"Oh my god... it's so, so cold in here."
As the altitude continued to rise, the temperature became lower and lower as Benjamin flew higher. He had to summon more warm water vapor to protect them from the cold wind, but even so, Dick was still shivering from the cold and his face turned pale.
This kind of coldness obviously goes against the laws of nature.
Benjamin couldn't remember how long they had been flying, but the only thing he could see was the snowflakes falling from the sky and the mountain walls piled with snow. He looked up and used the water element to sense outwards. All he could see was the mountain top hidden in the clouds, as if it would never reach the end.
At this moment, he finally began to understand the horror of this mountain range.
-The endless mountain wall is like a huge wall, directly connected to the end of the sky.
However, Benjamin had a scientific view of the universe. He knew that the earth was round, and as long as they kept flying upward, they could even fly out of the atmosphere. There was no such thing as "the end of the sky."
Therefore, he did not give up halfway, but continued this attempt. When his mental strength could still last for about a day, not to mention the recovery potions he carried with him, he was determined to decipher the secrets from this continent this time.
What is on the other side of the mountain
It was a world that had never been explored, and Benjamin was curious.
However…
After flying for a long time, the surrounding snowflakes disappeared and the vast clouds and mist disappeared. Looking up, we could see an extremely clear sky. The temperature was so cold that it would freeze human blood, but the mountain peaks in front of us were still visible. Not to the end.
Benjamin began to have some doubts about life.
"No, how about we fly over from the sea? Huh... If this continues, we will freeze to death here." Dick said with his mouth that was purple from the cold.
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Flying over the sea is indeed another feasible option, and they have a way out. However, he has already flown so high. If he doesn't try to climb over, how can he be willing to leave
"Quick, tell me our current altitude." He asked in his heart.
"According to statistics, you have flown 547 kilometers and defeated 99% of the people in the country." The system said casually, "According to common sense, you have surpassed the ionosphere and are in the thin outer layer of the atmosphere. But according to the analysis of the phenomenon, you are still in the troposphere."
“…”
Benjamin started to feel something was wrong.
There may be some differences in the laws of each world, but the differences will certainly not be that big. But now, after flying more than 500 kilometers, they should have almost flown out of the atmosphere, a bit close to the universe. However, the underlying atmospheric law that "the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature" exists around them is still there.
Is there any planet with a troposphere more than 500 kilometers thick
So how big is the gravity of this planet? It can absorb the atmosphere of more than tens of thousands of kilometers. Any creature that enters here will probably be directly crushed by the terrible gravity.
No one was crushed, so Benjamin knew something was wrong.
He stopped mid-air.
"What, what's wrong?" Dick asked, trembling.
Benjamin raised his hand to signal him to be quiet. He also released his mental power, working hard to sense everything on this mountain range. The bare stone walls, the snow, the scattered water elements in the air... everything still looked normal, and he didn't smell any magic power.
At that moment, he tried to condense countless ice fragments and launch them around. At the same time, he also drew an elemental command: Destruction. The elements gathered in turbulence and was thrown to the mountain wall in front of him.
The ice fragments spread out without hitting anything and quickly disappeared from his sight. As for the elemental turbulence summoned by the runes, it hit the mountain wall, and with the flying magic, it gradually made a big hole between the hard earth and rocks.
Benjamin suddenly became energetic.
It is quite difficult to cross the mountains, but... maybe he can dig a hole here and go directly to the other side of the mountain
"Wait, I seem to have discovered something." Just as he was looking at the elemental turbulence expectantly, the system suddenly spoke at this moment, "Don't waste your mental energy, the mountain wall is fake. You just started to cause it When it was destroyed, an extremely weak spiritual power escaped."
Benjamin was slightly startled.
… Fake
He looked in all directions, seeing clear skies and endless stone walls. Everything looked lifelike, and no trace of forgery could be found.
However, he had already raised his guard in his heart.
After staying in this world for so long, it's not like he hasn't fallen into all kinds of hallucinations. Some illusions could not only fool his eyes, but also the water element, and even the system could not detect the problem.
Moreover, on such serious issues, the system generally does not make mistakes.
"You mean... everything here, including the low temperature and the impossible mountain range, is actually caused by hallucinations?" Benjamin asked in his mind.
"I don't know much about the temperature." The system said lazily, "But no matter how low the temperature is, under the influence of so many heaters you summoned, it is impossible to freeze people to the point of shivering, right?"
When Benjamin heard this, after a brief moment of daze, he felt enlightened.
It's really a fucking hallucination...
No wonder, no wonder even the large swaths of warm water vapor can't stop the cold invasion. Because this coldness does not come from physical low temperature, but from the mental influence exerted on them by something.
So... what exactly is it
"Did someone deliberately make me fall into a hallucination? What other clues did you find?" Benjamin asked eagerly in his heart.
"I don't know." The system replied helplessly, "It's just that your actions when destroying the mountain wall seemed to cause some subtle flaws in this illusion, and I was able to detect something wrong. Apart from that, I Can’t find anything.”
Benjamin heard this, thought for a moment, and suddenly said:
"Then... you can activate the void state and try it."
The state of nothingness is like him temporarily leaving this world and entering another overlapping space to avoid attacks from here. It is generally difficult for illusions to extend from one world to another. Therefore, the state of nothingness can often be a good tool for breaking illusions.
The system also activated the void according to what he said.
A few short seconds, many times, are just an inadvertent moment in life. However, just in these few seconds of entering the state of nothingness, Benjamin discovered that the surrounding scene had been turned upside down.