The gloomy jungle was shrouded in a quiet and eerie atmosphere, and in any direction, all that could be seen was layers of black pines and bushes, and through the narrow gaps between the canopies, the sky could be seen cut by those jagged and strange branches, and the originally bright sky light was somehow dyed with a strange layer of lilac, and under the canopy, a layer of fog that never seemed to dissipate was gathering from all directions.The caravan drove through a forest road, which seemed to live in symbiosis with the black pine forest itself, but it was paved with old and broken stone slabs, and on both sides you could see the neatly arranged strange lampposts that seemed to be formed by the petrification of wood, which zigzagged through the forest, leading to an endless fog in front and ...... behind.
It's also an endless fog.It's not uncommon to find directions in the black pine forest, and experienced travelers know that if you follow a fixed path and choose your path in the middle of the road according to the signs at the fork in the road, you will always get out of this strange forest, but now, this rule seems to be invalid.There were no forks, no signs, only endless roads underfoot, which zigzagged through the thick fog, stretching through the forest as if to drag the team into an endless abyss, and the forest itself was silent and terrible at the moment."
Something is not right," said Charlemagne...... solemnly, "and it will not be long before you enter the black pine forest from the previous gate, and you will come across the first fork, and there will be two roads to the north and the west......
But it is clear that we are not on any of these paths. ”Hao Ren frowned and knocked on the data terminal on his shoulder: "Have we had a fork in the road before?"
”The answer from the data terminal was brief: "No." ”Vivien looked at Avena, "How many times have you been to the Black Pine Forest?"
”Avenna looked a little uneasy, she shook her head slightly: "I've only been here once before, and that was when I was very young, I visited Greenway with the envoys, and then took a little tour of the edge of the black pine forest......"
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "Tsk, I have no experience in operating here for a long time, and it's a shame that you still dare to choose this path." ”"Even the Empire people rarely have the experience of walking through the Black Pine Forest, let alone the Isu on the other side of the planet," Avena said a little stubbornly, "But we know a lot of knowledge about the Black Pine Forest, which was measured and tested by the adventurers of our country, and we have already memorized this knowledge as a pre-selection plan before we set off......"
"Okay, naïve little princess, now I want to tell you one thing, never overestimate your ability to adapt in the face of the unknown," Vivi looked at Evena quietly, "Your knowledge doesn't work now. ”Avenna wrinkled her nose, but didn't end up retorting anything, but asked, "Do you want to stop the convoy now?"
”"Don't stop yet, these cars have enough energy to support them for the next millennium, and we still have shields," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Terminal, record the environmental parameters, let's go deeper, maybe we can find something." ”It was undoubtedly a risky decision, and Charlemagne and Evenna complained about it, but Hao Ren had little nervousness because he had experienced countless more bizarre and dangerous things (such as snatching bones from the mouth of a century-old dog demon and standing in the street with God), and given that the latter was the actual owner of the team, the prince and princess had to approve of the decision."
It's strange ...... this fog," said Avenna, looking at the fog around her, as the convoy continued on the road, "There have been records of fogging in the black pine forests, but there has never been such a large scale and such a long duration of fog, and it makes me feel bad......
It was as if something was staring at him in the fog. ”"Is this the reason why those Imperial soldiers didn't catch up?"
Charlemagne was already holding the saber in his hand at the moment, fully alert to the changes in his surroundings, although the caravan had a powerful shield system, holding the saber in his hand still gave him some security than the transparent shield, "If that's the case......
Then the situation is not good......"
"Don't be so nervous, be calm, because this little thing is messed up and it's not in line with your performance along the way," Hao Ren waved his hand and said, then looked at the terminal, "What did you find?"
”The surface of the data terminal flashes with light, which is a sign that the sensor is working: "There are no problems with the environmental parameters, no signs of spatial folding or disorder have been found, which is strange......
The radar of this machine can't find anything abnormal at all, but we're just spinning in the fog......"
Hao Ren frowned and thought for a while: "Locate Nolan, test and her relative position change." ”“…… Unable to localize, Nolan's signal can be determined, but relative position changes cannot be determined. ”"It's kind of interesting," Hao Ren looked at Lily, "does your nose work in this situation?"
”Lily bared her teeth at him, but still sniffed seriously and sniffed her surroundings: "Woo......
We can only be sure that we are not going in circles, and we are indeed walking along a one-way road all the way to the depths.Hey, bat, isn't your sonar very good, and it can also penetrate the fog, can you try it?
”"Don't make a noise, I'm trying," Vivien glanced at Lily, then frowned slightly, "Strange......
It could only detect a few hundred meters around, and farther away was chaos, as if there was nothing there. ”Hearing Vivian's muttering words, Hao Ren's heart suddenly moved.Then he focused his gaze on a certain direction of the forest, and after eliminating all irrelevant distractions, he carefully searched for the "true face" of the world.As I looked closely, the trees and roads in the distance became slightly blurred."
Sure enough......
We've fallen into a trap," he retracted, turning back and patting Leah's shoulder, who was in a serious daze, "Leah, wake up, wake up, focus on this side a little bit—I need your help." ”"Huh?"
Leah looked at him puzzled, "What's the hurry?"
”"Take a closer look around.""
Oh."
Leah vaguely agreed, then shifted some of her attention from the main body to the mass projection.Originally, she only focused less than one percent of her energy on the projection side, so whether it was her thinking speed, observation ability, or even her own existence, she was similar to Hao Ren and the others, but at this moment, with the transfer of some of her divine sense, she suddenly frowned and said softly.And with her questioning, the black pine forest changed dramatically.The endless fog around it quickly faded as if it had been washed by water, and became a layer of mist so thin that it was difficult to interfere with the view, and the layers of trees seemed to be much more solid than before, and the chaotic shadows that disturbed the view disappeared, and the sky light between the canopies was still faint, but it regained some temperature, and the road ahead of the convoy finally became clear.A breeze blew through the jungle, and the sounds of all kinds of birds and beasts blew into his ears, and Hao Ren suddenly realized how quiet the forest had been before—he didn't feel the discord until a minute ago!"
What just happened?"
Charlemagne and Avena were confused throughout the whole process, "lost" and back on track in a daze, they only felt that the autistic child Leah girl in the team was simply getting more and more amazing......
"Between the virtual and the real," Leah's thinking became much clearer after transferring more energy, and she took the initiative to speak, "I don't know what's going on, just now we walked in the gap between the real world and the false world, and more and more drifted in the direction of the false world, fortunately we found it early, otherwise it would ......"
Rao is Charlemagne's state of mind at this time there is a layer of white sweat: although he doesn't know what the false world means, but looking at the situation just now, he also knows how dangerous it is: "If you find it later......
What will happen?
”Leah thought for a moment, "Then I'll have to 'huh' a few times before we can come out - that's stupid." ”Charlemagne Avenna: "......"
Hao Ren really wanted to remind Leah to pay attention to the way she spoke, she made it easy for the Charlemagne brothers and sisters to make a mistake about the difficulty mode of this journey, and when they looked back, they thought that the world was in EASY mode and ran to challenge the extreme survival What should they do?
At this time, Lily asked curiously, "What is the 'false world'?"
Isn't that the same as a fantasy?
”"It's different," Leah shook her head, "illusions are just illusions, all kinds of illusions that appear man-made or natural, and they are essentially similar to watching a movie, and the false world is something else entirely—the world is not only one possibility in operation, sometimes it will face all kinds of diametrically opposed development results, but there is only one reality, or only one reality for the observer, so those unrealized possibilities become 'hypotheses', that is, false worlds."
Normally, the false world is overlaid on top of the real world, ephemeral, fragile, unnoticeable, and in a state of disappearance and regeneration all the time, but I don't know what's going on here......
The false world has been strengthened to an unbelievable degree, and can even appear parallel to the real world, dragging things in the real world into that unrealized history......
It's such a strange place. ”Hao Ren nodded as he listened, he knew that there was a similar concept in the Great Unification of Information Theory, but Leah's way of explaining it was obviously easier for ordinary people to understand, so he didn't interject.He was just curious: why did such an anomaly suddenly appear in this Black Forest?
But in any case, the real road had reappeared at this moment, and theoretically it was possible to reach the place where there was a sign by following the road under his feet, so after calming the somewhat restless guards in the other two cars, Hao Ren ordered the team to move on.But at this moment, a soldier in charge of observing the situation in the front team suddenly pointed to the end of the road and sounded the alarm: "Attention!
There is an unknown team ahead!
”I saw that in front of the stone road, a group of soldiers who could not read the history appeared in the mist as if they appeared out of thin air.