The shock in Gao Wen's heart couldn't be overstated.
But he still maintained his concealment effect in the mind network, and he didn't show his astonishment.
He just took another look at Selina Geer, and confirmed the other party's relevant information through the network background again.
His first reaction was that the address recognition function had failed. After all, the system has just been completed and there are still many areas to be debugged.
Selina Geerfen is very likely to be in Cecil, lurking somewhere in the southern border!
Moreover, it is in the state of the soul.
His eyes stayed on those words for a long time.
Archbishop (death), soul body…
This part of the content also touched him, but it was not strong. After all, Selina was only an old person in Gawain Cecil's memory, and she was also an old person seven hundred years ago. A human being has existed for so long, what state has it become? It's not surprising, not to mention that Gao Wen has personally seen one that can carry out photosynthesis, and his ability to accept this is quite high.
What he is more concerned about is what kind of state Selina Geerfen, who has "survived" with her soul body, is hiding in the southern border at the moment.
While thinking about it, the conversation between Daniel and the others was coming to an end.
"... This is the case, this new overflow pollution area is still in the 'imaginary area' outside the city, we temporarily call it 'phantom town'," the archbishop named Yuri said, "His Holiness thinks that this The distorted and weird state presented in the area is very special, so it is ordered not to reset for the time being, but to conduct a period of investigation first."
Selena also nodded: "It has been covered over there, and will not be noticed by the residents of Dreamland City. Archbishop Daniel, this is the first time you have entered the spill pollution area, mainly to familiarize yourself with the environment and the situation. Please note."
"I understand, Archbishop Selina," Daniel responded seriously, "I'm ready."
"Very good, let's go now," Archbishop Yuri turned his head and glanced at the clock dial that appeared in midair. At the same time, layers of rune circles appeared under his feet, and his figure began to become unreal. Get up, "Everyone, enter the transfer zone, and the transfer will start in fifteen seconds."
The three archbishops and three senior priests wearing owl masks all stood within the range of the rune circle, and Gawain also stood silently among them. Everyone was exactly an elbow away from him, but no one Perceived abnormality.
As light and shadow flickered, the scene around everyone was changing rapidly.
Gao Wen felt that he had passed through a "tunnel" filled with chaotic mist, and the magnificent dream city flashed past the chaotic barrier around the tunnel. When the surrounding scene stabilized, he was already standing in a lifeless central town.
The "tunnel" just now symbolizes the "unmarked port" in the mind network
A few thoughts flashed in his mind, and Gao Wen had already focused on the dilapidated town in front of him.
Gloomy and chaotic clouds cover the sky, covering everything in the field of vision. Under the sky, there are scattered old houses. The styles of those houses are different from those of other countries in the real world. They have black sloping or pointed roofs and mottled exterior walls. Faded, and there was always a strange picture painted on one wall: a hand that seemed to symbolize some great power covered the sky and covered the earth below.
The town was quiet and deserted, as if it had been abandoned for a hundred years. Iron-black lampposts were neatly arranged on both sides of the road. Between the lampposts and the stone road, weeds and vines were overgrown.
Gawain raised his head and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see the scene outside the town. He only saw the hazy mist billowing at the end of his line of sight. The mist seemed to form a wall, isolating the whole town inside.
Here is the so-called "overflow pollution area"
Although it is desolate and abandoned, but only from the degree of reality, this place is the same as the dream city, it is a place that makes it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake... But why is there no one here
According to Daniel, all such overflow pollution areas should have human activities. In other words, in the cyberspace supported by spiritual power, it is precisely because of mental activities and "human" observation that an area can appear. .
What's up with this empty town
While Gawain was thinking, the archbishop named Yuri also spoke: "This place is different from the previous overflow area... Although the atmosphere here is weird and depressing, the scene is logical, there are no twisted and stacked buildings, There are no grounds that lose their color or skies that show gaps."
"This is also one of the reasons why His Majesty the Pope thinks this place is special and requires us to investigate carefully," Selina Geerfen nodded, "All the previous overflow areas showed a stacking and fading that did not conform to the logic of reality. Phenomena such as , void, curling, etc. are very similar to the distortion and loss of information in the process of projecting the scene in the sandbox to the outside. However, this phantom town... In addition to being empty, the physical structure of the town itself is very different. It's in complete order."
Gao Wen listened and analyzed the previous overflow area. It sounds a bit like a virtual scene where the rendering failed and a model bug was encountered... Is it a manifestation of insufficient computing power of the mental network
"It's very quiet here, and there's no one on the street," Daniel said from the side, just in time to ask Gawain's question just now, "I remember you told me before that you can see active 'residents' in the overflow area , no matter whether they appear weird and twisted or not, at least the 'residents' themselves exist."
"This also requires our investigation and confirmation," Selina Geer said with a nod, "In short, this place is very weird, and it may have been separated from the rules of the mind network. There may be some kind of mind that we cannot understand. Pay attention to this, everyone must be careful in their actions."
After being reminded, the Eternal Sleepers raised their vigilance and began to explore this weird "Phantom Town" step by step.
They first checked the empty streets and confirmed that at least there were no signs of life activity around them. Then they confirmed the terrain structure near the streets, and roughly grasped the surrounding environment and the distribution of several main entrances and exits.
During the whole process, Gawain has been leisurely following them, listening to their conversations, or following them to record maps and check the abandonment of water wells, street lamps and other facilities.
After completing the preliminary inspection of the surrounding environment and confirming that there were no dangerous factors, the attention of the Eternal Sleeper team naturally shifted to the houses on both sides of the road.
In this abandoned town, the doors and windows of all the houses are tightly closed. There is neither light nor sound in the windows. Instead, it became a kind of temptation, making people curious to take a look inside the house even if they felt weird and dangerous.
The Eternal Sleepers had always treated the town with the utmost caution, which was why they checked the streets for danger first, but anyway, sooner or later they had to check the closed houses in order to complete their investigation.
The three senior priests wearing owl masks came to a hut with a closed door. Before they tried to open the door, Selina Geerfen first illuminated the outside of the house with a lantern in her hand to check for possible abnormal data. Or a malicious hidden mind, before nodding: "Open the door."
One of the masked priests pushed the door, but the seemingly weak wooden door remained motionless.
They started checking the locks on the door, checking to see if something was stuck on the wooden door.
Gawain came near them, and came to the window of the hut facing the street. The window was nailed with criss-cross broken wooden boards, and there were quite wide gaps between the boards. Gawain's eyes passed through those gaps, fall inside the house.
It was dark inside, and only the outlines of some furniture and utensils could be vaguely seen. Everything seemed to be covered with a thick layer of black veil, which was vague and indistinct.
A creaking sound came from the direction of the door, and Gawain turned his head to look, and saw that the three priests of the Eternal Sleeper wearing owl masks had successfully opened the closed wooden door, and a bright light appeared in the hand of one of them ball, and the other two were respectively blessed with spells to protect the mind. The three of them carefully covered each other and stepped into the hut cautiously.
This is the world projected by the psychic network. Everything here is the result of mental simulation. Conventional spells in the real world basically have no effect here. Only the power of the mind can have an effect. Spells such as lighting and mind protection should be simulated "special effects" used to generate stronger spiritual guidance and hints, so as to prevent the caster from losing themselves in the network.
In Gao Wen's mind, there were many rules for acting in the spiritual world, and while walking, he followed the three priests and walked into the hut.
The light ball of the lighting technique emits a pale light, illuminating the furnishings in the house, but this light seems to be interfered and suppressed by unknown forces, making it only spread a few meters away, and can only illuminate nearby places. Things, and everything in the depths of the room, in every corner, was still shrouded in shadows like a thick veil.
Gawain stared at those shadows, only felt that there was emptiness in the depths of those shadows, as if the unlit place was not just darkness, but really nothing existed. He even had some associations for no reason, thinking that if someone reckless Anyone who steps into those darknesses in the absence of light falls straight into nothingness, mind annihilated in the void of the web.
The three priests who were in charge of inspecting the house were obviously also aware of the weirdness of those shadowed areas. They carefully maintained their actions within the range of the lighting technique, and none of them approached the darkness.
"There is no dust... but there is an atmosphere that has been abandoned for many years..." One of the priests brushed his fingers over the square table in the center of the room, and a deep voice came from under the owl mask, "It seems to be the phenomenon of 'emotional resonance'."
"It's possible," another priest nodded and said, "There is some kind of power that can influence people's thoughts here, creating an 'atmosphere' that has been 'abandoned for many years'."
The third priest checked several other places: "The furniture and utensils are placed in the place for daily use, there is still clear water in the water bottle, and the flowers inserted on the wooden pillars have not withered. It seems that the people who live here just suddenly leave… "
"This should be the data leaked from the No. 1 sandbox. It is the projection of a certain town in the sandbox. Judging from the undistorted state of the projection, this probably restores the situation in the No. 1 sandbox," said the first The priest said in a low voice, "In the No. 1 sandbox...is this the scene now?"
"At least one town looks like this."
Gao Wen followed the three priests, followed them to check the situation in the hut, but found no clues worthy of attention, then turned and exited the room, and returned to the street where Selena and the others were.
While the three priests were inspecting the house, the three archbishops who stayed outside were not idle. On the one hand, they maintained the spiritual protection of this area to prevent malicious minds hidden in the depths of the town from attacking the priests who entered the house. , On the one hand, they monitor the movements of the town, and pay attention to whether the town has changed synchronously after the three priests entered the house. In the spiritual world involving consciousness activities, similar "linkage reactions" must be considered.
Gawain heard Selina Gerfen talking to Daniel.
"... this town is not in the 'blueprint' of the No. 1 sandbox," said the woman with the lamp lightly, "nor is it in the subsequent blueprint of the deduction. It is the history of the evolution of the No. 1 sandbox that created this town .”
Daniel asked: "Are there other similar 'self-evolving products'?"
"Yes," Selina nodded, "We have already observed a mysterious plain, several broken streets, and a mountain that came from nowhere. I sensed the anomaly in advance and blocked it in time, and I am afraid it will be directly exposed to the eyes of ordinary churchgoers."
Daniel was a little curious: "... These overflows seem to surround the City of Dreams, but at most they only affect the fringe blocks, and have not directly eroded the central area of the City of Dreams?"
"That's right, the City of Dreams is well-protected, and it's not so easy to invade."
Daniel and Gao Wen, who was standing beside Selena, showed thoughtful expressions at the same time.
At this moment, a melodious and mysterious bell suddenly rang in the small town!