When Roger found Linda, the girl was sleeping on the wet trunk of a tree, muttering in a faint voice, and it was really hard for her to sleep so well in such an environment.

"Ahem, ahem...... Linda ....... Ahem..... Linda! Wake up!"

Seemingly anxious, Roger tried to wake up the sleeping Linda, but in the process, Roger still coughed uncontrollably, trying to cough out the choked water.

After this experience, Roger can very resolutely choke on water to suffocation as one of the most uncomfortable ways to die, enough to be in the top ten of his most hated deaths.

It seemed that Linda was indeed very tired, Roger grabbed Linda's shoulder and shook it for a long time before the girl woke up in a daze, which surprised Roger, if it weren't for Linda's chest rising and falling slightly, he would have thought that she had slept too much.

"Hmm~Roger......? Did you just fall asleep?"

Linda didn't know what kind of dream she had just now, and there was still a smile on the corner of her mouth, but when she opened her eyes and saw Roger's big face, her smile converged without a trace, and asked in a somewhat stiff tone: "Are you okay?"

"I've found some clues, I'll explain them to you slowly on the way. Roger reached out and helped Linda up, "Now we have to get to the 'dragon's den' where Jimmy's father fell as soon as possible." ”

Linda pulled her loose hair into a bun and asked in a surprised tone, "But Jimmy didn't come, we can wait here for him ......"

Roger, who breathed a sigh of relief, gasped and interrupted: "No, it's too late to wait for him, now that the rain is so heavy, he should try his best to persuade the villagers of Uto move to higher ground, and there is not much time left for us." ”

"Time is running out?"

Linda repeated, as if suddenly remembering something, and hurriedly asked, "Wait a minute, I remember Jimmy said it, and his father said it, what do you mean, what the hell did you find in his room?"

"Ahem, ahem. ”

Roger was still coughing, but he couldn't wait to pull Linda's hand away and said, "I didn't have time to explain, we had already lost too much time, if I could, I should have even swam ashore the first time I saw that sentence, instead of trying to go back in time, which certainly allowed me to see more information, but it also caused me to be delayed underwater for too long......"

While Roger was breaking his thoughts, his hands were not idle, and while extinguishing the light of the illumination and returning the surroundings to darkness, he pulled Linda, who looked puzzled, around the range of the torrent tidal flats and marched upward.

Although Linda's eyes were full of doubts, she sensed the anxiety in Roger's expression, so she didn't say much, trying to keep up with his gradually increasing pace, and waiting for Roger to answer her doubts.

On the way to the top of the mountain, the torrential rain showed no signs of abating, and the mountain road became more and more dangerous, washed by the heavy rain and flash floods that had never appeared before, and the surrounding scene was apocalyptic, which was a nightmare even for the veteran climber, the primitive and wild mountain forest hid too many dangers, most of which did not come from the beasts that sensed the danger and fled in all directions.

If Roger hadn't extinguished the illumination, even if Linda was in a trance due to exhaustion, she would have seen those shadows in the mountains and forests, but now under Roger's intention, only Roger's back was left in her eyes.

Just ran in the dense forest for a while, this time is not long or short, although Roger has never been here, but he seems to be familiar with the road, of course, this is due to the previous night of wandering, but most of it is because of the information obtained by Roger backtracking again.

Noticing that Linda's breathing behind him had begun to gasp irregularly, Roger slowed down his pace, there was still some distance from the main peak, just like the bottom of the mountain, the trees here were crooked, the earthwork collapsed, even some paths had already been washed away by the torrent, the beasts living in the mountains and forests had obviously never seen this kind of formation, and the two could hear the neighing of many fleeing beasts, mixed with the increasingly strange sound of dense rain, stimulating their tense nerves.

After confirming the direction again, Roger still had the energy to turn around and give Linda a smile, which could be regarded as an explanation for his hurried action.

Realizing that Roger was taking care of her situation, Linda struggled to adjust her breathing while pricking up her ears as Roger told her about the analysis.

"I think I need to disprove some of my assumptions about this place, or in other ways to support my assumptions. ”

"What do you mean, isn't your logic a contradiction?"

Roger shook his head and stretched his scorching shield wider, so that some of the less dense thorn bushes could break through with a 'bump'.

He said: "At the beginning, I suspected that this was actually a breeding base for some dark wizard to conduct experiments, which is actually not uncommon, that group of guys always have a soft spot for people as research material, and several adjudicators during the Federation were not less tiny about this kind of experimental base - after all, the black knights who designed this kind of level of experiments are not small people, and I think your church has also given us 'propaganda'." ”

Ignoring the ridicule in Roger's tone, Linda frowned and responded: "That's right, this situation is indeed not uncommon in history, there are many records in the canons of the church, especially after the Third Holy War, the power of the Federation was annihilated in the north, and even some mages degenerated into dark wizards because of the loss of jurisdiction, and many high-level dark wizards escaped from the pan-continent plane during that incident, and it is possible to happen to encounter such a space to control and conduct their own research." ”

"That's where the problem is, based on my previous speculation and the results of my peeling off the spatial fault by the river, I can conclude that this is not a normal spatial structure. ”

Of course, when Roger was combing through the information before, he finally remembered the information of the gods that he had left behind for a long time, and learned from them about the creation law of the gods about space (a certain mind body that was almost exhausted because of this said that he wanted to complain to Roger in animal protection), so he knew that this structure was not natural.

"It's not a normal spatial structure? What does it matter? Maybe it's the man who distorted the normal space into this shape, or he simply created it himself. Linda didn't doubt him, but she still expressed her doubts.

"Problem? Do you know how big the largest man-made space in history is?"

Linda shook her head, not to mention that she was born in the Holy Light Church, even if some old pedants who were poor and poor did not necessarily know it, only Roger, who had lived long enough, would understand this kind of cold knowledge.

"Only the size of a carriage, this is the largest space ever created, originated from a magical experiment by Friedman Magister in AE1358 to create a forbidden spell in space, and the space only existed for a few seconds before disintegrating and dissipating, and causing a large-scale spatial annihilation, Friedman Magister was also punished by the Federation for overstepping the level of research on dangerous magic. ”

According to Friedman's post-mortem research, he had tried tens of thousands of ways to create and stabilize space, and that was the most successful one, and the value of the materials consumed was equivalent to the income of a medium-sized territory, so he asserted that man-made space of this size could never exist, and that it was definitely entering the realm of gods, and some subsequent research also proved his point. ”

At the mention of the gods, Linda seemed a little restrained, and asked in a somewhat weaker voice, "Is it possible that this place has been expanded by normal space?"

"Well....... Including the different spaces that now exist in various space secret realms or mage towers, etc., all of them are completed by dividing and expanding the normal space, you know this. However, to complete the transformation of a space of this size, it is theoretically necessary to have a very large energy reserve, and this level of energy is even ...... Exceeding the limits of the Sanctuary. ”

"What?!"

"I know it sounds incredible to you, but it's really not a secret, theoretically the Sanctuary is not the limit of the rank, and it can even be said to be the beginning of the higher rank. ”

"Then if we assume that there really exists that level of existence, then it is indeed possible for him to distort a space of this size as his own experimental base. Then another question arises, what he hopes to achieve by nurturing these people. ”

"I know what you're trying to say, it's nothing more than a sacrifice or a massive evil magic, and I can't find direct evidence to refute you, and my initial speculation did lean in that direction, so let's put the question aside for now. Keep an eye out for the sweet potato and the mechanical dragon that suddenly disappeared. ”

"Do you remember the metal jar I was holding in my hand before? The spatial fluctuations I mentioned earlier are now gone, but if you connect the two, I think you can imagine that the sweet potato must have been swallowed by the dragon and then teleported somewhere else. ”

"Have you noticed that the mechanical dragon, whether it appears or suddenly goes manic, has a certain regularity, it is after you carry out the Holy Light, thinking of the words of the previous village chief, I have reason to believe that the Holy Light or the belief in the gods is the target of the dragon's hunt. ”

"Could it be that the people behind it are afraid of the gods' insights?"

Roger also didn't intend to explain the difference between a one-sided indigenous god and an eternal true god who wandered in the void, but it was also an indisputable fact, so he nodded.

He said: "After experiencing the dragon's triggers, I also thought that this was the case, as for the way the machine existed, it was probably just some kind of convenient way, and as for the spatial teleportation device found in its body, it may be used to collect test subjects. ”

"Things have been all normal so far, but what really makes me suspicious is the inscription found in the pile of broken copper and iron, and the writing found in Jimmy's father's room. ”

Roger took a deep breath and voiced his guess: "This time it may be some kind of place where we can't understand the food in biological captivity, and the anomaly here may be because the people behind the scenes sensed our resistance and wanted to destroy it." ”