Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

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But in a world where he could control everything down to the minutest detail, Bai E had failed to discover any observable "entities."

"Nothingness," filled the entire storage space?

That was the only change.

Like a balloon with its neck released, full of air, the moment it entered Bai E's storage space, the virtual world seemed to have spewed out all the "nothingness" gases contained within it. Then, there was no more movement.

The weapon that had once instantly shattered Pansen's storage space showed not the slightest trace of its former grandeur at this moment.

Perhaps it was this "nothingness gas" itself that had directly burst Pansen's storage space?

As for his own... a storage space that covered life and death, illusion and reality, allowing all existing rules and all possible rules in the world to exist and be inevitably rational, could hold everything.

The virtual world quieted down.

Owning an entity with form but intangible, it occupied a tiny corner in Bai E's storage space. The initial contact released all the "nothingness" gas, which after being released, entered an unobservable, imperceptible state.

When everything calmed down, Bai E somewhat surprisingly "looked" at the transparent, irregularly-shaped "virtual world" lying in a corner of the storage space, almost unable to believe everything had settled so peacefully.

Although his Spiritual Energy had nearly been depleted, the outcome was unexpectedly delightful.

Only after confirming that the thing which had caused such an uproar had completely become his personal property did Bai E start to extend his will, attempting to delve deeper into the virtual world.

The moment his willful tendrils touched it, they easily penetrated it.

The answer was... a blank space.

White spread before Bai E's eyes.

Light from an unknown source filled Bai E's spiritual senses.

Blank... blank... all was blank...

Within the virtual world lay things beyond Bai E's human comprehension... "things."

Bai E felt as if from that blankness, he could hear countless soft but indistinct voices, and as if he could see a magnificent river surging towards him from the end of his sight, easily flowing through his body, and then boldly rushing towards the distant future behind him...

But the few vague images noticed in that moment of distraction vanished completely in a moment of clarity.

What was left... was only a vast blankness.

Blankness...

Bai E felt somewhat wistfully disappointed.

Having gone through so much effort, the virtual world he had been looking forward to was nothing but an incomprehensible blank space, which, naturally, was a bit disappointing.

"Eh?"

When his consciousness returned to his body and felt that sense of full satisfaction within, Bai E unconsciously let out a light exclamation.

The Spiritual Energy that was completely used up for "investigation" and "capture" had now fully recovered within the brief time he observed the virtual world.

Even due to a thorough depletion and recovery, the limit had increased by 1 point.

[Your Spiritual Energy has been rigorously exercised through long-term practice and usage, achieving a slight breakthrough, Spiritual Energy +1/1.]

Why?

His rapid recovery did indeed have a certain restoring effect on Spiritual Energy; the more it was depleted, the stronger the recovery effect, which was verified in the past.

But even in the fastest of times, it was at most a few points a minute—how could it compare to the instant replenishment of over a hundred points of Spiritual Energy?

What was the issue?

Bai E subconsciously called out his personal panel, and the blue light screen cascaded down like mercury, instantly spreading out in front of him.

With his consciousness flowing, the personal panel's history record of his personal state immediately popped up before his eyes—

[Feeling the energy emptiness within you, your "Rapid Recovery" has absorbed an intensely dense ownerless energy, replenishing your Spiritual Energy to full.]

"..."

It really was Rapid Recovery?!

But this "intensely dense ownerless energy"...

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His gaze drifted, detached from the normal five senses, as his spiritual perception "saw" the transparent "air bag" lying quietly in his storage space.

If there had been any changes during this brief period, it seemed only reasonable to think of this thing.

This thing, could it replenish his magic?

A reserve hidden energy source that could fill up his Spiritual Energy at any time?

Infinite blue bars, no cooldown, could he now unleash his ultimate moves without limit?

Turtle turtle!

Thinking about this glorious future made Bai E's breathing instantly become heavy.

The virtual world! The legacy left by the electronic devil should indeed have this kind of heaven-defying effect to match its grand origin.

Bai E's heartbeat sped up slightly.

It was still uncertain whether this was a one-time benefit of first conquest or a permanent effect, something that would need to be verified in the future.

If it were true...

Without the limitation of Spiritual Energy, even piloting a Mecha with huge consumption, he could use his strongest burst unrestrictedly.

Once again facing the nearly impervious armor of the Bug Race he had encountered last time, would you believe it if he said he could instantly kill a hundred with direct smashes to your face?

"Bai E..." A crisp call sounded not far away.

Immersed in his fleeting blissful reverie, Bai E jolted to attention at the sound and looked toward the source of the voice, spotting a sprightly figure standing there gazing in his direction, "Aryan?"

"It's me." A smile instantly burst across Aryan's face as she quickly ran over, "Why did you come here alone?"

Everyone was fussing over a man named Pansen, but... what did that have to do with him?

She was just a limited-capability assistant from the information department. Doing her assigned duties was all her world entailed, and she was not inclined to ponder too much on the so-called bigger picture.

If she could manage her duties while also doing things she enjoyed, that would be even better.

What were the things she enjoyed?

It was the process of coming out to look for him as soon as she realized he was missing...

"Me?" Bai E, who had done what he wanted to since arriving at the base and now felt satisfied, responded with an obviously warm smile, "Just taking a walk... I couldn't help with the big man's issue, so I thought I might see if there's anything here at the computing center that needed help."

Speaking, Bai E paused and then added, "By the way, when did you come here?"

Seeing Bai E's gentle smile, Aryan's heart skipped a beat and she shyly lowered her head and replied in a soft voice, "I've been looking for you ever since I noticed you were gone..."

Wasn't that declaration a bit too bold?

As she spoke, Aryan's hands were crossed behind her back, her fingers tightly interlocked with nervousness.

"Have you been standing there the whole time?" Bai E asked Aryan, who was looking down, his eyes flashing with a hint of undetectable chill.

"Hm... When I arrived, I saw you standing here lost in thought, and... didn't dare to call out to you."

After all, the daydreaming Bai E seemed to possess a different kind of charming appeal~

"Is that so..." Bai E smiled, suppressing the flicker of murderous intent that should not have been there in the first place.

Although Aryan's unexpected actions had risked exposing him, especially since the virtual world would no longer "attack" the computing center to steal Computing Power Resources after he had left, thereby heightening suspicion, he must not resort to killing over such a minor risk.

Not to speak of consequences, Bai E was far from being that brutal.

What puzzled Bai E even more was why, under his artificial being's absolute command to loyally protect humans, did he harbor the subconscious thought of killing an innocent person?

Not just now... The same went for his encounter with Pansen.

But fortunately, his will always dominated everything.

"Now that the big man has failed, what will you do?" Aryan flicked the hair from her brow and looked curiously at the side of Bai E's face.

"What will we do?" Bai E shrugged helplessly, "What else can we do? Besides the big man, we have no other experts in this area. We can only go back~"

"Oh~" Aryan nodded her head with a hint of disappointment, "Then... will you come back here in the future?"

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