The gloomy jungle is shrouded in a quiet and weird atmosphere. Looking in any direction, all you can see in your field of vision are layers of black giant pines and wanton-growing bushes. Through the narrow gaps between them, one can see that the sky is cut in pieces by those strange bony branches. The original bright sky is somehow dyed with a layer of weird lavender, and under the canopy, a layer that seems to be forever The fog that will not dissipate is gathering from all directions.
The caravan is driving on a road in the forest. This road, which seems to coexist with the black pine forest itself, is quite wide. It is paved with ancient and incomplete stone slabs. On both sides, you can see neatly arranged weird lights that seem to be formed after petrified wood Column, this road stretches in a winding way through the forest, the front leads to endless thick fog, and the back... also endless thick fog.
It is not uncommon in itself to find it difficult to distinguish directions in the black pine forest. Experienced travelers know that as long as you walk along a fixed road and choose the road strictly according to the sign of the fork in the middle, you will always get out of this road. This is a weird forest, but now, this rule seems to be invalid.
There are no forks, no signboards, and there are only endless roads under our feet. It twists and turns and spreads in the dense fog, extending in the forest as if to drag the team into an endless abyss, and the forest itself is terribly quiet at the moment.
"The situation is a bit wrong..." Charlemagne said seriously, "After entering the black pine forest from the previous gate, it will not be long before we encounter the first fork in the road, and there will be two roads leading to the north and the west... But we It’s obviously not one of those things that’s going on now.”
Hao Ren frowned, and tapped the data terminal on his shoulder: "Did we go through the fork before?"
The data terminal's answer was short: "No."
Vivian looked at Ai Wenna: "How many times have you been to the Black Pine Forest?"
Aiwenna seemed a little uneasy, she shook her head lightly: "I have only been here once before, and that was when I was very young, visiting Greenway with the envoys, and then took a short tour at the edge of the black pine forest …”
Hao Ren smacked his lips: "Tsk, I haven't had the experience of operating here for a long time. It's really lucky that you still dare to choose this path."
"Even the people of the Empire have very little experience in walking through the black pine forest, let alone the Yisu people on the other side of the planet," Awenna said a little stubbornly, "but we know a lot about the black pine forest. It was all measured and tested by the adventurers in our country. Before we set off, we had memorized this part of knowledge as a pre-selected plan... "
"Okay, innocent little princess, now I want to tell you one thing, never overestimate your resilience in the face of the unknown," Weiwei looked at Ai Wenna quietly, "Now your knowledge It doesn't work."
Awenna wrinkled her nose, but in the end she didn't refute anything, but asked, "Do you want to stop the convoy now?"
"Don't stop, the energy of these cars is enough to keep them running until the next millennium, and we still have shields," Hao Ren waved his hand, "Terminal, record the environmental parameters, let's go deeper, maybe we can find something .”
This is undoubtedly a relatively risky decision, and Charlemagne and Ai Wenna have some complaints about it, but because Hao Ren has experienced countless more bizarre and dangerous things than this (such as snatching bones from the mouth of a century-old dog demon and talking to God Standing and swearing) so there is almost no sense of tension. Since the latter is the actual owner of the team, the prince and princess can only approve this decision.
"These fogs are very strange..." After the convoy continued on the road, Ai Wenna looked at the thick fog around and said, "There are also records of fog in the black pine forest, but there has never been such a large-scale and long-lasting fog. The fog gave me a bad feeling...like something was staring at me through the fog."
"Is this the reason why those imperial soldiers didn't catch up?" Charlemagne had already held his sword in his hand, fully alert to the changes in the surrounding environment. Although the caravan had a powerful shield system, holding the sword in his hand was still It gave him a sense of security more than that transparent shield, "If this is the case... then the situation is not so good..."
"Don't be so nervous, calm down, because such a trivial matter is not in line with your performance," Hao Ren waved his hand and said, then looked at the terminal, "What did you find?"
The surface of the data terminal is shining with light, which is a sign that the sensor is working: "There is no problem with the environmental parameters, and no signs of space folding or disorder have been found, which is very strange... The radar of this machine can't find anything abnormal at all, but we are in the fog Inside spin..."
Hao Ren frowned and thought for a while: "Locate Nolan, and test her relative position change."
"... Unable to locate, able to determine Nolan's signal, but unable to determine the relative position change."
"It's interesting." Hao Ren looked at Lily, "Does your nose work in this situation?"
Lily bared her teeth at him, but still sniffed her nose seriously and sniffed the surroundings: "Ugh... I can only make sure that we are not going around in circles, we are indeed going deep along a one-way road. Hey, hey, Bat, isn’t your sonar very good, and it can penetrate the fog, why don’t you try it?”
"Don't make noise, I'm trying," Vivienne rolled her eyes at Lily, then frowned slightly, "It's strange... I can only detect the situation within a few hundred meters around, and it's a chaos farther away, as if there It's like nothing."
Hearing what Vivian muttered, Hao Ren's heart suddenly moved.
Then he concentrated his attention, focused his sight on a certain direction in the forest, and carefully searched for the "true appearance" of this world after eliminating all irrelevant interference.
As he watched intently, the trees and roads in the distance became slightly blurred.
"Sure enough... we fell into a trap," he looked away, turned around and patted Liya's shoulder, who was in a serious daze, "Liya, wake up, wake up, focus on this side—I need your help .”
"Ah?" Liya looked at him puzzled, "What's the matter?"
"Look around carefully."
"Oh." Leah agreed vaguely, and then shifted part of her attention from the main body to the mass projection.
Originally, she only put less than 10% of her energy on the projection side, so whether it was thinking speed, observation ability or even her own existence, she was on the same level as Hao Ren and the others. Eyebrow lightly "Huh".
And just as she questioned, the black pine forest changed abruptly.
The endless thick fog all around quickly faded as if washed by water, and became a layer of mist that was so thin that it was difficult to affect the sight. The layers of trees seemed to be much more solid than before, and the chaotic shadows that interfered with the sight disappeared. , the skylight between the canopies was still weak, but the temperature recovered a bit, and the road ahead of the convoy finally became clear.
A gust of wind blew through the forest, and the sounds of birds and animals blew into his ears. Hao Ren suddenly realized how quiet the forest was before—he didn't feel the violation until a minute ago!
"What happened just now?" Charlemagne and Evanna were in a daze the whole time, confusedly "lost" and confusedly got back on track. At this moment, they only thought that the autistic child Leia in the team was simply It's getting more and more amazing...
"Between fiction and reality," Liya's thinking became much clearer after she shifted more energy, and she also took the initiative to speak, "I don't know what's going on, just now we were walking between the real world and the fake world, and more and more It is getting more and more shifting towards the direction of the false world. Fortunately, it was discovered early, otherwise... "
Rao is in the mood of Charlemagne at this time, and he is sweating a lot: Although he doesn't know what the false world means, he also knows how dangerous it is after looking at the situation just now: "What if it is discovered later... ?”
Leah thought for a while: "Then I'll have to say 'huh' a few times before we get out—that's so stupid."
Charlemagne & Evanna: "..."
Hao Ren really wanted to remind Leah to pay attention to her way of speaking. Her actions could easily make the Charlemagne brothers and sisters mistake the difficulty mode of this journey. What if they thought the world was in EASY mode and ran to challenge the extreme survival mode
At this time, Lily asked curiously: "What is a 'false world'? Is it different from an illusion?"
"It's not the same," Leah shook her head, "Illusions are just illusions, man-made or natural illusions, which are essentially similar to watching movies, and the false world is a completely different thing-there is not only one world in operation. There are several possibilities, sometimes it will face various diametrically opposite development results, but there is only one reality, or there is only one reality for the observer, so those unrealized possibilities become 'hypotheses' one by one, That is the false world. Under normal circumstances, the false world is covered on the real world. It is short-lived, fragile, undetectable, and is in a state of disappearing and regenerating all the time, but I don’t know what’s going on here... The false world has been strengthened to an unbelievable degree, and it can even appear parallel to the real world, dragging things in the real world into that unrealized history... This is really a strange place."
Hao Ren nodded as he listened. He knew that there was a similar concept in the Unified Information Theory, but Leah's way of explaining it was obviously easier for ordinary people to understand, so he didn't interrupt. He was just curious: Why did such an abnormal phenomenon suddenly appear in this black forest
But no matter what, the real road has reappeared at this moment. In theory, just walk along the road under your feet to reach the place with the sign. So after appeasing the restless guards in the other two cars, Hao Ren ordered the team to keep going.
But at this moment, a soldier in charge of observing the situation of the front team suddenly pointed to the end of the road and issued an alarm: "Attention! There is an unknown team ahead!"
In front of the stone road, a group of invisible soldiers appeared in the mist as if they appeared out of thin air.