$ Chapter 438: Ontology

Ye Lan's understanding expression made Xia Manman feel at ease, although she didn't know what Ye Lan understood.

"003 originally chose the location in Yuguang Land because there was a problem here."

Ye Lan said thoughtfully.

"There is something within the scope of this land of afterglow. Once triggered, it will come here. It first came here to avoid two worlds... No, let me call them two spaces. In order to avoid two worlds... The overlap of space.”

"His response plan is to ring the morning bell and dusk bell through the sunset bell. The two scheduled ringings are like exorcism, which can prevent this weird space from overlapping with reality."

"So Yuguang Land does not build small gathering points, but only large gathering points, in order to concentrate as much power as possible so that each gathering point has enough strength and anomalies."

"In this way, we can ensure that no matter what happens in the next few decades, we can at least ring the morning and evening bells!"

Xia Manman was extremely surprised.

She really didn't expect that there was such a thing hidden deep in the land of Yu Guang where she grew up.

"But... what is this, why..."

Ye Lan shook his head.

"This is unknown, but I think that when we find the Pope after we leave here, we should be able to get some answers from his mouth."

"Because there is no doubt that the papal scepter, the strange glass piece, these are all closely related!"

Xia Manman nodded blankly, and then realized something.

"So your guess is...sister, all the people in the Tribunal have actually fallen into this space now?"

Ye Lan smiled strangely.

"Maybe, it's not just them."

After saying that, Ye Lan's expression became serious again.

"So, Dawn Fortress is actually... late." He sighed:

"If the bells fail to ring before sunset, that gathering point will fall into this place."

The situation just now was more complicated. On the one hand, the strange sky was watching with eager eyes, and on the other hand, the touch of the ancient gods rushed here unreasonably. On the one hand, he understands the situation and communicates with the bottle of sharpness, and on the other hand, he holds the hand of the bell hammer and drives the psychic energy to charge up.

After all, the hammer failed to fall before sunset.

Xia Manman's eyes widened.

"You mean... the Fortress of Dawn has now disappeared from the Land of Afterglow?"

Yelan nodded slightly.

"This...how is this possible?"

Xia Manman's face was filled with outrage. Although she had always known that something big would happen if she didn't ring the morning and evening bells, she never expected that it would be so serious!

The gathering point disappeared?

"Then how do we get out? No." Xia Manman really felt that her thoughts were a little behind:

"But this is impossible, right? Sixty years have passed, and the years have changed. So many major events and crises have occurred. How can it be possible for our Sunset Cult to ring the bells at all gathering points without any accidents?"

"How do you know there was no accident?" Ye Lan shook his head slightly, his eyes suddenly fixed on a halo in the distance.

Under the halo, the outline of a city slowly emerged.

"This..." Xia Manman was stunned: "Yelan! Have you seen it!"

Ye Lan nodded lightly, grabbed Xia Manman, and flew in that direction.

"I saw it. It seems that it's not just Dawn Fortress that failed to ring the dusk bell today!"

Quickly rushing towards the outline of another gathering point, Ye Lan slowly stopped.

It's not like I was hallucinating, I encountered a mirage or something. The problem is that the single color greatly disrupts the concept of distance.

This is another city.

It was clearly, far, far away.

"What city is that?"

"That's Broken Light City." Xia Manman hesitated before saying, "It's a city built for special reasons in the Land of Yuguang and has gathered a lot of resources."

"resource?"

"Yes, Xia Manman nodded." A special... ore.

Before Ye Lan could say anything, his pupils suddenly shrank.

Another city in the distance, the gathering point in the afterglow, gradually disappeared as if erased with an eraser!

"this……"

As soon as he uttered one word, the Broken Light City disappeared.

disappear?

Ye Lan was stunned for a moment, almost overturning all the inferences he had just made.

It’s not that it can’t disappear, but that it should disappear if you are here!

Because this is the disappeared world, where Dawn Fortress and even itself have disappeared!

But it...disappeared again...

"No, there's something wrong." Ye Lan's brain was on fire, and he started spinning with all his strength:

"Shattered Light City and Dawn Fortress also disappeared because they failed to ring the bell in time, but they were still together in the end."

"What's the difference?"

"Difference, difference..." Ye Lan paused and suddenly raised his head.

He found the difference!

"The difference is that Broken Light City failed to ring the dusk bell and it ended."

"And Dawn Fortress, after sunset, rings the dusk bell!"

At the moment when he made this judgment, Ye Lan started to move again.

I made a decision that was a bit risky, but the idea was absolutely right!

If that kind of fall is a process towards the end...

"Then the current Dawn Fortress is just halfway there and has not reached the final point!"

After saying that, Ye Lan completely stepped out of the Dawn Fortress!

It was as if he had fallen into the deepest place. The Dawn Fortress disappeared in Ye Lan's eyes in an instant, and only the light circle remained between heaven and earth.

And, the Broken Light City!

Looking and counting again, there were seven light circles in the sky.

Seven?

Ye Lan's pupils shrank, and he turned his head suddenly.

It shouldn't be the case that there is no sign of the Dawn Fortress here!

And not only that. In addition to the Broken Light City, there is actually a city in this void!

And... a city?

Ye Lan and Xia Manman looked at each other, and everything was self-evident.

The Dawn Fortress was not the first one. For whatever reason, there was another city that was dragged into the void in the past sixty years!

Swish!

The light ring in the sky moved, as if it was being pulled by something, and began to gather towards the center from all directions.

"Hold on!"

Ye Lan shouted softly, grabbed Xia Manman, and stood on the top of the tower.

As he expected, the Dawn Fortress was no longer visible here. All that could be seen was this lonely tower.

Standing on the tower, facing the darkness like the end of the world, and even the cold wind that came out of nowhere, Ye Lan couldn't help but feel a little bleak.

Even, he couldn't help but think of the scene he saw in the Gate of the Future.

Hmm...

Ye Lan paused.

Hmm...

"Fuck, no way?"

Ye Lan was just complaining, and then he was stunned.

How similar is the scene here?

Wait... If it's really like that, what does it mean?

I...

Swoosh!

Seven huge halos kept floating in the air, maintaining a long line of light in the dark night sky.

It was different from sunlight, more like the "filter" of the afterglow, a misty light. It stretched all the way, connected together in the empty sky like an aperture.

Some rays of light were extremely fast, tough and straight, while others seemed slow, as if they were injured, and some even looked like the tentacles of the Touch of the Ancient God, extremely soft and sticky, slightly wriggling closer.

"Although I don't know what this is, this is in good condition, severely damaged, and eroded by the Touch of the Ancient God..."

Ye Lan paid special attention to which gathering point the 'light' that looked a bit like the Touch of the Ancient God belonged to, and then watched these lines gather little by little, forming a semi-trapezoid in the sky.

"Trapezoid... what does this mean?"

Xia Manman looked up at the sky, and the repeated rays of light re-embellished the darkness, making this place no longer so scary.

"In fact, I think it should have formed a rectangle, right?" Ye Lan raised his head and pointed directly above where the two were: "Isn't the Dawn Fortress missing a corner?"

For a moment, Xia Manman was a little nervous.

"The Dawn Fortress may no longer exist in the real world, and it's not here..."

"Then where exactly... have we gone?"

"..."Ye Lan was speechless for a moment, just looking at the sky and raising his head;

"I guess this thing will give me the answer."

Suddenly, Ye Lan almost thought it was an illusion, the sky didn't seem so dark anymore.

Then he found that it wasn't dawn, but a picture appeared in the semi-trapezoidal shape wrapped in the light in the sky!

Yes, a picture!

In this open-air theater that seemed to use the sky as a screen, Ye Lan saw countless familiar pictures.

This is...

Ye Lan's eyes widened.

"The original body of the Shadow of the Past!!"