What lies deep in the world's rift? This is something that every Laherian would be curious about, but no one has dared to really try to find out.
In other words, those who dared to seek the truth have been buried forever in the scorching abyss emitting a faint red light, and among those who survived, there will no longer be such a reckless person who does not cherish life.
Looking down from the terrible rift in the world, what can be seen is an endless dark valley that seems to swallow even the light, although the people of Laherion have long been aware of the land they live in. In fact, it is spherical, and the rift in the world divides the planet into two halves, but with the observation technology they currently have, it is still not enough to directly observe the scene at the other end from one end of the rift—not even half of the distance. reach.
Their eyes will be blocked by the never-dissipating gas cloud deep in the mantle, so that they can only see a little bit of faint red light surging in the depths of the boundless darkness and chaos, and that little red light It has been given various definitions by scholars: the heart of the world, the tomb of the fallen gods, the place where the consciousness of the planet sleeps, or the place where the souls of all beings in the world reincarnate. Some people even think that the red light is the eyes of a giant snake. And that giant snake will crawl out of the abyss one day and devour the whole world.
And the red light became weaker and weaker over a long period of time, causing scholars who were obsessed with proposing various hypotheses to come up with various supporting doomsday or disaster theories, such as the gradual extinction of the heart of the world and the like.
But all the theories are absurd and uninhibited-the red light is not so mysterious, it is just a core that is gradually cooling.
In a place that the Laherian people can't watch, all kinds of construction machinery are busy day and night, a construction base group floating above the earth's core has been built, and a large number of autonomous machinery and engineering drones are in this hot The (cold to the star core) metal sphere flew around, nailing more detection posts and transmission channels to the latter's semi-solidified shell.
The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace is suspended on the surface of the sphere, only a few meters away from its outer shell. The remaining heat from the earth's core scorches the spaceship, but this amount of heat is not even as good as the cooling when she sailed to Nolan. Liquid temperature is high.
Her image stood on the bridge, looking at the pictures sent back by various detectors, and at the center of the holographic projection was a scanned image of the earth's core.
Under a layer of not-so-heavy shell, some blurry images can be seen, which are the rough and shallow outlines drawn by the detection equipment after trying to eliminate interference. It looks like a group of irregular clumps, vaguely There are some things like pipes or pillars extending out, connecting the outer shell of the core.
Only from such a blurred image, it is impossible to analyze what it is, and under the premise that the "protective barrier" covering the earth's core cannot be safely cracked, Nolan really dare not bombard this thing open.
"... I always feel that I have been with Boss for a long time, and even my thoughts have been led astray by him..." Miss Jianniang rubbed her forehead and sighed helplessly, "My mind is full of grievances and enmity, this is not the case back then. That calm and sensible gray fox."
Then she clicked on the holographic projection a few times, turned on the audio monitoring mode, and a dull and powerful voice sounded from the bridge:
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom...
Like a heartbeat, but much slower than a human heartbeat.
"Those Laherian scholars who guessed it to be the heart of the planet are a little bit reasonable. This thing really sounds like a heartbeat." Nolan said to himself, while opening the whole Laherian Schematic diagram of the planet Herien.
On the holographic projection, the entire planet of Laherien is translucent gray-white, while the center of the earth is marked in striking red, but the center of the earth is not floating independently inside the planet: there is a dim red line extending from the center of the earth Come out, and extend to a certain coordinate on the surface of this planet.
"The third group of detectors also confirmed that there is indeed a connection... But how did such a weird information mapping relationship form? And I always feel that something is missing..." Nolan frowned and said to himself, "Forget it Let’s report it to Boss first and let him worry about it.”
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform floated up slightly, interrupting the light beam connection with several detection nodes on the surface of the earth's core, and a new piece of information was uploaded to Hao Ren's data link:
"New information fluctuations have been discovered in the center of the earth, and it has been confirmed that there is an unknown information flow connecting from the center of the earth to the surface, and the connection point is located in the Imperial Capital of Dragon."
…
Hao Ren was slightly stunned for a moment, and this momentary stupefaction was noticed by Vivian, who was always very keen beside him, and the latter looked over with concern: "What's the matter?"
"Nolan sent a message," Hao Ren said in a low voice, tilting his head slightly. "Isn't there a structure wrapped in a mysterious barrier in the center of the earth? Nolan discovered that there is information exchange between that thing and the surface, and the exchange point is located in the empire's capital."
"... That thing buried in the center of the earth, no matter how you look at it, is a product of a super civilization, will it be related to this relatively backward civilization on the surface?"
"There will definitely be a connection, it's no surprise," Hao Ren nodded lightly, "The key now is - we have one more reason to go to the imperial capital."
Hao Ren and Vivian were talking in low voices, while Kaim, Charlemagne and the others were still deeply shocked and unable to extricate themselves.
"What's going on..." Kaim looked back at the black pines standing proudly in the snowstorm, feeling that his brain was a bit lacking, "The black pine forest is actually connected to the northern border...the middle spanned one-third of the empire. Two's territory?!"
In the distant sky, the red space channel stretched across the sky like a scar after the sky was torn apart. Ominous red light and thunder surged in the crack, and a hazy silver-white radiance was below the crack. It was a phantom phenomenon inspired by the energy flow near the crack in the world, and the two wonders overlapped each other, bringing about a wonder that is rarely seen in the ordinary world, but this wonder in the eyes of the Laherian people Never a great view.
The soldiers who have been stationed in the northern border of the world all the year round are no strangers to this kind of scenery. It is the gap in the Gorgon Abyss, and near the gap, the Gorgon demons that appear out of thin air from time to time have always been suppressed here Every stronghold bears the heaviest burden on its shoulders.
Leah looked around and climbed onto a nearby big rock. She looked in the direction of the black pine forest, and then looked at the Gorgon Abyss from another angle.
There was a hint of surprise on her face, then it turned into thinking, and finally suddenly realized.
"So that's how it is," the little goddess jumped down from the stone, looked at everyone and said seriously, "Cam said that part of it-the black pine forest is indeed connected to this place, but it is not connected to the north, but Connected to the space fault around the Gorgon Abyss."
Hao Ren just finished talking with Vivian at this time, and he was also quite curious about the fact that he set foot on the northern snowfield after leaving the black pine forest. Hearing Liya's words, he couldn't help asking: "You mean, black The pine forest is connecting with the Gorgon Abyss?"
Aiwenna exclaimed: "How could this happen?!"
"Because the black pine forest and the Gorgon Abyss are essentially the same thing, and I'm afraid they were originally connected to each other," Liya explained lightly, "although you think they are two things that are far apart and have completely different properties. Mysteries, but in my eyes, they all belong to the "afterimages" after the world line collapsed and shattered and solidified. In the surface world, they may not be connected to each other, but in those world lines that have collapsed, everything is connected and mixed together …”
While she was talking, she showed a thoughtful look, and her hand seemed to be unconsciously flicking in mid-air. Charlemagne and others thought it was the subconscious movement of this "magical little girl" when she was thinking about problems and organizing her words, but Hao Ren saw When she came out, she was flipping the pages of a book...
"Ah, yes," Leah stopped her hands after a while, "If the world is regarded as a multi-layered structure, then the solid reality is its outermost layer, and those worlds that have not become reality The lines are buried in the deep layer together with various redundant information. Those fragmented histories are in a mixed state in the deep layer, which is because in the 'deep layer', the concepts of time and space have become extremely blurred. Normally , those fragmented things will only emerge a little bit, like an iceberg slightly surfacing, exposing a few far apart peaks, but if the barriers between the layers of the world become weak, they will continue to rise... "
"The interconnected nature of those broken world lines will be revealed," Hao Ren continued, "Thus, the Black Pine Forest and the Gorgon Abyss are connected together."
Leah nodded lightly: "And if I'm not wrong...there may be more than one such 'virtual realm' in this world, but some people know it, and some people don't know it, but now it doesn't matter whether there is one or not." People know that they..."
Speaking of this, she deliberately paused to emphasize her next few words: "I'm afraid they are all starting to float up."
After Leah finished talking about this set of almost subversive theories, the others, including Cam, fell into a brief sluggish state.
As far as their familiar worldview is concerned, this set of theories is too advanced and too unimaginable.
"It's really unheard of..." Evanna was the first to break the silence by muttering to herself. As the best spellcaster of the Yisu royal family for hundreds of years, she had studied under several extremely knowledgeable masters, and she knew all kinds of magic spells. This out-of-the-ordinary theory far exceeds that of ordinary people, but she still finds it difficult to keep up with Leah's train of thought, "Although it seems to explain the situation in front of me, such a mysterious and mysterious thing..."
Leah crossed her hips and tried to straighten her chest: "It says so in the book!"
Hao Ren slapped his forehead with a slap, and tried to remedy the situation before the atmosphere changed in a strange direction: "... It is said in the secret tome of our World Tree Temple. Believe it or not, we have a lot of information about the origin of this world. Research."
"It's the job of those scholars to study and verify these theories," Kaim said seriously. "We just need to confirm that the Black Pine Forest has indeed established a connection with the Gorgon Abyss. This information must be known to Her Royal Highness as soon as possible."
Hao Ren smiled: "The best news right now is that we have crossed directly into the hinterland of the empire, and we are not far away from that princess."