Three days later.

Near the Gateway of Light.

It was still nighttime in the Damo Realm.

However, with the power grid from the thermal power plant now extended, the construction site was noticeably brighter than during the previous two nights, and the damage rate at night was steadily decreasing.

Watching the researchers in front of them conducting the final stage of checks, Lin Ziming and Yan Shaohua were chatting idly.

Yan Shaohua returned to the camp a few hours after the meeting ended three days ago. Unlike the urgency and danger when heading to Ziqiong City, the return trip was much more relaxed and smooth.

Due to having ample time to take the main road, they didn't even encounter a single beast on the way back.

This disappointed Yan Shaohua, who had specially bought seasonings before leaving Ziqiong City, intending to vent his frustration on the two-headed cow, vowing not to stop until he tasted two cow tongues.

At this moment, Lin Ziming was crossing his arms, his gaze sweeping over the migrant workers on the construction site not far away:

"Old Yan, without even realizing it, we've been in the Damo Realm for a while now. We didn't even go back to the army for this year's Army Day."

Upon hearing Lin Ziming's words, Yan Shaohua couldn't help but reveal a touch of yearning:

"Indeed, it's been a month without even noticing. Who could have thought a month ago that we would become cultivators now?

To be honest, I do miss my wife and children a bit, this feeling... oh, I forgot, you don't have a wife or kids."

Lin Ziming: "..."

Putting aside the latter half of the words, the first half did resonate with Lin Ziming.

In the past three days, with the substantial resource allocation from the command center and the assistance of the L17 spiritual particle cultivation module,

Lin Ziming and Yan Shaohua eventually succeeded in breaking through the first hurdle on the cultivation path, formally becoming novice cultivators at the first layer of Qi Cultivation.

Weaker as they may be, the significance was still relatively high, at least qualifying them as part of the first echelon in the camp.

In the Damo Realm, if taken seriously, in essence, this could be considered as stepping out of the realm of mortals and entering another tier of life.

Moreover, while Yan Shaohua's breakthrough was uneventful and plain, Lin Ziming underwent some unexpected mutations:

The skin area around his left shoulder unexpectedly developed a strong regenerative ability, healing faster than the average human's natural healing speed.

For instance, a wound from a small blade would fully heal within two hours, and his body's blood production system seemed to be functioning about 5% more efficiently than usual.

According to several top healthcare experts in the camp,

although the exact mechanism was unknown, it's likely due to the frequent use of Lin Ziming's left arm leading to such a mutation.

Unfortunately, Wu Fan was nowhere to be found at the time, and was not present.

Otherwise, upon hearing the possibility of mutations from frequently using certain areas,

he might have looked down at a certain part of his body and wondered if he could experience something special once he reached the first layer of Qi Cultivation.

Cough cough....

All in all, this was a good thing—for both Lin Ziming personally and the warriors as a whole.

After all, the medical team had once considered inserting a retaining needle for this passionate warrior.

Then Lin Ziming thought of something, his expression turned serious, and he said to Yan Shaohua:

"Old Yan, in a few days, the battle of Xiaolianzi Mountain is about to begin, and that's going to be a tough fight.

Your regiment is one of the main forces, right? How are you feeling, nervous? Can you sleep at night?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaohua chuckled, wiped his stubbled beard with his hand, and showed a gleam of battle spirit in his eyes, saying boisterously:

"Afraid of what? I'm just worried it won't be a tough fight. The real battles are interesting.

Back then, I experienced tactical nuclear strikes while bathing in the army, what are a few beasts compared to that!"

Just as Lin Ziming said, there was not much time left before the twin-headed cow siege battle at Xiaolianzi Mountain officially began.

The last time the warriors received intelligence about the beasts was over twenty days ago, and after careful discussion and comparison, the core layer drafted a forty-day battle preparation plan.

Now, less than twenty days remain until the originally planned forty-day operation date, and some main battle weapons have also been successfully transported to the Damo Realm.

Therefore, the battle is likely to commence on time, since the longer it is delayed, the more the beasts on the other side will recover healthily.

Due to various considerations, not many troops were mobilized from the home front this time; that kind of investment above a hundred thousand people was out of the question.

The number of warriors coming to the Damo Realm, including Yan Shaohua's armored regiment, was just over twenty thousand.

Approximately the number for a medium-scale military exercise.

After all, those coming to the Damo Realm need to be strong in combat capability and have a certain level of awareness as well.

Some new recruits are not suitable for appearing in the Damo Realm—it's not appropriate for either the warriors or themselves.

Also, for confidentiality reasons,

those assigned to the Damo Realm have to stay for at least a year, during which at most, they can make a few phone calls or video chats using a dedicated line outside the gate.

Combining the above conditions, along with the difficulty of troop movements.....

To speak frankly.

If it wasn't for the fact that there is a major Eastern battle group near Modu, with reserve troop numbers exceeding three hundred thousand annually, and some stationed troops in Lu Dong,

it would have been challenging for the warriors to accomplish this deployment—the core layer even specially orchestrated a large-scale military exercise in the western region, to attract some people's attention.

While Lin Ziming and Yan Shaohua were chatting idly, Lin Li's assistant Zhang Guanghua approached with a form in hand and said to Lin Ziming:

"Colonel Lin, it's time to get ready."

"Oh, okay."

Lin Li nodded courteously at him, turned around, and patted Yan Shaohua's shoulder, indicating that he was leaving first.

Then he said to the special forces soldiers Zhang Xin and Liu Ming beside him:

"Xiaozhang, Xiaoliu, let's get ready to set off."

Thus, after around 20 more minutes,

Lin Ziming, Zhang Xin, Liu Ming, along with Wei Niandong and two children about five or six years old, totaling six people, gathered neatly by the Gateway of Light.

At this moment, Lin Ziming held a small brown bag in his hand, one of the storage sacks previously brought back by the trade group.

The group was preparing to complete a task that was not too difficult but extremely significant:

to attempt to verify whether the spatial bag could be opened and used regularly on Earth.

If the spatial bag could function normally on Earth...

the home front could significantly increase the load capacity freed up daily.

Items like coal, food, and guns could be transported through it.

Even the Damo Realm could advance the feedback of resources—setting aside coal and rare earth, just transporting sand and soil would be highly profitable for the warriors.

The two children beside Lin Ziming were Wei Qiangsheng's direct descendants.

These were the two children agreed to be sent to the home front for education as per the previously reached agreement.

Although Wei Qiangsheng did not fully fulfill his promise to 'introduce private channels' in this trade mission,

this was mainly due to the temporary re-arrangements made by the warriors, and not much related to Wei Qiangsheng personally.

Moreover, he made a significant contribution during the market period, so naturally, the warriors would not deliberately breach the agreement.

The two children were a boy and a girl, the boy named Wei Tu and the girl named Wei Xiaotao.

The remaining Wei Niandong was there for the purpose of taking care of the two children.

After all, leaving the two children to go to the Damo Realm alone caused some concern on the part of the Wei Mansion.

If it weren't for the current unsuitability to have too many natives go to the home front, Wei Mansion might have organized a senior citizen tour group of twenty or thirty.

However, although the number of people crossing the Gateway of Light this time wasn't large, and their composition wasn't complicated,

the warriors still regarded this with utmost seriousness.

After all, crossing the Gateway of Light wasn't a trivial matter, involving the level of physical rules.

While the Gateway of Light directly links two worlds, making the Damo Realm and the home front seem just 'a door apart',

in reality, as can be seen from the neutrino experiments from the main base,

the 'distance' between the two worlds is by no means as close as it appears to the naked eye.

Neutrinos are currently one of the most penetrating particles, very light in mass, theoretically capable of penetrating any object.

According to existing experimental models, only a lead plate measuring five light-years in length might block a neutrino's penetration.

The specific theory involves β decay, which we won't delve into here.

Therefore, theoretically, neutrino communication is the most penetrating form of communication.

However, due to capture conditions, the number of neutrinos captured by the neutrino beam currently is only.....

three in ten million.

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