The entrance to the cave leading to the different space is located in the quarry. On a rock wall that is almost perpendicular to the mountain, the hard granite wall cracked a "herringbone" shaped crack that is more than ten meters high. The crack
The widest part can even allow three people to enter side by side, and around this stone wall, you can see a large amount of collapsed gravel and soil, and some damaged machinery and equipment scattered in the open space. This should be the "small scale"
The result of "collapse".
"The management of this place is becoming more and more problematic," Hesana couldn't help but shake her head as she looked at the accident scene. "Although the Hessiana family is powerful, it cannot avoid the trouble of ineffective control over these people who are far away from the emperor.
The supervisor of this area was originally a down-to-earth guy, but I gave him some vampire power and extended his lifespan by nearly a century, but now even that guy has become slack."
Two young vampires were following Hesiana, and the woman among them asked: "Chief, do you want to change the supervisor here?"
"No, let's not use it for the time being. Perot still has loyalty, and from the perspective of the accident, the responsibility for this incident is mainly the responsibility of the quarry foreman. Perot's subsequent handling finally did not make any big mistakes. He mainly used people poorly.
If the inspector fails to do his job, you can wake him up a few words later, and I believe that boy will know what to do," Hesiana said, shaking her head, "But if it happens again, then I will have to replace him."
There is no lighting in the cave, and the sunlight that shines in from the entrance is quickly left behind, leaving only darkness in front. Since the accident, no human has entered the cave, and those responsible for the follow-up investigation are all
They are vampires from the Hesiana family. They don't need any lighting in a dark environment, so the place is still in its original condition, without even a miner's lamp installed.
Although darkness is not a problem for Hao Ren and his party, the too dark environment still makes it easy for people to miss some details, so Lily was very happy to summon her own fire, and used the bright firelight on the claw blade to illuminate the path ahead.
"The cracks up to here should be normal cracks caused by the cracking of the mountain." Vivian walked while carefully observing the nearby rock walls. "Dry... there are no traces of animals and plants. The textures of the rock mass match each other. This is a whole mountain."
The rock cracked."
"This should require a lot of force, and it is definitely not the result of a 'small-scale collapse'," Lorissa said, "I just used magic to detect the strength of the rock, plus the observation of the crack just now
, it can be determined that the scale of the external collapse is indeed not large, so the 'source' causing the cracking of the mountain should be deep, and the energy is concentrated and explodes instantly."
Vivian nodded: "It seems that the connection point between the different space and the real world is directly inside the mountain. The impact caused by the space tremor is enough to produce this effect."
Hao Ren took out the data terminal and asked the latter to conduct high-precision measurements of the environment here. The terminal floated in mid-air in front of the team, constantly projecting a blue beam of light that swept over the surrounding rock walls and gravel. So far, it has also
No spatial distortion was found.
But it has detected abnormal changes in the gravity readings ahead.
"This is a typical 'continuous space distortion'," the data terminal said. "There are no obvious spatial cracks in the cave, but as we go deeper, the boundaries between different spaces and the main material world gradually blur.
Everyone, please be vigilant and prepare any protective spells first. We should have partially entered this alien space."
The cave inside the rock wall was not very deep and was almost a straight path. Soon everyone reached the end. Here, Hao Ren realized that the surrounding space was actually quite separated from the main material world.
At the end of the cave is an open cave, about tens of meters high and about a hundred meters wide. The cave floor is quite flat and covered with a layer of fine yellow sand. You can feel the dryness and warmth from the desert when you step on it.
It was warm, and there was a rough smell of sand and dust in the surrounding air, which was completely different from the cool feeling before.
This cave is obviously not formed naturally by the cracking of the mountain. There is only one explanation for its appearance here: it is already part of a different space.
Hao Ren quickly found the entrance to the "Lost City". It was deep in the cave. An arched crack appeared there, and chaotic light diffused from it, as if it had a strange texture.
He checked his shield, then came to the crack and looked inside.
The next second, his breathing paused for half a beat.
Opposite the rock wall is indeed a vast alien space and a lost ancient city!
Endless chaos wraps the space behind the rock wall. The boundary of the different space is constantly rotating as if shrouded in churning yellow sand, forming countless terrifying whirlpools. And inside this chaotic boundary, you can see a whole building with an earthy color.
The majestic ancient city sleeping peacefully in it seemed to be built of granite, and the temples, halls, and buildings all had the color of yellow sand.
Most of the buildings in the ancient city are in the shape of square prisms with large bottom and small top. Some of the more luxurious buildings can also see sculptures and columns like religious totems on the top. The most important building in the city is probably the temple in the center.
Or a palace, which looks like a building composed of several pyramids, somewhat Egyptian-style, but very different from the Egyptian pyramids in the real world.
Hao Ren's eyes moved slowly over the lost city, trying to take in every detail of it. As Hesiana said, this city was built on the skull of some huge creature.
The skull is located just below the city, carrying all the granite buildings above it. It should have been roughly ellipsoidal when it was complete, but now the shape of the "skull" is almost invisible, and most of it should have collapsed.
The remaining part is just a huge arc-shaped bone fragment. The front of the bone fragment is connected to three deep eye sockets, and behind the skull, you can vaguely identify a few joints that are probably connected to the spine. In Hao Ren's limited knowledge,
Here, he couldn't tell what kind of creature these were, but could only marvel at the incredibleness of this creature.
This is definitely not a species that can be born on earth, and it is even unlikely to be carbon-based life, because the biological tissue of carbon-based life cannot support such a huge body unless it is assisted by other supernatural powers.
And Hao Ren also quickly confirmed another situation that Hesiana mentioned before:
This alien space is constantly disintegrating, and the disintegration of the "Lost City" is only a matter of time.
The chaotic boundary on the periphery of the alien space is shrinking inward, crushing everything inside it into basic particles. Those vortices like sandstorms are really tearing at the edges of the city. Huge city walls and houses can be seen shattered at any time.
Blocks were peeled off from the city and were devoured and decomposed by the "sandstorm vortex" at the border of chaos. Even the huge skull under the city was suffering from the same disintegration. Its strong physical structure had no ability to resist the collapse of space.
, large pieces of bone fragments peeled off from the city base, and disappeared in the vortex of the alien space base in the blink of an eye.
"Cool……"
Lily's exclamation brought Hao Ren back to his senses. When he turned around, he saw Lily's head dangling next to him, with a pair of furry pointed ears trembling. It turned out that the husky girl saw the landlord standing in the crack.
Qianjiujiuzhuang finally couldn't restrain her curiosity and came over. When she saw the situation in the different space, she was immediately deeply shocked.
Although it is not as spectacular as when traveling through the eldest son's body, the lost city in front of him that is gradually being swallowed by the whirlpool is equally breathtaking.
"It seems that even if this place is not blown up in the end, this place will disappear on its own in a few days." Hao Ren pressed Lily's head, "The main material world is rejecting this alien space, and the alien space itself does not last long.
A self-sustaining environment, it is like a ripple in the normal universe and will soon calm down."
Lily shook her tail: "Landlord, why do you keep thinking about blowing up this place?"
Hao Ren: "...Yes, why do I keep thinking about blowing up this place?"
Lily: "..."
"How's the situation up front?" After Hao Ren and Lily returned, Vivian immediately asked with concern.
"It is indeed a different space inside, and it is gradually shrinking. If nothing else, it should be a defective space structure that is about to collapse. Because the original sealing has been broken, the collapse process has accelerated." Hao Ren nodded, "There is a space in the different space.
The ancient city looks very much like an ancient city-state in the desert, but it doesn't look like Egypt, let alone ancient Mesopotamia. In addition, just like Hesiana said, that city
The city was built on the skull of a giant creature."
"But we didn't see any light curtain," Lily came up and said, "It's the color of sand inside..."
"You have to enter the city to see the light curtain," Hesiana said. "This is also a confusing place."
Hao Ren waved his hand: "The phenomenon of optical discontinuity is not unusual."
Hesiana rolled her eyes: "Okay, okay, are you well-informed?"
After saying this, she turned to her two subordinates: "You two stay outside, and they and I will go in to check the situation. No matter what happens, no one is allowed to come near this cave again, and neither are you."
Come in."
The female vampire asked with concern: "Chief, when will you come out?"
Hesiana glanced at Vivian, who pondered for a moment: "Three days at most. After three days, no matter whether there is any result or not, we will first go out to a different space. It is mysterious and unpredictable. If we stay too long, something may happen."
After making all arrangements, everyone no longer hesitated. They passed through the cave entrance and entered this lost world that seemed to be wrapped in a storm of yellow sand.
A hot and rough wind blew in my face.
The alien space is constantly collapsing inward, and the lost city in the center of the space is also collapsing bit by bit. The "hole" that Hao Ren and his party passed through also seems to be affected by this collapse: it is located on the edge of the city hundreds of meters above the ground.
Meter-high in mid-air, there was actually still a thousand meters away from the chaotic border of space. But after passing through the hole, Hao Ren looked back and saw that the edge of the space crack had shown very obvious signs of distortion.
Moreover, the twisted lines all point to a large whirlpool closest to the city. This is not a good phenomenon.
Yzaks frowned: "This passage must be stabilized first, otherwise the only entrance and exit will be crushed by the space collapse before the city collapses."
"Actually, it doesn't matter if the passage collapses. We can use space to teleport out," Hao Ren shrugged, "It's just going to be troublesome when we come back."
Although he said that, it would be troublesome if the space passage collapsed, so Hao Ren dug out a simple space stabilizer from his portable space and set it up near the exit. This thing could not prevent the collapse of the entire alien space, but
It is still possible to delay the collapse of space near the exit channel.
After doing this, the group of people walked towards the lost ancient city in the yellow sand.