Although there are endless doubts about the mutation of the outside world, Hao Ren forcibly suppressed his urge to continue exploring, and returned home before the rendezvous time. Strange to say, even though the entire southern suburb and even the entire world are undergoing earth-shaking changes, the only Only his old house and a small area around it remained the same, not replaced by those time-distorted phantoms, just like a safe house in a disaster. " place of refuge.
He and Lily were the first group to come back. After returning home, they found the room was very quiet. After looking around in the living room, they found that "Roll" had spread a blanket in front of the mouse hole in the corner, and was lying there unconsciously. personnel, and Doudou's water basin was placed less than one meter away from her head: this guy has honestly remembered the tasks Hao Ren gave her, but she can still do it under such a turbulent situation. Sleeping so peacefully, isn't this cat a bit too heartless
But seeing the stupid cat sleeping soundly, Doudou curled up in the water and taking a nap, the little weak chicken probably didn't intend to come out to make trouble, Hao Ren finally didn't disturb their sweet dreams, but sat down on the sofa , while waiting for the others to come back, they whispered with Lily about the phenomena they found outside, and guessed where Vivienne had gone.
Half an hour later, all the people who went out to investigate the situation finally returned, and they were all safe and sound—this really made Hao Ren heave a sigh of relief.
"There is no danger outside, at least we are not in danger," Nangong Sanba said as soon as he entered the door, "Those 'ancients' seem to live in their own time and space. respond to stimuli that are not their space-time."
Nangong Wuyue followed behind her brother. After entering the door, she changed her shoes and said, "We went to the city center, which was covered by a virgin forest, and there were only two floors of shops left in the Baishi Building, and there was an area like an elf village on the top." A small town in the forest, and the people living in it are all a strange race that is thin and small."
Hao Ren greeted them: "Come in first, let's summarize the information we have collected."
Everyone sat around the coffee table. Hao Ren looked at Lolisa first—everyone was in groups of two and two, and only Lolisa went out to investigate the situation by herself, and she was very confident in her own strength. , plus I am not familiar with exploring with people, so I readily accept this arrangement. She has a wealth of magic knowledge, and as an elf with a keen sense, she should be able to use all kinds of incredible spells to discern the details. No one is better than her in this regard, so Hao Ren wants to know who this "Elf Queen" is What opinion.
"First of all, everyone should have verified it with their own methods—all the 'phantoms' are actually real," Lolisa nodded, "although they seem to be inconsistent, and they don't respond enough to external stimuli Real, but from a physical point of view, they are all real. Secondly, I found that all mutations are randomly distributed. I don't know the historical structure of your planet very well, but I can see that those 'things' should come from different Times and different cultural circles, their distribution outside is irregular, and the 'interspersed nesting' between each other is very blunt, basically they are all forced into each other. In the end, I guess that the appearance of all these things should not be magical effects .”
"Isn't it a magical effect?" Y'zaks asked suspiciously.
"I didn't sense any magical fluctuations," Lolisa turned her head, "I released my mental power to a height close to the top of the atmosphere, and then scanned downwards in a wide area, so I can be sure that those things that popped up suddenly didn't use magic power. Manufactured, they should be a higher form of existence."
"A more advanced form of existence..." Hao Ren rubbed his chin, "Should it directly replace the real world..."
Lily didn't hear clearly: "What?"
Hao Ren waved his hand: "It's nothing, let's continue."
After Lolisa finished her opinion, everyone began to exchange what they had seen and heard outside, and soon the results of various investigations were collected and analyzed by the data terminal. There are some oversights, but after so many people brainstormed, some regular things gradually became clear, and the data terminal summed up a few points:
"First of all, as Lolisa mentioned, the distribution of all mutations is irregular, quite random, and not a magical effect."
The data terminal was floating in the air, and while talking, it projected various images, including the images it recorded with Hao Ren outside, and the images just sent back from the remote detectors, the latter has already started Active in the Americas.
"Secondly, according to the information sent back by the remote detectors, we can basically be sure that this mutation has spread to the whole world. Now the whole earth has been shrouded in this 'real phantom', and there is even a tower full of trees on the South Pole. The icy Tower of Babel, just now a probe captured a Poseidon soaking in the Atlantic Ocean, and we are already deeply trapped in this dream-like grotesque scene.
"Secondly, the house we live in and a small area around the house seem to have become a 'safety island'. Although the changes outside are fierce, they have not affected the range of our house extending fifteen meters away... "
Lolisa interjected: "I think it's because of the power of God—Hao Ren is the Pope after all, and this place is blessed as the Palace of the Pope."
Hao Ren coughed lightly: "I think what you said makes sense."
The data terminal shook its body vigorously in the air, attracting everyone's attention: "Listen to this machine first. According to the information collected by everyone outside, after the mutation, the 'normal people' who originally lived in this world 'It's also becoming abnormal. Maybe it's the phantoms of overlapping time and space that caused them to undergo similar mutations. They are now living in an isolated time and space, and they seem to be ignorant of the changes around them. This machine doesn't know How long can this 'protective response' last, but I'm afraid that everything on the entire planet has been 'quarantined' in this way, except us."
Lily folded her arms involuntarily: "Why do I sound so creepy?"
The Nangong couple stood up: "We have a problem: the two of us moved out a while ago, and we didn't live in this 'safe house' when the mutation happened, but it seems that it is not affected now. ah."
Nangong Wuyue also realized all of a sudden: "Yes, why are our parents okay? They were outside at that time..."
"Could it be because of my close relationship?" Hao Ren scratched his face, "Could it be that I'm an auspicious person?"
"Don't be narcissistic, it's because the two of them have also been exposed to the power of Chief Transition Crow, and they have been blessed," the data terminal ruthlessly interrupted Hao Ren's wild thoughts, "This machine speculates on divinity or the power related to divinity It can resist this mutation, and conversely, this mutation may also be related to divinity... However, the information in this area is still slightly insufficient, so let's not draw conclusions blindly."
"Can people who have been in contact with ravens resist the mutation?" Hao Ren suddenly thought of many other people, "Then there are probably a lot of people who are still normal after saying this! Hassu, Baihuo, Haisianna, Liusheng and Zhao Xi three King Kong... Maybe these people are fine, are they in a daze now?"
"...It's also possible," the data terminal apparently ignored the question just now, "but we can't contact these people now, because of the global mutation, the space-time structure has been 'layered', and the normal people are actually isolated in the It is outside the main time and space, so the original means of communication on the earth must have been paralyzed, at least normal people including us cannot use it."
"Landlord, there is really no signal." Lily said, shaking the phone in her hand.
"These people can be put aside for now," Y'zaks said gruffly, "The key thing now is—we still haven't figured out how this mutation happened, and we haven't found anything related to Vivian. clues."
Hao Ren frowned: "I think this mutation itself is a clue related to Vivian."
Y'zaks looked over: "What do you mean?"
"Have you noticed that those chaotic 'time-space phantoms' outside are all from the age of mythology to the present, and there is nothing beyond this time period, such as dinosaurs and the like."
When he reminded others, others reacted immediately, Nangong Sanba nodded repeatedly: "That's right, the earliest things we saw were 10,000 years ago, and the animals and plants earlier than that are completely invisible."
Nangong Wuyue scratched her hair: "But I saw a saber-toothed tiger coming, isn't that something from the same era as dinosaurs..."
"The extinction time of the saber-toothed tiger was about 10,000 years ago, that is to say, when Vivian first arrived here, there were indeed saber-toothed tigers active on the earth," it was Nangong Wudi who spoke this time. He glanced at Wu Yue, "I usually read more books, your brother is better than you in this aspect..."
May:"… "
"That is to say, those mutations outside are all things in the bat's memory?" Lily's eyes widened. "Won't things that she hasn't experienced appear in the phantom?"
"It's very possible... no, the range should be wider," Hao Ren thoughtfully, "A person's memory is limited to his perspective, so the range of scenes reproduced through memory is limited, and the scope of those space-time phantoms outside is obvious. It's too big. But one thing is certain, from the timeline, this mutation is consistent with Vivienne's memory interval."
Lily's imagination as a writer instantly swelled: "So Vivienne has lost her memory for many years, is this a blowout recovery?"
Hao Ren had to admit that although she was too imaginative, every time she said something out of the blue, people couldn't help but feel that there was some truth to it.
And just when he was about to follow Lily's thinking, he suddenly felt a wave of fluctuations in his spiritual world, and then Raven 12345's voice sounded:
"Hao Ren? Hao Ren, you heard the answer!"