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Two weeks later, at the end of June.

When Grandpa Chen discovered that the person knocking on the door was a policeman, he was completely dumbfounded.

His hand, gripping the doorframe, trembled slightly. His cloudy old eyes lingered on the police badge for a moment before he suddenly yelled into the house, "Get out here, all of you! Look at the mess you've made!"

The noise boomed through the hallway, so loud that neighbors leaned out from their balconies. Then, Mr. Chen turned back and asked hesitantly, "Officer, what's the matter? Please come in and talk..."

The police officer twitched his lips, watching the tension spread across the Chen family's faces, and waved his hands repeatedly: "It's not a bad thing, no one has done anything wrong!"

"That's a good thing?" Grandpa Chen's eyes lit up. He looked around but didn't see any banners or anything like that.

"Well, it's a good thing, I guess... Could you let me in first, sir?"

"Oh, right, look how nervous I am..." Grandpa Chen smiled awkwardly and stepped aside, saying, "Officer, please come in."

The heavy iron gate closed again. The soundproofing in the old neighborhood wasn't very good, and you could vaguely hear words like "Chen Ying" and "returning ancestral home." This piqued the curiosity of the neighbors, who asked around but no one recognized the person. They decided to wait until the police left before chatting with Grandpa Chen.

No one noticed that a handsome young man had appeared downstairs. With his extraordinary hearing, he confirmed that Grandpa Chen had finally remembered that Chen Ying was his deceased father and brother and sighed with emotion, and was finally able to leave in peace.

"Uncle Chen Ying... When my father died, he was still thinking about his missing brother. I never imagined that even with one foot in the grave, I would still be able to bring Uncle Chen Ying home."

Those who leave their hometown will eventually return to their roots.

The remaining details—how they disappeared and why they were discovered and traced back to their place of origin—are things the authorities excel at. On this point, Ji Mo and Jiu Chonglou share the same stance.

As for Lan Yun, she is involved in too many human trafficking cases, spanning hundreds of worlds, and the death penalty is inevitable.

However, since the authorities need to use her memories to trace back to those mortals who can still be saved, and to have her appear as a witness, the death sentence has been postponed to mid-September, which can be considered an execution after the autumn harvest.

Because Lan Yun's memories involve the End God Realm, retrieving those memories is extremely difficult to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Perhaps out of guilt for having consistently violated Chen Ying's junior high school rules, Lan Yun unexpectedly cooperated, revealing not only the methods used by the Qiaobang Immigration Bureau to circumvent space blockades for smuggling, but also the existence of cargo networks by multiple immigration bureaus.

Lan Yun provided so much information that officials doubted its authenticity. He dispelled their doubts with one sentence: "This is a backup plan in case the immigration bureau deceives me. I uploaded this information to the cloud. If I am betrayed one day, this information will be automatically sent to a specific email address. Even if I die, I will drag them down with me."

She's just missing crucial information, not stupid.

In the end, Lan Yun's fierce gaze prompted the interrogators to tighten their grip.

Nobody wants to rely on luck.

At the same time, because Lan Yun revealed too much, the Extraordinary Countermeasures Bureau had to raise the level of protection for her, lest the officials of the Extraordinary Realm who were colluding with the Immigration Bureau go crazy and give her the green light all the way in fear of her downfall.

The only pity is that the Bridge State Immigration Bureau failed to capture them all.

When they discovered that the program had intricate connections with the mortal world, and Lan Yun had yet to send back any news, their business instincts prompted some of the higher-ups, such as Li Wei, to pack up and flee.

Returning to the headquarters where the discussions were originally held, the building is now deserted. The locals, terrified that these people had offended the Weifan Realm, voluntarily sealed off the building, not daring to touch anything of value, and handed over all the proceeds to the Weifan Realm. They also actively cooperated in the pursuit of the fugitive members.

The same thing happened at various Bridge State Immigration Offices, and even the unsuspecting, purely cleaning staff were deeply affected and became targets of public condemnation.

The once prestigious Bridge State Immigration Bureau has collapsed.

It fell so quickly, yet so naturally.

During this period, the long-dormant End God Realm also took action, devouring seven doomed worlds in one go, and seemed to have no intention of stopping.

The coordinates of the doomed world provided by Blue Fortune include four world coordinates.

Is this the mercy of the end-god realm? Even if there are no more life forms in the entire world, they will not immediately devour them, but will allow them to develop freely for another hundred years, and only take action when they are sure there is no more hope.

Or perhaps, it's another way to give time travelers with similar fates to Chen Ying a chance to remember their journey, at least to look back on the places they traveled to before they die.

No one could answer Ji Mo, not even Jiu Chong Lou.

The Realm of the End Gods remained silent, only devouring the worlds that were about to perish.

……

After reviewing everything that had happened in the past few days, Ji Mo returned to his residential area. Spurred on by Lan Yun, he has recently resumed his skill training.

After rigorous training, Ji Mo finally...

I've come to realize that I have no affinity with space-based skills in this lifetime.

The first thing you see when you open the door is Jiu Chonglou tossing a shard of glass that looks like a glass bottle. It's about the size of your palm and the edge is sharp enough to be used as a weapon. But now it's being tossed around like a toy without any concern about cutting your hand.

"You're back? Here you go."

The fragment traced an arc and landed steadily in Ji Mo's hand.

"This is?"

"The fragments that the God of the End gave us were not only integrated into the remains and Lan Yun's body, but the entire manor was also one of the containers. It took some effort to extract them."

Ji Mo lost a reconnaissance skill.

【Boundary Bottle (Fragment)】

[Information: Through pollution, the God of Space learned of the concept of the Klein Bottle, a spatial artifact created from power, flesh, and blood. It has now shattered into thousands of fragments, scattered across different worlds.]

【Skill:

Dimension (passively activated): A complete universe can contain countless smaller worlds.

Klein Bottle (Passive active): Each small world is a logically complete closed system. There is no distinction between inside and outside the small world; I, who am in this world, can also reach the other side of another world. The more powerful a person is, the longer the cooldown required for traversing.

Unique (Missing): ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

"I'll leave it with you for now; it'll solve your problem of not being able to learn the teleportation skill," Jiu Chonglou said.

Ji Mo examined the fragments of the boundary bottle for a moment, then finally put them away, asking, "Is this the fragment you said you had to collect for the Three Rivers?"

There must be a reason why a top-tier organization has had all its members on fieldwork since its inception, allowing the time spent with no one around to increase.

Now, this reason has come to Ji Mo.

"Yes. The world has become like this because of the effect of this artifact. As long as it is not put back into its original state, the myriad worlds will forever remain isolated islands."

Jiu Chonglou sighed.

"Do you know why the highest level of extraordinary beings is only the ninth rank? It's because the world is fragmented. The prerequisite for the birth of a tenth-rank extraordinary being is to restore it and merge the entire world, which will provide an opportunity for breakthrough."