Dusk enveloped the earth, the sun, moon and stars were obscured by the power of chaos. Under the boundless clouds and twilight, the vegetation withered and twisted, the mountains and rivers collapsed and weathered, and the rocks and soil turned into a dry and cracked wasteland. Even the gods personally supervised the casting of
After losing divine grace, the Eternal Fortress could not withstand the erosion of time, and was corrupted into ruins by the endless wind.
Many years later, a Sanctuary warrior who survived the eternal battlefield recorded the style of the "old world" in his memoirs.
Under the leadership of the King of Mountains and Rivers, Hao Ren and his party finally came to the surface. This place was supposed to be a holy treasury gate at the foot of Asuman Mountain. It should have a magnificent white stone door, heavy stone statues of sages and a wide and smooth stone avenue. In front of them,
It is the magnificent palace area of the City of Gods. However, here, it is just a dark, sloping cave. After climbing out of the weathered cave entrance, all you can see is the endless desolate land spreading out, like dusk.
The same dark sky filled with clouds, as well as the wind pillars that were constantly hovering over the desolate land, making various strange whistling sounds.
The first thing Hao Ren saw after coming out of the cave was this scenery, and this scenery gave him a great sense of familiarity. He instantly remembered the things he had seen in the illusion before, so he immediately turned back and looked at the original
Direction of the sacred mountain of Asuman.
Many people turned around like him, and the sound of air-conditioning was heard all around.
I saw that the original Asuman had disappeared, but a huge mirror cylinder stood at the original location of the Holy Mountain. This magnificent pillar, like the Tower of Babel, seemed to be made of polished sterling silver, extending from the earth.
To the end of the sky, its surface is extremely smooth, with no unevenness visible, and what is reflected on its bright silver mirror is not the surrounding desolate land, but the mountains and rivers of another space.
Hao Ren recognized that those were actually the scenery of Kolo's world.
"This is the realm of reflection, or how the realm of reflection appears in three-dimensional space," Gordon, the king of mountains and rivers, rumbled. "The tower formed by this mirror image is a sign of dreaming. Many thousands of years ago,
We rely on observing this mirrored tower in visions to judge our position in the nightmare world, but now that the nightmare has contaminated the final line of defense, the image presented by this tower has also lost its revelatory nature."
As he spoke, Gordon pointed to a rugged black shadow in the wasteland: "That's the Dusk Fortress. At least two thousand years ago, it was a place with complete facilities, strong soldiers and horses, and was shrouded in holy light and divine grace all the year round. The war we forged
The place was filled with weapons and puppet corps. Every day from early morning to night, the Warden Corps would fight side by side with the heroic souls from the 'real world', fighting the minions of Rock Marton on the front line. Oh, this place didn't exist yet at that time.
It has been eroded to the present situation. The heaven and earth are not dominated by dusk, and there is still an alternation between day and night."
Hao Ren saw the "Twilight Fortress" in Gordon's words, but it was difficult to connect it with the great fortress. Now it is just a pile of charred stones and crooked towers standing haphazardly on the dry land.
A desolate wind howled through it, and there was no life among the ruins.
Hao Ren opened the portable space, released half of the probes and autonomous machinery, and asked them to start wide-area resolution scanning to detect the situation in this world. Now that the data terminal has returned to his side, the high-speed information processing link has also
After recovery, all the detection equipment in his portable space can be used normally. Otherwise, those high-tech detectors can only operate in basic mode, providing his brain with simple information that does not exceed the data processing threshold, and the range of use is practical.
limited.
"So this place is the Forgotten Abyss..." Calasius whispered. The injuries he suffered in the previous battle had been healed by May's series of healing spells. At this time, everything seemed to be normal, "I never thought
, it is such a vast world..."
"Does it look familiar?" Gordon said, raising his hand to point to the mountains and rivers in the distance, "Look at those horizons and those mountains, do they look familiar?"
"That's..." a church knight exclaimed in surprise, "the terrain is exactly the same as that of the Holy Land?!"
"Not only is it exactly the same as the Holy Land, but it is exactly the same as the entire Colo," Gordon strode forward and said as he walked, "Although there are many inconsistent 'dislocations', at the location where the coordinates match
, Forgotten Abyss is a replica of the Kolo you all know...or, the other way around."
Hao Ren was about to ask Gordon what he meant by this meaningless sentence, when he suddenly heard Nangong Wuyue, who was walking behind him, let out an exclamation, and then a huge snake ball hit him on the back.
He stumbled forward for half a step before regaining his balance without any danger. Just as he was about to turn around to calm down the coward, he saw a spectacular scene that made him even lose his soul.
Behind the rolling thick clouds, a huge shadow suddenly appeared, and then slowly peeked out of the clouds to reveal a huge floating island, which could even be said to be a smaller continent!
And this floating island, which in any case exceeded the visual limit in terms of volume, did not stop after probing out of the clouds. With a terrifying tilt angle, it descended at a speed that seemed slow but actually fast, and gradually fell to the earth!
Everyone started to commotion or exclaimed. Only the ten classical prison officers headed by Gordon remained completely calm. Seeing this scene, Hao Ren also calmed down, but he still couldn't help but look at the floating piece nervously.
The land fell diagonally from the sky and touched the earth.
However, the expected landslide did not happen. The floating continent that fell from behind the clouds was like a phantom. After touching the earth, it continued to sink silently. Its other end was still behind the thick clouds, but its front end was already there.
It penetrated the surface of the earth, like a tilted sundial, and was swallowed up by the earth bit by bit. This weird "falling" process lasted for a full five minutes before it ended, until the "falling" piece of land completely disappeared from sight.
Only then did everyone regain the ability to breathe normally.
"This is the 'inconsistent dislocation' part I mentioned just now," Gordon's voice came from above. "That is the fragment of Colo, the part that disintegrated from the normal space-time surface. The whole planet was torn apart, but
Only five continents survived, and the remaining fragments of the planet became this kind of thing. They were involved in the wrong time and space, wandering and rotating like the ghosts of the planet, and they would pass through the physical world in the process of running.
, as you can see, the scene is quite terrifying, but in fact no harm will occur..."
As he spoke, Gordon paused and shrugged: "Well, maybe there are some hazards. When these phantom continents passed through the real world, irregular disappearances and energy losses occurred, and sometimes there were inexplicable things.
After those phantoms passed through the earth, they remained on the earth, but all of them were irregular, do you understand?"
Most people were shaking their heads. Only Hao Ren, Vivian and Yzaks looked thoughtful. Lily was also thoughtful. After all, she graduated from Peking University four times.
"In other words, those phantom-like continents are actually the remaining fragments of the planet Koro," Hao Ren nodded slightly, "Then why can't we see them in the real world outside? Could it be that this 'Forgotten Abyss' is smaller than the one outside?
The real world is more complete?”
"As you said," Gordon's answer surprised many people, "surprised, right? However, the truth is often surprising. In the eyes of those of us who come from ancient times, the real Kolo...is exactly what is in this nightmare
world!"
Hao Ren looked up at the huge body of the King of Mountains and Rivers, waiting for further explanation.
"Kolo, it was originally a complete celestial body. You should have heard this in many ancient legends. However, the part you haven't heard is: Kolo was not originally divided into two parts: the real world and the nightmare world.
The only individual," Gordon said slowly, looking up into the distance, with nostalgia and sigh in his tone, "Initially, my mother imprisoned Rock Marton in the depths of the planet. It was just an ordinary person.
In prisons and reform facilities, no one thought that things would develop like this later. Lockmaton would become more and more crazy and weird. It would gradually twist into a monster between reality and illusion. The growing power of nightmares would make the prison more and more crazy.
The original system was overwhelmed and reached a critical point one day. Ten thousand years ago, on that disastrous day, Koro was torn apart, and the entire planet and the nearby vast area were thrown into the imaginary space. Rock Marton
In this case, its power grew explosively and almost broke out of control. In order to avoid the worst situation of containment failure, we had to activate an emergency program of Asuman. This program is an extension of the covenant engine. It calls
Part of the function of the engine, and the ending is that Colo is cut out from the main material universe, becomes a closed space bubble, and is completely reversed..."
Gordon's explanation was obscure and filled with a lot of complex and profound theoretical knowledge. He was obviously not telling it to Karasius and others, because the latter were completely confused at this moment. Only Hao Ren and his party had been exposed to similar problems for many years.
incidents and appear to be very receptive to such knowledge.
"After the reversal, the torn planet Koro became the Abyss of Oblivion. The fragments of the material universe and the cracks in the imaginary space cut it into pieces. The power of Rock Marton was also everywhere in this completely closed prison.
The collision gradually transformed this place into a nightmarish place. In order to ensure the control of this nightmare-like imaginary space, we asked Asuman to open a rift at the top of the world, that is, in the sanctuary, and use data mapping to build a building outside the rift.
At the same time, in order to prevent Rock Marton from escaping through this rift, Asuman also passed through the rift and stopped at New Koro, blocking the passage in the form of a crystal sacred mountain. As for the great tear of Kolo after
The surviving ecosystem... has also been transferred by us to the new world outside."
After finishing speaking, Gordon paused for a long time to give everyone time to think.
Hao Ren sighed: "In short, Rock Marton tore the old world apart, so you sealed the old world, transformed it into the Forgotten Abyss, and built a new world based on the old world. The so-called real world is
This new world is where people live today, and this...is the original planet of Koro?!"
Gordon laughed, he turned around and opened his hands: "So, once again, welcome to the real Kolo of the old world in the nightmare."
Behind the King of Mountains and Rivers, the clouds rolled and surged, and another continent tilted down from the sky. A majestic cluster of cities and fortresses could be vaguely seen on the continent. It slowly crossed the sky, like a piece of snowflake scattered in a dream.
Slowly sinking into the earth without causing a ripple. (To be continued.)