Chapter 1372: 450. Round and round_2

From the looks of it, this place must be a warehouse for storing live small animals.

What these small animals are specifically used for remains unknown, as there are no textual informations in the Magic Vision.

The Snow-winged Cat was unable to move, able only to lie on the floor of its cage, curled up into a ball, pretending to be asleep.

Noland Lee cast a detection spell remotely and saw that, just as when he started out, it was under the influence of the “Power of Senati.”

In about five minutes, the “Power of Senati” would disappear.

By then, the Snow-winged Cat would be able to use its teleportation ability to come to Noland Lee’s side.

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Using the vision leap, Noland Lee scanned around the warehouse and found a thick Metal Gate.

The Metal Gate was tightly closed without any gap, and there were no handles, keyholes, switches, or password locks on the inside, seemingly only capable of being opened from the outside.

Noland Lee pondered for a moment, making no superfluous moves.

Since the Snow-winged Cat would be able to move freely in five minutes, he might as well wait quietly.

In the short time that followed, there were no changes inside the warehouse.

But when there was only one minute left until the “Power of Senati” dissipated, someone opened the Metal Gate from the outside.

Upon seeing the figure walking in from the door, Noland Lee slightly widened his eyes and thought to himself:

“Isn’t this convenient?”

The people entering the warehouse were dressed in pristine white jumpsuits, their heads protected by hemispheric glass helmets, hairless on the head but with a row of sprayed codes and numeric identifiers on the back of their heads.

Their faces displayed a numbness towards work, like walking machines, unaware of fatigue and always working at their stations until they were discarded.

Indeed, these were the Synthetic Humans from the Metal Creation Group.

After entering the warehouse, these Synthetic Humans checked the small animals in each cage one by one, selecting the lively ones to pack into suitcases and take away.

At this time, being unable to move, the Snow-winged Cat was naturally not chosen by the Synthetic Humans.

Taking advantage of the open Warehouse Gate, Noland Lee performed multiple vision leaps in quick succession, quickly understanding the situation here.

This was a massive space station with an extremely complex internal structure, floating in a starless Dark Star belt.

The Dark Star belt itself had no light sources.

Without a light source, it would not be detected by most observation methods.

A star belt naturally invisible to observation equipment was ideal for setting up secret bases and highly sensitive facilities.

The space station Noland Lee was observing was likely such a case.

It incorporated cloning research, biological modifications, drug refinement, etc., mainly tasked with researching how to transform non-human creatures into synthetics.

Simply put, they were turning small animals such as cats and dogs into synthetic creatures, like the Synthetic Humans, densely packed with electronic components and pipelines.

Well…

Noland Lee remained silent.

He had thought that the Snow-winged Cat had arrived at a tremendously significant research base of the Metal Creation Group.

However, it now seemed this was merely a rather well-guarded scientific research space station.

The research projects involved sounded impressive, but their practical uses and future prospects might not be as extensive as those of the Synthetic Humans.

Noland Lee was no expert in this area, not understanding much about biological modifications or Synthetic Human technology, so he could only draw such a somewhat superficial and one-sided conclusion.

What puzzled Noland Lee was why the Metal Creation Group would place such a research project with unclear application prospects in such a Dark Star belt that would not be detected by the outside world.

“Not clear, not clear, but I should focus on the task at hand.” noveldrama

Noland Lee shook his head slightly, dismissing stray thoughts.

The last minute of the “Power of Senati” ended, and the Snow-winged Cat regained mobility.

In the cage of the Snow-winged Cat, Noland Lee used the “Veil of Different Worlds” to create a decoy cat for cover, avoiding early detection of the Snow-winged Cat’s departure by the Synthetic Humans.

Then, Noland Lee raised his right hand, suspending it in front of him.

A faint white light glowed, and with a ‘piu’ sound, the Snow-winged cat suddenly appeared, steadily landing in Noland Lee’s hand.

Such swift teleportation was truly astonishing.

The advantages demonstrated by the Snow-winged Cat were not limited to this.

The Snow-winged Cat was not a biological creature, unaffected by vacuum, cold, negative pressure, and other environmental factors.

Even on this barren and icy uninhabited planetosphere, it could still maintain its snow-white fur and soft figure.

Noland Lee held it in front of him, gave it a good rub, and then began contentedly to narrate its task.

“I need you to follow the ‘Magic Pipe Network’ provided Telemetry signals, find the altered jump route destination of the transport ship.”

“Meow~~”

The Snow-winged Cat agreed.

Noland Lee covered it with the “Veil of Different Worlds” to avoid being discovered by outsiders.

“I’ve switched my consciousness to my Magic Avatar now, you teleport near that Avatar first, then follow my magic puppet aboard the ship.”

“Meow~~”

The Snow-winged Cat agreed once again.

Noland Lee closed his eyes to switch consciousness and when he opened them again, he found himself back in the Dean’s Office at the Magic Academy.

He called the Snow-winged Cat over.

After the Snow-winged Cat arrived, Noland Lee teleported it outside a black hole, to follow the magic puppet that was setting up a bomb, and to enter the transport ship tampered with by the Ancestral Metal Dragon.

Noland Lee used the “Magic Pipe Network,” utilizing “Mind Infusion” to share the magic vision he saw with the Snow-winged Cat.

Upon seeing the space signal turning point in the magic vision, Kitty immediately performed successive teleports.

It traveled by leaping along the thread symbolizing the space signal.

Each teleport allowed it to leap across light-years of distance.

Watching the Snow-winged Cat’s actions through the magic vision, Noland Lee couldn’t help but inwardly praise:

“Awesome, truly awesome. If the Snow-winged Cat could carry a ship while teleporting, it would definitely break the Universe records for ship jumping. That ’24 Hours max jump count prize,’ the ‘Fastest to complete 1000 light-years jump reward’, our Kitty could snag them all. Uh, of course, provided that after tying the ship to the Snow-winged Cat, it could still teleport so rapidly…”

Noland Lee chuckled at his own thought, but then he noticed that the transmission rate at the Snow-winged Cat’s end was slowing down, probably close to reaching its destination.

The journey showcased the cunning and craftiness of the Ancestral Metal Dragon fully.

This old dragon did not guide the transport ship directly to the destination, but instead altered the jump signal several times midway.

A jump signal that should have pointed straight to the destination was forcibly bent into several segments by the Ancestral Metal Dragon.

This directly resulted in the Snow-winged Cat following the jump signal across fifteen star domains, only stopping in a dark galaxy with sparse stars and hardly any luminous celestial bodies.

The thread representing the jump signal was pointing into such a pitch-black, dangerous area.

From visual observation alone, this place appeared to have nothing but darkness.

However, if someone were to use devices like gravitational wave detectors or deep space scanners, they’d notice some subtle spatial signals.

Anyone who has piloted a ship knows that such sneaky spatial signals generally indicate the presence of a hidden spatial entity — it could be smugglers’ illegal star gates or space stations developing illicit addictive substances.

Noland Lee had never piloted a ship, nor did he possess gravitational wave detectors or deep space scanners.

But!

He was certain this dark star domain was full of traps.

Because!

Wasn’t this the very place the Snow-winged Cat had teleported to earlier?

The decoy Kitty Noland Lee used to confuse the space station was in this dark star domain.

So it turned out that after a loop, the Snow-winged Cat had looped back to the starting point by following the jump signal?!

“I am really speechless…”

Noland Lee chuckled and cried at the same time.

The Snow-winged Cat meowed in his mind, clearly complaining about the Ancestral Metal Dragon leading them on a large circular route back to the starting point, just like its master.

Regardless, successfully finding the destination was good news, even though the process was indeed a bit convoluted…

“Okay, Kitty, you wander around this star system for now. With my ‘Veil of Different Worlds,’ you won’t be discovered. If you notice anything unusual, tell me right away.”

“Meow~~”

Noland Lee briefly instructed, then opened the game interface and informed ‘Command’ of his findings in written form.