Bai Huo showed great interest in Doudou, but Hao Ren didn't have time to explain to her in detail how a fish was empowered by the Origin Hallows to become a pure-blooded demon hunting fish, because he had already been led by Bai Huo. Near one of the largest cracks.
On the top of this large palace closest to the clock tower of the spirit world, there is an open half-moon-shaped platform. Many indelible traces were left on the platform. Some distorted energy distortions that looked like spirit creatures roamed around on the platform, and those demon hunters who were in charge of cleaning up the battlefield set up huge traps on the edge of the platform. device to eliminate these distortions. Hao Ren saw a huge lavender crack like a knife cut across the platform, which was the "weird phenomenon" that Bai Huokou called.
"This thing really doesn't look like an ordinary space rift..."
Hao Ren landed on the platform and observed the crack closely after confirming the safety of the environment. The length of this fissure is about 30 meters, and the widest part reaches five meters. The shape of the main body of the fissure seems to be cut by a sharp knife, and many irregular tortoise cracks extend from the edges of the two ends of the fissure, a kind of lavender Floating rays of light surged in the cracks, sometimes substantial, sometimes illusory, making it impossible to determine whether they really existed or were just phantoms, and these rays of light also prevented any peeking into the cracks. Hao Ren took out an elven rapier from his portable space and tentatively pierced it into the lavender light curtain, only to find that the blade passed through directly—but did not enter a so-called different space. He bent down and found that The tip of the rapier protruded from the back of the crack.
This seemingly "space crack" is actually just a layer of light and shadow effect
"It's just a shadow?" Lily squatted down and looked at the blade coming out from the other side of the crack, "It doesn't lead anywhere."
"No, take a closer look." Bai Huo pointed to Hao Ren to observe the front end of the rapier, "the length of the blade protruding out is a bit shorter, and it is a bit skewed to the side. This means that there is actually something inside the purple crack Yes, there should be a folded space inside, and there should be a certain skewed angle with the real space.”
Hao Ren took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. He used a dagger from the elves of Arim. The length of the blade was about 50 centimeters, but when he submerged the rapier with the handle into the purple crack, the blade that emerged from the other end was only 40 centimeters long , part of the blade is obviously located in another space.
Lili rolled her eyes and thought about it, thinking about it: "It's not easy, just throw a small detector into it. If you are afraid of losing it, tie it with a rope, as long as the size of the camera is smaller than this folding space , you can see what’s inside.”
Not to mention, this husky usually looks dumb and dumb, but in fact she has a lot of ghost ideas, and most of the time her ideas are good.
"I've tried it," Bai Huo shook his head, "The conclusion is that any observation of the inside of the crack will cause it to shift its position, and this shift is done instantaneously. Originally, the crack was located in the temple square below. But it ran here after the investigators threw a few cameras inside. We worried that if we tried this a few more times, the rift would move to a more unpredictable location, so we temporarily stopped the test."
"Can you still run?" Hao Ren was immediately surprised, "Heh... this doesn't sound like an ordinary space rift."
"Aside from that, does this thing have any other properties?" Vivienne asked curiously.
White Fire nodded: "There are many strange properties. For example, it has been continuously releasing trace amounts of radiation, and it is not affected by any external energy. Its size will change over time, approximately every two hours. Inflate ten percent, and it will change back in the next two hours. But these properties are not very important to me, and there is no way to explain its essence."
Hao Ren hummed, took out the data terminal to let it detect the strange crack, and asked casually, "How did these things appear? Were there any witnesses? Is there any noteworthy phenomenon before and after the appearance?"
"Suddenly appeared without warning," Bai Huo replied, "Two demon hunters happened to witness the moment when the rift appeared. But they just saw it appear suddenly, and they didn't have any useful information. So far in the spirit world Dozens of these cracks have appeared around the clock tower. They are all different shapes and sizes, and they have not caused any problems other than popping up—these things are like shadows, just floating in mid-air."
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "To be honest, you should have notified me earlier of such a strange incident. You also know that I am investigating this matter."
Bai Huo spread his hands: "It may be strange to put this kind of thing 'outside', but in Corpus... all kinds of abnormal phenomena in this ancient ruins are commonplace, especially the weird things in time and space , almost everywhere, we are numb."
As she spoke, she smiled awkwardly: "And so many energy nodes shut down during the war, coupled with the free magic energy on the battlefield, these are factors that can easily cause space tearing, so at first even my mentor Didn't pay attention to the situation of these cracks."
Hao Ren was startled, and finally could only sigh: "You guys are so kind..."
This group of people is completely afraid of death if they stay on the battlefield for a long time, and they are not afraid of ghosts if they watch too many non-mainstream people—their ancestors lived in a space-unstable Corpus, and now they see a space-time rift suddenly appearing in their homes. Things are not taken seriously!
At this time, the data terminal has circled the "space rift" several times, and it suddenly flew in front of Baihuo: "Tell this machine the location of all the other rifts, and this machine will detect them one by one."
Hao Ren and Bai Huo said in unison: "What did you find?"
"This is indeed a space crack, but it is not formed naturally at all," the data terminal said quickly. "There are very complicated encryption traces. This machine believes that it is necessary to sort out the laws of other space cracks before they can crack their encryption algorithms."
Hao Ren was stunned when he heard this: "Encryption?! You mean this thing is man-made?"
Without waiting for the terminal to answer, he suddenly realized what this meant: these "cracks" might really be something that the Creation Goddess left behind in Corpus!
At first, he thought the same as Baihuo, thinking that the previous fierce battle destroyed the balance of Corpus energy node group, coupled with the catalysis of demonic evil energy, it caused so many monsters to appear in this unstable space. However, the discovery of the data terminal now points to a new conjecture: perhaps these "cracks" have existed for a long time, and they were specially made by the Goddess of Creation, but they have been hidden by some mechanism. Perhaps the previous war touched some preset program by accident, which caused these cracks to surface.
Hao Ren's thoughts were fleeting. Soon he calmed down and turned to look at Bai Huo: "You said there are dozens of cracks like this?"
"This is just a conservative estimate," Bai Huo immediately replied, "We have found dozens of cracks, but there are still some palaces that have been severely damaged and have not been cleaned up so far, and some places with too high concentration of magic energy are still inaccessible. —There may also be cracks in those places.”
Hao Ren nodded and waved his hand to open the portable space. A large group of self-discipline machines with silver lights and waving tentacles flew out chatteringly. These self-discipline machines were flying around, waiting for Hao Ren's order .
"It's too slow to check the past one by one, terminal, I will transfer the control authority of these autonomous machines to you, and you will direct them to check the cracks in other places. Bai Huo, please call some people over and bring these robots to you Those cracks that have been discovered."
Everyone had no objection to Hao Ren's arrangement. Bai Huo raised his hand and fired a signal flare over the temple. After the bright silver-white flame flashed, dozens of elite demon hunters in black appeared silently. on the platform.
"Each of you take one of these... uh... mechanical tentacle monsters to the vicinity of those distorted cracks," Baihuo directed the senior investigators under him, "Rockhan and Dongna, you two go to summon the secret service of the Twin Towers Temple Team members, let them check the area that was cleared yesterday. If it is correct, the concentration of magic energy over there should have dropped. Send someone in to see if there are cracks there, and report back immediately if there are any. …”
Bai Huo quickly issued one order after another. It was obvious that she was still a little rusty when issuing orders, not as experienced as her mentor, but she still showed good dispatching ability and momentum. In time, she will obviously grow into a good witcher no less than Hasselblad.
However, Hao Ren still has some opinions: "Then what, these are not mechanical tentacle monsters... they are called autonomous machines."
Baihuo: "..." (to be continued~^~)