As they descended, the light grew dimmer. Dick was so frightened that he dared not move, and Benjamin could only rely on the sense of water elements to identify the surrounding environment.
In the field of vision he sensed, the lower the position, the richer the surrounding dark elements, and the entire abyss became narrower and narrower.
"Take it easy, the suction force is getting stronger and stronger." The system suddenly reminded, "Although I can't analyze the source of this force, I feel that the nearby spatial structure has become more and more unstable."
…Spatial structure
Benjamin touched his chin. To be honest, he couldn't figure out the source of the suction, but if the spatial structure here had changed, that would be something unheard of.
He could only slow down, fight against the force from below, and get closer little by little.
Suddenly, he saw a beam of light in the darkness below.
Benjamin's eyes suddenly lit up.
The light looks very blurry and distant, but in such an environment where you can't see your fingers, any light is particularly dazzling. Dick also shuddered, the expression on his face was as if he had just been fished out of hell.
"There is, there is light..."
Benjamin nodded and directed the puck in the direction of the light.
The light that appears in the abyss must represent some unusual meaning.
The closer we fly, the brighter and brighter our surroundings become. However, when the eerie and terrifying environment of the abyss appeared before their eyes again, Benjamin couldn't help but feel shocked.
Is that...a crack
In mid-air, some small black cracks began to appear. Just like cracks appearing on glass, these cracks are not attached to any object, suspended in the void, opening and closing at an extremely slow speed, like the gills of a fish.
"A space crack? It's interesting, such a theoretical thing can actually exist?" the system said to itself.
Benjamin controlled the ice hockey vehicle to stop. His intuition told him that this thing might be dangerous, so he thought about it, summoned a water ball, and threw it towards the crack.
Whoosh! The water ball passed through the crack and still maintained its original shape.
However, a crack with the same shape as the crack split the water ball in half. The water in the middle part has disappeared without a trace, and may have been sucked somewhere by the crack.
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This thing... no matter how solid something passes through it, it will probably be "split" in half by the crack, right
Fortunately, the cracks were not too dense, and Benjamin could still control the puck, bypass them, and continue moving in the direction of the beam. However, as they went deeper, the surrounding cracks became more and more dense.
The size of the cracks also gradually grew, and Benjamin even found a crack that could accommodate an adult walking through at will. In the dark crack, he could see a faint light coming from inside.
Benjamin couldn't help but wonder where these cracks led to.
"If nothing else, the light source and suction should come from the other end of the crack." The system said slowly, "I just don't know what is on the other end of the crack, another world? Or other places in this world? You You can go in and have a look.”
"...I won't go in."
"Why?" The system sounded as if it was surprised, "The shape of these cracks is very stable, and you have the leaves of the Tree of Time and Space in your hand, so the chance of crossing safely is still very high."
Benjamin frowned and asked, "How do you know they are stable?"
"intuition."
“…”
Benjamin thought that with such a bottomless matter, he had better not entrust his life to the intuition of the system.
Trying to avoid all the cracks, their progress became easier and easier. The source of the suction force seemed to be these cracks, and the more cracks there were, the greater the suction force. Benjamin could still maintain control of the ice ball, but if it continued to increase... he felt unsure.
Want to leave
Just as Benjamin was hesitating, suddenly he saw a piece of red and black ground.
He was stunned at that time.
"Are we...in the end?"
After flying the last stretch, Benjamin discovered that they had really arrived at the bottom of the abyss. The long and narrow surface of the land is barren, extending endlessly at both ends, leaving only a road in the middle. There were not many spatial cracks on the ground, but Benjamin saw some human or animal skeletons scattered everywhere.
And...unidentified objects floating in the air.
"Oh my God! My God... So, is that a ghost?" Dick almost wet his pants on the spot.
Yes, ghost, that's a pretty good word to describe what they saw.
Under the dim light, shadow after shadow floated in the air. They have no face and no stable form, just like a bunch of jellyfish without tentacles, swimming back and forth between the cracks in a weird way.
Moreover, from them, the system detected fluctuations in mental power.
"Although I can't give them a definition, what I want to say is that the existence form of these things is quite similar to the phantom left behind by the overseas priest after his death." It said slowly, "You can call him It would also be nice to be a ghost or spirit."
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Really... a ghost
To be honest, it is not strange for the abyss filled with dark elements to breed some undead creatures. However, the undead in this world are really too rare, and what he sees now is probably a settlement of some kind of undead creatures.
The number of ghosts here is very large, and what Benjamin sees now is probably dozens. The entire abyss should extend directly from the west of Horli Kingdom to the east of Frieden. How many such ghosts will breed from such an incredible length
Benjamin could hardly imagine it.
The only thing he was lucky about was that these ghosts didn't seem to notice the existence of Benjamin and Dick. They just drifted around on their own, and occasionally got into the cracks. And other ghosts sometimes emerge from some fairly wide cracks.
Upon seeing this, the system immediately said triumphantly: "Look, I said these space cracks are very stable, it doesn't matter if you pass through them."
“…”
Benjamin still didn't want to try.
A bunch of ghosts are crawling in and out of it. What could be on the other side of the crack? hell? Underworld? A space for the undead? He really didn't want to poke his head into the living habits of undead creatures.
Just as Benjamin was thinking this, his eyes suddenly widened.
… etc.
I saw a figure - a real figure, suddenly flying out from a huge crack.