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Chapter 27 - Four-Dimensional Building Extension Blocks

Machi was also silent, assessing the contrast between the inside and outside of the house.

She was no less shocked than Uvogin, Phinks, and Feitan.

"There's an extra floor inside the house, but it's completely invisible from the outside..."

Although she was young and her vocabulary was limited, she didn't understand the concept of dimension and spatial change.

But this incredibly deceptive invention was incredibly practical!

"The spaces above and below are exactly the same..."

After Machi and Feitan entered the house and closed the door again, Uvogin came down from the second floor and smacked his lips in amazement.

"And it's even cleaner than down here."

In terms of floor space and layout, the second floor and the bottom floor were identical.

"Because the extra floor is built on the foundation of this house, the first floor looks the same as the second floor."

Luke smiled and took the floor blocks out of the building block house. 

Suddenly, the staircase that had originally led to the second floor vanished.

Naturally, the second floor that had appeared out of nowhere also vanished.

Invention: Four-Dimensional Building Extension Blocks

Source: Doraemon World — Future Tech Company.

Effect: Using the current room's floor as the base, each additional layer of room blocks adds another floor to the existing room. 

This additional floor is simply compressed in the 4th dimension, without changing the actual appearance.

This was precisely the invention created in response to Phinks's earlier request to see his house.

Adding more floors to a house creates more space, but this space is based on the current room.

In other words, the floors added by these Four-Dimensional Building Extension Blocks are based on the current floor as a template.

For example, when Luke used it in his little shack, the added floor all shared the same dimensions and layout as his current floor.

When Doraemon used this item, he was in Nobita's room on the second floor of Nobita's house.

So, the specifications of the additional floors above were based on Nobita's room as a template, with the area and layout identical to Nobita's room, rather than the layout of the first floor.

Furthermore, the additional floors would only be visible inside the room; they would be completely invisible from the outside.

This also provided excellent concealment.

"In other words, if the house is small, the additional floors will be smaller, and if the house is larger, the additional floors will be larger..."

This logic was easy to understand, and everyone understood it.

"So, if we can find a larger room and add a few more floors..."

Phinks' eyes lit up at this thought: "Then we'll have a large hidden space, a perfect place for a secret base!"

Well, any man, or even a teenager, can't avoid the temptation of a secret base! 

"But besides the elders' residences, where else in Meteor City can you find such a large house..."

For once, even Uvogin didn't shoot down Phinks's words. Instead, he fell into a rare, serious reflection.

He had no particular requirements for where he lived, so his house wasn't small, but it wasn't large either.

Overall, it was about average.

But…

"If you're really talking about a larger house..."

Uvogin couldn't help but think of someone, and a grin spread across his face. "Then I actually know one."

A relatively clean area in Meteor City, away from the garbage dumps.

The houses here were noticeably cleaner and larger than those in the garbage dumps and ruins.

As the saying goes: where there are people, there are grudges; where there are grudges, there's strife...

After all, even here in Meteor City, there are corresponding social classes. 

It was obvious that the residents of Meteor City were either of high status or, well, simply not to be trifled with.

Inside one of the houses at the very edge of this district, a thin, weary-faced fifteen- or sixteen-year-old youth with drooping eyes was washing his face with clear water.

"I guess I'll have to move out soon."

He had a lazy look on his face, seemingly unconcerned about his situation.

After all, he had originally lived in the garbage dump.

If not for that chance encounter, while scavenging, he'd met a sick man wielding a sword.

That man had stolen the medicine he had found and dragged him here to tidy up the place and prepare decoctions.

If the man hadn't already been near death and past caring about much else, then, given the wariness of Meteor City dwellers, the boy would never have been brought here, nor given the chance to live in this house.

Later, the man who had brought him in, undoubtedly, died of illness. Aside from a sword and this house, there was nothing left.

"Not even a bite of hot food left..." 

He muttered, smoothing down his loose hair.

"Better get out of here soon, or else those bastards will come looking for me. Then I might not be able to leave..."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a violent knock on the door.

"Huh?!"

The thin-faced man froze.

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he grabbed the sword left behind by the previous owner. 

But before he could tuck it at his waist and ready himself…

"Nobunaga? Are you still alive?! We've come to see you!"

 

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