"How did you do that, Father?"

When Yu Siqi stood up from the ground, he noticed that the painting at their feet had turned into a cloud of black ashes.

"Time and space, the two are inseparable. You must have realized why you can't control the time of those dark shadows. In fact, the answer is very simple, they are not unprepared when they go out. ”

Father Ann kicked the ashes away with his foot, looked at the somewhat distorted frame, and said, "But it is precisely because we know their properties well, with the help of your time, and a little luck and means, that we have come back without danger." ”

"Was the place we were in another space just now?"

Yu Siqi asked without thinking.

"Another space? No, no, they are not yet strong enough to create a space. The place we were just now was just a rift in some space. I guess you don't know what a spatial rift is, do you? ”

Father An, who had already withdrawn his gaze, smiled at Yu Siqi and said.

"Nothing."

Yu Siqi shook his head.

"If I were to explain this to you in very academic terms, I'm afraid we could talk here for hours on this topic without repeating it. But that was a waste of time for us. And, no matter how you say it, I can't rob William's 'specialty', can I? ”

Father An's mocking tone made Yu Siqi laugh too. Indeed, if Father Ann were to say a tirade to himself, he was not sure how much he would listen.

"Let me think about it, maybe that will make it easier for you to understand this phenomenon."

Thinking of something, Father An picked up a plastic-like board, held it up in front of Yu Siqi, and said, "Suppose that one side of this board is the space we know and live in, which is the so-called real world; On the other side is a place other than the real world, which can be a dream, an illusion, or any individual or being that bears things. Like the Endless Land we went to before, it is clearly at odds with what we know to be reality. Sorry, a bit off topic. Going back to what I said before, have you thought about it? Many people can't go to the other side of this board for the rest of their lives, because for them, it's both nothingness and unknown. But there are also a very small number of people for various reasons, such as the simplest is to use summoning spells, which I guess you should have seen in many movies and television works. Whoever summoned something was nothing more than drilling a hole in the board. ”

Speaking of this, Father Ann intentionally or unintentionally poked a few holes in the board with his fingers and held it up to Yu Siqi.

Yu Siqi, who had already roughly understood, realized that Father An's words were still a bit too long, but he listened very carefully.

"Anyway, whatever they did and whether they thought about the consequences or not. The board itself must have been injured as a result, and before the 'wound' healed completely, a presence called a 'rift' would arise in that place. It is independent of the two sides, but different from them. ”

Father Ann ran his fingers over the punctured area, which would undoubtedly not heal from it, but it was much better than the previous situation when the hole had been completely broken.

"So, the 'galleries' we were in before were actually because they broke down the cracks created by the space? After listening to your explanation, I'm starting to understand a little bit how we got back. ”

Yu Siqi's brain is not too stupid, and he still has this ability to understand.

"To be precise, the cracks after being 'transformed', just like when you buy a house, you have to at least 'decorate' it. After all, it's rare to see people willing to live in a 'rough house' anymore. ”

Father An's metaphor brought a vivid picture to Yu Siqi's mind, some dark shadows in the void of 'nothing', adding bricks and tiles to their own small world.

No, it's too strong. ’

Yu Siqi tried his best to restrain his facial expressions, and as a result, he now felt like he had a toothache.

"Did you think of something particularly interesting?"

Father An casually threw away the board that had no effect, and was just about to discuss this topic with Yu Siqi, but because of some other things, he suddenly turned around.

Yu Siqi, who was standing next to the priest, was naturally able to detect this, but before he could ask about the situation, Father An beckoned Yu Siqi to come with him.

"What's new?"

Yu Siqi was very sure that this was not the way back, so this was undoubtedly not a situation related to Gong Chen and them.

"I can't tell, it's just... I vaguely smell that smell..."

Father An's expression was a little subtle, and his steps were much more urgent than before. After noticing this, Yu Siqi began to conclude that this should not be a trivial matter.

As they went deeper, the road in the ruins became more and more difficult to walk, and there were many places that could only be barely passed by drilling through. However, even so, Father Ann did not give up the motivation to move forward. On the contrary, because of their depth, his brow was locked tighter.

"It's here. Now, let me think about what to do. ”

Father Ann paused, looked at the large ruins in front of him, and said.

The ruins in front of him were not much different from the previous ones. They all look like the products of a big explosion, and they are all covered with a lot of dust and metal residue. It's hard to imagine that in such a hellish place, the priest can actually sniff something.

You know, don't let him smell anything. Even if he looked at it with his eyes, he might not be able to find any difference in this ever-changing scene.

Wait, just as he pondered the gap between himself and the priest. His gaze inadvertently lingered on Father Ann's left-hand side, not to say that there was anything unusual there, nor that there was any strange scene there. Rather, in that small area, I can't feel the flow of time, as if time there has been artificially frozen.

'Artificial? Freeze? ’

These words deeply stimulated Yu Siqi's nerves, and he began to share his findings with Father An, who also immediately made the 'feat' of cleaning up the garbage after hearing this.

"Are you kidding, Priest?"

Yu Siqi asked with a skeptical face after confirming that Father An intended to do so.

"You can watch from the side, or... You can also join in... I think if the two of us work together, we should be able to clean it up in half an hour. At that point, you won't think I'm joking. ”