Vivienne seems to have indeed disappeared.
Hao Ren soon found Vivian's mobile phone on the bedside table in the basement room. It was the first high-tech communication tool she could afford in history. This mobile phone had always been treated like a baby by Vivian. Even when she turned into a bat and went out, she would use magic means to transform the mobile phone with her body. This thing was left on the bedside table but the person disappeared, which proved that this incident was extremely strange.
Lily, Lolisa, and Nangong Sanba quickly searched around the house again, but even with the werewolf (husky) tracking skills and the witcher's tracking spells, they couldn't find the place where Vivian stayed. The latter does seem to have disappeared directly in the basement.
"No, I've searched everywhere, but there's no trace of bats," Lily seemed anxious after searching around, and yelled anxiously as soon as she got home, "And there are those messy things everywhere outside. Things, even the terrain and roads have changed in some places, if it weren't for my sharp nose, I'm afraid I would have lost my way outside!"
"Just disappeared out of thin air in the basement?" Hao Ren felt his heart sinking, "This is a place shrouded by gods... yes! Shrouded by gods! There is such a big movement on the earth, Mr. Raven 12345 It should be a reaction, right?"
As soon as Hao Ren thought about this, he immediately tried to contact Raven 12345. However, after connecting to the telepathic communication, he called several times in a row, but there was still no response from "God Realm", not even the automatic reply that made people complain. No sound can be heard.
Lily looked at Hao Ren eagerly, and noticed the change in the latter's expression, she couldn't help but asked, "Landlord, what's the matter?"
"The connection with the God Realm is broken, it seems that there is some interference," Hao Ren frowned, "This has never happened before."
"The request for transmission to the God Realm has not been responded." The data terminal also floated over from the side, "This machine has detected that the entire earth is in a strange state, and it is extremely difficult to communicate with the information stations in the universe. , we seem to be in a giant mask."
Hao Ren frowned: "Is something wrong with the whole earth?"
As soon as the situation got out of control, Lily's cowardly nature was exposed. The husky spirit looked nervous, and walked up to Hao Ren's side in small steps: "Landlord, what should I do? The goddess can't be contacted..."
"It's okay, anyway, I didn't count on her most of the time, the most urgent thing now is that we must not panic, we must calm down," Hao Ren comforted Lily while raising his head and looking around, "I am very worried about Vivian's whereabouts, but at present the The first important thing is to understand what happened in this world, or this planet. I will divide the area later, and we will investigate in groups of two. Don’t miss any details. Come back and gather before noon. If anyone If you encounter an accident outside and cannot return, such as falling into an illusion or something, don’t wander around, stay where you are and try to make enough noise, I will find you according to the area divided beforehand. Now the situation is out of control, The secrecy act can be put aside for the time being."
As he spoke, he glanced out of the window, thinking that in the current situation where the world is full of demons dancing, even if someone performed a flying fairy in the city center, no one would watch it at all... In other words, the world has mutated like this, and ordinary people on the earth still Is it good
Nangong Sanba and Yizaks had already gone out to check. Although they just returned in a hurry, they still saw some things. According to them, ordinary people in modern clothes can still be seen on the street, but their The state was very strange—how strange it was, Hao Ren felt that he had to see it himself before he could judge.
Vivian's "disappearance" made people anxious, and even Hao Ren himself managed to calm down completely. He was very worried about Vivian's situation, but he knew very well that under the current situation where no clues could be found Therefore, understanding the cause of the mutation outside is the only breakthrough: perhaps Vivienne's disappearance is related to the mutation outside.
The work of investigating the situation was quickly assigned. Hao Ren asked Gun to stay at home to take care of Doudou and prevent the weak chicken from escaping, and then led the others out.
He and Lily were in a group, and their main job was to investigate the situation in the southern suburbs, while the others went to the city center and the neighboring county. Although Nangong Sanba and Yizaks had already traveled to these places before, they only hurried back and forth at that time. Apart from seeing various incredible phenomena, they actually did not investigate the details behind these phenomena in detail. They are still far from analyzing intelligence. not enough.
After departure, Hao Ren also released a batch of probes from his portable space. These probes can travel farther than humans: they will fly all the way to the distance, even to the other side of the planet, to confirm whether the whole earth the same mutation.
The once peaceful and peaceful southern suburb has now been turned upside down, and it can even be said that it has completely become a place that Hao Ren does not know. Gradually grotesque to the point of almost illogical.
He saw a triumphal arch standing at the gate of Nanjiao Elementary School. Under the triumphal arch were marching soldiers of the Great Qin Dynasty and Mongols with scimitars.
The place that was supposed to be a vegetable market in the southern suburbs has now turned into a small desert. The edges of this desert are sharp and angular, as if it was forcibly cut from a map and then pieced together on this land. The end of the desert stands impressively Looking at the majestic pyramid, the pyramid and the surrounding open space occupy an extremely large area, which has far exceeded the limit that the one-third-acre land of the vegetable market can accommodate. Obviously, a large area of the surrounding buildings has been replaced.
He even saw an extremely majestic stone bridge in front of him. The stone bridge was as huge and gorgeous as a fantasy building that can only be seen in games. There were countless green vines hanging from the stone bridge, and moss spread ten feet up along the pier. It is several meters high, and around the stone bridge, there are lush jungle shrubs all over.
It's all messed up.
And he finally saw the existence of "ordinary people".
On a street that barely kept its original appearance, he and Lily saw a few familiar faces, they were old neighbors living in the southern suburbs.
A small shop facing the street has just opened for business. The owner of the store, Mr. Zhao, is struggling to push up the rolling shutter door that has been in disrepair. Next to Mr. Zhao, is the old man Wu, who owns an oil and salt store next door. Go up and chat casually.
Old Zhao shook his head: "This broken door should have been replaced long ago."
Old man Wu wiped his hands: "You said that last year."
"That's right, I said it the year before last—but the guy at home just won't let me change it. What can I do? Don't waste money if you say it can still be used. This door is hard to open and it just prevents thieves. Thieves don't even bother to open it. …”
Beside the two of them stood a few Spartans who were full of evil spirits and only wore a pair of leather pants. The two sides turned a blind eye to each other, and the scene was extremely strange.
After Hao Ren and Lili saw this scene, they immediately stepped forward. They couldn't help but keep looking at the Spartan soldiers who were running almost naked in the cold wind with strange eyes, and then at the normal-looking old Zhao and Li Li. Old man Wu wanted to see clues from it.
However, when Old Zhao saw Hao Ren, he opened his mouth first: "Hao Ren? Come shopping, I'll tidy up later, the door is a bit late today..."
The store owner's wrinkled face was full of familiar smiles on weekdays, and there was no strange expression at all.
Even though there was a group of Spartan soldiers standing beside him, even though a sphinx stood not far in front of him, even though half of the shop behind him had been swallowed up by the primeval jungle, a wild boar-like The creature was standing on the roof of his shop and howling.
Old Zhao turned a blind eye to all of this.
"Uncle Zhao..." Hao Ren kept guessing, his expression still unchanged. He turned sideways and pointed at the Sphinx not far away, "What do you think of this Sphinx?"
In an instant, he felt that everything around him was stuck for a moment like a rusty gear, and then the store owner Zhao greeted him cheerfully with a familiar smile on his face: "Hao Ren? Come shopping, wait for me Cleaning up, opening the door a little late today..."
Hao Ren glanced at this familiar old neighbor again, but behind that lively smile he could see a stiff and emotionless aura like a puppet. The precise holographic image, even though every strand of hair is exactly the same as a real person, but standing face to face can still feel a sense of inorganic disobedience.
Hao Ren took Lily and left the place quickly.
"Landlord... what's going on?" the husky girl asked a little timidly.
"You're still a writer, don't you have any imagination at all?" Hao Ren didn't turn his head, "Obviously, the real person has been replaced—except for us, I'm afraid that these people have been replaced by something like a projection gone."
"These ancient people and ancient buildings on the street..." Lily looked around, and a white horse with two wings was passing by at a low altitude not far away, and the heroic Valkyrie was riding on the horseback, " And these guys from the mythology…”
"They are also projections, projections with entities," Hao Ren frowned, "but I think they are definitely more than just projections. Have you noticed that there are more and more things that are distorted in time and space, and things that should have existed in reality There are fewer and fewer 'modern scenes'? When we passed by here just now, there were still a few pedestrians wearing modern clothes on the road, but now there are only a bunch of ancient people and monsters running around."
Lily shrank her neck and stuck out her tongue: "That bat just disappeared at this time... By the way, she couldn't have made it up?"