Chapter 793 Gangrene

A soaring flame suddenly rose from the center of Domir Town. The first thing to be ignited was a circle of wooden houses around the central square of the town. Then the fire spread rapidly and violently to the entire town in an unnatural way, even if there was no On the streets where things can be burned, the flames jump out of thin air and ignite everything as if they are alive. Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire town of Domir had turned into a sea of ​​flames. Looking down from the high ground, only red was visible.

Everyone standing on the hill looked at this scene in amazement. The way the flames burned did not look like a natural phenomenon, and the speed at which it spread was almost reminiscent of shoddy movie special effects. Nangong Wuyue was shocked: "This...why did it suddenly burn up?!"

Hao Ren squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the situation in the town. He suddenly discovered something unusual in the details: "Wait a minute...it's not a normal fire. Take a look at those houses for yourselves!"

I saw that the houses engulfed by the flames were collapsing at an extremely fast speed. No matter how strong the fire was, the speed of their collapse seemed abnormal. One after another, the houses disintegrated in the sea of ​​​​fire and quickly turned into ashes, and then the black ash covering the sky was swept up into the sky by the wind.

A large amount of smoke and dust condensed over the town, billowing like thick ink, while fluttering black ash continued to fall from the sky, covering every corner of the town. Seeing such a scene, Vivian was the first to react. She couldn't help but murmur to herself: "Ashes... is this how the ashes in this town come from?!"

This weird fire came and went faster. It only burned for a few minutes as if it was just going through the motions. Then all the flames disappeared like a phantom, and the town of Domir had undergone earth-shaking changes: All the houses were burned to the ground, and the once row upon row of houses were all turned into ruins. The charred roof beams and wall pillars that reached the sky stood desolately on the ground, as if they had been standing there for centuries. as long as.

A thick layer of ash covered the ground.

"It seems that this is what the town originally looked like," Vivian bit her lip, "I'm afraid it was burned to ruins hundreds of years ago."

Lily was a little confused: "Then what we saw in the town before...could it be all hallucinations? Such a powerful illusion?"

"It's not an illusion, that was Domir before it was burned by the fire. It really existed," Vivian had already figured out the key points. "The time and space structure of this secret realm is chaotic, and many things have been preserved for an abnormal time - it still exists." Remember those lights that suddenly lit up and flames that burned out of thin air? That was a sign that the timeline was messed up, so Domir before being burned by the fire and Domir who became ruins were superimposed. It must have been Batis before. Te is interfering with this superimposed state, and now that he has gone to purgatory, things here will begin to behave according to the normal timeline."

Vivian did not explain the magical principle behind this phenomenon in detail, but everyone at the scene could still understand what happened. Hao Ren has now finally sorted out all the supernatural phenomena he has experienced since entering Domir, including those movie-like images of spiritual bodies that Lily saw, those things in the town that abnormally lose their color, and those things that click together after a certain period of time. A bright light, all of which is explained:

Domir in different states of time is preserved in this chaotic secret realm of time and space like a lot of snapshots. They are randomly superimposed together to create the weird ghost town landscape.

There is no doubt that Baptiste is the culprit of everything, but why does he do this? How did he do it?

"That wizard drained the soul energy of everyone here, and he admitted it himself," Hesiana said. "I'm afraid the chaotic space-time structure here is also to better extract power-probably to create some kind of cycle of magic power. He blocked time and space here. This is the only explanation I can think of."

"Can a wizard do such a thing?" Hao Ren frowned, "This almost sounds like challenging the rules."

Hesiana opened her mouth, but in the end she could only shake her head: "To be honest, I don't believe that a wizard can do such a thing. Interfering with the structure of time and space is a very difficult thing, and no one in the contemporary era even has this knowledge. I just I have seen it in some ancient books. It is said that some of the 'old gods' in the mythical era can control time and space. But wizards... It's not that I look down on this group. Most wizards are transformed from ordinary humans. They are good at magic. Their talent and quality are simply not enough to get them to this level.”

Vivian also nodded: "Baptiste shouldn't have this strength. The situation in this town is not as simple as ordinary space closure. If his ability in time and space control is really as high as this, it will definitely not happen. Lily's ultimate attack was broken by digging a hole. I tend to think that he used some kind of ancient artifact or the help of an ancient person. He can summon the 'Blood King'... I'm not sure whether he can summon anything else. thing."

Lily looked at Vivian and then at Hao Ren. She had some disagreements: "You are all just guessing. The premise is that the space-time structure of this town is indeed the same as you said, which is dislocation and superposition - what if it is not the case? Woolen cloth?"

"Look at the situation in the town and come up with a more reliable explanation yourself." Vivian raised her finger and pointed to the ruins of Domir at the foot of the hillside. "And I have seen the realm of time and space. Cronus was once in front of me. He demonstrated his famous stunt, and the scene was very similar to the situation here."

As soon as Vivian opened her mouth, she pulled out an incredible ancient figure, and all the guys who were not as old as her immediately fell silent. After a while, Hao Ren broke the silence: "No matter what, Baptiste himself must know everything. Let's just capture him."

Vivian hummed: "Yeah, but did your probe track the wizard?"

"No, the state of the portal was in chaos at that time, and the probe was thrown very far away," Hao Ren said regretfully, "But as long as Baptiste is really in Purgatory, we will definitely be able to catch him."

"Hurry up then - Purgatory is not a safe place, and I hope the wizard doesn't die in there before we catch him."

Everyone did not wait too long. It did not take long for the autonomous machinery to install the portal generator: Installing these devices was actually very simple. The most important effort was spent on analyzing the coordinate relationship between Purgatory and the Earth. After the equipment was ready, Hao Ren immediately connected the data terminal and prepared to open the door. At this time, the terminal reported something unusual:

In just a few minutes, the coordinates of purgatory sent back by the probe changed several times.

"This is probably the so-called 'Purgatory instability' phenomenon," Hao Ren heard some reminders from the data terminal in his mind. He immediately thought of something and stared at the record of coordinate changes in Purgatory in the past period. Its final This time there was a huge difference in 'position' compared to just now, "It has been 'floating'... floating at the edge of the universe!"

"Aren't all different spaces drifting like this?" Hesiana said in a nonchalant tone. "A different space is not a pocket hanging on the wall. It is more like a bubble floating in the water. It is natural that it will be unstable. ."

"No, Purgatory is very different from other alien spaces." Hao Ren looked at the analysis results of the data terminal with excitement. "The coordinate drift of other alien spaces is only relative to the three-dimensional address of the earth. You can put They are imagined to be certain planets deep in our universe. These planets are connected to the earth through wormholes. No matter how it moves in its own galaxy, its relative position to the entire universe does not change: because it is in the universe. Among them. But Purgatory... is incredible. It seems to be moving relative to the universe. What causes drift is not its own coordinates, but the entire reference system!"

Hesiana glanced at Hao Ren with a strange expression: "Who knows this?"

"Oh, you don't need to understand," Hao Ren waved his hand casually, with inexplicable excitement in his tone, "This is something we are paying attention to."

He glanced at Vivian as he spoke, and the implication was very clear:

"Purgatory" is drifting in the entire coordinate system relative to this universe. There is only one explanation for this - not only is it a fragment of the universe from the dream plane, but this fragment is not completely integrated with this universe. It is still in the dream plane. Wandering in the gap between the surface and the surface world.

The "crack" between the dream plane and the surface world has another name, and that is...the wall of reality!

Hao Ren finally found the biggest "gangrene" on the wall of reality!

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