Just like the previous hunter's hut, after the space based on Vivienne's dream collapsed, a certain "safety zone" remained around Hao Ren. This is a grassland with a radius of only a few hundred meters. , a space rift shimmering with light has opened.
That space crack is the crack left after the Rose Gate exploded—now its shape has changed, becoming more solid, and there is a faint ray of light coming from the crack. Hao Ren knew that it was the passage leading to the next segment of time and space, just like the wooden door of the hunter's cabin before.
"Through that door, you can enter the next time and space," Hao Ren pointed at the crack, "If you still have something to do, make preparations here."
"Is there anything to prepare," Heatherana shrugged, "We just entered this time and space consciously, and didn't bring in the things from the afterlife. The only equipment that can be used is the equipment at hand. The one over there , do you have anything to prepare?"
Facing the impolite tone of the little bat spirit, Hasselblad was not angry, but just said lightly: "It's nothing, let's go."
"Okay, okay, let's go~~"
Lily is probably the guy who is most looking forward to the next adventure at the scene. She can't wait to know what the time and space on the other side of the rift looks like, so she ran over happily at this time, but just when she was about to touch the rift, she His body suddenly froze for a moment.
I don't know if it's accurate to use "stagnation" to describe what happened, but Hao Ren really didn't know what happened: he saw Lily's body suddenly covered with a layer of gray and white, just like the surrounding "stagnations" solidified by time and space. Like old images". As gray and white covered her whole body, Lily suddenly stood still in mid-air as if the pause button had been pressed, and her aura quickly moved away from this world, and her whole body became a fixed image. .
The "stasis" didn't last too long. In fact, just when Hesiana, who had witnessed all this, was about to exclaim, Lily suddenly returned to normal. The latter fell from mid-air, staggered two steps before barely standing still, then raised his head and looked around in confusion, as if he was a bit fragmented.
"Landlord, landlord, I seem to have suddenly returned to the real world just now, and I saw Wuyue and Sanba!"
The husky girl scratched her hair, looked back at Hao Ren and said with a dazed expression.
Hao Ren and the other two spoke almost simultaneously: "What happened just now?"
"Of course I don't know!" Lily yelled, crossing her arms confidently.
"Could it be a bad signal?" Heatherana said, and then explained, "Look, didn't all of us except you enter this world as conscious bodies? The main body is in the real world. Receive In this world, there are only brain waves jumping around, like wifi, maybe when the wifi becomes unstable, why don’t we just stay here?”
This little bat spirit seems to have a different way of thinking...
And just when Hao Ren was worried about what was going to happen to Lily, Lily's temperament suddenly changed.
Yes, from a second B to a funny B...
Hao Ren is no longer unfamiliar with this kind of change. Lily changed like this once when he completed the Siberian backtracking. He knew what happened: Raven 12345 used Lily as a springboard to project its own consciousness into this time and space.
He hurriedly explained the situation of Lily being possessed to Heatherana and Hasu, and then said before Raven 12345 could speak: "Boss, what happened just now? Lily's situation is suddenly a little bit wrong."
"Is the signal bad?" Heatherana also threw out her conjecture, and then explained her thoughts in detail.
Unexpectedly, Raven 12345 actually nodded his head: "It really made you guess right by mistake... Although the situation is a bit off, it is generally the result of 'poor signal'."
Hao Ren suddenly became nervous: "The sandbox system is malfunctioning? The people projected in can no longer continue their activities?"
Heather Anna became depressed when she heard this: "Don't! I just came in and didn't do anything. I was expecting to see Lord Vivian in history. I'm going back now?"
Raven 12345 interrupted Hao Ren and Hesianna's speculation: "It's not what you think, not all the people projected in will be kicked out—it's because Hao Ren's backtracking process deepens, the farther away from your current time coordinate It will be more difficult for people to survive.”
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding: "Uh... Boss, can you explain clearly?"
Raven 12345 seemed to have known about Hao Ren's question for a long time, and he didn't feel impatient, but explained carefully: "You are going back to the ancient times along the timeline, so from the timeline, you are getting farther and farther away' Modern', and everyone around you has a fixed threshold of active time in history. Lily was active within a hundred years in modern times, Heather Anna was active in the first year of AD, and Hasselblad was active in BC For more than four thousand years...the original positions of these people in history are like stations, and Hao Ren, you are going back and forth in the process of crossing these stations and flying all the way to a farther point in time."
Hao Ren was vaguely aware of what had happened: "People who entered this world with a conscious body rely on their bodies in this time and space as their shells to move around, but as I continue to go back and forth, they have already passed the age of their birth— Does their 'existence' lose support as they go back in time?"
"You are very smart," Raven 12345 rarely praised, "That's it, the helpers around you will enter the age before they were born one by one, and their existence in that time and space will create a paradox—Sha The box system can buffer this paradoxical effect, and the consciousness they transmitted in the past can also forcibly support their activities around you, but as the retrospective process continues, the system can bear more and more pressure. I put you The time point when the friends around you first started their activities in history is called their "historical reference point". As you continue to enter the ancient times, they will be farther and farther away from their own "reference point" in history. Consciousness transmission It became more and more difficult, and in the end... it could only be disconnected."
Hao Ren remembered Lily's behavior just now: she was obviously disconnected.
"The farther away from my active period in the real history, the harder it is to connect, right?" Hao Ren frowned, "That is to say, as I continue to enter the ancient times, Lily will be the first to be unable to connect. Then Heatherana, then Hasselblad…”
"In the end, you are the only one left," Raven 12345 said lightly, "Because in the earliest ancient times, none of the friends around you were born, and you still knew people who were active on the earth 10,000 years ago. There is only one, and that is Vivienne Ansesta."
"It's really an unexpected situation," Hao Ren couldn't help sighing, "I thought I could go all the way to collect friends, and finally form an elite group to sweep the entire dungeon... Dare I be the only one in the end people."
Hasselblad also understood the whole process, and the old hunter thought more practically: "How long can we persist after we cross our 'historical benchmark', that is, the date of birth?"
"It's hard to say, there are too many variables, and there are no precedents to follow. I can only make a rough estimate... Even if you cross your own historical benchmark, you should be able to continue your activities for a thousand or two thousand years," Raven 12345 said cautiously, " So in fact, you don’t have to worry too much about being kicked out immediately after crossing the benchmark, and you can still play for a long time.”
Hao Ren sighed: "Looks like Lily is going to be the first to leave."
Heather Anna shook her head: "No way, she is the youngest among us."
"But I'm quite satisfied," Hao Ren laughed. "Just now I thought that you would have to leave soon after crossing your own historical benchmark. I didn't expect that you could still be active for a thousand or two thousand years. This margin is already beyond me. I expected it. With this calculation, even Lily can hang around with us until the first year of AD... "
"I thought you would be hit hard," Raven 12345 looked at Hao Ren's performance through Lily's eyes, and her tone was half a smile, "After all, the situation is getting worse."
Hao Ren's performance was very unrestrained: "It's nothing worse, it's better to say that I started this retrospective journey with the determination to go on alone. Now that I have so many helpers—even if they're all temporary— It’s been better than originally expected.”
"Very well, it seems that I have read the right person." Raven 12345 smiled (although it was Lily's face), "My connection has also started to become unstable, so I will tell you here. After I go back, I will Find ways to widen the fault-tolerant bandwidth of the sandbox system, which will allow your friends to stay connected as consistently as possible before 'before you exit'... ”
Raven 12345's voice slowly sank, and her breath gradually left Lily's body. The latter stayed there with his head down for a while, and Ji Ling suddenly came to his senses: "Landlord, I seem to be broken again just now..."
"Raven 12345 came here just now," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Lily, let me tell you something."
He told the husky girl in front of him about the "historical reference point" and "the disconnection of the projection of consciousness".
Although Lily seems careless, she has never been ambiguous when it comes to complex issues that require strong comprehension. She quickly understood the whole process, and showed a regretful look: "Oh—so I can only follow you for a while. Ah... I thought I could see a giant bat from 10,000 years ago in one breath."
Hao Ren replied with a helpless wry smile, while Hessiana next to him thought of another thing: "By the way, weren't you the leader of the demon hunters in your last life? If we count you as a historical benchmark from that life, you actually Is it possible to follow Hao Ren to the end..."
"It's okay, it's okay," Lily waved her hands carelessly, "I'm Liu Lili in this life, and I'm no longer the same person as in my previous life."
Hao Ren glanced at her: "Then don't you always think of yourself as the first emperor of the demon hunter?"
"Just talking," Lily smiled easily. "I just want to pretend to be X. I know that the first saint of the demon hunter and Liu Lili from the southern suburbs have lived in two lives, so don't count on things from the previous life."
Seeing the serious expression on her face, Hao Ren nodded, took a long breath and looked towards the space crack not far away.
Lily also looked over, and then she still took the lead and said, "Let's go, landlord."
Without any hesitation, the group of four stepped into the distorted space-time with an unknown future.