The entrance to the cave leading to the different space is located in the quarry. On a rock wall almost perpendicular to the mountain, the hard granite rock wall cracked a "herringbone" crack with a height of more than ten meters. The crack The widest part can even allow three people to enter side by side, and around this stone wall, you can see a large number of fallen gravel and soil, and some damaged machinery and equipment are scattered in the open space. This should be the "small-scale collapse" as a result.
"The management of this place is becoming more and more problematic," Heatherana couldn't help shaking her head as she looked at the scene of the accident, "Although the Heatherana family is powerful, it can't avoid the trouble of ineffective control over these guys who are so tall and far away from the emperor. The supervisor of this area was originally a down-to-earth guy, I gave him some blood power and extended his lifespan by nearly a century, but now even that guy has become slack."
Two young vampires followed Hesiana, and one of the women asked, "Patriarch, do you want to replace the supervisor here?"
"No, let's not use it for the time being, Perot's loyalty is still there, and this incident is mainly the responsibility of the foreman of the quarry from the perspective of the accident. Perot's follow-up handling finally did not make a big mistake. His main reason is that he was not good at employing people. And the supervision is not effective, please wake him up later, I believe that kid will know what to do," Hesianna said, shaking her head, "But if this happens again, then I have to replace it."
There was no lighting in the cave, and the sunlight coming in from the entrance was quickly left far behind, leaving only darkness ahead. Since the accident, no humans have entered this cave, and the vampires of the Heatherana family are responsible for the follow-up investigation. They don't need any lighting in a dark environment, so the original state is still maintained here. None of the miner's lamps were installed.
Although darkness was not a problem for Hao Ren and his party, it was still easy for people to miss some details in an environment that was too dark, so Lily was very happy to summon her own fire, and illuminated the way forward with the bright fire light on the claw blade.
"Up to here, it should be the cracks caused by normal mountain cracks." Vivian walked and carefully observed the nearby rock walls, "Dry... There are no traces of animals and plants, and the textures of the rock bodies match each other. This is a whole piece of rock." Cracked."
"This should require a lot of strength, and it is definitely not the result of a 'small-scale collapse'," Lolisa said, "I just used magic to detect the strength of the mountain rock, and coupled with the observation of the crack just now , it can be determined that the scale of the external collapse is indeed small, so the 'source' that caused the cracking of the mountain should be in the depths, and the energy is concentrated and erupts instantly."
Vivienne nodded: "It seems that the connection point between the different space and the real world is directly opened inside the mountain, and the impact caused by the space tremor is enough to produce this effect."
Hao Ren took out the data terminal and asked the latter to measure the environment here with high precision. The terminal floated in mid-air in front of the team, and continuously projected blue beams across the surrounding rock walls and gravel. No spatial distortion was found to occur.
But it has detected unusual changes in the gravity readings ahead.
"This is a typical 'distortion of continuous space'," the data terminal said, "There is no obvious space crack in the cave, but as it goes deeper, the boundary between the different space and the main material world is gradually blurred. Be vigilant, everyone, and prepare any protective spells first—we should have already partially entered this different space."
The cave in the rock wall is not very deep, and it is almost a straight road. Soon everyone reached the end. Here, Hao Ren realized that the surrounding space has actually been separated from the main material world to a considerable extent.
At the end of the cave is an open cave, about tens of meters high and about 100 meters wide. The ground of the cave is quite flat and covered with a layer of fine yellow sand. You can feel the dryness and warmth from the desert even if you step on it. It was warm, and there was a coarse dusty smell in the surrounding air, which was completely different from the coolness before.
This cave is obviously not formed naturally by cracking the mountain. There is only one explanation for its appearance here: it is already a part of a different space.
Hao Ren quickly found the entrance of the "Lost City". It was in the depths of the cave, and an arched crack appeared there, from which chaotic light diffused, as if with a strange texture.
He checked his shield, then stepped over to the breach and peered in.
The next second, he stopped breathing for half a beat.
On the opposite side of the rock wall is a vast different space—a lost ancient city!
Endless chaos wraps the space behind the rock wall, and the boundary of the different space rotates continuously as if covered by tumbling yellow sand, forming countless horrifying vortexes, and inside this chaotic boundary, you can see an earth-yellow The majestic and magnificent ancient city sleeps quietly in it. The ancient city seems to be built of granite, and the temples, halls, and buildings all have a color like yellow sand.
Most of the buildings in the ancient city are in the shape of quadrangular columns with a large bottom and a small top. Some of the more luxurious buildings can also see sculptures and columns that look like religious totems on the top. The most important building in the city should be the temple in the center. —or a palace, it looks like a building composed of several pyramids, somewhat like an Egyptian style, but it is very different from the Egyptian pyramids in the real world.
Hao Ren's eyes moved slowly over the lost city, trying to get a panoramic view of every detail of it. Just like Hessiana said, this city was built on the skull of some kind of huge creature.
The skull is located just below the city, bearing all the granite buildings above it. It should have been roughly ellipsoidal when it was complete, but now the shape of the "skull" is almost invisible, and most of it should have collapsed. The remaining part is just a huge arc-shaped bone fragment. The front of the bone fragment is connected with three deep eye socket cavities, and at the back of the skull, several joints that are probably connected to the spine can be vaguely discerned. With Hao Ren's limited cognition, he couldn't see what kind of remains it was, and he could only marvel at the incredibleness of this creature.
This is definitely not a species that can be born on the earth, and it is even unlikely to be a carbon-based life, because the biological tissue of a carbon-based life is simply impossible to support such a huge body—unless it is assisted by other supernatural powers.
And Hao Ren also quickly confirmed another situation mentioned by Heather Anna:
This different space is constantly disintegrating, and the disintegration of the "Lost City" is only a matter of time.
The chaotic boundary on the periphery of the different space is shrinking inward, shredding everything inside into elementary particles. Those vortexes, like sandstorms, are tearing at the edge of the city, and huge city walls and broken houses can be seen at any time. Blocks were stripped from the city, and were devoured and disintegrated by the "sandstorm vortex" at the border of chaos. Even the huge skull below the city was also suffering from the same disintegration. Its strong physical structure was completely helpless in the face of space collapse. , large chunks of bone fragments peeled off from the base of the city, and disappeared into the vortex of the base of the different space in the blink of an eye.
"Cool… "
Lily's exclamation brought Hao Ren back to his senses. When he turned his head, he saw Lily's head dangling beside him, and her pair of fluffy pointed ears were shaking. It turned out that when the husky girl saw the landlord standing still in front of the crack for a long time, she finally couldn't restrain her curiosity, and she also came over. She was deeply shocked when she saw the situation in the different space.
Although it was not as spectacular as when he was traveling through the body of the eldest son, the lost city that was gradually being swallowed by the vortex in front of him was also breathtaking.
"It seems that even if we don't blow up this place in the end, this place will disappear by itself in a few days." Hao Ren pressed Lily's head, "The main material world is rejecting this different space, and the different space itself doesn't last long. The self-sustaining environment, which is like a ripple in normal cosmic space, will soon calm down."
Lily wagged her tail: "Landlord, why do you keep thinking of blowing up this place?"
Hao Ren: "... yes, why do I keep thinking about blowing up this place?"
Lily: "..."
"How's the situation ahead?" After Hao Ren and Lily retreated, Vivian immediately asked with concern.
"It really is a different space inside, and it is gradually shrinking. If there is no accident, it should be a defective space structure that is about to collapse. Because the original sealing is broken, the collapse process is accelerated." Hao Ren nodded, "There is a space in the different space. The ancient city looks like an ancient city-state in a desert area, but it doesn't look like Egypt, let alone ancient Mesopotamia. In addition, just like Hessianna said, the The city is built on a giant biological skull."
"But we didn't see any light curtain," Lily leaned forward and said, "It's all sand-colored inside..."
"You have to enter the city to see the light curtain," Heatherana said, "This is also what makes people confused."
Hao Ren waved his hand: "The phenomenon of optical discontinuity is not unusual."
Heather Anna rolled her eyes: "Okay, okay, are you well-informed?"
After saying this, she turned to her two subordinates: "You two stay outside, and they and I go in to check the situation. No matter what happens, no one is allowed to come near this cave, and neither of you Come in."
The female vampire asked, "Patriarch, when are you coming out?"
Hessiana glanced at Vivienne, who pondered for a while: "At most three days, we will come out after three days regardless of whether there is any result or not - the different space is mysterious and unpredictable, if you stay for too long, there may be accidents. "
After making all the arrangements, without any hesitation, they walked through the cave and entered this lost world that seemed to be wrapped in a sandstorm.
A hot and rough wind hit the face.
The different space is constantly collapsing inward, and the lost city in the center of the space is also collapsing bit by bit, and the "cave" that Hao Ren and his party passed through seems to be affected by this collapse: it is located on the edge of the city hundreds of meters above the ground. In mid-air at a height of one meter, there are still thousands of meters away from the chaotic boundary of the space boundary, but after passing through the hole, Hao Ren looked back, and saw that the edge of the space rift had shown very obvious signs of distortion. And the distorted lines all point to a maelstrom closest to the city—this is a bad phenomenon.
Yizaks frowned: "We must stabilize this passage first, otherwise the only entrance and exit will be crushed by the collapse of space before the city collapses."
"Actually, it's okay if the tunnel collapses, we can use the space to teleport out," Hao Ren shrugged, "It's just that it's troublesome when we come back."
Even so, it would be troublesome if the space channel collapsed, so Hao Ren made a simple space stabilizer from his portable space and set it up near the exit—this thing can't prevent the entire different space from collapsing. But it is still possible to delay the space collapse near the exit passage.
After finishing these, the group walked towards the lost ancient city in the yellow sand.