for him doesn't need any food at all."

Bai Yuekui turned around, wrapped his arms around Yang Chen's waist, and said in a muffled voice.

"I'm sleepy, I'm going to take a nap. Call me if you need anything."

The two embraced quietly for a while, and time seemed to slow down under the warm light.

The living room was so quiet that only their intertwined breathing could be heard.

Unbeknownst to him, Yang Chen was also infected by Bai Yuekui and fell asleep as well.

　I'm completely stuck, please help!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)