Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World

That's right, Wu Fan has disappeared.

Considering that the number of people shouldn't be too many.

Aside from Zhuo Yuanxin and Mu Ge who came to the teleportation platform, only Ma Ning, Lin Ziming, Wu Fan, and Wei Niandong remained on site.

Among them, Ma Ning and Lin Ziming were engaging Yang Bolin in conversation to distract him, while Wu Fan and Wei Niandong were responsible for translating, with Wu Fan handling photon information capture.

And due to the angle of their positions.

When the teleportation platform was activated, Ma Ning and Lin Ziming faced the steps directly, needing to observe the central scene, their attention not focused on Wu Fan.

This is human nature; when you see your team members about to be teleported long-distance, you can't still be side-eyeing others who are seemingly normal.

Therefore, the only eyewitness from start to finish was Wei Niandong.

In the field of criminal investigation, the testimony of a single eyewitness inherently carries the possibility of being untruthful, so it can't be entirely trusted.

But considering Wei Niandong's identity as a native of the Damo Realm and his motives, theoretically the probability of him lying is almost zero.

Which means....

Wu Fan really seems to have vanished into thin air.

Ma Ning looked at the empty ground with a rather helpless expression.

Despite his past interactions with many big shots, he still found himself at a loss, filled with confusion.

After all, no matter how rich one's experience, seeing someone disappear before your eyes out of nowhere isn't something you've encountered, is it?

Actually, it wasn't just him.

Lin Ziming beside him, Yang Bolin, and even Lin Li, Shi Zehong, and others in the command center fell into a brief state of shock.

Lin Ziming even comically reached out to feel the spot where Wu Fan disappeared.

It was Ma Ning who first regained his composure.

He looked at Yang Bolin, knowing he might not get an answer, but still holding onto a sliver of hope as he asked:

"Shopkeeper Yang, what exactly is...?"

Yang Bolin's expression was strange as well, as this was the first time he had witnessed such a situation in his life.

In his experience, there were indeed some talismans in the Damo Realm that could enable brief teleportation over several meters or even dozens of meters.

Price aside, under certain conditions, such things were achievable.

But making an ordinary person disappear into thin air challenged his entire worldview.

He wanted to reply to Ma Ning with 'I don't know either', but ultimately softened his words, offering a plausible reason:

"Clearly disappearing while tens of meters away from the teleportation platform, such a thing is unheard of for an old man like me... Could it be this young man carried some kind of top-tier ancient Level Four talisman that could instantly flee hundreds of miles?"

Ma Ning couldn't help but look at Lin Ziming.

Lin Ziming decisively shook his head at him.

Wu Fan, as a suspected target of 'Prime Cause', although the command center had relaxed its monitoring, basic considerations were still maintained—it's possible he hid a few Spirit Stones or some coins, but secretly obtaining a top-tier ancient Level Four talisman....

Two words: ridiculous.

If such a thing could be done right under their noses, then they might as well call it a day.

Moreover, Wu Fan had no reason to flee.

He had never been mistreated, and a large sum of money was due to be transferred to his account, a dividend promised by Wang Qiang.

Though most of it would be converted into cultivation resources, several tens of millions would still remain, ensuring Wu Fan's comfortable living for the rest of his life, thus there was no reason for him to make a run now.

If he truly harbored thoughts of escaping, he could have done so earlier when he went treasure hunting with Wang Qiang, rather than waiting for now to make a big move.

Not to mention, he was chatting with Mu Ge on the way, saying that once he got the money, he'd buy two apartments in Modu, one for his parents back home, the other for his future wedding home.

If only Wu Fan weren't single, there might have been a line like "I'll marry you once I get back."

Then a thought suddenly crossed Ma Ning's mind:

Could it be that Wu Fan accidentally got teleported to Luoshuang City along with Zhuo Yuanxin and the others?

Though a bit strange, this seemed like the biggest possibility at the moment.

Perhaps he was astonished with Mu Ge and the group right now?

However, before he could find a chance to bring this up with Lin Ziming, he heard Lin Li's voice through the earpiece from the command center:

"Professor Ma, Dr. Zhuo and the others just made contact with the command center; the teleportation was successful.

There were no casualties, but similarly... no additional people.

Which means Wu Fan didn't appear with them in Luoshuang City.

Also, we've verified with Taoshu Commerce Association, Valley Camp, and even Hua Xiaomo's residence, but Wu Fan's presence hasn't been detected.

Additionally, the locator and communication devices Wu Fan was carrying have lost signal, basically confirming he has been teleported—either trapped in some unknown area or space, or transported to a faraway place."

Hearing this, Ma Ning sighed deeply in his heart.

Lin Li's information undoubtedly closed off all possibilities, leaving behind just one fact, as spoke by someone surnamed Zhou:

Wu Fan, indeed, seems to be missing.

This is heavy news—not a joke.

After all, over time, everyone gradually viewed Wu Fan as part of the team.

His contributions in this cross-city trade were also enormously significant, serving as a translator, posing as a leader in Tang's Commerce Association, and inadvertently acquiring three peculiar items with Wang Qiang.

If we rank the trade group's members based on contribution, Wu Fan would at least be in the top three this time.

This is evident as the way people call him has changed from the initial somewhat distant and polite 'Little Brother Wu Fan' to the current 'Comrade Wu Fan.'

This is because he performed well this time.

The command center originally planned to arrange for him to practice inhaling qi once they returned, and to a certain extent, favor him with cultivation resources — when Lin Li proposed this suggestion, all the leaders unanimously agreed.

But who knew he'd disappear just like that?

Afterwards, Ma Ning and Lin Ziming exchanged a glance and saw each other's thoughts:

These matters will be discussed back at the chamber of commerce.

If it were something else that was lost, Ma Ning might still have the mind to ask Yang Bolin for some compensation, to squabble a bit.

But now that such an important figure like Wu Fan is lost, it's inappropriate in every way to think about those trivial tactics.

After all, it can almost certainly be confirmed that this matter has nothing to do with Ziqiong City, something should have happened long ago if it did.

According to the rabbits' original plan, Zhuo Yuanxin, Mu Ge, and others would return in one and a half hours.

Since they weren't actually going to sell goods, there was basically nothing to wait for in terms of handover.

So after relaying the information through the command center, Ma Ning packed up the Bell State observation ring, holding a last sliver of hope, searched around the vicinity.

After confirming that Wu Fan was indeed missing, he hurried back to the chamber of commerce with Lin Ziming and Wei Niandong.

Just as the three entered the chamber of commerce, Wang Qiang hurriedly rushed over, shouting:

"Professor Ma, how exactly did Little Wu disappear? How did a perfectly good person just vanish?"

Ma Ning knew Wang Qiang had a good relationship with Wu Fan, and with a heavy sigh, said:

"According to Brother Nian Dong, Comrade Wu Fan disappeared in an instant, without even having the chance to make a sound, which seems slightly different from the way a transmission array slowly fades."

Zeng Gu Cheng, who was standing behind Wang Qiang, slightly shook his head in regret upon hearing this.

Although he wasn't that deeply acquainted with Wu Fan, he had just taught Wu Fan how to use the equipment and positioning yesterday.

An important figure disappearing just like that, to say it's sad might seem a bit pretentious because it indeed hasn't reached that point, but his feelings were somewhat heavy and regretful.

For a while, the atmosphere in the chamber of commerce was rather somber.

In the end, it was Lin Ziming, the soldier, who came out to control the situation.

After all, in the soldier profession, especially during special times, not to mention disappearances, even witnessing comrades die on the spot, they have to grit their teeth and do what needs to be done; their mental toughness is the strongest.

He cleared his throat slightly and addressed everyone:

"Everyone, Comrade Wu Fan's disappearance has become a fait accompli; no amount of regret can change it.

So, rather than wallowing in regret and loss, we might as well face reality a bit stronger.

Let's all gather our emotions first and go in to discuss photon detection affairs; the command center will arrange matters concerning Comrade Wu Fan."

Seeing Wang Qiang still seemed a bit dejected, Lin Ziming thought for a moment and added:

"Little Wang, didn't you say Comrade Wu Fan has some sort of protagonist aura? Maybe this time it'll help him escape danger too."

Wang Qiang sighed a sound:

"I hope so."

After entering the courtyard of the chamber of commerce.

Lin Ziming handed his long-distance photon receiver to Zeng Gu Cheng, asking:

"Academician Zeng, Comrade Wu Fan's photon receiver disappeared with him; will it have any adverse effects on data collection?"

Zeng Gu Cheng took the photon receiver, shook his head, and explained:

"The photon receiver transmitted the information back before Comrade Wu Fan disappeared, so there's no case of missing information."

Then he paused and continued:

"Let me briefly state the results we calculated this time.

We calculated the 'state' of photons, as well as the amplitude Σ value and the critical φ value from the entanglement scene.

With the containment of three photons, we can basically deduce that the transmission array is precisely an offspring based on quantum teleportation.

As for other entangled information contained by photons, we need to further analyze it after returning to the laboratory.

Moreover, we have another discovery..."

Lin Ziming immediately asked, "What discovery?"

Ma Ning led him to the screen of the 'Zhou Bi' supercomputer, pointing to a diagram on it and said:

"Colonel Lin, how many bands are there on this display? The red ones."

Lin Ziming leaned over to have a look, and with a puzzled expression said:

"Isn't it obvious? Look, one, two, three, four, five, six, six bands."

Zeng Gu Cheng nodded, explaining:

"These bands represent the amplitude of the entanglement information; the state obtained by unitary transformation in αI1I.... never mind, you wouldn't understand that either.

In short, one sentence.

Theoretically speaking, however many photons we contain, there should be that many amplitudes occurring.

But in this test, we actually only contained...

Three photons."