Returning from the abyss

Normally, Lu Ning thought that she could deal with all possible dangers at present. Unless the god really came to her suddenly, even Kukash and Mocha Mo would not be able to keep her.

It was precisely because of this confidence that she dared to go to the border of this world and take a look. And Christine obviously won't stop her, and she is probably still busy analyzing the data.

Continuing forward along the street, after walking about five hundred meters, Lu Ning saw a breaking point.

The roads here spread out in a fan shape, and everything begins to show a fibrous state. The farther places have completely turned into scattered lines, and the sky has become dark and unclear, and the stars have been It stretched and turned into long and narrow spots of light. Everything pointed to the darkness in the distance, and nothing could be seen.

"The traces left after the space was forcibly broken... are really a bit surprising." Lu Ning squatted down and observed. The fibrosis problem was obviously affected by some kind of magical distortion, and there were traces from the fracture location. It has a very strong smell of destructive magic, and it looks like the effect of a large-scale ceremony.

After observing for a while, Lu Ning clapped her hands in disappointment and gave up searching.

There's nothing useful here.

Then...

"Ok?"

The moment Lu Ning turned around, she suddenly caught an abnormality from another perspective.

It is expected that this ritual magic can twist various worlds. After all, it comes from the original technology. But Lu Ning didn't expect that there was still a certain connection between the twisted worlds. This connection was so small that she paid special attention to it when she suddenly remembered it.

The torn fibers are now stained with composite space traces due to the violent scratches between spaces. I don’t know how much time has passed, but these spatial qualities have shown signs of being re-closed.

It's like when tissues taken from different parts of the human body are put together, they grow together on their own.

Unbelievable... Lu Ning's attainments in space theory are not very high, and she can only understand that this is a miraculous process.

[You haven’t left yet? 】

"What? Did you find anything new?"

[Yes, although it hasn’t been interpreted to the extent yet, it feels a bit dangerous, so I’m reminding you. 】

"What danger?"

[Initially I thought the problem here was the influence of gods, but later I discovered that the process of creation by pre-civilizations was disturbed. But the source of the interference was completely different from what I thought. 】

"Just tell me the conclusion."

[If there is really a danger, it may come from the cracks in space. You stay away from there! 】

"He's running, he's running."

Lu Ning ran back without much panic. Since she had just discovered the traces of fusion, she could naturally judge the danger level of the boundary space. It was indeed not suitable to stay there for too long.

[You are smart. 】

"I'm very talented in survival. Okay, let's talk about the specific problem. What happened to that border area?"

[This ritual itself is relatively gentle. It can handle the spatial problem of the reversal process without causing a lot of cracks. According to the original configuration, the goal of protecting Gold Flash Town can still be achieved. 】

"Then something went wrong." Lu Ning said.

[Yes, I found that a large number of redundant links have been added to the original stable structure, which will inevitably lead to the destruction of the original structure. If the space cannot be perfectly reversed, it may cause high-energy storms that tear space apart, destroying everything on the edge, or cause hyperspace disasters such as void intrusion. 】

"But Goldsmith Town is still there, which means it's not the kind of disaster where a lot of energy is released. Oh, by the way, I met someone before..."

Lu Ning described the appearance of the man wrapped in fish skin in detail.

"I originally thought that this person made a wish to protect himself, and then sealed the wishing machine with himself, but now based on the information you gave me, I'm afraid that's not the case."

【Is it? What are your guesses? 】

After all, Kristine did not attend the scene in person. Based on Lu Ning's description, she could not imagine what else was going on inside.

"Refers……"

Lu Ning suddenly jumped up, stepped on a few incantations in the air and grabbed a vertical space in the air. In an instant, the world began to stir, her original jumping movement suddenly paused, and then a piece of dust rose in front of her face. ——She turned into a lying position on the ground.

Immediately, Lu Ning stood up with her hands on the ground, dusted off the dust on her body, and looked around. She had returned to the Gold Flash Town in the real world.

"It's very simple. We have observed from the outside that Goldsmith Town in the real world has not been unmanaged for any long time. If Goldsmith Town has been hiding in another space for so many years, then no matter what the internal time flow is, In this way, the outside should have been ruined long ago. I can only think of three possibilities now, either there are always people outside Goldsmith Town; or the outside town has just been separated from the inside; or this twist is not as early as previously thought. It was just finished, but just finished recently.”

The log of the "urn" only provides the time record of the plan, but there is no record of the actual execution by the people of Goldsmith Town. After all, they do not need to activate the urn during the actual execution.

As for whether the external space changes and whether the plan is implemented, the urn itself will basically not record such small information. Every time it collects information, it must cover the entire planet level, so naturally it will not record everything in detail. .

If someone could take advantage of this loophole, it would lead to the current situation in Goldshire.

Lu Ning looked at this seemingly deserted town in reality.

"Is there anyone alive here?"

she shouted, amplifying her voice.

There are no lights on in Goldshire in the real world, which is completely different from the one in the world of twists and turns. In the desolation of the city, Lu Ning could still vaguely feel someone moving in the dark.

However, she couldn't find these people at all, and her concealment ability was really powerful.

"Aren't you coming out yet?" The spells appeared one by one in Lu Ning's hands, jumping into the air and forming a large magic form. Lu Ning didn't plan to play hide-and-seek with the people here. If they weren't ready to come out, they would just destroy Golden Gold Town.

"Karma fire..."

"Wait a moment!"

Lu Ning stopped chanting the spell loudly on purpose.

"You... don't destroy this place."

I remembered the rustling sounds from around me. The sharp voice just now had a hint of hoarseness, which sounded very uncomfortable. But Lu Ning was even more surprised when she saw people coming out of various places.

These should be orcs, but compared to the normal orcs in Haifa Continent, their forms have begun to have a tendency to return to their ancestors. Although the orcs in Haifa Continent have retained many animal characteristics, since they are "human", they also have human characteristics such as walking on two legs and having five fingers. Now Lu Ning can clearly see that the bodies of these residents are shrinking and shrinking. They became rickety and some even had to crawl out on all fours.

The leading orc was a deer, one of its horns had been broken off, and the tattered robe it was wrapped in was full of holes. One hand had turned into a hoof, but the other hand still retained certain characteristics.

"It's... a human being." The deer narrowed his eyes and looked at Lu Ning, "Are you from the outside world? The first one from the outside world in more than ten years..."

"More than ten years? No one has been here in Goldshire?"

"I don't remember, my sensitivity to time is no longer strong." The deer looked carefully with cloudy eyes, and finally let out a long sigh, "How is it outside? Is the war over?"

"ended."

"Yeah, that's good."

The deer waved backhand, letting the orcs disperse. Lu Ning sat down directly on the spot and said to the deer: "Now order is being restored. Tell me what happened here. Maybe there is room for redemption."

"It can't be undone. It's our own mistake." Lu touched his wrinkled face, "You should have got the wishing machine? Then take it away. Never make a wish casually..."

"I know, we will use it with caution. So can you tell me, what happened here, and why are the last ones left all orcs? Where are the others?"

"They're all here." A weird smile appeared on the deer's face, probably because the beast's face could no longer smile like a human being. He lowered his head and said, "Everyone who stayed in Goldsmith Town back then has entered On the surface, animal transformation has begun to appear, no matter what race it is originally."

"What have you done? Are you..."

"I am the one who is relatively conscious among the people who are still alive." Lu shook his head, "If you want to know so much, I will tell you."

Goldsmith Town was indeed preparing to use the wishing machine to protect itself, but it was not just this plan. After all, even their ancestors have tested that the wishing machine has its limits. It cannot make people become kings, nor can they directly learn forbidden magic. It can only tell people how to do it.

Among the group of adventurers, there are often some people with extraordinary talents, including the descendants of the four original adventurers, and their research on magic is not bad either. After accumulating enough knowledge through the wishing machine, they can already study some magic on their own, and they can also modify some magic content.

Therefore, in addition to the "water pressure" provided by the wishing machine, this town also implemented two other large-scale magics that have been studied for a long time for safety. Originally there were no problems with these magics, but unexpected problems occurred with the "water pressure", and even the two previously prepared magics had problems that had not occurred during the test.

"Water pressure" completely reversed the surrounding space, while the other two magics caused the entire Goldsmith Town to be activated and sealed. But the townspeople did not originally want to completely blockade Goldsmith Town. Their most simple wish was not to let war come to the town.

The townspeople had to study what went wrong with the magic, but then a strange situation happened.

Goldshire was divided into two parts: the surface and the inside. The townspeople did not realize that they had created an "inside", and all research was conducted on the surface.

"Is the truth inside..." Lu Ning asked in her mind.

[The town distorts and disappears in space, but the original space needs to be filled with matter. Many theories believe that a large amount of void matter will be poured into the space to replenish it at this time, but there is obviously another situation here. 】

A spatial map appears in its original location.

The townspeople were unaware of what was happening inside, and they were still trying to make up for their previous magical mistakes. Until one day, someone suddenly disappeared.

In the closed town, it was impossible for people to leave. For a while, people thought there was a murder and that someone finally started to lose their mind. They immediately became nervous and went door to door to check. However, even in such a tense situation, people are still missing.

Until one day, after a master who used puppet magic disappeared, people learned part of the truth through the puppet he left in the room.

The puppet master says, "Space is alive," "It's flowing," "It's squeezing us out."

The twisted "surface" is being replaced by the "inside" mapped to reality, and the ultimate goal of replacement is to allow the "inside" to enter a safe twisted world, while the "surface" is returned to the real world. For the people in the town, this should have been a result that met their expectations, and there was nothing they could do to prevent this internal and external exchange. However, they later received another warning from the Puppet Master.

"We'll turn into animals!"

"They will become us!"

The replacement of the inside and outside is the entire town, including of course the residents of the town.

At this time, people suddenly realized that except for the puppet master, they could no longer remember who had disappeared before, and the subsequent head count found that the number of people was exactly the same as when the town was just closed.

Then, they weren't even sure if there really was a puppet master who was so skilled that he could travel through space. They couldn't believe that the people around them were still the same people who were around them yesterday.

Faced with such a critical situation, the mayor could only take out the wishing machine again. But people don't trust others, including the mayor. Everyone only believes in themselves, they only believe in their own wishes - and that's when the collapse begins.

It's funny to say that the only way to cure the madness at that time was to return to the real world through internal and external exchanges. When they came here and saw people who were degenerating into animals, they realized with peace of mind that finally... everything around them was real.

"I don't know what happened after I returned here with the surface. Although everyone can still know each other, it has been very difficult to communicate with each other. No one except me can explain clearly what happened inside. And we also discovered that if we knew the existence inside, there would be no way to get in." Lu finished telling this story in a hoarse voice.

"Indeed...a bit scary."

[In a sense, all three of your points may actually be correct. 】

"That sounds scarier."