Chapter 2514 Enemies of the World 3

In a single day, the Zhurong clan came to an end.

The members of the Shadow Squad began to gather, and the mechanical legion was brought into the alternate dimension by Zhang Yi.

The three ships, together with the Skysea Fortress, formed a protective array and also fell into the alternate dimension.

The people and objects were arranged very appropriately in Zhang Yi and Mu Yan's space.

Zhang Yi used his ability to [travel through space] and began to move upwards.

When they broke through the last layer of rock and saw the real sky again, everyone appeared, greedily inhaling the cool air outside.

But when Zhang Yi saw the scene before him, he frowned slightly, feeling that something was different.

The wind no longer carries the smell of molten iron.

The clouds were unrealistically high, as if they had been stretched upwards dozens of times.

The horizon curves out into the far distance, and if you follow it with your gaze, you'll have the illusion that it's been stretched out.

Fatty Xu rubbed his eyes: "Why do I feel like... the sky has gotten bigger?"

Zhang Yi did not answer.

He made more than a dozen "flash jumps" in mid-air, as if connecting coordinates on an invisible chessboard.

Between each landing point, he visually estimated it with his naked eye and let the machine intelligence analyze and judge it.

He quickly stopped in front of the group, his brows furrowed slightly: "The distance has been stretched. With the same spatial traversal range, the straight-line distance between two landmarks on the ground is almost ten times longer than before our expedition. After multiple traversals, the deviation continues to widen. This is not our illusion; this place... has undergone a strange change."

Lu Keran was already rapidly calculating on the tactical screen, his tone a mixture of excitement and tension: "The landmarks don't match, and the map is riddled with errors. Either we've shrunk, or the world has grown!"

Yang Xinxin raised her hand to take over the remote link, her voice calm: "Connect to the Jiangnan region satellite. Real-time measurement!"

A dreamlike blue and white surface rotates on the light screen.

She quickly pulled up the Earth's radius, equatorial circumference, polar distance, and known elevation datum—the numbers were updating, followed by a bewildering multiplier bar after the units.

She took a breath, her voice carrying a clear surprise for the first time.

"It is indeed very strange! According to the data, Earth's volume has undergone a huge change! The radius has increased, and it is not a uniform expansion."

"Based on data from multiple satellites, the overall scale has increased dozens of times. The lines between mountains and seas are turning outwards, and the Old World is like a layer of paper beneath a relief. The true landform is unfolding."

The scene fell into a brief silence.

"Damn," Fatty Xu scratched his head, "have I gotten fatter or has Earth gotten fatter? We were only underground for a day, and the outside world has really changed so much?"

Zhang Yi landed in front of the crowd, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the snow-capped mountain that seemed to have been pushed into the distance.

"It's not a problem with the sensation, nor is the satellite broken."

His tone was gentle, but every word carried weight.

"This should be a change at the level of spatial structure. Simply put, the Earth used to be like a folded fan, with many areas folded into the 'gap'."

“Those ancient races that retreated from the past hid their territories between folds and dimensional rifts, similar to the secret realms of the dragon race and the Heavenly Palace of the Ihen race.”

He raised his finger and drew a zigzag line in the air, then gently pushed it, and the zigzag lines flattened out like creased sheets of paper.

"Now, the creases are being smoothed out. They are no longer hiding in the interlayers, or rather, countless interlayers are being unsealed at the same time."

"The result is—the true size of Earth unfolds! The world we see suddenly becomes enormous. But this is what Earth truly looks like."

Yang Xinxin nodded: "That's right. One piece of evidence is that gravity has not changed, which means that the overall mass of Earth has not changed."

"Therefore, it is not that Earth has changed, but that it has revealed its true form."

“So,” Zhou Ke’er blinked, “it’s not that Earth is growing, it’s that the map is unfolding its wrinkles, revealing its true face?”

"That's understandable."

Zhang Yi nodded, a faint smile on his face.

"History is bringing back the pages that were suppressed. The world we thought we knew was just a table of contents."

He had thought about this issue before.

Tianyu Palace, Qinling Dragon Clan Secret Realm, Mammon's Sealed Land.

They are all spaces that have been folded up.

So he imagined that if there were more hidden spaces on this planet, then Earth's true size would far exceed the area visible to the naked eye.

Yang Xinxin split the satellite images into multiple screens, and some ancient knowledge in her mind began to take effect.

She quickly pulled up several strange place names that appeared in ancient books and compared them one by one with the newly formed landforms captured by the satellite.

Her voice became a little softer, but brighter: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas says 'its breadth is tens of thousands of miles' and 'it can be reached in a year.' We used to treat it as poetry. Looking back now, the people of that era may not have exaggerated. They could measure the heavens and the earth, probably because they were powerful beings from before the earth folded, or at least they were able to enter and exit those layers long ago."

Lu Keran rested her chin on her hand, staring at a newly revealed underwater mountain range, her eyes filled with a vision of future battle plans:

"This means that resources, routes, threats, and opportunities all need to be redrawn. The original intercontinental distances, ballistic calculations, and communication attenuation are all invalid. Our legions need a completely new world-scale system. The main gun firing tables also need to be recalibrated."

Zhang Yi looked at her, his voice softening: "Yes, we need to rebuild a real map."

"But don't rush, this is just a side effect of the world's great changes. We have other things to take care of first."

He then looked at everyone and said, “Everyone should be aware that once the folded layer is unsealed, the territories of the ancient races will no longer be hidden. They will come out, either to occupy land and become kings, to form alliances to test each other, or to start fighting directly.”

"Our Huaxu Kingdom, as a first-rate power in the world, with its vast territory and huge population, is definitely already on their target list. More trouble is sure to follow."

Fatty Xu touched his helmet, muttering but no longer panicking: "Alright. The map has gotten bigger, and so has the cooking pot. But honestly, as long as we have food to eat and warm houses to live in, it doesn't matter how things change outside."

Zhang Yi rolled his eyes, then said seriously:

"The geothermal crystals left behind by the Zhurong clan are enough for us to double our mechanical legion. More importantly, we are constantly growing stronger!"

"The world is getting bigger, which is not a bad thing. It just reminds us that the vision we thought was sufficient is actually not enough. From now on, each of us is a pathfinder."

He looked up at the distant sky, where a cloud resembled a giant ship slowly moving.

"From today onward, Earth is no longer a well-worn chessboard; it is a script that has been turned over a new page. We must understand each page before deciding whether to rewrite it."