In just a few seconds, the mountain wall disappeared, and Benjamin discovered that they did not even fly high, but were in a deep chasm. The surrounding environment was quite dark, with only some vague light coming from above, allowing him to barely see things clearly.
There seemed to be some strange sounds coming from the distance.
There are black shadows floating in the air, a bit like a phenomenon that only occurs when the dark element is strong enough. It was extremely quiet everywhere, as if there were no living creatures, and there were some plants that had never been seen before growing on the cracked stone wall in front.
This sight made Benjamin extremely stunned. Unfortunately, that's all he could see.
After a few seconds, the state of nothingness disappeared, and the surrounding scene changed from the abyss to the clear sky and mountains. The cold feeling hit him again, and Benjamin shivered subconsciously. It's all... too real to be true.
"this… "
He couldn't help shaking his head and frowning.
The scene at that moment was undoubtedly the real world. But what he didn't expect was that he thought he was flying high, but he was actually falling. The so-called Scaife Mountains are probably just a thing simulated by this illusion. There is no so-called endless mountains.
Looking at everything around him, Benjamin really felt a deep coldness at this moment.
"A very scary place." Even the system said, "I roughly analyzed the data I just collected. It should be a special terrain similar to the Wind Rift Valley. The density of dark elements is beyond imagination."
"Where are we now?" Taking a deep breath, Benjamin asked in his heart.
"Based on the scene you just saw, it's probably about two hundred meters underground." The system replied, "The hallucination has misled your sense of direction. The more than five hundred kilometers you just flew over should only be in this gap." Just kept spinning."
“…”
Benjamin was speechless for a moment.
Is this such a scam
Thinking of flying in the cold wind for several hours, he felt the urge to vomit blood.
what is this? Are ghosts hitting the wall? He didn't understand how there could be such a thing in this world that was designed to deceive people. In reality, he can fly across this gap with just a slight flight. But after falling into the illusion, he could only wander endlessly in this "mountain".
"Why is there this hallucination?" Benjamin asked in his mind.
"Do you expect me to figure out how it works?" the system said lazily, "It may have something to do with the special terrain here, or it may have something to do with the dark element... I don't know either."
Benjamin shook his head helplessly.
What to do
If he wants to travel through here, he must first get rid of this weird illusion. Although the state of nothingness can be temporarily escaped, the problem is that his current time of nothingness has been almost used up.
Go back first and wait until the skill cooldown is completed before coming back
Benjamin was a little unwilling, as if he had been defeated by this ghost place. Mainly if he uses nothingness to travel here, he still doesn't understand what the illusion is about, and there will always be a knot in his heart.
But what other way is there
He touched his chin, ignored Dick's whining at the side, and fell into deep thought. Thinking back on the real world he had just seen, Benjamin felt that there must be a key to explain it all in those scenes.
What exactly will it be...
"Replay those few seconds for me." He said in his heart.
The system did not refuse and directly called up those images and played them over and over in Benjamin's mind. Looking around, those dark shadows, stone walls, strange plants... everything looked suspicious, but Benjamin couldn't figure out where their suspicious points were.
Moreover, he always felt as if something was missing.
The picture played back by the system seemed to be different from what he had just seen.
"Wait, where's the sound?" Benjamin asked hurriedly, as if something suddenly occurred to him, "Didn't you record the sound I just heard in the state of nothingness?"
"It's recorded." The system said lazily, "You only asked me to replay the scene, but you didn't ask me to play the sound."
"...Then you can play it with the sound."
During the few seconds of nothingness, Benjamin did hear a strange sound. Because the time was too short, he didn't have time to hear it clearly, but perhaps, that voice was also one of the key factors in forming the illusion.
After the system played the strange sound, Benjamin was slightly stunned.
It was like the low roar of some kind of wild beast, floating from an unknown direction. It was a little blurry, but it sounded extremely ordinary and seemed to have no special abilities.
However, Benjamin felt that the voice sounded familiar.
"Mobile your database." He spoke again, "This voice... I should have heard it somewhere. I can't remember it for a while. Please help me check it."
"You have so many demands..." The system muttered quietly, but still carried out the order.
After a moment, its voice came from Benjamin's head again.
"You remember correctly, similar sounds did appear."
"When did it appear?" Benjamin asked.
"A long time ago, when you and your group of mages entered Freeden for the first time." The system slowly said, "At that time, you were still wanted by the Queen and were forced to fly over the border of Ikol. As a result, I entered a place called the 'Valley of the Abyss' in Freden. There seemed to be an illusion that even I couldn't distinguish. And finally, after using the state of nothingness to break the illusion, you said you heard it. There was a burst of singing, but I recorded it and played it back and that’s what it sounded like.”
Benjamin was stunned.
Surprisingly... it happened so long ago.
Under the reminder of the system, he gradually recalled the scene at that time. The Valley of the Abyss, the legendary valley where people disappear in that place for no reason. When Benjamin led more than twenty mages in, he encountered an inexplicable illusion. Thinking about it carefully, it was quite similar to the current situation.
When he broke through the illusion, he did hear singing. After the song was replayed by the system, it turned into the sound of a beast roaring just like before.
So...are the two really the same thing
Perhaps the situation is different, and the illusion here is more powerful and stable, but the internal principles of the Valley of the Abyss and the Scaife "Mountain" should be exactly the same.
—The growling sound, or singing, of that beast.
After thinking for a moment, Benjamin summoned a large bubble. The bubbles enveloped him and Dick, and Benjamin worked hard to maintain the stability of the bubbles, trying to achieve a sound-insulating effect.
However, the illusion did not disappear.
"It's difficult to isolate that kind of sound just by relying on it." The system said, "You are already in an illusion, and your consciousness does not think that you heard any sound. Therefore, even if the sound spreads through the water bubbles, You don’t realize its resonance, you just think that the bubbles really have a sound insulation effect.”
Benjamin frowned: "What should we do?"
"Well... I have one second of nothingness left. Can you completely isolate the sound in that second?"