Lelu wasn't sure what she was seeing.

In the concept and vocabulary of mermaids, the process of being able to teleport people to a special space or a specific world can be called the process of entering a secret realm.

But the environment that appears around me at this moment -

In the incomparably open black space, strips of metal skeleton-like cooled igneous rocks form a regular structure like shopping mall shelves, and through the grid-like gaps between the structures, you can see the light of the stars shining in the distance.

Analyze simply the scenery in the field of view.

Lilylou thinks she is in a space environment outside the planet's atmosphere.

But normal breathing and body reactions were refuting the judgment made in her mind.

So...... What's going on here?

Did she and Ronald successfully teleport to the secret realm, or did she fall victim to some kind of hallucinatory scheme?

Just when Lilu was uncertain, Ronald's affirmative tone came from the side:

"Lilu, we should be in the right place."

"Oh?"

Lilu turned her head to look.

I found that Ronald had just squatted on the ground, and stood up with a strand of fiery red hair in his hand at the moment. Lelu remembered a story she had heard from Ronald before:

"It's ...... That Caterina hair you were talking about earlier? ”

"That's right." Ronald nodded, then tucked the strand away.

Just like the hair you picked up in the Astronomy Tower, the ground is marked by Caterina when you reach the place you arrive after crossing the lava lake. The magic that looms in it points the route forward.

Following the guidance of the magic, Ronald and Lelu explore.

As a result, they only took a few steps, and because of the change in the angle of vision, the two of them saw the scene outside the igneous skeleton on the left side - there is a word, it is called bright as a galaxy.

The picture that can become an adjective of a dazzling object is right in front of the two of them.

Countless stars gather at a great distance, forming a glorious river as long as a river, and without the influence of urban light pollution and atmosphere, this sense of brilliance is more shocking than that of the ground, and even the ability to speak for a short time.

In particular, neither Ronald nor Lelu were people without common sense of astronomy.

Suddenly faced with such a scene, they even forgot for a moment the movement of continuing to move forward.

…………

- Poke and poke.

After stopping for an unknown amount of time, Lilu reached out and poked Ronald:

"Ronald, where the hell are we?"

Ronald was immersed in the starry sky in the distance, and his reaction was not even as good as Lilu's, but he muttered back:

"If I could, I'd like to know the answer to that question."

Lilu found out about Ronald's state and patted the other party hard this time:

"So let's move on?"

Ronald came to his senses:

"Let's move on. Can't afford to delay any longer! ”

“……”

The two of them continued to move along the skeleton of the igneous rock, and the bright starry sky in the distance disappeared from time to time. However, before they could go too far, they noticed something striking again in front of them.

This time it's not a starry sky.

Just below the igneous skeleton at his feet, several slug-like, red-blooded, high-temperature group animals were moving forward with some ore-like objects.

Judging from their smooth and obviously targeted movements, they do not look like they have entered an unfamiliar environment, but they are species living here themselves.

Lilu looked curious, and even a little nervous, wanting to grab a sample for herself and come over to see:

"Ronald, what do you think they're carrying on their backs?"

"Don't alarm them." Ronald opened his mouth to stop Lilu's movements, and then mobilized his own magic, "I'll use spells to scout first, and try not to expose our existence as much as possible." ”

[Original Sin of Greed] soon brought news for Ronald.

"They are a kind of creature called a living fire slug, and their main job is to lay a skeleton in subspace to form a grid-like passage."

"Subspace?" This time the mermaid couldn't figure it out.

Although Lilu's race has a strong knowledge reserve, there is no subspace such research, which is a completely blank unfamiliar field.

When Ronald saw Lillo's appearance, he immediately realized that there was no way to get information about it.

He thought about it.

The target of [Greedy Original Sin] immediately shifted from the live fire slugs to the igneous skeleton beneath their feet.

The feedback came, and Ronald immediately understood everything.

"Is that so......"

When Lilu heard this, she hurriedly grabbed the corner of Ronald's clothes, and the curiosity in her eyes was unobstructed:

"Ronald, have you figured out what's going on here?"

"Tell me about it!"

Ronald nodded at Lilu, and then continued on his way around the live fire slugs with Lilu before he explained:

"Under normal circumstances, the world is almost incommunicable from world to world."

Thus, the creation of subspace was studied and produced by certain lifeforms. They designed a frame that could be laid artificially, penetrating space to connect different worlds to each other. Energy nodes can also be projected on individual nodes, and once the energy nodes are developed, they will naturally be connected to this framework. ”

Speaking of which, Lilu had fully understood the situation, and pointed to the igneous skeleton under her feet to make a final confirmation:

"So this thing under our feet is the corresponding product?"

"That's right." Ronald nodded.

“……”

"What are you kidding, this kind of thing is a bit too exaggerated!"

Lilu couldn't help but mutter, apparently thinking that this statement was too outrageous.

In the mermaid's cognition, neither in terms of technology nor magic, such a thing should not appear.

Regarding Lilu's state, Ronald can only open his mouth to comfort.

In the process, he looked around and realized more - like the bright starry sky, which was actually not false.

In fact, it is the picture when the subspace reflects the external environment.

Then they saw it with the naked eye.

A hexagonal frame appeared in front of it, filled in the middle by a vortex of fiery red magic and liquid matter.

There's no doubt about it – it's a developmental node.

And the token left by Caterina points to this location at the moment.

Ronald was about to jump off the whirlpool, but this time, the mermaid Lilu was uncharacteristically and reached out to grab Ronald's body:

"Ronald, you have to think clearly!"

"We arrived from the real world to the [Infinite Negative Domain], and then from the [Infinite Negative Domain] to this subspace node. One or two times is fine, but the act of crossing the boundary many times has separated us from the previous world, and this kind of thing can easily cause disorientation. ”

Lilu hastily spoke of the dangers of such an act, then paused, and finally asked with a serious gaze:

"So you're sure you want to go in?"

"If something goes wrong, you really can't go back!"