My martial spirit leads me to Earth; I begin by submitting my skills to the Douluo Continent.

hum-

The vortex is closed.

The hall fell silent once more.

Only that lead brick remained, lying quietly on the table, mocking everyone's perception.

There was even a faint trace of something left in the air...

The aroma of Orleans-style roasted chicken wings.

A full minute passed.

"Magic...this is close-up magic!"

An academician engaged in optics research slammed his hand on the table, his face turning bright red, as if he had been greatly humiliated.

"It's definitely a holographic projection! Or some kind of visual illusion we haven't discovered yet! Xiao Lei, was that chef a magician/actor you hired? Was that portal a holographic effect too? It was pretty realistic; it almost fooled me!"

"Yes! How can matter just disappear into thin air? That's not scientific!"

"We need data! Observations made with the naked eye without data support are pseudoscience!"

Even after witnessing it firsthand, these scientists, who firmly believed in materialism, still instinctively refused to believe this myth.

Lei Zhan listened to the clamor of doubts around him, rubbed his throbbing temples, and sighed helplessly.

These old scholars won't shed a tear until they see the coffin.

"Okay. You want data, so I'll give you the data."

Lei Zhan gave a deep command into his headset.

"Bring up the prepared space gravitational wave detector array and the ghost hypersonic camera! Aim them at the experimental platform!"

Soon, several bulky, sophisticated, and expensive instruments were quickly deployed.

All the probes were firmly locked onto the tray.

Lei Zhan pressed the communication button again, his tone tinged with apology.

"Su Yun, I'll have to trouble you to come again. Take your time this time; these old men only trust the instruments."

"…Captain Lei, please spare me! I'm frying chicken legs right now! The oil's boiling hot!"

Su Yun's devastating roar came through the headphones.

But a few seconds later, he still replied helplessly.

"Okay, okay, this is the last time! Hurry up!"

"Buzz—!!!"

Space trembled violently once again.

Despite having been mentally prepared once before, when the eerie blue vortex tore through the air again, the scientists present instinctively recoiled in fright, their faces turning deathly pale.

That sense of oppression, like facing the abyss, can't be faked.

"Hurry, hurry! What kind of test are we having this time? This one?"

Su Yun was also holding a chicken leg that had just been fried halfway.

He strode to the precision instrument and, without even waiting for Lei Zhan to say "start," grabbed the lead brick and slapped it against his ring.

"Watch! Go in!"

The ring flashed with a faint light.

The lead bricks vanished instantly.

"come out!"

The glimmer of light flickered again.

The lead brick slammed heavily onto the table.

"All done? Let's go! The chicken leg's going to burn!"

Su Yun turned around cursing and disappeared back into the portal like a gust of wind.

With a "whoosh," the vortex closed, as if he had never been there at all.

Only that single drop of hot oil that fell onto the expensive optical lens proved that everything that had just happened was not an illusion.

"Data! Look at the data!!"

Mr. Qian was the first to react, and he rushed towards the monitor like a madman.

next second.

A piercing alarm blared throughout the laboratory!

"Beep—! Warning! High-intensity localized gravitational wave collapse detected!"

"Warning! Spatial curvature has plummeted! Values ​​have exceeded the limit!"

"Rewind! Quickly rewind the high-speed camera footage! Slow it down ten thousand times!"

On the big screen, the image was frozen frame by frame.

In that extreme slow motion, everyone witnessed a scene that shattered their worldview.

The hard lead brick didn't disappear the instant it touched the ring, about a centimeter above it; instead, it twisted strangely, like noodles.

It was forcibly stretched and folded by an invisible, terrifying force field, presenting a shape that violated geometric logic, and was finally sucked into a black dot invisible to the naked eye!

"It's not magic...there's no optical projection..."

"The space... really has been folded..."

Lei Zhan looked at the group of old scholars who were still staring blankly at the data. Without thinking much, he subconsciously reached out his calloused hand to pick up the ring from the tray and hand it to them for further study.

"Now that the data confirms it, everyone can take it..."

"stop!!!"

A piercing scream echoed throughout the laboratory.

Old Qian's movement was like that of a cat whose tail had been stepped on. With an agility completely unbecoming of his eighty years, he pounced and slapped Lei Zhan's hand away.

"You big dummy! Don't touch it!!"

A group of academicians instantly turned red-eyed, like mother hens protecting their chicks, they pushed Lei Zhan three meters away, spitting all over his face.

"That's a treasure worth hundreds of billions! It's the embodiment of universal truth! How dare you touch it with your gun-wielding hands?!"

"What if it gets scratched? What if it gets oxidized from fingerprints?! Who told you to put it on such a plain tray? What a waste! Absolutely a waste!"

Lei Zhan stood frozen in mid-air with his hands raised, looking completely bewildered: "Wait...didn't you guys just call it a cheap knock-off?"

These old men, who usually get out of breath just walking, suddenly displayed the efficiency of special forces.

They carefully put on the highest-grade cleanroom gloves, some even holding their breath, afraid that the carbon dioxide they exhaled would corrode the rings.

Several leading figures carefully carried the tray as if it were a bomb that could explode at any moment, moving it step by step into the operating chamber of the vacuum electron microscope.

Dozens of eyes were fixed on the small silver ring, as if it would grow wings and fly away in the blink of an eye.

As the electron microscope was started, the image was projected onto a large screen.

These academic giants, who usually wield considerable influence, now resembled a group of elementary school students, their mouths agape and their bodies trembling as they stared at the screen.

On the screen is a magnified image of the ring's surface.

"Oh my god..."

Qian Xuesen, the chief physicist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gripped the edge of the control panel tightly with both hands, his knuckles turning white from the force, and his cloudy old eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

"See those patterns? They're not flat! They're three-dimensional! They construct a perfect closed-loop Möbius strip structure at the microscopic level!"

"This brings the theory of multidimensional space to life! This tiny ring contains a vacuum space!"

The laboratory erupted in commotion, with gasps of amazement rising and falling.

Everyone was in awe of this miraculous magic.

However, as the observations continued, Qian's brows gradually furrowed.

He adjusted the focus, freezing the image at the edge of a stripe.

On the ultra-high-definition screen of the electron microscope, the silver ring, which originally appeared smooth and flat to the naked eye, now presented a scene of crisscrossing grooves.

"Rough...too rough."

Holding a laser pointer, Mr. Qian pointed at the huge, winding, and uneven grooves on the screen, his tone filled with an unbelievable sense of absurdity.