Old Green had been immersed in magic and creation, while Xue Dili spent this time tasting various kinds of bread.
From tree trunks, to the aloe vera at home, to the unknown plants in the greenbelt, and the dogtails on the graves at the village cemetery, even the roses someone gave him, he turned them all into bread and ate them. Surprisingly, some things had very distinct flavors, yet they were quite tasty.
He finally understood the effects of his special "Bread Technique."
It can turn any organic matter (preferably plants) into carbohydrate bread, and this bread retains some of the original material's flavor. So, don't expect to turn anything indescribable into bread.
Moreover, the total energy of the bread carbohydrates slightly exceeds the energy of the raw material (with the enhancement of magic power), so overall, this might not be of much use in battle, but it has unexpected help in various environments.
Meat can even be turned into bread. He tried it—one kilogram of meat can become 0.9 kilograms of bread, and the energy provided by the bread to the human body is twice that of the same weight of meat.
Magic, isn't it fascinating!
Perhaps the Great Sage would like this technique. Xue Dili remembered the many places in need he was meant to help were so poor they had nothing but people.
If they had this technique, the old guy might be able to save more people.
Perhaps he would be happy.
And today, Xue Dili experimented with turning the bedboard into bread, tasting a moldy flavor, but the Cursed Blood did not detect any mold.
Meanwhile, he continued holding the emergency communication device from the Interstellar Corps, an item passed from Uncle Brave to the Holy Magic Continent, then somehow transferred to the Fairy Tale World, and finally landed in Xue Dili's hands as he sensed the coordinates on it.
Strangely, it only connected with coordinates related to the Savior Holy Sword. There was no trace of coordinates from either the Holy Magic Continent or the Fairy Tale World.
According to the limited instructions left by Uncle Brave, he intended to deconstruct this device.
Then, the device suddenly emitted a red light, seemingly transmitting some special message.
Xue Dili: "..."
Could he have accidentally activated it? No way, Uncle Brave risked his life not to use this item; he shouldn't have triggered it by mistake.
Xue Dili hurriedly checked but found nothing unusual. The communication was not transmitted far before disappearing, and there was no emergence of the "Subspace Teleportation Gate" mentioned by Uncle Brave.
As Xue Dili scrambled in confusion, Old Green put down his marble and came over.
"What's going on? This thing seems to be transmitting something." He also noticed the information on the emergency communication device but couldn't decipher it, only watching Xue Dili fumble around.
"This thing is, supposedly, an emergency contact device for a huge organization in the cosmos, very precious. It belongs to a group called the Interstellar Corps, which acts like interstellar police going around to put out fires everywhere." Xue Dili roughly explained his understanding of the Interstellar Corps to Old Green.
After all, his knowledge of this organization is learned from the Great Sage and Uncle Brave, structured somewhat like cosmic police responsible for various regions, helping solve injustices of all kinds.
Xue Dili can't imagine what kind of funding sustains such a large organization; perhaps it's from contracts with world consciousness after resolving disasters, collecting bonuses and awards as they do good deeds.
"This device, once activated, supposedly sends coordinates across spaces to all members of the Interstellar Corps, drawing countless people to help, making it very precious." Xue Dili explained the origins of this device and the Interstellar Corps.
"It sounds a lot like the Hospital Knights; they were also a group of people who went to assist wherever they knew there was trouble. Unfortunately, I couldn't find them later on—seems something happened to them." Old Green also spoke of a similar organization from their world that also helped people everywhere.
Xue Dili looked at Old Green in surprise. He always thought that most humans in the Fairy Tale World were like those in the Silver Country—arrogantly aloof and greedy. He hadn't expected to hear about a similar organization named the "Hospital Knights" today.
"A group of young pilgrim knights who also rescued people along the way, providing treatment and aid, gradually forming an organization," Old Green said to Xue Dili. "But later, I heard nothing more of them. Perhaps they disbanded, or maybe all died."
Old Green felt quite moved, as familiar people and things disappearing away might be the greatest punishment for him.
"Right, that panel left behind should be able to decode this." Xue Dili suddenly had a "I've got an idea" expression, placing the emergency communication device on the panel.
And the next moment, the panel indeed began to analyze, thereafter transmitting a series of intermittent messages.
[Help, save me... I don't want to die...]
[Save us...]
[Save...]
Message after message appeared on the panel, leaving Xue Dili and Old Green momentarily stunned.
Old Green dropped the brick he was holding, face full of worry.
The constant pleading messages, each containing the word "save," made Xue Dili realize this might be a kind of interstellar "SOS" distress signal.
"What's happening? Is it the Interstellar Corps people you mentioned who are calling for help?" Old Green asked Xue Dili, who was similarly frowning.
"I don't know either... if only Uncle Brave or that old guy were here..." Xue Dili was also frowning, clueless about the situation, as the emergency communication device only transmitted cries for help without any other useful information.
What's on the other side? Is it a stranded member of the Interstellar Corps? Or someone else, Xue Dili had no idea.
Unlike before, when he would gather almost all the intelligence before venturing forth, he now had no clue of what lay ahead.
Xue Dili tentatively pressed the emergency contact device against the Teleportation Gate. It took a long time to load, but suddenly, it activated.
Xue Dili: "!!!"
No, this isn't right. The emergency contact device only has the coordinates for the Savior Holy Sword, which means his own coordinates. So why is the portal opening to another location?
Old Green had a similar expression. As a Tier Four Mage, he could naturally sense the oddity.
"Should I send part of my spirit body over first to scout?" Old Green, who had some degree of freedom, proposed a plan.
"After all, I'm a soul body. Plus, with my small spells, ordinary dangers can't really harm my spirit body. If something happens, I can promptly warn you. If all is well, I'll send you a message," Old Green explained his idea.
"Is there no danger?"
"The worst that could happen is losing that spirit body, can't die from it, at most downgrade to Legendary Level." Old Green seemed unconcerned. The next moment, he split off a small cloud-like spirit body in front of Xue Dili and tossed it into the Teleportation Gate.
Like Aladdin rubbing a Divine Lamp.
He closed his eyes, sensing the information from the spirit body across the portal.
Then, Old Green's face grew increasingly grim, as if he'd seen something terrifying, and he started gasping incessantly.
"Wait, what did you see?" Xue Dili hastily opened a can of cola and handed it over. Old Green gulped it down before steadying himself, staring at Xue Dili like he'd seen a ghost, saying, "Hell!"
"?"
"No, I can't describe it to you. Let me show you what I saw." Old Green began pulling out a notebook purchased by Xue Dili, and under his incantation, several quill pens started sketching rapidly in the notebook.
It was as if dim light seeped through narrow slits, revealing a suffocatingly terrifying landscape, with shattered limbs strewn across the ground, and blood flowed into streams, silently snaking through rocky crevices, everywhere scenes of piled flesh and blood.
The inhabitants here had twisted faces, their forms incomplete, often having several or even dozens of heads on a humanoid body. Even just looking at the sketches drawn by the quills made Xue Dili's skin crawl.
Though the Super Beast King was even more exaggerated, with countless Giant Beasts and human faces on its body, the overwhelming "beastly feeling" made it less terrifying, more like a patchwork beast.
But if a person appeared that way, Xue Dili couldn't shake off a creepy feeling.
The quills drew more, and Xue Dili saw valleys formed like colossal rib cages, continuously pulsating stone pillars made of what seemed like flesh, and trees that grew human faces, composed of what appeared to be blood and flesh.
All this made Xue Dili profoundly uncomfortable.
No wonder Old Green used "Hell" to describe it. Xue Dili couldn't think of a better adjective; it was like a world where everyone was twisted and grotesquely pieced together.
Terror, grotesque, inexplicable.
"Wait, are there people? Normal people?" Old Green suddenly said excitedly.
The quill immediately flipped the page, revealing a few people dressed in unknown leather, holding spears and confronting those twisted monsters, their faces full of terror and fear.
Conversely, the multi-headed monsters seemed excited, with each head appearing to speak.
Flipping the page again, a human was snatched by a monster and disappeared into the darkness as if taken back to a lair.
"No, run, more of those guys are coming..." Old Green shouted directly.
"No time to explain." Xue Dili grabbed Old Green and tried to enter the portal, but as soon as he stepped in, he bounced back like hitting cotton.
[Confined, remaining time 2 days and 12 minutes]
"Mom, no time to explain, I'm going to save people, let me out, let me out, I promise to be safe this time, I won't lose myself." Xue Dili repeatedly promised.
After a lot of persuasion, the confinement was finally lifted, but the World Consciousness sent a message, "Limited to 24 hours, after 24 hours I'll pull you back directly."
"No problem! Love you, mom, see you tomorrow!"
He stepped into the Teleportation Gate, and the next moment, he saw a world filled with what appeared to be flesh and blood, like he was inside a giant creature's organs. A girl with a face covered in blood and another uncle looked terrified, unable to hold their spears steadily.
Without saying a word, Xue Dili conjured a circular saw blade in his hand, and instantaneously, under the natives' horrified gazes, the saw blade sliced the twisted monster in half.
"Are you hurt?" Xue Dili tilted his head, extending his hand towards the two on the ground.
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