Chapter 166: Opening the

Yang Yi's figure receded into the sky and vanished in an instant.

Whenever this happened, Chris had the illusion that one day she would disappear from his life in the same way.

He entered the house, went straight to the storage room, opened the door, and found a whole row of laboratory-grade DNA-specific decontaminants neatly arranged in the cabinet.

After buying them, he had checked them carefully; there were no signs of them being opened, and the product codes matched the official website—they were not fakes. He had asked a friend to buy them, not even letting John procure them for him.

He directly moved out a box, put on disposable rubber gloves, and began working.

He knew every place Yang Yi had been inside out: the tableware she used, the cups, the places she walked, the places she sat, the bathroom... Oh, and the bedding; everything had to be soaked in decontaminant...

After finishing, it was already two hours later; he wiped his sweat and recalled if there was anywhere he had missed.

Standing in the empty living room, he still felt uneasy, as if a pair of eyes were silently watching from some gap in the house...

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"Yo, back from your holiday?" Feng Liancheng saw her and said with a grin, "Went on a date? I saw it in the entertainment news; that strange woman beside Chris was you, right?"

"Sigh, there's no privacy left." Yang Yi opened the door to her office and sighed.

"Who told you to find an international superstar? If you found someone unknown, there wouldn't be this fuss." Feng Liancheng said carelessly, "By the way, how is Chris's recovery? When we left London City last time, he looked quite serious."

"He said he's much better; just need to go to the hospital for checkups every few days." Yang Yi asked again, "What are my work arrangements recently?"

"Let me see," Feng Liancheng opened his portable computer, "... Dean Liu of the Dark Matter and Astronomy Research Institute invites you to guide their work, the content is about the altar; the National Space Administration and the Dark Matter Institute are cooperating on the 'Interstellar Migration' plan, inviting you to inspect and guide the work; Professor Wu of the Awakening Assessment Institute invites you to assess the awakening levels of Awakened ones, but you don't have to go if you're busy; Director Zeng of the Abnormal Creature Prevention Institute invites you..."

Hearing the words "Evil God" and "altar," her good mood instantly vanished, and a heavy shadow re-covered her heart.

She even began to despise herself in her heart; clearly, such a huge crisis was about to arrive, yet she still had the mood to go on a date. But she also knew that self-reproach was unnecessary; this shadow had always been there, before the dark matter descended, before humans noticed, before she awakened, and even when she was still a baby.

Just like a patient with cancer who knows they will die in a few months but still wants to eat something delicious today.

"I'm almost becoming your secretary!" Feng Liancheng saw her zoning out, stopped reading, and complained.

"Then I'll talk to Director Zhou and let you be my secretary!" Yang Yi said with a smile.

"Absolutely not! You are worth a thousand words with a single sentence; if the superiors hear this, won't they immediately order me to pack up and come to you? My current job is going well; why should I run errands for you?" Feng Liancheng waved his hands repeatedly, "My outgoing personality doesn't mean I like dealing with people; I still prefer technical work."

"Alright," Yang Yi didn't want to force anyone, "You contact Dean Liu; I'll go to the Dark Matter and Astronomy Research Institute first, then visit the 'Interstellar Migration'..."

Feng Liancheng wrote while muttering, "I'm telling you, this is the last time; I am not your secretary!"

Yang Yi smiled silently, deliberately not taking up his topic.

"By the way, no matter where you go in the future, you must be careful; don't leave DNA traces everywhere; domestic spies and agents are going crazy; just pretending to be our Awakening Bureau cleaners and plumbers, they've already caught over ten..." Feng Liancheng reminded, "You went to a restaurant for dinner yesterday, and to Chris's house; did you leave any traces?"

He asked openly, and Yang Yi held no grudge, "Rest assured, after your last reminder, I have always used telekinesis to create a barrier."

The Dark Matter and Astronomy Research Institute was some distance from the capital; Yang Yi flew there.

Before she arrived, Feng Liancheng had already coordinated with Dean Liu; upon her arrival, she went directly into a secret laboratory located underground.

As soon as she entered the laboratory door, she saw a gray-green, ancient-looking altar, exactly the same as the ones she had seen in Misty Town and on the Yellow Sand Planet.

Her steps paused, then she walked to the altar and began to observe it carefully.

Dean Liu took the initiative to explain: "This is a model we made based on the images sent by the United Nations and the altar in the sky over Britain last time, but the material used is ordinary bluestone, and the patterns on it are incomplete—according to our research, the patterns carved around the altar are an ancient script; our linguists are still studying the meaning of these characters, but due to the lack of data, progress is slow..."

"Can I help in any way?" Yang Yi asked slowly.

"At the last meeting, you said you mastered the coordinates of the Yellow Sand Planet and could open an interdimensional channel to go to the Yellow Sand Planet; didn't you smash that altar to save Britain last time? We were wondering if we could bring that altar back to study it."

"Fine." Yang Yi didn't say much.

"Perfect!" Seeing Yang Yi so straightforward, Dean Liu was very happy, "The colleagues from the 'Interstellar Migration' project team are also rushing over; humans are seeing other planets outside the solar system for the first time; everyone is very excited!"

Just as he was speaking, the researchers from the 'Interstellar Migration' project team also arrived; after briefly introducing the main leader of the project to Yang Yi, everyone gathered in a tightly sealed hall underground. The hall was separated by special glass walls; on the other side were various detection machines and control panels, and many researchers were urgently debugging the machines.

After confirming the machines were debugged, Dean Liu and others looked at Yang Yi with hidden excitement.

Yang Yi felt immense pressure being watched by so many people.

Since merging with a part of the fragments, she naturally gained some unpredictable abilities, as if she had been born knowing them.

Such as space fracturing, such as drawing from the source of life, such as destruction...

Yang Yi stood still; she did nothing, yet people felt she had already moved.

Clearly, in their retinas, Yang Yi was standing there perfectly fine; however, in their blurred consciousness, they seemed to see a dark, chaotic universe, a black hole darker than the universe itself, rotating slowly but extremely stably.

Like a whirlpool in a river, everything around it would vanish into the center of the whirlpool...

On the other side of the glass wall, countless detection machines shrieked sharply at once, warning lights of various colors flashed on and off, and curves on various screens jumped wildly.

"Dark matter energy has broken through the critical value!"

"5 times! 10 times! God! 100 times! Damn, it exceeds the detection limit, can't detect it anymore—"

"Spatial gravitational waves exceed the detection limit—"

"Unknown radiation detected! Hurry and tell Professor Liu and the others to get out!"

"Uh... no need, it seems she has isolated it..."

"..."

In the middle of the hall, speckled gray-black erosion spots appeared out of thin air in the air, as if some force had corroded space; the erosion spots increased, gradually melting open "a door," and a strange Yellow Sand world appeared on the other side of the "door."

Professors Liu and the others seemed to suddenly snap back to reality; the illusion from that instant seemed never to have appeared; they looked at this "door" and became excited.

"Great, quickly detect the various values of this world! Radiation levels! Is there oxygen? Various gas contents!"

The scientists got busy, and Yang Yi stood nearby maintaining the operation of the "door."

Watching the smartest minds on Earth work, hearing various academic terms she didn't understand, seeing various precision machines embodying human wisdom, and observing various human scientific observations and summaries of cosmic phenomena, a deep respect arose in her heart.

From the prehistoric apes to modern humans, from ignorant and unaware animals to the "wisdom of all things" with seven emotions and six desires, humans have experienced millions of years; this time might be just a fleeting moment on the cosmic scale, yet for humanity itself, what a magnificent achievement this is.

Humans are worthy of pride, she thought, if given enough time to develop...