Chapter 31: Return to the Petrified Forest

When you come to the blazing phoenix Shenzhou, there are towering trees everywhere, a scene full of vitality. The four of them went straight to the wooded forest. After 5 days of continuous travel, the four of them rushed to Tashi at that time to conduct the second stage of the trial, and the tree-like forest in front of them was the place where Tashi had an adventure that day. There were still 10 forks in the road, and Tashi remembered that it was the 5th one that Xiao Hei pulled his cloth to the left, so the four of them barely rested, and immediately followed Tashi into the fifth fork. Walking into the fork in the road, Tashi told everyone to be careful: "Last time there was an ancient horned frog here, we used a fire cage to deal with it, and then we took the opportunity to escape." Everyone cautiously bowed little by little and walked slowly, suddenly there was black smoke coming out in front of them, the four of them sank their heads, slowly raised their heads, and looked through the gap in the grass, there were three figures, and opposite the three of them, a huge ancient horned frog was pulling its mouth with its own web, and there was smoke coming out of its mouth. Tashi was stunned for a moment, because he found that one of the three was actually himself, and the other two, one was Buzuo and the other was Xiao Hei. And at this time in the Western Zhou, they also found out. Everyone was at a loss for what to do with Tashi in front of them, and their vigilance spontaneously grew. Tashi looked at Xi Zhou, also unclear. At this time, Xi Zhou was surprised, but he became interested. So he shouted to the three of them, Tashi's name. But Tashi, one of the three, did not reflect anything. They have slipped away while they are in chaos. Xi Zhou boldly stood up from the grass. Both Gami and Caitlyn watched in amazement as Xi Zhou's move. Xi Zhou made a gesture to continue to hide, but he slowly approached the ancient horned frog that was already unbearable. There are about twenty or so steps left, and the Western Zhou can come into contact with the Ancient Horned Frog, and the Ancient Horned Frog doesn't seem to notice the Western Zhou, just rubbing its mouth vigorously. When the Western Zhou was only five horned frogs, the Western Zhou stopped moving. Everyone felt very strange, and after Xi Zhou made a push gesture with his hands out of thin air, he squatted on the ground, picked up a small stick on the ground and drew it. After a long time, Xi Zhou suddenly stood up and shouted: "I know" Garmi and Caitlyn both closed their eyes, because in the next second, if they were detected by the horned frog, it was possible that the ancient horned frog would swallow Xi Zhou in one bite. When he turned around and saw this scene, he laughed and said, "Come here, my friends, this big monster, it can't see us at all."

Gami, Caitlin, and Tashi stood up suspiciously, their eyes fixed on the Ancient Horned Frog, weapons clenched in their hands, ready to fight. Xi Zhou laughed at their appearance. Finding that it was indeed the ancient horned frog that did not react to them at all, he gradually relaxed his vigilance and moved closer to the Western Circumference. After everyone gathered, Xizhou said, "Tashi's adventure is real, and this is really the place we are looking for."

"Why do you say that?" asked Garmi, confused

Because of this, Xi Zhou said, pointing to the horned frog behind him. Seeing that everyone didn't react, Xi Zhou said, "Which of you dares to take a step forward, try" Garmi and Caitlyn didn't react, and suddenly Tashi said, "I'll try, I've dealt with it before anyway." Tashi, taking a step, he seemed to be stopped by something, a snort, Tashi was very strange, and also pushed with his hand, but it seemed that something was in front of him, and his hands could not be stretched freely at all. Tashi asked Xi Zhou what was going on. Xi Zhou said unhurriedly: "This is the boundary of time and space, with all the material and cognitive civilization we currently have, it is impossible to explain it, and we don't even know how to unravel it, but I can let everyone understand it better."

Xi Zhou said: "We all know that in the Earth Rock Divine Prefecture, the Earth Rock people use the magnet and the spatial arrangement of the magnet to record sounds, and what we see so far, you can understand that we are in a huge magnet formation, and this magnet is not for recording, it can be used to record everything that happens here, which is why we will see Tashi tell us the story of their escape from the ancient horned frog before, and it is very real, he is not very graphic, but it is a real event." And this event and the environment we are in now occupy part of the same space, so we can see them, but we can't cross the boundary of space, you just look at this picture."

"Oh, I see, then I want to ask, is Tashi the same as this one now" Gami looked at Tashi, and then asked Xizhou.

Xi Zhou said: "It is one, but not one"

Caitlin and Tashi looked at Xi Zhou in confusion, and from their eyes, it could be seen that they hoped that Xi Zhou could explain this right and wrong sentence.

Xi Zhou said: " Tashi, before he entered here, Tashi was Tashi, the only Tashi in Haotian Continent, after Tashi came here, because of the different time and space here, Tashi became Tashi in different time and space, Tashi in different time and space and Tashi in the same time and space, experiencing different things, so Tashi is not Tashi, if I guess correctly, we are in a space-time Rubik's Cube, where time and space are constantly changing, each square represents a space-time, space-time and space-time coincide before, but the matter in space-time will not flow, if you want to get out of the Rubik's Cube, you must connect the same time and spaceand we can get out."

"You mean we're stuck here now?" Tashi asked

"From now on, we have to measure the size of the time and space we are in, Gami, Caitlin, you go east, west, Tashi, you go south, every hour, and re-measure" Xizhou arranged

"Why do you want to re-measure?" asked Garmi

"Because the theory of the space-time cube just now is just my inference, if the space-time we are in is slowly getting smaller, then eventually this place will become a time rift, and when space-time is not enough for us to survive, we will disappear immediately. Xi Zhou said

"I thought we had escaped the Luoshui Divine Empire, but I had encountered such a powerful trap again, I was really unlucky," Gami complained.

Xi Zhou looked at Yan Yangxing in the distance, it should be noon at this time.

"If you don't want to die, just listen to me, and Gami will send a timer hourglass to each of us, and the timer will start when you leave," Xizhou interrupted Gami's complaints. The three of them immediately obeyed the arrangement of the Western Zhou Dynasty and acted separately.

The Western Zhou Dynasty wrote time on the ground. Time passed little by little, and two hours later, Gami and the Tashi returned to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Tashi looked at Yan Yangxing's position again. The time and space in the east and south have not changed, and Caitlyn has not returned, indicating that there is something wrong with the west.

Gami also noticed that Caitlin had not returned, so she said, "I'll go look for her"

"No, let's go together, because Shengmen should be in the west," Xi Zhou said overjoyed. The three of them were just about to leave when they saw Catelyn running towards them out of breath and telling them to run. Everyone looked at it, and the ground behind her was scarlet, and then looked closely at the small red snakes. Tashi looked at it and said, "I know this snake, don't be afraid that this snake is not poisonous, but it bites people very badly." Gami took out four cooler bombs from his backpack and threw them at the snakes, who immediately slowed down and gradually came to a standstill.

After dealing with the snakes that were still moving, Tashi withdrew from the group of snakes.

Caitlyn panted, "There's a stone wall over there blocking the way, and from the stone wall there are many small holes, and snakes come out of there." ”

"As I did last time, I told you, do you remember?" Mr. Tashi said

"Let's go and have a look, Caitlin, you lead the way," Xi Zhou said, and the four of them ran to the west.

After walking for a long time, he didn't see the stone wall that Catelyn said, and Gami was a little impatient and said, "Catelyn, did you remember the location wrongly, how far have you walked, and you haven't seen the stone wall you said."

"No, I was here just now. Caitlyn muttered confusedly

"The wall moves, and as I said, it's not a stone wall at all, it's an ancient red python, and it looks like it's gone. Tashi said

"Then let's move on, isn't it just like you said, to be able to go out into the wooded forest?" asked Gami, overjoyed.

"If nothing else, if you go any further, you will be able to get to the place where I was with Buzuo and Xiao Hei before," Tashi said

"Then let's hurry" After Xi Zhou finished speaking, everyone began to run wildly into the distance, but after running for about a long time, Tashi still did not see any reference when he met Xiao Heibu Zuo.

"Stop," Tashi shouted

"I think it's probably not that simple, we've been running for so long, and we still haven't seen the familiar references, and everything around us is unfamiliar," Tashi continued

Xi Zhou panted and said: "It seems that the time and space are not connected, and we are still in the time and space just now."

"So what the hell is going on," Garmi looked a little impatient

"Tashi, you tell me about your previous adventures in detail, and let's all go back together," Xizhou said

"Well, that's right, Xiao Hei and I, after escaping from the attack range of the Elder Horned Frog with a fire cage, kept running forward, and then slept in the open by a stream, there were nocturnal fish swimming in the stream, and we had a full meal, and when I woke up the next day, I found that Buzuo and Xiao Hei were gone. Then I searched for them, but to no avail, and then I ran into the dryad, and then the red python," Tashi recounted the order of the encounters.

"Looking at it this way, we just encountered the Ancient Horned Frog, but because of the space-time rift, we can only see the events that happened before through the overlap of time and space, but we can't travel through time and space, but Catelyn met the Ancient Red Green Python on the other side, unless it's ......" Xiwei said as he gestured on the ground with his sword.

"I see!" "I see!" the Western Zhou seemed to be as excited as he had discovered a new continent.

Everyone gathered in. Xi Zhou pointed at the ground with his sword and said, "You see, this space-time cube may be a ring structure, there are overlapping parts between rings, and there are different time and space inside the rings, and each ring is constantly rotating. ”

"Xizhou, I can understand what you say, so what do we do now?" Tashi said

"Wait," Xizhou said

"All we have to do now is wait, on the one hand, to verify our inferences, and on the other hand, to find a way out," Mr. Xizhou said

"So where are we waiting?" said Gami

"Originally, I have been in the position of the Ancient Horned Frog, as long as I wait for the space-time change, take advantage of the fluctuations of the space-time rift, and enter another space-time, but now, we may not be able to go back, so we can only pray that our current position will overlap in time and space. Only then will it be possible for us to reach the next ring, and only then will it be possible to go out," Xizhou said

"I knew that this place was so evil, we didn't have to break into it ourselves, let them come first, and they would all be trapped here and die," Gami complained.

Caitlyn glanced at Gami with a look of contempt, and Gamie just wanted to continue to vent, but she held back again.

Everyone sat on the ground, staring intently ahead. One hour, two hours, everyone's eyelids were like lead, and gradually closed, and at this moment, Gami saw the scene in front of him tremble, and Gami rubbed his eyes vigorously, afraid that he had seen it wrong. Gami stared at the scene in front of him tightly, and indeed found that everything in front of him trembled, so Gami shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, the space-time crack is fluctuating" Xizhou jumped up excitedly, hurriedly greeted everyone, got up and ran wildly, through the space-time crack, everyone calmed down, and what appeared in front of everyone was a stone wall.

"Yes, red python," Tashi called excitedly.

Xi Zhou looked at Caitlin, and Caitlyn nodded, indicating that this was the same scene she had just encountered.