Their commission was suspicious.

"Because I'm bored. And I also want to see what's on the other side of the time tunnel."

"So you saw it?" Chen Luo asked curiously.

When these things are discussed, Chen Luo can truly understand that Xiao Jiu is an old man who has lived for many years.

"No. I was thrown out halfway through the process, and then I was thrown into the heavens, where I even fought with God." Xiao Jiu shook her head.

"Actually, long before the Abyss Plane, some people knew that there were other planes outside of our plane. But the problem is that, perhaps because of different worldviews, the Abyss Plane can easily open up passages to other planes, but our plane cannot. The membrane of our plane is too thick."

"Even if there really is a spacetime tunnel, weakening the membrane won't allow you to leave. Instead, you'll be randomly teleported to any place within the plane. And being weak isn't an option either; if you're not strong enough, you might be torn apart by the spacetime turbulence." Xiao Jiu recounted the story of this plane's past.

"However, after obtaining the Abyss Passage for the first time, traveling to other worlds has become much easier. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect..."

"It sounds a little bit improper." Chen Luo's expression was somewhat complicated.

“…This is a very serious question.” Xiao Jiu looked up and stared at Chen Luo.

"Yes, yes, yes. So you're really planning to try crossing it by yourself? I have a jar in my basement that can fit someone your size... but if something happens during the process, your small frame might just die on the spot." Chen Luo said, patting Xiao Jiu's head.

"What a joke, I'm not stupid. If there's an insurance option, why not choose it?" Xiao Jiu pouted.

Xiao Jiu suspects that Chen Luozhen is treating her like a child.

"Is not it?"

"...You read my mind again? I've already told you, I'm not a child!" Xiao Jiu said, somewhat agitated.

"..."

You still say you're not a child?

Seeing Xiao Jiu's furious expression, Chen Luo took out a lollipop and instantly won her over.

Little Jiu, the well-behaved child, licked his lollipop while gazing at the moon in the sky.

"What do you think will emerge from the time-space tunnel this time? A living being or a non-living being? Could it be another girl?" Xiao Jiu asked.

"...Why don't you suspect it's a boy?" Xiao Jiu and Abyss Passage seem to have the same thought process.

"Do you like boys?" Xiao Jiu asked, somewhat surprised.

"Of course I like girls."

"Yeah, so why would you expect it to be a boy? That's strange."

"..."

If Chen Luo didn't see that Xiao Jiu was still a child, he would have thrown Xiao Jiu into the time tunnel right now.

"Here it comes, the big one is coming!"

The voice of Abyss Tong rang in Chen Luo's ears, instantly energizing him. He patted Xiao Jiu's head and immediately looked towards the spacetime tunnel, placing his other hand on the jar he had brought from the basement, which already contained a teleportation anchor.

After receiving the notification, Xiao Jiu understood that the time-space portal was about to open, so she excitedly looked at the time-space portal reflected in the moonlight.

Xiao Jiu had seen what it looked like when a spacetime tunnel within a world opened, but she had never seen what it looked like when a spacetime tunnel between worlds opened.

When Xiao Jiu was exploring the space-time tunnel between those planes, a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky, and the grandeur of the scene is still fresh in Xiao Jiu's memory.

It's coming, the big one is coming!

"puff!"

When the time portal opened to its maximum, something fell out of it. Before the time portal could close, Chen Luo immediately threw the jar in his hand into it.

"Please, World Consciousness!"

One second after the jar containing the teleportation anchor was thrown into the spacetime tunnel, the spacetime tunnel also closed instantly, leaving only the dark mass that fell onto the mat that Chen Luo had prepared in the backyard.

"Alright, that's all." Chen Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

"No... that's it? What about the celestial phenomenon? What about the grand spectacle? Is this what happens when the spacetime portal between worlds opens? Are you kidding me?" Xiao Jiu stared blankly at the now-closed spacetime portal.

This is completely different from what I imagined.

"What are you thinking? Strange phenomena from the sky? If this space-time portal could really cause strange phenomena from the sky, how could I not know there was a space-time portal in the backyard after living here for so long? It's precisely because it's so hidden that I haven't known about it for so many years. After all, who has nothing better to do than come to the backyard to look at the moon at night?" Chen Luo pursed his lips and walked towards the cushion.

"This really is... the furthest distance between longing and understanding?" Xiao Jiu now felt a sense of shattered dreams.

Fortunately, Xiao Jiu had already seen Chen Luo throw the jar into the space-time tunnel, which proved that she could now go to the Dimensional Sea.

The time-space portal has disappointed me so much; I hope the dimensional sea will be better.

Xiao Jiu sighed, then scurried over to Chen Luo, eager to see what had fallen out of the time tunnel.

"What is this? A lump of iron?"

Xiao Jiu looked at the dark object with a puzzled expression.

Because the spacetime tunnel was too dark, and the object itself was also too dark, Xiao Jiu couldn't tell what it was when it fell out.

"It should be a helmet." Chen Luo took out a ball of sunlight, and under the sunlight, the true appearance of the dark object was revealed to Xiao Jiu.

Moreover, this helmet seems to be... a gaming helmet, because Chen Luo saw the helmet's network connection port.

"Oh..." Xiao Jiu was instantly disappointed.

Xiao Jiu thought it was something interesting.

"So, can we go to the Dimensional Sea now?" Xiao Jiu asked excitedly.

"What's the rush? Let the teleportation anchor fly a little longer." Chen Luo held the helmet in his hand, but his gaze was fixed on the unknown distance.

"It sounds pretty impressive..." Xiao Jiu nodded, puzzled.

"..."

Chen Luo had no idea where the teleportation anchor point had been sent. How could he fool Xiao Jiu if he didn't say that?

Chen Luo couldn't very well say he didn't know, could he?

"clang!"

"Huh? Where did that bell sound come from?" Xiao Jiu asked in confusion.

"Oh, Xinghai City is having some kind of event lately, so they got a big clock that rings every night at midnight. Wait, wasn't it past midnight just now?" Chen Luo paused for a moment as he spoke.

This is truly... an extremely tight time limit.

Chapter 1762 SAO: This is a game, but it's more than just a game!

"Bang!" Chen Luo slammed down a red orca plushie, and Xiao Jiu fell to the ground.

Don't panic, this isn't a murder scene. It's just that Xiao Jiu was annoyed by the slow wait and asked Chen Luo to speed up the time until she could head to the Dimensional Sea.

Having received the commission, Chen Luo had no choice but to reluctantly help Xiao Jiu.

As we all know, sleep is something that passes in the blink of an eye, making it the fastest way to speed things up.

Chen Luo dragged Xiao Jiu's legs to the golden Earth, dug a hole, buried some soil, and counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

Little Jiu has been implanted!

"..." The bar's "power banks" looked at Xiao Jiu, who was buried in the ground with special treatment by Chen Luo, and their expressions varied.

"Damn, I'm so envious."

"That's right... huh?"

[Ding! Mission complete!]

"Xiao Jiu should forgive me tomorrow, since she has achieved her goal anyway."

Hearing the announcement that the task was completed, Chen Luo threw the shovel aside.

Yes, she'll definitely thank you profusely tomorrow.

"Huh? Why are you still sleeping in the Breath of Earth on March 7th? Have you been that idle these past two days?" Chen Luo paused as he passed someone, squatted down, and asked.

Chen Luo was surprised to see that San Yue Qi Xing, Dan Heng, and the other two were now buried in the ground.

“Because we’re bored. There’s not much to do in Belleburg at night. We originally planned to leave after dealing with the core of Planet Yalilo, to prevent the newly opened Starway from being blocked again, but Uncle Yang said we could contact you if anything happened, so we plan to stay here a little longer,” March 7 replied.

"...It's not impossible. I do have some experience in solving the problem of star trails."

"So Himeko gave us two days off, saying we could explore Ariloro and Beloborg properly. We'd been busy in Ariloro for a while, so we agreed. After all, pioneers are supposed to thoroughly explore each planet they arrive on, and now that the snowstorm outside Beloborg has cleared, we can really start exploring. We'll leave the day after tomorrow… oh wait, it's past midnight now, so we'll leave tomorrow." March 12th seemed quite excited.

Pioneers are always on the move, but they always need to resupply, meet people, and enjoy the local customs and culture on each planet they visit. Otherwise, what kind of pioneering work would it be if they left immediately after arriving at each planet?

That would turn it from an adventure game into a racing game.

What the nameless travelers were looking forward to was the countless adventures that might happen on countless planets.

After calculating the time, Chen Luo realized that setting off tomorrow would be in line with the plot.

Never mind, anyway, if anything unexpected happens during the process, the world consciousness will call for Chen Luo.

Chen Luo chatted with March 7 for a while longer, and also inquired whether the absorption of Xing's star core power had caused any impact on Xing, before leaving with his shovel.

Chen Luo has other things to do tonight.

For example, the helmet that flew out of the time-space tunnel that Chen Luo analyzed using the humanization plugin.

That helmet was different from the bottles and jars in Chen Luo's backyard basement; it seemed to be a usable prop.

……

[Analysis complete, it's a gaming helmet!]

"...Do you need to tell me? I figured it out at a glance. I want to ask you what game it is," Chen Luo said irritably.

Chen Luo's reconnaissance skills weren't so bad that he couldn't spot an ordinary object at a glance, so he immediately provided the answer—a gaming helmet.

"But I really can't tell what game it's from. If it were an ordinary item, or something you fished out of the river, you could tell at a glance. But this helmet has been through a time portal and is completely unrecognizable. And one minute is too short; wait a little longer. If all else fails, you can try using it."

The user-friendly plugin is also aggrieved. You only give it one minute, how can anyone analyze it?

Chen Luo's request was roughly equivalent to asking someone to decipher what was written on a piece of paper from ashes that had been burned down to just a corner.

"Who would dare use something of dubious origin?"

Chen Luo looked at the dark helmet in his hand and said.

The problem isn't that it can't be used, but that Chen Luo doesn't dare to use it.

Although this gaming helmet is definitely far removed from other worlds, fortunately, due to the modification of the spacetime turbulence, it seems to be able to connect to the game he tried in another world, even though the signal is pitifully weak.

However, Chen Luo also has a virtual reality game, which is a simulated universe.

Using a simulated universe as a platform, it is possible to barely achieve what the user-friendly plugin mentioned.

Oh, by the way, why don't you wipe this helmet clean? It seems like the dust on it is affecting the image resolution.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Chen Luo immediately took out a rag.

[Sigh, don't use a rag. This dust is the essence of time and space. Although we don't know why it's stuck to the helmet, it's a very precious material. If possible, it would be best to carefully scrape the dust off the helmet.]

"Oh."

In fact, user-friendly plugins can be quite reliable when they're in demand.

At least the user-friendly plugin knows why the reconnaissance capability is blocking the scan. And it can even identify what this layer of gray is.

But it can't scan any further.

[Alright, alright. After the dust was wiped clean, the analysis results came out immediately. Although the spacetime turbulence had altered this thing beyond recognition, almost erasing 99.9% of the information, the remaining 0.1% was enough to determine the helmet's origin.] The humanized plugin breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I think you already know where he came from...

“…Indeed.” Chen Luo said, looking at the helmet after all the ash had been scraped off.

The reason it's called a "user-friendly plugin" is because the helmet has three letters printed on the back—SAO.

Who wouldn't see that?

[But you'd never guess whose helmet it is. Just a heads-up, this helmet floated over shortly after the game launched. Now… it's hard to say. But it shouldn't have been that long ago.]

"Whose? Asuna's? Kirito's?"

[I don't want to spoil anything, just try playing it and you'll see. It will definitely surprise you. But that's all the information we have for now. After all, it's just a helmet, and most of the information has been washed away by the spacetime turbulence.] The user-friendly plugin said.

The user-friendly plugin is already at its limit, capable of recognizing whose helmet it is.

After all, investigative capabilities are not omnipotent; there must always be clues to follow.

Now, all traces except for the owner have been washed away by the turbulent flow of time and space.