My name is Jean Hack.

I am a wizard who received the honor of the white robe of Phnom Penh twenty years ago, and I am currently a director of the European Wizards Federation.

I'm not a research-type wizard, and I don't like combat, I just like to explore.

After graduating from my apprenticeship, I started my career as an explorer.

All the mysterious places on earth are my destinations.

I hope that in my lifetime, I can explore a hundred unknown worlds, and tell everyone, at least all wizards, that the world is so big and there are so many unknown secrets waiting to be explored.

This is my fifty-sixth diary of an expedition.

As the old rule goes, I remember from the beginning to the end of the expedition.

If I manage to complete the expedition alive, the journal will be locked in a safe until I die, when it will not be taken out.

This is something that my will has already done.

If I die on an expedition, then this journal must be on my corpse, and whoever eventually finds my body will be able to get it.

Whoever sees this diary, I hope you can help me make it public, so that everyone knows what I died here for.

So now let's get down to business.

The place I'm going to this time is deep in the mountains of the Greater Caucasus, known as the Land of Death.

Ten months ago, I bought some information from KGB from a friend, and my friend said that I would definitely be interested in it.

He was not wrong about this, and after reading the content, I was really interested.

Before that, I had never known that there was such a mysterious place in the Greater Caucasus.

This is a ten-year or so investigation report and related supporting materials of the Red Empire on an area within a radius of about 300 kilometers in the mountains of the Greater Caucasus.

It's only an appendice, but it's enough to show me a lot of information.

According to this information, the place was covered in dense clouds all year round, and even spy satellites could not capture anything under the clouds.

KGB first paid attention to this place because a unit chasing down the local separatist forces disappeared mysteriously in this area, and the follow-up troops reported the strangeness of this area when they tracked it down.

The locals call it the Land of the Dead, and in anyone's memory or any account of it, no one has been able to enter the area and come out.

The military of the Red Empire did not believe this rumor, and they paid a heavy price for it.

According to the previous march, the pursuing force had advanced here and entered the area.

The military sent three battalions to investigate.

But without exception, all three teams immediately cut off all contact after entering, and never came out again.

The military of the Greater Caucasus had to report the situation to the Supreme Council.

The Supreme Council ordered the KGB to investigate further.

First, it is necessary to verify whether the military's report is true and whether there are any problems within the military, and in particular, it is necessary to strictly investigate whether there are two-faced people in the military who collude with separatists.

The second is to investigate whether there is really such an area within the empire, for a country like the Red Empire with a strong desire to control, it is naturally not allowed to have such a large area in the territory that is not under control.

KGB first conducted a rigorous man-to-people investigation of the military in the Greater Caucasus, finally proving the military's innocence, and finally focusing its attention on death.

After the initial failure of using electronic instruments to detect, send planes for aerial reconnaissance, and use spy satellites, the KGB ordered the military to send a mountain infantry regiment, divided into ten directions, to drive into the realm of death, and carry a large amount of equipment, and directly enter through Dailin, vowing to find out the situation in this area.

However, when the ten teams entered the realm of death, the trees they had cut down were completely restored to their original appearance after just ten minutes, and even the grass that had been trampled on rose again.

An entire regiment of mountain infantry, all disappeared into the realm of death.

After the KGB reported to the Supreme Council, the Supreme Council naturally could not tolerate such an area out of control, and the simple and rude Russians immediately dropped a small nuclear bomb.

But the nuclear bomb still didn't even make a sound when it went in.

Not only that, although all the investigators took photos on the periphery, and wanted to draw a map of the basic terrain and area of the Death Realm through the combination of peripheral photos, all the photos they took back were all blank without exception, and not even a single tree or grass could be photographed!

It's a very interesting place.

By intelligence, I think this may be a time trap.

The Time Trap Theory is a theory proposed by Budler, a wizard from the Time Institute of the Millican Pan Wizard Alliance.

He first argued that time is not an abstract and forcibly named concept, but exists as real as space, and that the reason why we cannot explore time is that we live in a world with space as the main axis, and time is only a virtual auxiliary axis. Only when we change the axis and take time as the main axis and space as the auxiliary axis, can we explore the mystery of time, and even realize time travel and control time.

On the basis of this theory, he proposed that some parts of time, like space, have reciprocating parts without an exit.

In this section, time has neither beginning nor end, forming a closed loop that does not need to cross the edge to keep circulating!

Once space-based creatures are trapped in these rings, they will continue to go through the same period of time, with no beginning or end, and they will never be able to get rid of it.

Since the trees can be quickly resurrected after being damaged, and the photographs cannot be taken, then it probably proves that this is such a time cage.

Trees will automatically revert because time is constantly circulating in a closed state, and even if it is temporarily destroyed, it will return to its original state when it returns to the previous coordinate point, with no beginning and no end.

However, we still need to take a look at it to be sure.

The Wizard of Badler's Time Prison Theory has been proposed for many years, but it has not been possible to find enough evidence.

This time I finally had this opportunity.

I went to Milicon, met with Wizard Badler, showed him some information, and gave me my reasoning.

Wizard Badler agreed with my reasoning and was thrilled to see this place, believing that if it could be confirmed that the Time Prison existed, and that if he could study it further, he might even rewrite the history of mankind, and time travel would never be a dream again!

But I must have this extraordinary adventure to myself, and I can't share it with anyone else, and I can't bear it anyway.

I rejected the offer of Wizard Badler to form a joint expedition and only accepted an expedition grant from the Institute of Time.

Adventure is a costly hobby that requires a lot of financial resources to support, which is why I found Wizard Badler and the Institute of Time.

In return for my investment, I share the results with them as soon as I complete the expedition.

The Institute of Time and I jointly held a press conference to announce the expedition and the investment in me.

I think they probably didn't worry about me, and wanted to use this situation to make our cooperation public, so that I could have the fruits of the expedition alone.

In fact, they don't understand me, all I want is the process of exploration, all I want is the thrill of the moment when the fog is lifted and the truth is seen, and I don't care about anything else.

After receiving the grant, I made all the preparations, got rid of the time research institute's tracking of me, and went to the realm of death alone.

It was a primitive place, the nearest village was five hundred miles away, and I couldn't find any guides willing to show me the way, and they all said that there were demons in the realm of death who would take away the souls of all life.

When it comes to the devil in the realm of death, each of the indigenous villagers is terrified, but they can't say what the devil looks like.

But the more this happens, the more believable it becomes!

They obviously had seen something before they were so frightened, but it was beyond the scope of their language, so even if they wanted to find something similar, they couldn't find it, so they could naturally say what it looked like.

If similar things could be found in the human world for analogy, then the appearance of this devil would have been rumored beyond recognition.

I couldn't find a guide to lead the way, but I still learned something.

The enthusiastic villagers pointed me to a road that no longer looks like it, and they said that it was left behind when the emperor's ** team went to explore, and that by following this road, you can reach the realm of death.

My only hope is that this path will not be completely obscured by grass and trees because it has been too long.

Fortunately, although the road was broken from time to time, with the help of the wind spirit I had released, I still walked on the right path, and it took me five days to reach the camp where the mountain infantry regiment had been standing.

I have to praise the pragmatism of the Russians here, although it is only a temporary camp, it is built very strongly, and the concrete barracks have no windows, but there is no problem with the occupancy.

This is enough to mark my entry into the realm of death and salvation.

The Time Cage is a very dangerous state, not only can alien creatures never escape once they are caught in it, but the longer the creatures in it are trapped, the more mutated they become.

Although from the time axis, the time here is only one day, but for the creatures on the spatial axis, even if it is only one day, it represents countless days of mental and physical life, and this psychological and physical experience and the real time gap will lead to the continuous alienation of the creature from the spirit to the form.

Organisms themselves are constantly adapting to their environment and evolving, and they will keep evolving in order to adapt to this cycle of time.

Once I'm going to venture here, I have to be prepared in two ways.

One is to make sure that you can come out smoothly.

The other is to make sure you have the ability to deal with the mutated creatures in it.

As a gold-edged white-robed wizard, in terms of personal combat ability alone, I am already the top part of the earth, but the problem is that the mutated monsters in the realm of death who have been trapped in a time loop for an unknown number of times are very likely to be immune to the spells of creatures of our normal time period.

I did something accurate about this, and even returned along the way and bought some military weapons.

The existence of any creature is nothing more than two forms, spiritual and physical, even if it mutates, it can't change this fact, I bought powerful military weapons, and cast spells to speed up the transformation to ensure that the double blow can be applied at the same time.

The most troublesome thing is not actually those mutated creatures, but how to escape from the time trap after entering.

I asked Wizard Badler about this.

Although there is no practical experience, in terms of theoretical research on the problem of time, no one dares to say that it is better than the Institute of Time, and no one in the Institute of Time dares to say that it is better than Wizard Badler.

Wizard Badler gave me three plans to put them all in place before entering, to do a triple insurance and make sure I could escape.

If any of these three plans succeeds and guarantees my escape, then it proves that this realm of death is indeed the theoretical time prison of Wizard Badler. If I can't escape, and I don't waste it, at least it's either to prove that this is not a time cage, or to prove that Wizard Badler's theory is wrong.

I used the camp to position the spatial axis, and left a part of my soul in the camp as a positioning anchor, carefully set the triple plan, and then began to enter the realm of death.

On the first day of entering the realm of death, everything was peaceful, I didn't encounter any attacks from indigenous creatures, to be exact, I didn't encounter any creatures.

There are only plants, no animals, no birds, and no slippery insects.

Although the grass and trees are extremely luxuriant, there is not even a single small insect!

It's full of life, but it's dead!

I didn't find any traces of human activity in the places I passed.

There is no sign that a large number of troops have entered the area, and there is no sign that it has been bombed by nuclear bombs.

On the first day, I traveled about a hundred miles in a straight line, and the whole journey was boring and outrageous, especially since the surrounding grass and trees were almost featureless, and they looked exactly the same.

The next day, it was still fine, and I was still moving on.

On the third day, move on.

Day 4, move forward.

Day 5, Day 6, Day 7......

I've been walking for a week, and I've been advancing a hundred miles a day, and according to the range of the KGB intelligence, I should have passed through the realm of death by this time.

But if you get out of the realm of death, the surrounding forest will become lively, and flying insects, snakes and rats will appear.

Now, I still see that dead silence full of life.

The scope of this realm of death is larger than KGB imagined.

I think I may have gotten it wrong for a serious problem!