Chapter 762 Phantom Town

The shock in Gao Wen's heart couldn't be further increased.

But he still maintained his hidden effect in the spiritual network, and he did not reveal his consternation.

He just looked at Selena Geer once again, and confirmed the other party's relevant information through the network background again.

His first reaction was that the address recognition function was faulty - after all, the system has just been completed, and there are still many places to be debugged, but he also knows that it is the most inadvisable idea to push the problem to the system failure at the first time. .

It is very likely that Selena Geerfen is really in Cecil, lurking somewhere in the South!

Moreover, in the state of the soul.

His eyes stayed on those words for a long time.

Archbishop (death), spirit body...

This part of the content also touched him a little, but it was not strong. After all, Selena was only an old friend in Gawain Cecil's memory, and she was also an old friend from seven hundred years ago. What kind of state has a human being been in for so long? It's not surprising - what's more, Gawain has personally seen a person who can perform photosynthesis, and his ability to accept this aspect is quite high.

What he is more concerned about is the state in which Selena Geerfen, who has "survived" with her soul body, is hiding in the South at the moment.

While thinking about it, the conversation between Daniel and the others is coming to an end.

"...That's the case, this time the newly emerging spilled pollution area is still in the 'imaginary area' outside the city, which we temporarily call the 'phantom town'," said the archbishop named Yuri, "His Holiness believes that The twisted and strange state presented in this area is very special, so it is ordered not to reset for the time being, but to conduct an investigation for a period of time."

Selena also nodded: "It has been shielded over there and will not be noticed by the residents of Dream City. Archbishop Daniel, this is your first time entering the overflow pollution area, mainly to familiarize yourself with the environment and the situation. caution."

"I understand, Archbishop Selena," Daniel responded earnestly, "I'm ready."

"Very good, let's go now," Archbishop Yuri turned his head and glanced at the clock dial that appeared in the air. At the same time, layers of rune rings appeared under his feet, and the whole person's figure began to become illusory. Get up, "Everyone, enter the teleportation area, and start the transfer after fifteen seconds."

The three archbishops and the three high-ranking priests wearing owl masks all stood within the range of the rune circle, and Gawain also stood silently among them—everyone was just an elbow away from him, but No one noticed the anomaly.

As the light and shadow flickered, the scene around everyone was changing rapidly.

Gawain felt that he had passed through a "tunnel" full of chaotic fog. The golden city of dreams flashed past the chaotic barriers around the tunnel. When the surrounding scene stabilized, he was already standing in a darkened atmosphere. town center.

The "tunnel" just now symbolized the "unmarked port" in the spiritual network?

A few thoughts flashed through his mind, and Gawain had already focused his attention on the dilapidated town in front of him.

Gloomy and chaotic clouds cover the sky, shrouding everything in the field of vision. Under the sky, there are scattered ancient houses. The style of those houses is different from that of other countries in the real world. They have black sloping or pointed roofs and mottled exterior walls. faded, and there was always one wall painted with an odd picture: a hand that seemed to symbolize some kind of power over the sky,

Covers the ground below.

There was no one in the town, as if it had been abandoned for a hundred years. Neatly arranged iron-black street lampposts were arranged on both sides of the road. Between the lampposts and the gap between the flagstone roads, weeds were overgrown and vines were entwined.

Gawain raised his head and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see the scene outside the town. He only saw a hazy fog surging at the end of his line of sight. The fog seemed to form a wall, isolating the entire town inside.

Is this the so-called "overflow contamination zone"?

Although it is desolate and abandoned, but only in terms of authenticity, this place is just like the dream city, it is a place that makes it difficult to distinguish the true from the false... Just why is there no one here?

According to Daniel, there should be human activities in such overflow pollution areas—or in other words, in the cyberspace supported by spiritual power, it is precisely because there are mental activities and "people" observation that an area has may appear.

What's up with this empty town?

While Gawain was thinking about it, the archbishop named Yuri also said: "This is not the same as the previous overflow area... Although the atmosphere here is strange and depressing, the scene is logical, there are no twisted and stacked buildings. , and there is no ground that has lost its color or a sky that shows a gap."

"This is also one of the reasons why His Holiness the Pope thinks this place is special and needs to be carefully explored," Selena Geer nodded, "All the previous overflow areas showed stacking and fading that were completely inconsistent with the logic of reality. , voids, curls and other phenomena, it is very similar to the fact that the scene in the sandbox is distorted and missing information in the process of projecting it to the outside, but this phantom town... In addition to being empty, the physical structure of the town itself It is complete and orderly.”

Gao Wen listened and analyzed - the previous overflow area sounded a bit like a virtual scene where rendering failed and model bugs were encountered... Is it a manifestation of the lack of mental network computing power?

"It's very quiet here, and there's no one on the street," Daniel said aside, just in time to ask Gawain's question, "I remember you told me before that you can see active 'residents' in the overflow area. , whether or not they appear weirdly twisted, but at least the 'inhabitants' themselves exist."

"This also needs to be confirmed by our investigation," Selena Geer nodded and said, "In short, it is very strange here, and it may have been out of the rules of the mind network, there may be some kind of mind that we can't understand affecting and Pay attention here, and everyone must be careful in their actions.”

After making a reminder, the Eternal Sleepers raised their vigilance and began to gradually explore this strange "phantom town".

They first checked the empty streets and confirmed that at least there were no signs of life activities around them, and then confirmed the topographical structure near the streets, and roughly grasped the surrounding environment and the distribution of several main entrances and exits.

During this whole process, Gawain has been following them unhurriedly, listening to their conversations, or following them to record maps, and check the abandoned situation of wells, street lamps and other facilities.

After completing the preliminary investigation of the surrounding environment and confirming that there are no dangerous factors, the attention of the Eternal Sleeper team naturally shifted to the houses on both sides of the road.

In this abandoned town, the doors and windows of all the houses are tightly closed, and there is neither light nor sound in the windows. Instead, it became a kind of temptation, even if people felt strange and dangerous, they couldn't help but curiously wanted to take a look inside the house.

The Eternal Sleeper Squad has always treated the town with the utmost caution, so they first checked the dangers on the streets, but in any case, in order to complete the investigation task, they will sooner or later check the closed houses.

The three high-ranking priests wearing owl masks came to a hut with the door closed. Before they tried to open the door, Selena Gerfen first lit the house with her lantern and checked for possible abnormal data. Or a malicious hidden mind, and then nodded: "Open the door."

One of the masked priests pushed the door, but the seemingly weak wooden door remained motionless.

They began to check the locks on the doors to see if there was something stuck in the wooden door.

Gawain came to their vicinity, and came to the window of the hut facing the street. The window was nailed with crisscrossed broken wooden boards. There were quite wide gaps between the wooden boards. Gawain's sight passed through those gaps. fall inside the house.

It was dark inside, and only the outlines of some furniture and utensils could be vaguely seen.

A creaking sound came from the direction of the door. Gawain turned his head to look and saw that the three priests wearing owl masks had successfully opened the closed wooden door, and a bright light appeared in one of their hands. The other two were blessed with mental protection spells. The three carefully guarded each other and stepped into the hut cautiously.

This is the world projected by the mind network. Everything here is the result of mental simulation. Conventional spells in the real world basically have no effect here. Only the power of the mind can work. Illumination, mental protection and other spells should be a simulated "special effect" used to generate strong spiritual guidance and hints to prevent the caster from losing himself in the network.

Gawain revolved in his heart the many principles of action in the spiritual world, and while walking, he followed the three priests and walked into the hut.

The Illumination Ball of Light exudes a pale brilliance, illuminating the furnishings in the house, but this ray of light seems to be interfered and suppressed by an unknown force, allowing it to spread only a few meters away and only illuminate the nearby ones. Things, and deep in the room, everything in every corner is still shrouded in a shadow like a thick veil.

Gawain stared at those shadows, and only felt that the depths of those shadows were empty, as if the unilluminated place was not only darkness, but that nothing really existed-he even had some unreasonable associations, feeling that if there was any. Whoever recklessly steps into those darkness without light will fall directly into nothingness, and the mind will be annihilated in the void of the network.

The three priests who were in charge of investigating the house were obviously aware of the strangeness of those shadowed areas. They cautiously maintained their actions within the scope of the illumination technique, and no one was close to the darkness.

"There is no dust...but there is an atmosphere of abandonment for many years..." One of the priests flicked his fingers across the square table in the center of the room, and a low voice came from under the owl mask, "It seems to be the phenomenon of 'emotional resonance'."

"It's possible," another priest nodded and said, "there is some kind of power that can influence people's thoughts, which has created an 'atmosphere' of 'abandoned for many years'."

The third priest checked other places: "Furniture and utensils are placed in the places where they are used for daily use, there is still water in the water bottle, and the flowers on the wooden pillars have not withered yet. It seems that the people who live here suddenly suddenly leave……"

"This should be the data leaked from the No. 1 sandbox. It is a projection of a certain town in the sandbox. Judging from the undistorted state of the projection, it is most likely to restore the situation in the No. 1 sandbox," the first place. The priest said in a low voice, "In the No. 1 sandbox... is this the scene now?"

"At least one town is like this."

Gawain followed the three priests and followed them to check the situation in the hut, but did not find any clues worth paying attention to, so he turned and exited the house and returned to the street where Selena and the others were.

While the three priests inspected the house, the three archbishops who stayed outside were not idle. On the one hand, they maintained the spiritual protection of this area to prevent malicious minds hidden deep in the town from attacking the priests who entered the house. , on the one hand, it monitors the movements in various parts of the town, and pays attention to whether the town has changed synchronously after the three priests entered the house. In the spiritual world involving conscious activities, a similar "linkage reaction" must be considered. .

Gawain heard that Selena Gerfen was talking to Daniel.

"...This town is not in the 'blueprint' of the No. 1 sandbox," said the woman with the lantern lightly, "nor in the follow-up blueprint of the show. It was the history that evolved on its own after the No. 1 sandbox was out of control, which created this small town. town."

Daniel asked: "Are there other similar 'self-evolving products'?"

"Yes," Selena nodded, "we have observed a mysterious plain, several broken streets, and a mountain that came out of nowhere - that mountain was floating over the city of dreams, if not His Majesty the Pope sensed the abnormality in advance and blocked it in time, I am afraid it will be directly exposed to the eyes of ordinary believers."

Daniel was a little curious: "...These overflows seem to surround the city of dreams, but at most they only affect the peripheral neighborhoods, and do not directly erode the central area of ​​the city of dreams?"

"That's right, the city of dreams is heavily guarded, and it's not that easy to invade."

Daniel and Gawain, who was standing beside Selena, showed thoughtful expressions at the same time.

At this moment, a melodious and mysterious bell suddenly rang in the town!

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