Void Jigsaw Puzzle

After hearing what Zhong Chenmu said, Guo Ling was stunned, and then felt a sense of fear.

"So I met a big shot from the Hydrogen Clan! No wonder he's so arrogant..."

Zhong Chenmu asked, "What does he want you to do?"

"He asked me about the whereabouts of that woman, but his attitude was very rude, so I didn't know anything about it, and then he disappeared. However, during the brief conversation with him, I felt some strange movement inside my body. It's hard to describe this movement, a bit like a bud suddenly emerging from my stomach, then shrinking back, and then it was as if nothing had happened."

"Brother Guo, your description...why does it feel like you're saying you're secretly pregnant?"

"..."

"Hahaha, no kidding. Hydrogen Ao is a tough guy and has never been very friendly to us. Fortunately, he didn't do anything to you. As for that feeling, maybe it was just an illusion. It's completely gone now, right?"

"Well, no more."

"Okay, then let's split up first."

“Okay, keep in touch!”

After sensing that Guo Ling had disappeared from Taibai Star and returned to Wuming City, Zhong Chenmu fell into deep thought in the void.

He believed his judgment of the duality of reality and illusion was correct, but it seemed everyone awakened this attribute in a different order. However, from the perspective of achieving the Jigsaw Team's goal of helping the incomplete ones find their loved ones as quickly as possible, awakening quickly was essential to reaching Taibai Star and the wider universe. He had been pondering how to achieve this goal on a large scale.

However, before that, he obtained more important information about the elemental node from Guo Ling.

Finally, we know how they travel so quickly between the stars!

He decided to find the so-called elemental node and experience it for himself. Since he couldn't go back to Wuming City now, he might as well wander around outside and explore the real universe.

Clearly, the reason the Hydrogen Clan and other cosmic groups can employ this method is related to their lack of physical form. As a purely virtual civilization, transmission is naturally easier, requiring only adherence to the laws of the microscopic physical world, without having to consider the limitations of the macroscopic world. It's absurd to think that achieving rapid travel through the vast and immense universe requires relying heavily on the laws of the microscopic world.

What does this mean? Is the entire universe a giant cycle with a continuous connection? Does the end of the macrocosm lead to the microcosm?

The more Zhong Chenmu thought about it, the more excited he became. He realized that now was the best time for him to explore rapid interstellar travel!

Because he currently only has an ethereal form and cannot be embodied, just like the Hydrogen Clan, being able to transmit through elemental nodes is obviously a necessary condition. Those people in Wuming City, since they all have embodied bodies, it is definitely impossible to transmit directly.

After all, this is the real universe and world, not magic on the stage.

But where can we find the element nodes?

Zhong Chenmu thought carefully for a long time, but still had no answer, and felt a little annoyed.

He tried to calm himself down, and at this moment, he realized that he had just fallen into a fixed mindset!

"I've been trying to guess where that elemental node is, but I'm completely in virtual form right now, and there's no way I can 'see' the elemental nodes, which are also virtual! These elemental nodes may function much like bus stops, but they're not bus stops, quietly placed on the roadside for me to see. Just like the analogy I gave earlier, elemental nodes are like nodes in a communications network. How are digital signals in the communications network transmitted to the nodes? It's not by searching, but by directly following a planned path! Similarly, if I want to reach an elemental node, I should look for a planned path. Once I find a path, I'll naturally reach the node!"

However, his newly elevated spirits quickly waned, because he found himself unable to answer the next question: "Then... how do we find the planned path? If finding the planned path to the elemental node is as difficult as finding the elemental node itself, or even more difficult, why bother looking for the planned path?"

At this moment, an idea flashed through his mind. He couldn't believe it for a moment, but he felt that he could give it a try.

After all, even if he fails, he won't lose anything.

So, Zhong Chenmu silently said: "I want to go to the nearest elemental node."

He felt as if he were being scanned and filtered by something, yet he was completely unaware of it.

Then, he received a reply: "The nearest elemental node is located at the dome of Taibai Star. Where is your target elemental node?"

Zhong Chenmu was extremely excited, thinking that if he had a physical body at this moment, he would probably cry with joy.

However, he didn't know how to answer this question.

"Where is the target elemental node? How would I know? No! If the starting node is at the dome of Taibai Star, shouldn't the target node also have a similar description? The name of a planet with a specific location as a suffix?"

As I was thinking, another message came: "If you don't know the target element node, you can use fuzzy search."

"What? So advanced?" Zhong Chenmu was completely shocked.

At this moment, he suddenly recalled that when Guo Ling told him about the elemental nodes just now, he mentioned the hydrogen clan woman and the helium clan and the carbon clan.

If you want to play, play big! He decided to leave the realm of the hydrogen family and go deeper into the universe.

So, he replied: "I am going to the territory of the Helium Clan."

"The Helium Clan's territory is vast, encompassing the entire Pisces-Waithai Supercluster. Which planet are you heading to specifically?"

"What planets are there? List them for me."

"There are too many, and it's beyond the ability of fuzzy search."

"What about planets similar to Taibai Star? Which planet is Taibai Star of the Helium Clan?"

"Sumeru."

"Sumeru Star..." Zhong Chenmu pondered the name and found it quite interesting.

So he replied: "Then let's go to Mount Sumeru."

"Okay, which elemental node on Xumi?"

"What?"

"There are white rivers, black rivers, gray rivers..."

"Then it's Baihe, the Baihe of Xumi Star."

"sure?"

"determine."

No more news came, but soon, Zhong Chenmu felt dizzy.

He felt himself spinning, faster and faster. Logically, he was in a virtual state and shouldn't have the kind of reaction that would normally occur in a physical state, but the feeling was so vivid that it left him feeling incredibly confused.

Dizzy and confused, he lost consciousness without realizing it, and when he regained consciousness, he found that the dizziness had completely disappeared.

He sensed everything around him and soon discovered that this was a strange world.

"Could this be the Xumi Star where the Helium Clan is located?"