A burst of fire suddenly rose from the middle of the town of Domir, first ignited by a ring of wooden houses around the town's central square, and then spread unnaturally so rapidly throughout the town that the flames jumped out of thin air as if they were alive in the streets where there was nothing to burn.Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire town of Domir had been reduced to a sea of fire, and all that could be seen from the heights was red.The crowd standing on the hill watched in amazement, the way the flames burned in a way that did not look like a natural phenomenon by any means, and the speed of its spread was almost reminiscent of shoddy movie special effects.Nangong May was taken aback: "This ......
Why did this suddenly burn up?!
”Hao Ren squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the situation in the town, and he suddenly noticed an anomaly in the details: "Wait......
It's not a normal fire, look at the houses for yourselves!
”I saw that the houses that were engulfed in flames were collapsing at an extremely fast speed, and even if the fire was large, the speed at which they collapsed seemed to be a little abnormal.One house after another crumbled in the fire and quickly turned to ashes, and then the black ash swept into the sky by the wind.A large amount of smoke and dust condensed over the town, billowing and surging like thick ink, and fluttering black ash continued to fall from the sky, covering every corner of the town.Looking at such a scene, the first to react was Vivian, who couldn't help but mutter, "Ash......
That's how the dust in the town came from?!
”The strange fire came and went faster, and it burned in full force for less than a few minutes, as if it had gone through the motions, and then all the flames vanished like phantoms, and the town of Domir had been turned upside down: all the houses had been burned to the ground, the houses that had once lined up were all in ruins, and the charred beams and pillars that had reached into the sky stood desolate on the ground, as if they had stood for centuries.A thick layer of ash covered the ground."
Looks like this is what the town was meant to be," Vivien bit her lip, "I'm afraid it burned to ruins hundreds of years ago." ”Lily was a little confused: "What about what we saw in the town before......
Could it be all hallucinations?
Such a powerful illusion?
”"It's not an illusion, it's Domir before it was destroyed by the fire, it's real," Vivien had figured out the joints, "The space-time structure of this secret realm is chaotic, and many things have been preserved for an abnormal amount of time - remember those lights that suddenly lit and flames that burned out of thin air?"
That's a sign of timeline confusion, so Domir before it was destroyed by the fire and Domir in ruins are superimposed.Before, Baptiste must have been interfering with this superposition, but now that he has gone to purgatory, things here are starting to behave according to the normal timeline. ”Vivien didn't elaborate on the magic behind the phenomenon, but everyone at the scene could understand what was going on.Hao Ren has now finally sorted out all the supernatural phenomena that he has experienced since entering Domir, including the images of the spirit bodies that Lily saw that looked like movies, the things in the town that were abnormally colorless, and the lights that lit up at the same time after a certain time, all of which have been explained: Domir in different time states is like a large number of snapshots stored in this chaotic secret realm of time and space, and they are randomly superimposed to produce the strange ghost town landscape.Baptiste is undoubtedly the culprit in everything, but why would he do it?
And how did he do it?"
That wizard squeezed the soul energy of everyone here, as he himself admitted," Hethanane said, "I'm afraid that the chaotic structure of the plane here is also trying to better extract power—presumably to create some kind of cycle of magic, he sealed off the plane here."
I can only think of this explanation. ”"How can a wizard do such a thing?"
Hao Ren frowned, "That sounds like almost a challenge to the rules." ”Hethanna opened her mouth, but finally could only shake her head: "To be honest, I don't believe a wizard can do such a thing.Disrupting the structure of space-time is a very difficult thing, and no one even has the knowledge of this in modern times, but I have only seen it in some ancient books, and it is said that some of the 'old gods' of the mythological era can manipulate time and space.But the wizard ......
It's not that I look down on this group, most of the wizards are ordinary human transformations, and their talent and quality in magic are simply not enough to get them to this height. ”Vivian also nodded: "Baptiste shouldn't have this strength, the situation in this town is not as simple as ordinary space closure, if his ability in space-time control is really high to this extent, he will definitely not be broken by Lily digging a hole."
I'm leaning toward him using some kind of ancient artifact or the help of some ancient person.He can summon the 'Blood King'......
I can't tell if he can summon something else. ”Lily looked at Vivien and then at Hao Ren, she was a little different: "You guys are all speculating, the premise is that the space-time structure of this town is indeed misplaced and superimposed as you said—what if it isn't?"
”"Look at the town, you can think of a more plausible explanation for yourself," Vivien said, gesturing to the ruins of Domir down the hillside, "and I've seen the realm of time and space, Kronos once demonstrated his triumphant skills in front of me, and the scene is very similar to the situation here." ”As soon as Vivien opened her mouth, she pulled out the amazing ancient figures, and suddenly the guys who were not as old as her were silent.After a while, Hao Ren broke the silence with a voice: "Anyway, Baptiste himself must know everything, let's just arrest him back." ”Vivien snorted, "Well, but did your probe track down the wizard?"
”"No, the portal was in a chaotic state at that time, and the probe was thrown very far away," Hao Ren said regretfully, "but as long as Baptiste is really in purgatory, we will definitely be able to catch him." ”"Then hurry up - Purgatory is not a safe place, and I hope that wizard doesn't die in there before we catch him."
They didn't have to wait long, and it didn't take long for the Automatics to install the portal generators: installing them was actually quite simple, and the main effort was spent analyzing the coordinate relationship between Purgatory and Earth.After waiting for the equipment to be ready, Hao Ren immediately connected the data terminal and prepared to open the door, when the terminal reported an unusual thing: in just a few minutes, the purgatory coordinates sent back by the probe changed several times."
This is probably the so-called 'Purgatory Instability' phenomenon," Hao Ren heard some reminders from the data terminal in his mind, and he immediately thought of something, staring at the coordinate change record of Purgatory in the past period of time, and its last 'position' was very different from just now, "It has been 'drifting'......
Drift at the edge of the universe!
”"Aren't all alien spaces drifting like this," Hethanna's tone was disapproving, "Alien spaces are not pockets hanging on the wall, they are more like bubbles floating in water, and instability is of course." ”"No, Purgatory is very different from other different spaces," Hao Ren looked at the analysis results of the data terminal with an excited face, "The coordinate drift of other different spaces is only relative to the three-dimensional address of the earth, you can imagine them as a planet in the depths of our universe, these planets rely on wormholes to connect with the earth, no matter how it moves in its own galaxy, its relative position to the entire universe has not changed: because it is in the universe."
But purgatory......
It's unbelievable, it seems to be moving relative to this universe, and it's not its own coordinates that are drifting, it's the entire frame of reference!
”Heatherana glanced at Hao Ren with a strange expression: "Who understands what you say?"
”"Oh, you don't have to understand," Hao Ren waved his hand casually, with inexplicable excitement in his tone, "This is something we are focusing on. ”He glanced at Vivien, and the implication was clear: "Purgatory" drifted in an integer coordinate system relative to the current universe, and there was only one explanation for this - it was not only a cosmic fragment from the dream plane, but also that this fragment was not completely fused with the current universe, and it still wandered between the dream plane and the surface world.There is another name for the "gap" between the dream plane and the surface world, and that is......
Wall of Reality!
Hao Ren has finally found the biggest "gangrene" on the Wall of Reality!
(Happy holiday everyone~~ On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, can you give two monthly passes?)
）(To be continued.) )