Chapter 28 Trapped

After finishing the preparations, Christina immediately started blasting magic missiles in the air. It felt as if a twelve-barrel close-range anti-cannon was placed on the top of the charging plow truck. The ammunition was fired at a fast speed. There is no way to observe it with the naked eye. At least with my dynamic vision, what I see is a continuous light curtain. There is no connection gap in front of me. It feels like one magic missile after another is spraying out. It's completely There is no gap at all. Moreover, because Christina's Rainbow Jet does not actually fire a single magic missile in front of her, but produces multiple magic missiles at the same time in a large area near her, so in fact, although there are a large number of magic missiles But they won't collide in the air.

The effect of the terrifying rainstorm of magic missiles is simply more exaggerated than the carpet bombing of the Yankees' famous box bomber formation. The zombies in the passage ahead have no room to dodge at all, and they can only survive the rainstorm of magic missiles. He was blasted into pieces by a series of magic missiles.

As the magic missiles from Christina's side began to spray, the mixed formation of Death Guards and Kirin Warriors below also pushed the car forward desperately. Although the ground was full of corpses, the plow truck weighed nearly eight tons. Its own weight plus the front shovel are enough to cut any obstacle into slices and easily crush it.

With all the zombies in front being knocked down, the plow truck on our side almost ran as fast as the wind. The numerous death guards and unicorn warriors plus my demon pet pushed the plow truck at a very fast speed, even Yu Yin was afraid that he would not be able to keep up with Christina's cleaning speed and affect the effect. All four plow trucks were running a little out of balance. On the way, there were constant collisions between plow trucks or between plow trucks and the wall. As a result, the four vehicles were running around with sparks flying, and it felt as if they would tip over at any time.

Although the rush of running like this looks scary, you have to admit that the speed brought by this method is indeed quite satisfying.

With nearly thirty high elves acting as magic batteries for her, Christina finally lasted for half an hour before she ran out of magic power and stopped. In the process, our plow truck moved forward completely. It can be advanced for eight kilometers. Eight kilometers in half an hour, this speed is of course very slow in terms of transportation. Electric bicycles can reach speeds of more than 20 kilometers per hour. This eight hours and eight kilometers is only sixteen kilometers per hour, which is faster than ordinary cars. People run faster, but they are definitely not as fast as most forms of transportation. But we are not doing a track and field competition. We are advancing in a surprise attack against a large number of enemies. No army in history can maintain such a speed in the face of such a crazy enemy. After all, normal people will not be as scary as these zombies. They have no idea what it means to be afraid!

"Phew, I really can't hold on any longer." Christina said, holding her forehead as she was lifted off the plow truck. When she came down, it was all with the help of several of my magic pets. The reason is that she is too tired. Headaches and other problems caused by excessive use of magic caused her current situation. Even walking on his own is a problem. Fortunately, there is no shortage of manpower here. A few unicorn warriors came out to get a stretcher and carried Christina down.

After Christina got it done, plus Zhenhong’s previous efforts, we were actually about ten kilometers away from the starting point. Such a long distance is already very long for a passage, but we still haven't seen the end of this passage here. This is absolutely amazing news. Not to mention the zombies filling the passage, the length of this passage alone is already abnormal. This is no small tunnel. The passage is twenty meters wide and seven or eight meters high. It is surrounded by walls paved with stone slabs and the ground has reached the top. A passage of this size is actually more than ten kilometers long. The amount of work is really scary.

Of course, "Zero" is a game. Even if you want to build a 10,000-kilometer-long passage here, it is just a matter of slightly modifying the parameters of the main system. However, although the modification passage in "Zero" is very simple, this game has always paid great attention to rationality. In other words, if it is impossible to build an underground passage more than ten kilometers long in reality, then it is unlikely that such a place will appear in the game. Of course, in reality, it is actually possible to build such a tunnel. After all, the level of science and technology in reality is sufficiently developed. With the help of a large number of construction machinery, it is normal to build a more than ten kilometers long cross-sea tunnel in a few years. But this is a magical world. Although magic is more convenient than technology in a sense, mages are not construction workers, and they will not come to build tunnels for you. Therefore, even if one has the ability to build such a passage, it is quite abnormal for such a passage to appear in the game world. The system will generally not set up abnormal things unless there is a reasonable explanation for the abnormality.

The current situation is that there must be some reason why this channel is so long, and as long as you know this reason, its "longness" should not be a strange thing.

I really wanted to know what the reason was, but I couldn't collect much information when I was stuck in this place, so I finally decided to use investigative methods to investigate the situation here.

Even though the passage is long, I have a familiar that is perfect for this kind of thing. Taking advantage of the opportunity when Christina came down and took over the job, I directly summoned the flying dart and assigned him to go to the front to help us investigate the situation ahead. At the very least, we needed to know how long the passage was.

This was just a simple reconnaissance mission, but the results of this reconnaissance completely put an end to our previous advancement opportunities.

The special ability of darts is called - moving at the speed of light. Of course, this is a theoretical value, which means that darts cannot actually reach that speed in most cases. The place in front of him was full of zombies, so the darts would definitely not be able to pass through the ground. All he could do was step on the heads of those zombies and run forward. As for the question of being bitten...don't worry about that. With the dart's ability to move at the speed of light, he would have already passed by when the enemy saw him. There is no point in reacting at this time, so catching the dart is impossible. However, zombies' heads are not the ground after all, and stepping on these guys' heads will still affect your speed.

However, even if the movement speed is affected by the zombies, the actual movement speed of the dart is still over 290,000 kilometers per second. This speed can definitely scare many people to death, at least no one dares to say that they run fast in front of darts. However, when I asked Dart to go out to explore the path, it took five minutes for him to come back to me.

In the past, I never let Dart go out to explore for more than a minute, because it was just a carpet search. The speed of a dart is enough to cover every corner in a very short time. but. This time, Feibiao actually went out for five minutes in a record-breaking time, and reported an astonishing result after returning.

"What? You don't see the end?"

This was not what I asked, but what Zhenhong shouted. In fact, I would almost yell if I was really red. At the speed of a dart, it is more than 290,000 kilometers per second. I ran back and forth for five minutes and didn't see the end of the passage. This is definitely not because the passage is too long. But it must be caused by other reasons. Because it is impossible for anyone to build a straight channel more than 40 million kilometers long, which is already n times more than the diameter of the earth. If there is such a length. This passage will inevitably become an astronomical wonder, which can be directly seen from space. After all, if a straight channel that is many times longer than the diameter of the Earth appears on the Earth, it will definitely look like a chopstick has been inserted into the big fruit of the Earth. But, in fact, we all know that that kind of thing is absolutely impossible to happen. Let’s not talk about whether such a building can be built. Even if it is possible, who built it? Why would they want to build such a stupid passage?

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for this passage to be as long as more than 40 million kilometers. There must be something wrong with its length, and the most reasonable explanation is...

"Are we under an illusion?" Christina lowered her head and whispered. Although her tone was not sure, we also felt that there seemed to be no other possibility except this. No matter how you think about it, a passage more than 40 million kilometers long is impossible to exist, so the answer can only be that we are under the illusion of something like magic. In fact, these are all our illusions.

Now that I think about it, it’s really thanks to me that I specifically asked Fei Dart to take a look at the situation ahead. Otherwise, we would just keep fighting all the way. Even if we are busy until this time tomorrow, we can’t expect to find the exit. And by that time, we probably won’t be able to find the exit again. Can't get out either.

"We must have been under an illusion." Gold Coin, who had just learned that there was a problem with this channel, had stopped preparing for his ultimate move and came down directly to join the discussion. Now our plow truck front has completely stopped, because there is no point in continuing to move forward. It is impossible for us to push a plow truck for more than 40 million kilometers, not to mention that there are zombies everywhere here, even if this is a straight ice slide that allows us to sit still all the way, it is impossible. The fastest thing here besides darts is my magic pet flying bird, and even at the speed of a flying bird, more than 40 million kilometers means that it needs to use its maximum cruising speed, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, It takes more than four years of continuous flight, 24 hours a day, day and night, to reach the end. However, this is all theoretical data. The data just now was calculated based on the bird's maximum cruising speed of ten times the speed of sound. In fact, the bird can only last at this speed for a few hours, and it is impossible for the bird to fly continuously for four years. Besides, even if a bird can fly for four years, don’t we have to do a task for four years? Therefore, the way to leave is definitely not to just run along the passage.

Since running away is useless, we need to have a serious discussion now.

After the gold coins came down, all the plow trucks stopped moving forward and just defended in place to prevent us from being disturbed. The four of us called on all our familiars with reasonably good intelligence, and we all brainstormed together to start the discussion. However, after half an hour of discussion, we still only got one result - environment.

"If this is an environment, how can we get out?" Zhenhong asked.

"There are many ways to leave the illusion, but it needs to be decided according to the situation." Amynis said: "I was the goddess of illusion before, but I don't feel any problem with the situation here. So, even if this is an illusion, It was also a very special illusion, at least I couldn’t feel any difference at all.”

"If this is an environment that even an illusory goddess like Amynis can't sense, does that mean we can't get out?" Gold Coin asked.

I shook my head and said: "There must be a way out. There will be no dead ends in the mission. If you can't pass it, it just means you haven't found a way or you are not strong enough. There must be a way out here."

Christina suddenly asked: "Should we try to dig a hole in the wall? Maybe the passage is infinitely long, but the outer wall of this passage can be easily dug out?"

To be honest, I have thought about this problem before, but I felt it would not be that simple, but now I can't find any solution. So I nodded with the attitude of giving it a try: "It's worth a try. It won't take long anyway."

It really doesn't take any time to dig a hole or something. First, let Zhen Hong use violence to hit the walls and the ground around the passage a few times to shake all the large stone slabs into rubble. Then the next step is to ask Xiao Longnu to use gravity to knock down the rubble and blow it away. Then we saw what was going on outside the rock passage. However, this result shocked us.

"Holy crap! What's going on?"

After the outer wall of the rock channel was smashed open. What we are seeing is not a new outer channel. Not dirt either. Of course, it's not something like magma, but...void. This passage seems to be built in space. After breaking through the outer wall of the passage, there is a dark void world directly outside. You can even see the light of stars in the distance, and you can also see some huge stars in the nearby area, but although they look big, they are actually very far away. They look close just because those stars are so big.

It can be said that the situation outside this channel has completely destroyed our normal ability to understand. The existence of a channel built in space is really shocking!

"This shouldn't really be space, right?" Zhenhong asked, looking outside.

Christina stood behind me and said: "It's impossible. The gravity here is still normal, and there was no air leakage after we punched through the tunnel. It doesn't seem to be a vacuum environment outside. Those stars are probably projections or something like that. It’s an illusion, but it’s even weirder there than here, so I don’t recommend going out.”

"No, we need to go out and take a look." I said and stood directly at the penetrated position at the entrance of the passage to penetrate and take a look. My entire upper body was stretched out, but there was really no difference between the feeling outside and inside the passage. The air was still there, so was the gravity, and the direction had not changed. However, the surroundings around us are indeed virtual, because I turned eternity into a stick several hundred meters long and moved around without touching anything. In other words, even if this place is the environment, the actual structure outside is far away from us. It's at least a few hundred meters away.

Although I didn't see anything, I didn't give up. Instead, I first took out the dragon tendon rope and gave it to Zhenhong to tie to my body, and then I jumped out. The advantage of this is that I can use the cable to pull myself back at any time, and there is air outside, so my wings can still be used. It doesn't really happen that the wings become useless in space.

After I jumped out of the tunnel, I was immediately ready to fall down. Because I had sensed the gravity outside before, I knew I would fall down. However, in fact, I didn’t wait until I actually jumped out. I found that the situation was slightly different from what I imagined.

Gravity does exist, but the gravity here is only within one meter of the channel. This is why I could feel gravity when I stretched my head out before. However, after this range is actually exceeded, it is a gravity-free range. . Fortunately, although there is no gravity outside, it is not a vacuum. On the contrary, not only is there air in this place, but the oxygen content seems to be quite high. I feel that the air here is even much better than in the passage. After all, the passage is full of zombies. , it’s strange that it smells so good.

I tried flying a short distance away, but felt that my wings were moving too slowly, so I simply summoned a flying bird and then lunged forward. The flying birds use jet power, and there is oxygen here, so there are no restrictions on flight. Of course, I don’t dare to let the bird fly too fast, because I don’t know what is going on in front of it. What if it is really a huge illusion, how can we fly smoothly and hit the outer wall? Therefore, I always keep the bird in a position that is much faster than me. But in fact it is not very fast for Asuka. Of course, slowing down is not the main way. I also turned eternity into a thin stick more than ten kilometers long. I grabbed the center of the stick myself so that I didn’t have to worry about balance. Although the length increased, In fact, the eternal weight will not change significantly, so this stick does not affect the flight of the bird. I hold the stick like this, keeping the stick in a longitudinal direction, which is consistent with the direction of our flight. In this way, there is still a section of stick several kilometers long in front of us. If by any chance there is an obstacle ahead. The ever-changing stick should be the first to hit the outer wall, and then I will feel it, and then I can make the bird turn quickly to avoid doing something stupid and kill itself.

With this insurance strategy in place, I boldly let the birds explore forward, but waited until we could no longer see the passage behind. We still haven't hit any obstacles. Under normal circumstances it would be impossible to create such a large space. So even if I keep flying forward, I probably won’t be able to get out.

Since flying sideways is useless. That meant the exit was not in this direction, so I immediately asked Asuka to take me back. Yu gave the end of the dragon tendon rope to Zhen Hong to hold, so when we go back, we just need to fly back along the rope. It doesn't matter if you can't see where the passage is at all now.

The return process went smoothly. Following the tension generated by the take-up device, we quickly returned to the exact gap where I left before. Then Christina and the others' first reaction after seeing me was Ask me: "Have you found the exit?"

I shook my head helplessly and said: "I flew at least several hundred kilometers, but the result is still the same, nothing."

"Does that mean the direction over there is incorrect?" Jin Coin asked.

"But if it's not outside, how should we get out of this passage?" Zhenhong asked.

Christina said from the side: "That's all I can think of. If it doesn't work, I suggest you try a more violent method, such as using a big move or something to try to see if you can destroy this place with extreme destructive power. No matter how bad it is, we must be able to interfere with this illusion. Even if we can make the environment flicker, it will be of great help to us."

I thought about it and felt that Christina's suggestion was the only way I could try at the moment, so I finally conducted an ultimate move experiment. The main reason why I came here is because True Red and Christina haven't recovered yet, and the explosive power of gold coins is not good, so my ultimate move is more powerful. However, it turned out to have no effect. My ultimate move used up all my magic power, but the final effect was like setting off fireworks, producing nothing.

"It seems that we must have a problem with our thinking somewhere." Christina said: "This mission is a hell difficulty, and it cannot be so difficult. Our strength is already very high compared to ordinary players. It's an exaggeration. If even we can't solve this environment, for ordinary players, this will be a certain death level that is absolutely impossible to pass, and the system does not set up such a level, so we must have missed something."

"The problem is that we don't know what it is!" Zhenhong said helplessly.

"Do you have any other objections?" I asked after looking at my demon pet. Compared with other people's magic pets, my magic pets have good intelligence, and most of their members can be used as advisers.

Not to mention, someone actually gave advice in this situation. "Master, I think you can try to ask the Earth Mother Goddess for a favor." Jingjing said.

"Mother of the Earth?" I looked at Jingjing in surprise. After thinking about it for a while, I felt that there was a certain possibility of getting help.

Although in theory, superior gods like Mother Earth should not interfere with our players' tasks, after all, they are actually the embodied system rules in "Zero", and they are equivalent to half a GM. The possibility of such a being helping me is very low. However, in fact, I have a very good personal relationship with Mother Earth. Of course, this may be due to my affinity attribute. Anyway, Mother Earth seems to treat me more often. Help on a small scale. Of course, all these help have one thing in common, that is, Mother Earth does not seem to do anything abnormal, or in other words, she does very little, but they are all critical things, and they are help that can completely turn the situation around. .

In this situation, if I ask Mother Earth to help us directly break through the environment and get us out. Of course Mother Earth will reject me directly and unceremoniously, and may even throw me out directly. However, if I change my approach, such as chatting with Mother Earth and asking about the actual situation of this place, I feel that Mother Earth will not be absolutely secretive. At least I am sure she will tell me whether this place is real. is an illusion, so we can determine where to think when leaving here.

After I figured it out, I didn't waste any time. I spoke directly to Christina and the others before opening the door to the earth and getting in.

The last time I sent Pandora and Hades here to recuperate, I noticed that Mother Earth seemed to be in a good mood. This time, it seems that this mood still exists. In other words, Mother Earth is in a very good mood now. This is absolutely great news for me. Mother Earth's good mood meant she was likely to relax her restrictions on my requests. And as long as Mother Earth is a little less restrictive on me, the help she can provide will be extremely exaggerated.

"Mother Earth, are you basking in the sun?" I said hello as if we met by chance. Of course, this approach is actually very clumsy. Because there is a one-way street inside the Gate of the Earth. There was no way I was passing through here and met Mother Earth. You can only come in specially, so this way of greeting is like Brother Chu is having his first conversation, but. This method is actually the method I need, because in front of Mother Earth, my strength is so weak that it is almost negligible. It's as if Einstein, Superman, and a host of history's preeminent politicians suddenly coalesced into one person who was both individually powerful and unparalleled in wisdom. In front of this kind of person, everyone's intelligence and physical strength are inferior to those of others, so instead of deliberately pretending to be sophisticated in front of him, it is better to simply act weak and shy, because pretending to be sophisticated and powerful, in this case In front of such a super being, you will only appear to be extremely clumsy, and will not bring any actual goodwill. Instead, you will pretend to be shy and low-key, and others may behave towards you from the perspective of caring for the weak and pitying the weak. Take more care.

To put it bluntly, Mother Earth is actually like an adult with superior intelligence in front of me, while I am just a child in comparison, completely incomparable in terms of strength and mentality. Therefore, at this time, I deliberately pretend to be glib and try to make people think that I am an "adult", which will only arouse resentment. On the contrary, if I act more normal, people will treat me with a "caring for children" mentality. tolerant.

Sure enough, as soon as I finished speaking, Mother Earth smiled and said: "You are pretending to be pitiful to me. I know you are in trouble outside. What? Do you want my help?"

I deliberately scratched my head and giggled, and Mother Earth glanced at me sideways, poured herself another cup of tea, and said, "The place you are in is actually not an illusion, so you can't use any illusion elimination method." It might work."

"What? Isn't that an environment?" I really couldn't stand it anymore. If Mother Earth is not joking with me, and it is really not an environment, then there is only one possibility... that thing really exists. However, a channel more than 40 million kilometers long. Let’s not talk about how it appeared. Even if it appears reasonably, how are we going to get over it? There are no zombies inside, so what if it's a no-man's land? More than 40 million kilometers of no-man's land is enough to trap anyone to death. "Then what... isn't Mother Earth teasing me?"

"Do I look like someone who can make people happy?" Mother Earth looked at me and asked.

To be honest, although Mother Earth is the most amiable among all the high gods, she does not seem to be the type who likes to joke, and this matter is not that funny.

"But if what is said is true, it means that the passage is at least more than 40 million kilometers long. Who can build such a passage? And how are we going to get there? Even my fastest demon It will take us more than four years to complete this distance with Chong, and this is all year round without encountering any resistance. But based on the actual situation there, I am afraid that we may not arrive in forty years. It’s the other end!”

"Did I tell you that the passage is more than 40 million kilometers long?" Mother Earth suddenly said, and I was suddenly stunned.

"It means that it is indeed a real channel, but it is actually not more than 40 million kilometers long. It just makes us feel that it seems to be endless for some reason?" I asked speculatively.

Mother Earth was really in a good mood, so she didn't talk to me in a bureaucracy and just said her true thoughts. "You have actually entered a law space. This place is real and not an illusion."

"Law space? What is it?"

"It is a small space with its own laws. The laws of the world in this space are different from those outside. It has its own set of rules. The space you enter is a passage, but this passage actually only has Two thousand meters long.”

"What? Just two thousand meters? Impossible, right? We ran inside for more than ten kilometers and didn't come out!"

"I said, I won't joke with you. That passage is indeed only two kilometers long, and its end and starting point are actually connected in a loop. Of course, I am talking about a loop connection on the spatial level. No. It forms a curved channel. So you feel like it's going straight forward, but it's not."

"That's not right!" I said doubtfully: "When I asked my demon pet to explore the path in front of me, he ran more than 40 million kilometers. If the path is circular, he should have run out after running 2,000 meters. You should catch up with us from behind, right?"

"This involves another rule of this space. In addition to the continuous cyclic connections in space, there are also axial changes in time. That is to say, if your magic pet keeps moving forward. Then He will return to the starting point after two thousand meters. Although this position coincides with your position, it is different in time, which means that you overlap in space. But it is staggered in time, so you are not They will see each other, and your pet keeps rushing forward, and in the end it is equivalent to running to a later point in time. When he finds that the passage has no end, he starts to return, and at this time he is actually making time go back. , when he returns to your time point and returns to that space point again, you will meet again."

With Mother Earth's explanation, I finally fully understood the characteristics of this passage. In fact, this passage can be compared to a spiral staircase. Assume that the height within the stairwell represents time and the orientation represents absolute position. So, when you are on the east side of the third floor and the east side of the fourth floor, your locations are actually the same, but the time is different. If a person keeps climbing up the stairs, he will eventually return to the east side, but at this time he may climb to the tenth, eleventh floor or even higher, and in this case he is actually still on the stairs In the well, there is no exit, but the height is different.

This is our situation. We kept moving forward in that passage. Although we had completed two kilometers one after another, we never went out. We kept running forward in this closed time loop. In other words, we actually ran through A long way to go rather than a long time.

Now that the principle is understood, the next thing that needs to be solved is how to destroy this closed channel. However, before I could open my mouth, Mother Earth said directly: "Don't ask me, although I know, I won't tell you." How are you coming out? You know our rules, and I won't break them. But with your IQ and knowing so much, it shouldn't be difficult to come out, right?"

After thinking about it for a while, I bowed deeply to Mother Earth and said, "I understand. Thank you for your help. You saved our lives several times this time!"

"Okay, you go and do your work quickly, don't disturb me while I'm sunbathing."

After Mother Earth waved, I turned around and ran out, and Christina and the others immediately surrounded me when they saw me.

"How is the situation? Have you asked?" Zhenhong asked impatiently.

I nodded, then shook my head. Jin Coin asked anxiously from the side: "You are nodding and shaking your head, do you mean it or not?"

"I told you, but it's not complete." I said directly: "Mother Earth told me about the situation in this place, and told me the reasons and principles of its formation, but she didn't tell me how to break the situation, but let us think for ourselves. "

"Ah?" Zhenhong obviously felt that there was little hope.

Christina didn't care too much and asked directly: "Tell me everything you know first, let us listen and then talk." (To be continued...)