A soaring fire suddenly rose from the center of Dormir Town. The first thing that was ignited was a circle of wooden houses around the central square of the town, and then the fire spread to the entire town in an unnatural way, even without On the streets where everything can be burned, the flames jumped out of thin air as if they were alive, igniting everything. Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire town of Dormir has been turned into a sea of flames, and looking down from the high ground, only a red patch can be seen.
Everyone standing on the hill looked at this scene in astonishment. No matter how you look at it, the way the flames burned was not a natural phenomenon, and the speed of its spread was almost reminiscent of shoddy movie special effects. Nangong Wuyue was taken aback: "This...why did this suddenly catch fire?!"
Hao Ren squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the situation in the town. He suddenly noticed something unusual in the details: "Wait a minute... It's not a normal fire. Take a look at those houses for yourself!"
I saw that the houses swallowed by the flames were collapsing at an extremely fast speed. No matter how strong the fire was, the speed at which they collapsed seemed a bit abnormal. One house after another fell apart in the sea of flames and quickly turned to ashes, and then the black ash that covered the sky was swept into the sky by the wind.
A large amount of smoke and dust condensed in the sky above the town, billowing like thick ink, while fluttering black ash kept falling from the sky, covering every corner of the town. Seeing such a scene, Vivian was the first to react, and she couldn't help muttering to herself: "Hui... that's how the ashes in the town come from?!"
This weird fire came and went faster, as if it was passing through the scene in a hurry, it only burned for a few minutes, and then all the flames disappeared like phantoms, and Dormir Town has undergone earth-shaking changes: All the houses were burned, and the once row upon row of houses were all turned into ruins. The charred beams and wall pillars that reached into the sky stood desolately on the ground, as if they had been standing like this for centuries. as long as.
A thick layer of ash covered the ground.
"It seems that this is the original appearance of the town," Vivienne bit her lips lightly. "I'm afraid it was burnt to ruins hundreds of years ago."
Lily didn't understand: "Then what we saw in the town before... Could it be an illusion? Such a powerful illusion?"
"It's not an illusion, it's Dormer before it was destroyed by the fire. It really exists," Vivienne has already figured out the joint. "The time-space structure of this secret realm is chaotic, and many things have been preserved for an abnormal time-remember those lights that suddenly lit up and flames that burned out of thin air? That's a sign of a timeline disorder, so Dormir before being burned by the fire It is superimposed with Dormer who has turned into ruins. Baptiste must have interfered with this superimposed state before, and now that he has gone to purgatory, things here will begin to behave according to the normal timeline."
Vivienne did not explain the magic principle behind this phenomenon in detail, but everyone at the scene could still understand what happened. Now Hao Ren has finally sorted out all the supernatural phenomena he has experienced since entering Dormir, including those ghost images that Lily saw that looked like movies. The abnormal loss of color in the town, the lights that come on at the same time after a certain time, all this has been explained:
Dormir in different time states is like a lot of snapshots stored in this chaotic space-time mystery, and they are superimposed randomly to produce the weird ghost town landscape.
Baptiste is undoubtedly the culprit, but why would he do it? How did he do it
"The wizard squeezed the soul energy of everyone here, and he himself admitted it," Heatherana said, "I am afraid that the chaotic space-time structure here is also for better extraction of power—probably to make the magic power produce some kind of cycle. He Blocked the time and space here. That's the only explanation I can think of."
"Can a wizard do this kind of thing?" Hao Ren frowned. "It sounds almost like challenging the rules."
Hessiana opened her mouth, and finally could only shake her head: "To be honest, I don't believe that a wizard can do this kind of thing. Interfering with the space-time structure is a very difficult thing. No one in the present generation even has the knowledge in this area, I just I have seen it in some ancient books. It is said that some of the "old gods" in the age of mythology can manipulate time and space. But wizards... It's not that I look down on this group. Most wizards are transformed from ordinary humans. Their magic skills Talent and quality are simply not enough to get them to this height."
Vivienne also nodded: "Baptiste probably doesn't have this strength. The situation in this town is not as simple as an ordinary closed space. If his ability in time and space control is really high to this level, he will definitely not Being dug by Lily ruined the ult. I'm leaning towards him using some kind of ancient artifact or some kind of ancient help. He can summon the 'Blood Lord'... not sure if he can summon something else .”
Lily looked at Vivienne and then at Hao Ren, and she had some disagreement: "You guys are all speculating, the premise is that the space-time structure of this town is indeed superimposed by dislocations as you said - what if it's not ?”
"Look at the situation in the town, and think of a more plausible explanation for yourself," Vivienne pointed to the ruins of Dormir under the hillside. "And I have seen the field of space-time disorder. Cronus once demonstrated his special skills in front of me. The scene is very similar to the situation here."
As soon as Vivian opened her mouth, she pulled out the extraordinary ancient figure, and all the guys who were not as old as her suddenly fell silent. After a while, Hao Ren broke the silence: "Anyway, Baptiste must know everything. Let's catch him and bring him back."
Vivian hummed: "Well, but by the way, did your probe track down that wizard?"
"No, the state of the portal was very chaotic at that time, and the probe was thrown very far," Hao Ren said regretfully, "But as long as Baptiste is really in Purgatory, we will definitely be able to catch him."
"Hurry up, then—Purgatory isn't a safe place, and let's hope the wizard doesn't die there before we get him."
Everyone didn't have to wait too long, and it didn't take long for the autonomous machine to install the portal generator: the installation of these devices is actually very simple, and the most important effort is spent on analyzing the coordinate relationship between purgatory and the earth. After the equipment was ready, Hao Ren immediately connected the data terminal to open the door, when the terminal reported an unusual thing:
In just a few minutes, the coordinates of purgatory sent back by the probe changed several times.
"This is probably the so-called 'purgatory instability' phenomenon." Hao Ren heard some reminders from the data terminal in his mind. There was a huge difference in the 'position' once compared to just now, "It has been 'floating'... on the edge of the universe!"
"Isn't all different spaces drifting like this?" Hesianna said indifferently, "The different space is not a pocket hanging on the wall, it is more like a bubble floating in the water, unstable is of course .”
"No, Purgatory is very different from other different spaces." Hao Ren looked excitedly at the analysis results of the data terminal, "The coordinate drift of other different spaces is only relative to the three-dimensional address of the earth. You can put They are imagined as a certain planet in the depths of our universe. These planets are connected to the earth through wormholes. No matter how they move in their own galaxy, their relative position with the entire universe does not change: because they are in the universe. Among them. But Purgatory... It’s unbelievable, it seems to be moving relative to this universe, and it’s not its own coordinates that drift, but the entire reference system!”
Heather Anna gave Hao Ren a weird look: "Who knows what you say?"
"Oh, you don't need to understand." Hao Ren waved his hand casually, with inexplicable excitement in his tone, "This is something we are paying attention to."
As he spoke, he glanced at Vivienne, and the meaning behind his words was very clear:
"Purgatory" is drifting relative to the entire coordinate system of this universe. There is only one explanation for this—not only is it a cosmic fragment from the dream plane, but this fragment has not completely merged with this universe, and it is still in the dream plane. Wandering in the cracks between the world and the watch world.
There is another name for the "gap" between the dream plane and the surface world, and that is... the wall of reality!
Hao Ren finally found the biggest "gangrene" on the wall of reality!
(Happy holidays everyone~~ On this Mid-Autumn Festival, is it okay to give two monthly tickets?) (To be continued~^~)