Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

The feebleness of the voice proclaimed Lee Shen's ruined condition. Hearing it, the orc turned back to glance at the source of this frail tone.

"How long have you been here?"

The orc was burdened with the most unexpected question ever. Thus, the large frame frowned at Lee's bizarre query.

"Umm...It's hard to say. Maybe a month or two."

Lee Shen's next question followed the reply.

"Have you seen any human cultivators here? Any female ones?"

The orc was puzzled by the enquiry but decided to answer.

"Cultivators, huh? I don't remember seeing anyone."

Throwing a tilted head, the orc continued-

"You searching for someone?"

Lee Shen nodded as a reply and the orc chuckled.

"You have the whole world and you decided to search for people here."

Initially, the orc felt amused. But upon seeing Lee Shen's unchanged expression, he calmed down.

"I am looking...for someone. They were...taken here."

The pain rolled over him again and the words were barely connected. As the orc watched, Lee bit his lips and his nose bled.

Raising his head, the orc saw Lee Shen's bloodshot eyes. The surprise and perplexity that reflected on the orc's face conveyed to Lee that he is slipping down the thread of life.

"Her name is An Fenfang, a female human cultivator."

With these words, Lee Shen's consciousness faded again.

-----

Inside a subspace.

"We have lost all contact with Lee."

Ruella said while wiping away the sweat from her forehead. In front of her was Aero lying almost completely restored to perfection.

"Ugh...the Tubian was unlike anything."

Hudson was salvaging everything to squeeze out as much Essence as he could. He reduced all the living beings inside the EsGen and the subspace into nothing, to generate a hefty amount of Essence.

D was sitting silently on the ground. On the outside, he was calm and collect. But the amorphous entity was trying its best to stabilize a connection with Lee Shen.

"What do you expect from the Tubian of Anger?! Stop shouting and do something useful!!"

The Dimension Sovereign was engaged by the loud exclaims and screams produced by Hudson. He was also frequently distracted by Ruella's complaining.

There were occasions before when the System Storage had lost contact with Lee. But this time, it was a whole different story.

Ever since they lost communication with Lee Shen, his stats have gone blank. The integer values of Health, Power, Dexterity and Intelligence have vanished to thin air.

If it was the attributes tab alone, the unrest would have been little. But when the panel of Qi cultivation and Mana mastery began to glitch and eventually disappear, D felt an unspeakable uneasiness crawling over his being.

At first, the system panel was responding to D's summoning. After a few minutes, Hudson found delays in the panel appearance. This revelation sparked the fire of panic.

What sealed the air inside the subspace with despair was when D found out that the subspace has been somehow secured without compromise!

Thus, every intelligent being in the System Space was forced to put their maximum in re-establishing the communication with the system host, Lee Shen.

Except for the Draconic Wyverns and Zena, the only remaining living beings were Ruella, D and Hudson. And these three were sweating in their own ways while attempting to make a contact with the outside world.

"Uh oh!"

Hudson cried out as the system panel glitching madly displayed a new development. The name of the elements was beginning to blink without any warning.

The amorphous body of D rushed to Hudson to see the development. By the time he came near, the Fire element name had vanished!

And the next was the Water element.

---

About an hour later.

The system space had lost its lustre and vibrancy. The system had been reduced to a worthless bunch of data and information. The elements tab had been completely wiped out in an hour.

"Is he alive?"

Ruella was weak when she raised a question. Without turning back, D nodded and gestured to give some silence.

Zena tiptoed to Rulla and rubbed her head to the True Druid's torso. The feline face exhibited her concern to her master. The Perrafin could tell that Lee is still alive but she could not evaluate his current condition. Zena conveyed that something is blocking her perceptions to an extent.

The same was the situation with the Draconic Wyverns. They could tell that Lee Shen is still breathing but they have been consistently failing to comprehend his state.

-----

About an hour later.

D jumped up and shouted-

"Lee is in danger and is critically injured. He is in the Tubian's hideout deep in the Intellus!"

Hearing this, Hudson lost his cool. Beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead as he asked-

"Can we reach him?"

The reply came negatively as D shook his head helplessly.

"That place is the turf of the most powerful beings on the planet. Even if we could open a portal next to Lee Shen, we will only be disclosing the existence of the System Space.

Also, he is kept inside a subspace. That means there is a Tubian with the power of Space."

Tides have turned against them on a grand scale. The rescue of Lee Shen from the home ground of Tubians was basically a suicide mission with unknown consequences.

The silence that enveloped the subspace was suffocating. Ruella and Hudson felt the magnitude of the threat that loomed over Lee Shen but they were unable to take action. Any initiative would only give away their existence and the possiblity of disclosing the presence of the System.

Roar!!

Cryo roared after standing erect on his hindlimbs. His roar resonated throughout the subspace and stunned Ruella and Hudson. D turned around with a deep frown etched on the amorphous face.

Following Cryo's lead, Pyro and Aero stood up vigorously and stretched their wings in a display of power and pride.

Somehow, this made Zena to stand up on her hindlimbs and growl like a hungry predator!