Chapter 653: 653
The gap on top of the ancient alloy box looked ordinary . The gap was only because the box was missing an alloy piece . Once, Xia Lei had put a pen inside the hole and the result had been very frightening . The box was right in front of Xia Lei right now, and there was no movement from it but it still looked full of mysteries . It made people feel in awe just by looking at it .
“Emptiness is not the sky; there is no distance . Time is not time; thousands of years pass in an instant . The traveller came from a distant time . The sky is not his obstacle and time cannot destroy his body . He is searching for the starting point but he is lost in the dark world . He is about to lose himself . The only thing that can…”
Xia Lei’s mind was still thinking about the words that he had heard . The glimmer of light that had appeared in his head was becoming clearer and clearer .
A few minutes later, Xia Lei found a screwdriver . He carefully placed the screwdriver in the hole in the ancient alloy box .
He had placed a pen inside the ancient alloy box last time . This time, he wanted to use a sturdier object for the experiment .
The screwdriver was much longer than the ancient alloy box but the hole in the ancient alloy box was like a bottomless pit . The screwdriver did not reach the bottom of the ancient alloy box when he put it inside .
When only a tiny portion of the handle of the screwdriver remained, Xia Lei swiftly and violently pushed the screwdriver into the ancient alloy box, and quickly drew back his hand . The screwdriver disappeared completely, and he felt a trace of fluctuation in the energy from the hole this time . This energy fluctuation passed very quickly, and it had disappeared so quickly that he wasn’t even sure if he had actually witnessed it or not .
Xia Lei didn’t worry too much about the issue . His line of sight moved to his watch . The time right now was only one second after he had put the screwdriver in . He memorised the time .
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock . . .
After the second hand of the watch ticked fifty-nine times, there was a sudden fluctuation in the energy in the void . The screwdriver which had disappeared before reappeared . It was quietly floating above the void, making it seem like there was an invisible pallet propping it up . The screwdriver was covered in rust, and even the plastic on the handle had disappeared . It looked like it had spent a thousand years in the wind and sun .
Bang! The screwdriver fell on the workbench . Although it didn’t turn into a pile of dust, all the rust had fallen off . Now, the screwdriver was only a tenth of its original size . The surfaces of the screwdriver were also twisted and not smooth at all .
Although he had attempted this multiple times, Xia Lei’s heart was still full of fear . A screwdriver had gone into the ancient alloy box, yet when it came out, nine-tenths of it had turned into rust . Even the plastic handle had completely decomposed . This meant that the time-space within the ancient alloy box should be over a thousand years! If a living person entered the box and came back, won’t that person return as a pile of bones?
The glimmer of insight he had had before was to enter the ancient alloy box himself .
“Emptiness is not the sky; there is no distance . Time is not time; thousands of years pass in an instant . ” Wasn’t this describing what had just happened in the experiment? The screwdriver had disappeared into the ancient alloy box, but it had reappeared from the void . The emptiness was not the sky . There was no distance . At that time, the screwdriver had only entered the box for one minute, yet when it reappeared, it looked as if it had experienced over a thousand years of erosion . This phenomenon was precisely what the saying had described; how in the blink of an eye, a thousand years had passed .
“The traveller came from a distant time . The sky is not his obstacle and time cannot destroy his body . ” It seemed like someone had entered the world inside the ancient alloy box, and his body wasn’t destroyed by time .
“He is searching for the starting point but he is lost in the dark world . ” This sentence seemed to be saying that the traveler was looking for something but had gotten lost . The dark world it was referring to was probably the world inside the ancient alloy box . Princess Yongmei had once described the world inside the box . She said that the world inside the box was dark, empty, and very cold . Her description was evidence in disguise .
He had interpreted all this by analyzing Ning Jing’s words . He felt like his interpretation and analysis of his speech should be around 80% to 90% accurate . However, Ning Jing didn’t finish speaking . What he couldn’t understand was Ning Jing’s last words . “He is about to lose himself . The only thing that can…” No matter what he did, Xia Lei just couldn’t understand the meaning behind it .
‘It was quite difficult for me to get some clues . I should try and solve it no matter what . ’ Xia Lei turned and left the underground laboratory .
Xia Lei returned to the laboratory ten minutes later . He had a plastic bag in his hand with a cicada in it . He had caught the cicada in the greenery outside the villa . In addition to the cicada, he had asked for a live chicken from the dining hall . He didn’t put the chicken inside the bag but carried it in his other hand instead .
“Cluck, cluck-cluck…” The live chicken kept making noises .
A chicken’s brain was very simple, and Xia Lei didn’t even know if it was feeling fear or not .
When the live chicken entered the underground laboratory, it didn’t immediately die or go crazy . But not many people have seen a chicken really go crazy in this world, right?
Xia Lei wasn’t in the mood to study how the chicken would react when it was exposed to the ancient alloy’s energy field . After he returned to the lab, he used tweezers to carefully insert the cicada into the hole in the ancient alloy box .
A minute later, the energy around the void in the ancient alloy box began to fluctuate . What appeared from the void wasn’t a cicada, but grayish-black ash .
Xia Lei put the cicada inside again and the result was the same . After a minute, the cicada didn’t return from the void . What appeared was an even smaller amount of fine ash .
From the experience, it seemed like a mere cicada can’t withstand a thousand years of erosion . When it came out, its body had completely turned into ash . It was impossible for Xia Lei to know how long it had spent inside the box . However, it only took one minute in this world for it to die and for him to observe the result .
After a short pause, Xia Lei caught the live chicken and cautiously pushed it into the hole in the ancient alloy box .
The chicken was many times larger than the ancient alloy box . What was strange was how the hole on the ancient alloy box was similar to a black hole . Any object that entered its energy field would be compressed . The chicken didn’t even touch the ancient alloy box when he put it in . It gave off the feeling that it could even fit in a car, much less a chicken . This was because every time that an object got close to the hole, it would trigger a mysterious energy field . Once the energy field was triggered, like the opening of a funnel, it was able to fit an object that was even bigger than the box itself .
Just how big of an object could the ancient alloy box fit? Xia Lei had never attempted that kind of experiment but he guessed that he would be able to fit if he wanted to go in himself .
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