Logically speaking, the moment the invisible barrier breaks, a powerful suction force will burst out, swallowing more than a dozen systems into the aperture.
However, Benjamin did not see this scene.
"This is… "
The heart of the soul entered the aperture, and immediately after, there was a flash of white light. Benjamin closed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them, the whole world had been turned upside down.
The aperture was gone, the terrible suction was gone, and the roaring system was gone... The vacuum-like silence gave him an extremely strong sense of tearing.
etc…
He was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses, raised his head, and looked around in astonishment. This is obviously not the consciousness space he is familiar with. It seems that some teleportation has occurred again, but the strange thing is that this scene is completely different from every time he enters the elemental plane before.
Dazzling white light came from all directions, full of cold and calm meaning. The space was not spacious, and he felt as if he was in a sealed room, with cold lights on the four walls and nothing else.
—Although it is filled with white light, the atmosphere here is not holy, but rather sci-fi.
What happened again
Benjamin felt strange in his heart. This is a completely unknown area. He doesn't know how he ended up here? Is it an illusion? Or did the collision between the aperture and the soul heart cause his real body to shift in time and space
And... what about the system? It won't be caught in the aperture, right
Benjamin suddenly became nervous.
Although his daily life is to fight with it, he does not hate the system. Only the system understands what Benjamin has been through these years. Apart from years of companionship, it may be the only existence that Benjamin can understand each other after traveling to another world.
He immediately took steps towards trying to get out of this place. However, he found that his limbs seemed to be frozen, making it difficult to move, let alone walk.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
A little impatient, he subconsciously shouted. What surprised him was that although he was unable to move, his speech seemed to be unimpeded and his voice came out extremely loudly.
And after a while, a strange shadow gradually appeared in front of his eyes.
It seems to have the shape of a human being, but it is more like a gas or a spirit body. The face is blurred, and it is impossible to distinguish between male and female. It floated quietly not far ahead, and an ethereal and strange sound reached Benjamin's ears.
"Human, you should stop those dangerous actions."
Benjamin was stunned when he first heard this sentence, and he even couldn't react in his heart. Because... the other party actually spoke Chinese.
It was a kind but unfamiliar feeling that he hadn't felt in an unknown amount of time.
"Who are you?" He asked, adjusted the language mode in his mind, and answered in Chinese.
"It's difficult for us to answer this question. In our world, there is no concept of individuals." The voice replied, "However, to facilitate your understanding, we come from the elemental plane. Don't be too surprised, you at this point in time , should have begun to realize our existence."
“…”
Benjamin was a little confused and did not answer immediately.
Is he... talking to consciousness from the elemental plane
An incredible feeling surged into his heart, and his mind was filled with countless questions in an instant. But after much deliberation, he still raised the most important question first.
"What happened to the aperture? What happened to my consciousness space? Then...are the dozen yellow spherical objects still there?"
"With the efforts of both of us, the plane loophole has been repaired. I hope you will not make such dangerous actions in the future." The voice replied methodically, "Your consciousness space is intact, and the system's mental model has not been destroyed. , the sixteen funny clones have returned to normal."
Benjamin frowned when he heard this.
"You... know there are funny things about the system?"
"In order to communicate with you, we exist in your mind and use everything in your mind to talk to you, otherwise you will not understand a single sentence we say."
“…”
Like every normal human being, Benjamin was horrified when faced with this statement.
omniscient
What are you doing...
So, what he is facing now is actually the "god" in the minds of many people, right
The church calls it the God of Light, overseas sects call it the goddess, and there may be various names from other religions... But there is no doubt that what those people worship is the phantom-like thing in front of them.
"...What do you want to do?" Benjamin was speechless for a long time before asking such a question.
"We are here to warn you." The voice replied, "For various reasons, you have the possibility to influence our world. Although the two worlds have been influencing each other, this influence has always been limited within laws, and You already have the possibility to transcend the rules."
Benjamin suddenly smelled danger: "Will you destroy me?"
"If we can, we will." Xuying replied without hesitation, "But due to the restrictions of the rules, we cannot affect the world you are in now, so you don't have to worry."
"Can't influence? Then... what are you doing now?"
"It's just that through the chaos during the vulnerability repair, an image was transmitted to your spiritual world. In fact, we didn't really meet, and the conversation between you and me cannot become an established fact."
"… All right."
Benjamin felt a little dizzy after hearing this, but he finally let go of his worries.
He knew that the other party came from a higher-dimensional world, and due to the dimensional gap, it was impossible for him to fully understand what the shadow did and said. Therefore, he did not get too involved.
However, maybe this will be a good opportunity...
"I want to know the nature of magic." He suddenly spoke and asked.
"From your definition, magic is the regular activity of elements under the command of spiritual power."
"I know..." Benjamin said, "This is the original sentence in the Magic Academy textbook."
"Then you should ask the questions you really want to ask."
Hearing this, Benjamin took a deep breath, considered it for a while, and said: "Why is there magic in this world but not in my original world? Elements, spiritual power... How are these things formed? Why can humans have them? A talent for magic?”
Xuying was quite patient and replied slowly: "Because this world overlaps with our plane, which leads to the production of magic, but your original world does not have such conditions. The elements are the bodies that carry our consciousness. Our bodies are projected in this world, forming the elements you see. Mental power comes from your consciousness, which is radiated by us and mutates, so you have the ability to communicate with the elements. People with stronger talents , the more radiation we receive, which is why humans can perform magic."
“…”
After listening to this long discussion, Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath and be silent for a moment to calm down his mood a little.
This amount of information... is not an ordinary amount.
Moreover, although he got the answer, there were more questions in his mind.
"Well... you said that the elements are your carriers, doesn't that mean that all magic is moved by you? Every mage can command you to do this or that at will?"
"You can understand it this way, if thinking this way makes you happy." Xuying didn't sound angry at all, "There are extremely strict rules for the interaction between the two planes. The mage completes magic according to the rules, and we also follow the rules. Have an impact on this world. Let’s put it this way, you can think that your spellcasting causes the movement of elements, but we can also think that it is our movement that causes you to cast spells.”
“…”
If it weren't for the immobility of his limbs, Benjamin would really want to raise his right hand and rub his temples.
"You want to say that our seemingly subjective and free actions are actually controlled by you?"
"Complex factors affect human behavior, including internal motivations, physical factors, personality patterns, environmental factors... It is impossible for us to control any of your actions. Everything is just an interaction under the constraints of laws."
"… All right."
Benjamin reluctantly accepted the answer and decided not to delve deeper. However, there was still a very big question in his mind.
"I once entered the consciousness space, and then saw pictures from various places and various points in time. Some are from the past, and some... I don't know if they are from the future." He took a deep breath and said slowly, "Is it possible that things in the future Is it already destined?"
This question is of great significance to him.
"Time, this is a concept that is not easy to understand for you." Xuying said, "You just live at a certain point in time, but we exist in every time period. At this moment, we are facing You carried the message, but for us you could be waiting on the stakes at Havenreit or slaying the enemy on the battlefields of Ikol."
"… speak English."
"For example, if you open a novel, the protagonist on the first page is only ten years old, and on the last page he is sixty years old. For you, his ten years old and his sixty years old exist at the same time. , you exist at every point in his life."
When Benjamin heard this, he suddenly felt disappointed.
"So... to you, we are like characters in novels. Our lives have been completely nailed down a long time ago. We are just recruiting and following the process step by step?"
"Of course not." Xuying said, "In our eyes, the timeline of this world is like a river. We can see from upstream to downstream, and we can see the images reflected in each section of the river. But the river also changes. Yes, if the river dries up one day, everything that has happened in this world will cease to exist. If the river suddenly changes its course at a certain end point, the future we once saw will become completely different."
Hearing this, Benjamin frowned and thought for a long time before asking: "Then... have you seen my future?"
"Your future is the most fickle river. The last time I saw it, it showed that you died in the ** in your room because the space of consciousness was swallowed up by a loophole."
“…”
Although this answer felt like it was unspoken, but for some reason, after Benjamin heard it, his whole mood became much more uplifting.
—They are not puppets with strings attached to them, and their so-called destiny may change at any time.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Then you come to me this time..."
"We didn't come to find you. This meeting is independent of the timeline of your world and only exists in your memory." Xuying interrupted him and said, "I hope you can Keep in mind what things cannot be done in the conscious space.”
Benjamin was a little embarrassed: "What things..."
"We will remain in your memory."
At this point, the shadow suddenly became blurry. I don't know if the time has expired or the energy has been exhausted. Its voice began to become smaller, and the entire bright and blinding room seemed to be gradually dimming.
Benjamin was stunned at the time.
Don't... He still has a lot of questions that he hasn't asked yet!
However, the next white light enveloped his eyes again.