I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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But all peace comes with a prerequisite: that no other force disrupts it.

Now let's turn our attention to Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This historically famous island is now surrounded by a massive black hole, covering an area of ​​1,000 square kilometers. Keep in mind that Midway Atoll is only a pitiful 1,000 square kilometers in size. This suddenly appearing behemoth is equivalent to 200 times its size.

Strangely, this black hole actually has no absorption capacity. It just appears suddenly and stays there quietly. It is actually a sphere with a radius of nearly 18 kilometers. It also has volume underwater, but it is blocked by an invisible barrier when you get close. There are only a few entrances and exits that can be entered.

The robots deployed by New America have discovered three entrances, all on the sea surface. The largest can be passed through by a small fishing boat, while the smallest can only be passed through by a baby.

After the drone entered, it discovered that the area inside was significantly different from the area outside. Inside the black hole, in addition to the original Midway Island and the surrounding sea, there was a land area of ​​more than 100,000 square kilometers.

Wang Defa, what kind of hellish space expansion technology is this?

Qin Shan was capable of creating new usable spaces in other dimensions and binding them to himself as storage spaces, but the largest storage space he had ever created was not this exaggerated.

However, the world inside has boundaries. After the drone flies a certain distance, it will encounter a transparent air wall, just like the space barrier outside. It is a small world with a very limited actual range.

"Admiral, the data shows that the physical parameters there are consistent with the outside, but structurally it is indeed a small world existing in a different dimension."

The analysis data from Beizhai left Qin Shan speechless; this veteran revolutionary had encountered a new problem.

"I've never encountered this situation in my past life, but I still need to investigate. Maybe the system will give me some hints after I contact it. If not, I'll just have to study it slowly. Anyway, I have to go and take a look."

So, under the protection of a group of ship girls, Qin Shan flew directly to Midway Island in World Two.

When his hand touched that spatial barrier, a sense of déjà vu washed over him.

As a person with extraordinary spatial abilities, Qin Shan was very sensitive to changes in space and quickly identified the corresponding situation.

"Holy crap! This is exactly the same structure as my storage space!"

In reality, there are no restrictions on storage spaces that cannot hold living beings. It's just that the expanded space that is created may not be able to hold an adult. There is only one ruthless character in the world like Qin Shan, who can create a small world, fill it with soil, build houses, and even use high-powered fluorescent lights to imitate the sun.

The oxygen in the storage space is limited. An ordinary person would definitely suffocate if they went in, but if they brought an oxygen tank, they could last for a long time. So parachuting in with a bunch of people was a tradition Qin Shan had in his previous life. Of course, high-level superhumans don't need to bring oxygen tanks. From this stage onwards, it is the dividing line between the flesh and blood body and the spiritual energy ascension. Those who cross this line are all superhumans on a biological level.

In his previous life, Qin Shan often made storage spaces to earn cultivation resources for himself. He was so tired of doing it that he was constantly talking about his storage spaces. When he touched one, he found it to be even more precise than his wife's measurements.

Seeing Qin Shan's shocked expression, Lexington stepped forward and asked softly, "Admiral, what's wrong?" "There's something fishy about this thing."

Just as Qin Shan was organizing his thoughts, the system reacted.

"Fragments from another world have been detected overlapping. Proceed with dimensional coordinate positioning?"

Qin Shan quickly opened the system interface and asked, "What's the use of this location?" The system automatically replied, "It allows you to directly teleport into a world fragment."

"So what exactly are these fragments of the world?"

“When fragments of certain shattered worlds drift by unexpectedly, fragments of living worlds may resonate with living areas of other worlds and eventually merge.”

Will there be any negative effects after the merger?

"In the vast majority of cases, no, the fragment of that world will become part of this world in such a stable way."

"If it's a fragment of the world, why is its structure identical to my storage space?"

"Because when fragments of another world merge with other worlds, they can only maintain their stability through this spatial structure. Therefore, fragments of a world that merge with a new world are equivalent to a huge storage space."

"How do I destroy it if I want to?"

"The outer spatial structure of the world fragments forms a global barrier, strong enough to withstand a nuclear strike with a yield of tens of billions of tons."

"This is freaking sturdy! Wait, if this thing's world barrier is this strong, doesn't that mean this world has an absolutely safe territory that's practically invincible with current technology?!"

Qin Shan was astonished. He hadn't expected that the world fragments would be a natural defense against nuclear attacks. Moreover, the entrances and exits to this world were so small, yet the interior contained vast spaces, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. For those in positions of power who were extremely insecure, this was a safe haven they absolutely could not refuse.

If only we could move this thing! Wait, move it!

Qin Shan fell into deep thought.

The expansion of storage space, whether through skills or techniques, allows movement after binding it to a physical carrier in the real world. Conversely, by compressing world fragments and binding them to oneself, wouldn't it be possible to carry a small world around?

It sounds like a fantasy, but it's technically possible.

However, before doing so, it is necessary to fully investigate the situation inside this world fragment, because the drones discovered many city ruins during their reconnaissance. Based on the scale, the predecessor was at least a large city with an area of ​​more than 8,000 square kilometers. By Earth's standards, the population was at least in the tens of millions, and it would not be surprising if it were more than 20 or 30 million.

The world is so big, yet twenty or thirty million people are crammed into one city.

The human body's compression rate is amazing, isn't it?

Large numbers of remotely controlled robots have begun to enter the world fragments, on land, sea, and air.

Although this fragment of the world is connected to the Earth's environment, the three entrances and exits are extremely small, limiting the amount of data that can pass through per unit of time. However, if it's just for research, a team of 100 people is enough, and more people will be added later. The initial plan is to have a battalion of people.

On the other hand, we deployed as many remote-controlled and intelligent robots as possible, entrusting them with the dangerous preliminary exploration work. Researchers are very valuable. If these little things encounter danger while passing through certain areas, the loitering munitions that are already prepared behind them will immediately go up and give them a warm greeting.

There are many small animals in the fragments of the world. Although there are carnivores, animals of the size of tigers, leopards, and wolves are rare. The largest carnivore discovered so far is the leopard. And when these animals see a human, their first reaction is to run.

Don't underestimate this simple action. Comparing it to the attitudes of similar carnivores on Earth towards humans reveals that this is a survival habit ingrained in the DNA of animals after their ancestors were traumatized by humans. Don't mess with the terrifying upright ape.

This at least proves that there are humanoid creatures in the area, but we don't know what they look like.

As the researchers, protected by a group of robots and soldiers, entered the city ruins, the real investigation officially began.

The first step was to analyze the city and conclude that its architecture resembled that of ancient Greece, but was overly advanced in some aspects, such as the stones that seemed to float in mid-air.

Yes, it really does float in mid-air; it's not an adjective or an exaggeration.

"Wow, Admiral, look at this, it's amazing."

Xiao Zhai jumped onto a floating circular stone slab. The slab only sank slightly before quickly returning to its original position, which was quite magical.

"This is really interesting."

Yubari, who had been temporarily transferred here, unfolded his ship equipment and began to study the floating rocks.

These stones have clearly been carved and processed; some are rectangular, some are square, and some are round. However, most of them are damaged, and the damaged parts fall to the ground and lose their levitation ability. When a levitation stone is damaged to one-third, it will completely lose its levitation ability, fall to the ground, and become waste material that looks no different from ordinary stone.

"It's amazing. These stones are emitting an anti-gravity field, constantly resisting the pull of gravity. This is why they can levitate. Currently, it seems that by using different processing methods and raw material ratios, we can produce levitating stones with completely different levitation heights and mass sizes. As for the composition of these stones, well, as expected, there are extraordinary materials."

Yubari is an excellent hardware engineer, so her ship equipment mainly assists her in scientific research, thus enabling her to quickly analyze the internal composition of an item and classify and store it.

"Admiral, these are the things."

Yubari handed a test tube containing gray powder to Qin Shan, who recognized it at a glance.

"Isn't this levitation dust? As long as it is mixed into a certain material in a certain ratio, it can make that material have the ability to levitate. I didn't expect to see it here."

In his previous life, Qin Shan often used floating dust to create his own exclusive single-person flying equipment. In addition, floating dust is a supernatural material that can be mass-produced. Later on, even his armored vehicles were hover armored vehicles, and his light reconnaissance vehicles were all hover chassis. Their speed was basically at the very low level of flight, which made them particularly useful.

Although there are houses that use dust as building material, using dust to build a city on such a large scale is really a waste of resources. Even if it can be mass-produced, it shouldn't be wasted like this. It must all be brought home and reused properly.

But before that, let's see if there is any intelligent life in this city.

Anyway, from the outside, it looks pretty bad. The extent of the moss growth is such that even if it's not from the Shang or Zhou dynasties, it couldn't have been from last week.

Yubari quickly provided accurate data, stating that the city had existed for at least 100,000 years.

"The city has been eroded to this extent by nature over 100,000 years. The proportion of extraordinary materials used in its construction is quite high."

This further solidified my idea of ​​packing everything up and taking it all home after the archaeological excavation was completed.

The above-ground exploration was completed quickly, and the next step was the tense and exciting underground section.

However, according to the feedback from the detection radar, many underground structures have collapsed, and there is a cavity with a radius of more than 20 meters at a depth of 100 meters below.

That's simple. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, so go down!

Chapter 160: The Brain of a Cosplayer Yun Tianming - Nuclear Bomb Coming!

Throughout history, the tactics of using pigs have been employed by people.

Putting aside the objective fact that the person who said that was worse than a pig or a dog, everyone likes simple, direct, and effective methods.

Rodney used his ship-mounted equipment to violently dig, and the mere hundred-meter depth was quickly penetrated, revealing something that astonished everyone.

Mechs, a huge number of mechs, they were everywhere.

These mechs are between three and five meters tall and have obvious signs of modular design. Xiao Zhai disassembled one on the spot to replace it. The simple hot-swap method can handle it. What is even more shocking is that these things have been here for 100,000 years and were just exposed to the air after being disassembled, yet they did not turn to ashes on the spot.

Yubari immediately analyzed it, and unsurprisingly, it was made of extraordinary materials. "This level of mass production is simply incredible."

Qin Shan tapped the surface alloy of the mecha. This was also an extraordinary material, one he had never seen before.

Interesting, very interesting. What kind of civilization can mass-produce so many extraordinary materials and turn them into standardized mecha weapons? And in just this one underground space, there are more than a hundred of these mechas. Or are these mechas specially customized, and I copied the central army's armory from some civilization?

Now that the mechs are complete, the next step is to test whether they are usable.

On the surface, these mechs did not have obvious cockpit switches, so Qin Shan used the simplest method: together with the ship girl, he used his divine sense (the spiritual power of a high-level superhuman is upgraded to divine sense) to scan these mechs, seeing through them inside and out.

Then, something unexpected happened: the mechs automatically activated the moment Qin Shan's divine sense touched them.

"Psychic scan detected. Docking initiation complete. Welcome to the Guardian Type III mech. Since your psychic waveband is not registered in the upgrade network, please complete the registration before your next use."

But then, the mech's system voice changed.

"Warning, no upgrade network detected. Warning, no upgrade network detected. According to the built-in protocol, local area network operation mode is now activated, opening up 50% of the functions available to the driver. Please connect to the upgrade network as soon as possible."

At this point, the system voice completely stopped.

Because of the mental connection mode, the two parties can directly engage in special cognitive synchronization communication, so even if the other party is using another language, Qin Shan can fully understand it.

However, after understanding it, there were even more question marks than before.

What is an upgraded network? What is Guardian Type III? Who created you?

All of this information is unknown. Hopefully, there's something else like an information storage device inside the mech or in this underground space.

Since the mechs needed to connect to something unknown after use, Qin Shan simply put them out of the loop, treating them as uncontrollable products. He disassembled them into modules and handed them over to Beizhai, who was guarding the industrial planet, for software analysis to see if they could be deciphered. Meanwhile, Yubari was to conduct a more detailed analysis of the underground area.

Then came an even bigger discovery: there were actually more underground spaces surrounding this one, spaces that hadn't been detected during previous explorations.

That's outrageous! How did they do that?

After forcibly breaking through the wall and entering, Qin Shan instantly understood what was going on.

"With built-in shielding circuit, no wonder."

The walls inside this underground space are covered with densely packed energy circuits. Although Qin Shan was unfamiliar with the technology of this civilization, he had seen similar structures before, namely shielding effects.

Extraordinary power can be programmed like a program, and different programming has different effects. If the shielding effect is engraved inside an object, then a special anti-detection result can be formed. Unless a high-level extraordinary person uses their divine sense to conduct high-precision repeated detection, it is difficult to find that something is hidden nearby by conventional means.

As a meticulous researcher, Yubari naturally scanned every inch of this space with high precision and discovered it without a doubt.

However, when the temporary lighting equipment fully illuminated the area, everyone gasped. In the very center of the hall was a gigantic brain.

Yes, just like you imagined, the human brain is magnified to about the size of a Type 99 tank, and there are countless other brains completely immersed in an unknown liquid around it. Parts of all the brains reflect a chilling metallic luster. These eerie things form a design that looks very sci-fi, but also very cyberpunk.

It looks exactly like the computational array of an evil organization that appears in some works.

"Admiral..."

Xiao Luo had already hidden behind Qin Shan and reached out to tug at his clothes.

Qin Shan picked up Xiao Luo and comforted her, "It's alright, don't be afraid, they're still inanimate objects."

Well, at least for now they are still "inanimate objects," but this "inanimate object" should be put in quotation marks. Qin Shan's divine sense can sense that these brains are in hibernation, or rather, in an ultra-low power operating state. As long as they are powered, these brains can come back to life immediately, but it is hard to say what will happen after they come back to life. Therefore, certain safety measures must be taken first.

This thing is very likely the "ascension network" mentioned by the mech's built-in AI. Whether it's connected to us by the Kara or shared by the three holy races, we should clear the surrounding area before activating it.

The subsequent investigation also uncovered several additional underground rooms, all of considerable size, but they were primarily used as warehouses, containing a large quantity of weapons, ammunition, and precious metals, which Qin Shan naturally took without hesitation.

After confirming that there was nothing there, the investigation of other cities in the world fragment was launched. They eventually discovered three brain matrices, as well as more warehouses and mechs. These items were naturally moved to World Three and guarded by North Carolina. After ensuring that there were no other high-value items in the world fragment, the next step was to study the three brain matrices.

Since no one could guarantee what would happen after activation, Qin Shan adopted a rather simple and crude method.

The first step was for Lexington, Saratoga, and Rodney to each control their ship's equipment to dig out the entire Brain Matrix from underground and place it on the surface. Then everyone evacuated outside the World Fragment, leaving only a large number of remote-controlled robots and intelligent combat units inside. In short, there was no living person left.

The second step involves placing a nuclear bomb with a mechanical timer function under each brain matrix. Once the experiment begins, the mechanical timer function of the nuclear bomb is activated, and if anything goes wrong even slightly, it will send this pile of brains to their doom.

Third, a large number of troops gathered outside the world fragment, with all kinds of long guns and short cannons pointed at this place. Energy weapons and the extraordinary ship equipment of the ship girls were all on standby. In this way, everything that could be done was done to the best of their ability, and the activation experiment could begin.

"The system is operating normally, and the charging equipment is in place." "The fusion power station is operating normally, and the power supply is normal."

"activation!"

As Yubari pressed the button, a brain matrix began to charge, one by one. If they were all charged, it would be troublesome if they had any special abilities.

One should not harbor malicious intent, but one must be wary of others. When facing the unknown, one should possess the steadiness of Han Laomo.

"The energy level is 50%, and the activity inside the matrix begins to increase."

Soon, the energy bar reached 100%, but the brain matrix remained unresponsive.

"Admiral, it's fully charged, but there's no response." Yubari frowned, sensing something was wrong. "Does it require all three matrices to be fully charged at once?" Saratoga guessed.

Qin Shan pondered for a moment, then said something that surprised everyone.

"Since something's fishy, ​​let's blow it up!"