"Big man, come and see!"

Evnie's cry pulls the giant back to reality and comes to the bridge.

"Big man, what's this about?"

“...... The ancient beast script, translated into the present meaning, is Wintercastle. ”

"Wintercastle?" Avenie stood up and tightened her mask, "It's exactly what it sounds like, this trip was not in vain, by the way, what were you doing?"

"I want to analyze the strange energy properties of this place, the abnormal temperature in the southeastern polar region, which should be the effect caused here. ”

"You mean the ball of light?" said Evernie, pointing to the sky deep above the castle complex.

"yes, it's not just the ball of light, but it failed, and all I got was a bunch of error codes. ”

This strange space seems to be isolated from the outside world, there is no howling cold wind, only frost and continuous snowflakes everywhere.

Avni looked back, and could clearly see the footprints of the two of them when they came, and looked up again, but it was a cloud of lead ash.

"What do you think this place looks like, big one?" said Avennie, curling the corners of her mouth.

"Isolation, snowflakes, castles, like a crystal ball. ”

"Alas, it's only human children who like that kind of toy. ”

As she spoke, Evernie walked up to the stone bridge, and the giant behind shook her head, and there was nothing she could do in the face of the duplicitous Avnie, so she had to follow.

Although the dwarven black technology could not analyze the results, the giant also did not feel dangerous, and Rao was still close behind Avni.

As on the ground, the stone bridge is as wide as it gets, but there is no railing.

Evernie also took a special look, there were no signs of breakage, and it seems that she didn't think about someone falling down when she built it.

Halfway through, the intact stone bridge began to crack, and the deck became potholes, narrowing the stone bridge in half.

"The surrounding area is so empty, and there is a rift valley of several hundred meters under your feet, so it stands to reason that it should not be caused by natural disasters. ”

"Not necessarily, if the mountain rocks on the other side are jumped by a powerful force, it is impossible to say. The giant said.

"There are no volcanoes in the Far South snowfield, I remember the stupid dragon saying it. ”

The two guessed and cautiously stepped on the back half of the stone bridge, but they didn't have long to walk before they noticed that something was wrong.

"We seemed to be standing still, and the castle complex on the other side was still so far away. Averney said, looking up.

I saw that the giant's neck lit up again, and after a while, it returned to normal: "...... Disorder, is deliberate, be careful. ”

"What disorder?" said Evney, who didn't hear clearly.

But the giant didn't explain, and picked up Evernie like a half-human-tall rag doll, the blue film of light enveloped the whole body, the space began to distort, and the two turned into a beam of light and disappeared in place.

When the figures reappeared, the two had already crossed the stone bridge and came to the bridge on the other side, and in front of them were the magnificent castle complex.

But at this time, the sky was dark, and Evernie frowned as soon as she landed, and looked at the pocket watch in her pocket, it was already evening.

"Four hours?, we spent four hours on the bridge?!" Evney glared at the giant.

The giant nodded: "Something is very wrong here, I made a mistake and didn't notice it at first." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember the wooden sign on the opposite side of the bridge that says 'Winterhold'? When you lifted the wooden sign, the space fluctuated a little, and the space here seemed to change all the time, so I didn't pay attention to it at the time. ”

"But in the second half of the stone bridge, I gradually understood that I had to change the curvature to rush out. ”

The giant turned around and pointed to the stone bridge: "This may be a trap, it should be man-made, once you step on the stone bridge, you will not only encounter the situation of standing still, but also be distorted......"

"Twisted, like we just did? It's only been ten minutes inside, and it's been four hours outside?"

"And that's not all. The giant approached Evernie and put his arm on her shoulder, "Each time a person passes, the time ratio increases by a power pattern. ”

"......," Evney was suddenly stunned, "that is, if someone steps on the stone bridge and stays inside for ten minutes, sixteen hours will pass outside?"

"Well, the third time someone steps in, it's going to be extended to 256 hours, 10 days. ”

"Then the fourth time is...... 100 days. ”

A stream of data light flowed through the giant's neck, and he shook his head: "No, here it is measured in hours, and the fourth time is 65,536 hours, seven years. ”

"Then the fifth time is ......"

Evnie frowned, and with her clever brain, she couldn't count the huge number for a while, and finally the giant said faintly:

"490,000 years ......"

"Gollum...... "Evnie suddenly realized that she seemed to have swallowed many times today.

"490,000 years...... How much power does it take...... I hope we don't count the number of times we go back, do we have to take the bridge?"

"Probably...... You can only take the bridge. ”

The giant hesitated for a moment, this strange place, except for the stone bridge, now looked ordinary in the sky above the rift, but was actually in a complex spatial vortex.

Even he wasn't sure how to get in and come out alive, where the whirlpool leads, he can only gamble, and the body of an ordinary person can't withstand the power of the void at all.

Even if the giant had the privilege of seeing the two worlds in the void as a whole, it was because of Cassia 's action.

"Even you can't help it......"

"I've never seen this kind of power attribute, it doesn't exist in the existing overall knowledge, the dwarves were brilliant back then, and their research on space was very fruitful, but about time...... No one has studied it. ”

"Could it be magic?" thought to Evnie.

The giant shook his head: "I don't know, I've never seen magic, I've only heard of it, because I didn't participate in that ...... The war I was supposed to be in. ”

The snowflakes in the sky were still drifting casually, and after a long time, Evnie clenched her right hand into a fist and smashed it into the palm of her left hand.

"Let's go! It's a big deal to waste another sixteen hours of going out, this trip can't be in vain, it's probably magic, just to show you what to see, but unfortunately, Sost should be the one who knows the most about magic. ”

............

For the rest of the way, the giant barely moved away from Evernie in case something unexpected happened.

In the perception of giants, the surrounding space ...... No, it's not just space, it's fragile and unstable, like bubbles in soapy water, and if you're not careful, you can step into another trap.

The two of them cautiously crossed a square and came to the very center of the castle complex, in front of the front of the 'row' building.

Because he was too close, he could only see the blue light when he raised his head, and he couldn't see the ball of light hiding in the depths.

The giant pulled Averne behind him to protect her, took two steps forward, and gently pushed open the tall, frost-covered wooden door.

With a creak, bright lights shone on the faces of the two, and the hall was full of laughter and delicacies, and the majestic orcs in magical robes gathered together, waiting for the teacher in front of the stage to speak.

What the teacher said, no voice came out, but the students in the audience seemed to be happy.

Time passed little by little, lectures, meals, celebrations, and the two of them seemed to have watched an immersive drama, but at some point, the picture came to an abrupt end, and returned to the scene when the door had just opened, and came again.

The giant slowly retreated: "Don't go in, this is the scene that happened before, and the space inside is ...... Even time is chaotic. ”

"This is the Academy of Magic. Evernie held the giant's wrist, "In those days, magic academies were all over the world, and this should be the place that has not been destroyed...... Find somewhere else and don't bother them. ”

The giant nodded, closed the door, and the two turned a corner, and followed the steps next to them into the depths of the castle complex.

It doesn't seem to be to save space, but the castle complex is compact except for the square at the front.

There is only room for three or four people to pass side by side in the aisles, which is really a bit of a family for such a complex of buildings.

Looking up at the sky, there was only one line that could let in the light, and the walls on either side were inlaid with gems that even Avernie didn't recognize, which was initially supposed to be for lighting, but now they were all dilapidated.

As they walked, they looked around, passing some tall castles and did not choose to enter.

As for the rest of the ordinary buildings, Evernie can clearly distinguish which ones are shops and which ones are houses from the brand decoration.

"It used to be bustling and lively, with a city-like layout where life and daily 'work' were integrated. The giant observed.

Evnie on the side still remembered the scene she saw when she pushed the door open just now, and nodded slightly:

"Yes, I can imagine the students sitting in the castle classrooms learning magic, and the tricksters near the windows steal the clothes from the clotheslines of the opposite residents, smear them and hang them up. ”

Time passed, and the two of them walked through most of the castle complex, almost all the buildings were closed, and some semi-open shops were also empty.

What made Evernie even more hairy was that if you looked at the shops from the glass windows, you could see two things.

Either the coffee-like drinks on the counter are still steaming, and the table top is clean and tidy, as if the owner has just left.

Either everything in the house is decaying, as if it has been washed away by thousands of years.

But at the giant's behest, she resisted her curiosity.

But what happened here? Scarborough was full of corpses, the space was stagnant, but there were no people here, and time was extremely chaotic.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that they came to a relatively spacious clearing, which looked like a park.

The sculptures in the park are of mages wearing robes and with unrecognizable faces, but they are all orcs as far from their size and limbs.

These sculptures are also strange, some parts of the same sculpture are new and shiny, and some places are full of traces of time.

The two of them stopped and looked up, a huge ball of light about ten meters in diameter was floating quietly overhead, floating at the very top of the castle behind the park.

"This castle is supposed to be the center of the academy, is this what is going on?" said Evney, squinting at the orb of light.

"It should be it, take a look inside first, and if it's safe to spend the night inside. ”

As he spoke, the giant led Evernie through the park to the castle gates.

The reason for this is that the giant is cautious, and the second is that he did not tell Everney that the time and space near the ball of light are more fragile, so fragile that if the giant gets bigger and closer, it will immediately break the current balance, and the consequences are unknown.

But if she returned to the bridge now, away from here, Avenie would not have agreed, and the giant was interested in the magic that he had only heard of.

Most importantly, the giant believes in his own abilities and is confident, so confident that he is less and less like a machine.

"The gods are right, the more you disguise yourself as a machine, the less you can live. ”

Thinking to himself, the giant raised his hand and pushed open the gate nearly ten meters wide, which showed how magnificent this castle was.

............

After a heavy grinding sound, a fist-thick door was pushed open with a small slit, and the giant probe went in to look at it for a while, and the data flow began to run wildly, and then walked in first.

The room was pitch black, and nothing unusual was found for the moment, until Evernie walked in, and the giant's eyes lit up, projecting two pillars of light, like two high-wattage searchlights.

Evernie was amazed, "Is this electricity?" I've always wanted to ask, where does your motivation come from, big one?"

"There is some kind of energy source in my reactor that I can't understand, which has been transformed into a power source in the basic form of electricity. ”

After a casual explanation, the two began to look around, and the first floor of the castle was a large hall, the burgundy carpet on the floor seemed to be freshly paved, and the walls looked like they were about to be weathered, and Evernie was no longer familiar with it.

The hall was empty, without any furniture, but the decoration on the walls looked elegant, with no signs of movement or the slightest hint of a hasty departure.

The two of them continued to move forward, and in the center of the hall was a shadow wall, with a circular staircase on each side of the shadow wall leading to the dark second floor.

"What's that?" said Evnie, pointing abruptly at the Shadow Wall.

The giant hurriedly turned his head, his eyes shining with a strong light, and a yellowed portrait hung on it.

"A fox man?"

Evernie narrowed her eyes and subconsciously took a step forward, trying to see better.

"Don't!"

The giant was too late to speak, and when Evernie stepped on one foot, the otherwise empty ground tripped her out of thin air.

She only stumbled two steps on the battlefield and quickly regained her balance, but when she suddenly turned around, her vision was pitch black, and the giant's figure was gone.

"Big one?"

"Big man!"

Avni shouted twice, but no one answered, and slowly stretched out her hands, grasping the hilt of the sword at her waist and touching the short gun on her crotch.

Suddenly, a strange and infiltrating laughter, which was plain and unremarkable, but set off by the environment at this time, came from behind him.

"Hehehe......"