Chapter 3675: Exploring More Uses

The helicopter arrived in the southern suburban mountains and forests, the area where Changsheng Bo had self-destructed initially, which has now regained vitality, with wild grass growing exceptionally lush.

However, since all the trees in this area were destroyed initially, this has formed a neat, prototype-like depression in the entire dense forest, conveniently facilitating the helicopter's landing.

Lin Wan'er skillfully turned off the engine, and the rotor speed continuously decreased until it came to a complete stop.

The two stepped down from the helicopter, and Lin Wan'er suddenly turned back to look at this light helicopter, asking Ye Chen: "Young Master, can this helicopter also be stored in the space?"

Ye Chen smiled and said: "It should be fine, after all, the space capacity is still quite large."

Lin Wan'er looked at him with anticipation, smiling and asked: "Then could you demonstrate it for me?"

Seeing the clear light in her eyes, Ye Chen naturally wouldn't dampen her enthusiasm, so he reached out to touch the helicopter, silently reciting the incantation for storing objects in space, and this light helicopter instantly vanished in place, then, as Ye Chen intended, steadily parked itself in the exact center of the storage space.

Lin Wan'er watched Ye Chen gesturing into the empty space before her like watching a magic trick, excitedly saying: "It's amazing! This way, Young Master can completely keep several vehicles in the space, always ready for emergencies. If one could instantly conjure a helicopter, a car, or a speedboat anytime, anywhere, it might seem useless normally, but it would surely be crucial at critical moments."

Ye Chen nodded in agreement: "That's a good suggestion! I'll have Old Chen arrange it right away, though I don't know how to fly a helicopter, so in the future, operating the helicopter will still rely on Miss Lin, so please advise on what model to purchase."

Lin Wan'er smiled: "Airbus has a new helicopter model that seems quite performant; I have connections in France, so I can directly order one with no information feedback, and I'll handle this matter."

Ye Chen asked her: "What does 'no information feedback' mean?"

Lin Wan'er explained: "Aircraft and other equipment differ; most equipment manufacturers only handle after-sales maintenance after selling, but some specialized equipment manufacturers retain information feedback modules to monitor equipment operation under certain conditions, and some can even remotely lock it. Aircraft involve many safety issues; if one directly purchases a regular helicopter, Young Master storing it in space would cause the manufacturer to lose information feedback, and if used again in another place or country, the feedback would resume. If it's only a few times, they probably wouldn't care, assuming the helicopter was transported elsewhere for use, but if frequently switching between distant regions, it might attract attention. I can have people remove these directly, so the helicopter doesn't need registration—put simply, it's black flying."

Ye Chen nodded and smiled: "Understood, Miss Lin is meticulous. Looking at it this way, vehicles can only be purchased as traditional fuel-powered vehicles, as new energy vehicles certainly also have this information feedback function."

"Yes." Lin Wan'er said: "And it's best to buy purely off-road vehicles, with no network-capable modules installed on the entire vehicle."

"Simple." Ye Chen said: "First, take some soil back; I'll arrange the car and speedboat!"

Subsequently, Ye Chen willed it, and the helicopter instantly returned from the storage space to its original location.

Ye Chen originally thought taking soil should be simple—just touch the ground, will it, and take as much as wanted—but trying this approach found it ineffective, as soil on the ground is a whole, not something that can be automatically excavated by mere will.

However, if the soil is dug out and piled aside, then storing it in space proceeds very smoothly.

Ye Chen speculated that perhaps the storage ring's storage and retrieval itself lacks extra energy, like a stone mountain: to get some stone, one must first cut the desired portion oneself; otherwise, relying solely on the ring, it lacks the ability to split off that stone portion.

Thus, Ye Chen condensed spiritual energy into an invisible large shovel in midair, then used spiritual energy to drive the shovel to dig deeply into the soil. Not long after, he dug out at least several dozen cubic meters of fertile soil, stored all of it in space, and neatly stacked it in a corner.

However, what surprised him was that when this soil vanished into thin air, the ground suddenly had a large number of insects and invertebrates—beetles, ants, earthworms, even immature cicadas—swarming densely across the ground. These originally sleeping insects suddenly lost their nests, seemingly stimulated and frightened, scattering in all directions.

Lin Wan'er, having never seen so many insects suddenly emerge, screamed in fright and immediately hid behind Ye Chen.

Although Ye Chen wasn't afraid of bugs, seeing so many densely packed made him somewhat uncomfortable, so he used spiritual energy to conjure a gust of wind to blow them away.

Lin Wan'er asked doubtfully: "Young Master, why are there so many bugs under this soil, with such high density..."

Ye Chen solemnly shook his head and said: "These bugs should be remnants left in the soil I just stored in space."

"Left behind?" Lin Wan'er asked in surprise: "Young Master, do you not want to store them in space, or cannot?"

Ye Chen was surprised by Lin Wan'er's quick reaction, pondered briefly, and said: "Probably cannot; when I stored the soil, I didn't consider these—it seems the soil, when stored in space, filtered these bugs out."

Lin Wan'er nodded and said: "This means living things cannot enter the space, i. e., animals, while plants can."

"Exactly." Ye Chen said: "That space inside likely has no concept of time; plants inside would stop all growth, so storing conscious animals is probably impossible."

Lin Wan'er laughed: "That makes sense; otherwise, if one could casually store people, just thinking about it is rather terrifying."

Ye Chen laughed: "Yes, if one could store living people, I wouldn't need to fear Wu Feiyan—I could just find a chance to shake her hand and store her in space."

After saying that, he slightly furrowed his brows, curiously muttering: "If living things can't be stored, I wonder if corpses can."

Thinking so, he picked up a dead beetle from under his feet, willed it, and the beetle indeed vanished from his hand.

Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh: "It seems living things truly cannot enter the storage space."

Speaking, Ye Chen suddenly realized a problem and said to Lin Wan'er: "Miss Lin, you said if the storage ring's corresponding space isn't a storage space but an actual, existing space, what would happen?"

Lin Wan'er said: "Then it should be able to store people and living things, right? Just like Young Master bringing me into the underground city via the teleportation array."

Ye Chen nodded: "In that case, if they could place a teleportation array leading directly to the base inside the ring, the entire underground city would become a vast storage space, allowing personnel and supplies to be teleported there anytime."

Lin Wan'er said earnestly: "Theoretically, this might indeed be the case; if Young Master someday masters array construction, perhaps he could try refining the array that teleports back to the underground city into a magical artifact! That would truly be very convenient."

Ye Chen self-mockingly laughed: "Those cultivators with great divine powers haven't achieved this, so it's likely very difficult to achieve."

Lin Wan'er suddenly recalled something and blurted: "But Young Master, don't forget—this ring itself can teleport; when my father and you were severely injured, it was this that sent you to me!"

Ye Chen instantly came to his senses, exclaiming: "Indeed! If the ring's interior can hold a teleportation array, why did they design it to be passively triggered? Actively teleporting away upon danger would be much easier!"