Abyss Sequence

"Ah, this wind! Ah, these leaves! Ah, this sky!"

Sitting in the armored vehicle, Sasa pressed her face against the bulletproof glass, greedily scanning everything around her.

Although she couldn't personally feel the wind sweeping through the forest, watching the constantly swaying leaves, she felt as if she was experiencing it.

"Quick, quick, quick, stop the car. I want to measure the magic power concentration in this area!"

Yan Luo reluctantly stepped on the brake, pulled up the handbrake, turned around, and climbed into the rear compartment, opened the rear door of the armored vehicle, and jumped to the ground with a cylindrical machine.

He randomly found a piece of soft ground and inserted the large-scale magic power measuring device into it. Yan Luo pressed the start button, and the upper half of the cylindrical machine slowly unfolded, like an umbrella opening up.

Beep beep beep!

Every five seconds, the large-scale magic power measuring device recorded data once. Sasa used her personal terminal to pull the data into an automatically updating table, quickly programmed a magic power environment calculation program using a programming module, and performed the calculation using the vehicle's onboard chip.

"The magic power concentration in this area is three times that of the Crimson Abyss Dark Forest, and twelve times that of the Blue Star Wilderness!"

Seeing the calculated figures, Sasa couldn't help but gasp, "Oh my God, this figure is terrifying."

Sasa couldn't believe how strange the flora and fauna would become living in such an environment.

No wonder there are towering giant trees everywhere around here. Growing in this environment, it would be odd if the trees didn't become towering giants.

The flowers and grass on the ground are relatively low, but that's because the trees have absorbed a large amount of nutrients.

Logically, the flowers and grass on the ground are in a nutrient-deficient state, so they can only grow up to Yan Luo's ankle at most.

If we take the Elf World as a reference, we can infer that if Blue Star does not sever its connection with the Abyss, the magic power concentration would eventually reach this figure.

Yan Luo packed the large-scale magic power measuring device back into the car and casually picked up a rabbit for Sasa, then continued driving.

Sasa placed the rabbit caught by Yan Luo on the lab table, and the first thing she did was measure the rabbit's magic power.

The rabbit's magic power was comparable to an ordinary-level demon, with 57 qi.

Since it wasn't something particularly rare, Sasa swiftly killed the rabbit and extracted its blood, placing it into a blood analyzer.

"Compared to mutant creatures, there are a few additional trace substances and some missing ones, but overall, there isn't a significant change."

Then why does this rabbit possess a superpower?

That's right, this rabbit has a superpower.

It could inflate its body, but when Yan Luo brought it back, he conveniently broke its spine to immobilize it, so it wouldn't harm Sasa.

Looking at the rabbit carcass lying on the lab table, Sasa felt like she was gazing at a giant gem with a three-meter radius, and couldn't help but rub her hands together.

"Hehe, little darling, here I come."

Hearing the voice behind her, Yan Luo almost couldn't keep a straight face.

While dissecting the rabbit carcass, Sasa chatted with Yan Luo: "Back when we did experiments, we had to keep the demons alive while cutting them open, and when we encountered demons with fragile life force, they would disappear before we even began deep research, which was extremely disappointing. This world is great. Although the animals here aren't that similar to Abyss demons, their essence should be more or less the same. Studying the animals here will greatly help us understand Abyss demons."

Although wearing an exoskeleton armor, Sasa's exoskeleton is a 'researcher-specialized type,' which provides protection while minimizing interference with operating experimental instruments.

Sasa dismantled the rabbit carcass layer by layer, making the lab table bloody, yet she didn't feel scared at all.

If you're scared of even this, it's better not to enter this field.

The lab table recorded the dissection process of the rabbit from multiple directions and angles, capturing both video and photos.

After dissecting an entire rabbit, Sasa still couldn't find why this rabbit had a superpower.

Could it be that the demon's superpower is created out of thin air?

Sasa didn't believe such a thing could happen in the real world; demons must have a specific body structure. It's precisely because of this that demons of the same kind have the exact same superpower.

Clearing the lab table, Sasa looked at Yan Luo and said: "You probably need to replenish your magic power, right? Bring me some more demons, and let me study them thoroughly."

During the few days on Blue Star, Yan Luo didn't completely absorb all the magic power stored within him, but now he was running out indeed and needed to replenish.

Moreover, in the Elf World, Yan Luo didn't have to consume demon flesh raw, which was one of the reasons he preferred the Elf World.

Even though he didn't know much about the Elf World, the Tracking Technique he once learned wouldn't just disappear because of unfamiliarity.

Yan Luo stopped the car, grabbed a shotgun from the vehicle, and went hunting.

Sasa, having nothing else to do temporarily, captured the air of the Elf World and began analyzing its composition.

After some checks, Sasa discovered that the air in the Elf World contained a large amount of oxygen, indicating that it was an oxygen-rich world, with an oxygen concentration 1.6% higher than Blue Star.

Don't underestimate that 1.6%; an increase in oxygen content means a decrease in the proportion of other gases.

The one that decreased the most was carbon dioxide, with its concentration in the air being 0.9% lower than that on Blue Star.

Considering the high probability that the Elf World lacks industrial technology, it's expected that this world would be slightly colder than Blue Star.

Just now, when Sasa saw the temperature marked by the thermometer, she thought it was just the forest temperature being slightly lower, but based on the current situation, the entire world's temperature is slightly lower.

Besides, the air does not contain any components that could cause death to ordinary humans.

Of course, there might be components that Sasa hasn't detected.

"...I was careless."

Sasa had planned to come here ever since she heard about the existence of the Elf World.

Despite planning for so long, she still forgot to bring native animals from Blue Star to test their tolerance to the atmosphere of the Elf World.

If they can breathe the air of this world and survive, then Sasa should be able to breathe it too.

— Yan Luo, from a genetic standpoint, is still a Blue Star Person, but his organs are so strong that even ingesting 1 gram of cyanide would at most make his stomach upset.

Yan Luo could breathe normally in the Elf World, but that doesn't guarantee regular humans' survival in the Elf World.

BANG!

Just then, the car was suddenly struck with a loud bang, as if something had collided with it.

Sasa was startled and quickly activated the cameras around the vehicle, observing the condition of the car's armor, while also activating the vehicle's onboard monitoring system to check what exactly was damaged.

As a result, Sasa saw an arrow lodged in the armor of the vehicle.

Was this the elf Yan Luo mentioned?

Aquinas hid behind a giant tree, slightly tilting his head to cast his eyes on that silvery-gray steel behemoth.

This behemoth looked strange indeed, resembling the lord's carriage, but no carriage exists that can run without horses, so Aquinas assumed it was a behemoth.

Aquinas was already old. He had served in the Lingge Corps for hundreds of years, and his sluggish mind couldn't comprehend new things.

And when an elf realizes they have aged, they quickly grow old.

Aquinas found himself at an awkward stage: a little younger, and his power could reach its peak; a little older, and he could leave the Lingge Corps, transitioning to civilian life.

His years working in the Lingge Corps had saved up enough money to support his transition to civilian life, allowing him to spend his later years peacefully.

Unfortunately, he could still work, so the Deputy Corps Commander hadn't permitted his discharge.

Just as Aquinas was about to draw his second arrow, a halting voice suddenly came from not far away: "Stop, put down the bow, I won't kill you."

Even children wouldn't make two grammatical errors in such a short sentence; only an infant just learning to speak could manage that.

Aquinas triggered the 'Leap Marker' placed on the branch and, in one swift motion, was positioned on the tree before daring to look down.

When he saw the figure not far away, Aquinas squinted to look more carefully, then widened his eyes in shock.

"A human?!"