A burst of fire suddenly rose from the middle of the town of Domir, first ignited by a ring of wooden houses around the town's central square, and then spread unnaturally so rapidly throughout the town that the flames jumped out of thin air as if they were alive in the streets where there was nothing to burn. Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire town of Domir had been reduced to a sea of fire, and all that could be seen from the heights was red.

The crowd standing on the hill watched in amazement, the way the flames burned in a way that did not look like a natural phenomenon by any means, and the speed of its spread was almost reminiscent of shoddy movie special effects. Nangong May was taken aback: "This ...... Why did this suddenly burn up?! ”

Hao Ren squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the situation in the town, and he suddenly noticed an anomaly in the details: "Wait...... It's not a normal fire, look at the houses for yourselves! ”

I saw that the houses that were engulfed in flames were collapsing at an extremely fast speed, and even if the fire was large, the speed at which they collapsed seemed to be a little abnormal. One house after another crumbled in the fire and quickly turned to ashes, and then the black ash swept into the sky by the wind.

A large amount of smoke and dust condensed over the town, billowing and surging like thick ink, and fluttering black ash continued to fall from the sky, covering every corner of the town. Looking at such a scene, the first to react was Vivian, who couldn't help but mutter, "Ash...... That's how the dust in the town came from?! ”

The strange fire came and went faster, as if it had been rushing through the motions, and it burned in full for less than a few minutes, and then all the flames disappeared like phantoms. The town of Domir has been turned upside down: all the houses have been burned to the ground, and the once numerous houses have been reduced to rubble. The charred beams and pillars of the roof, which reached out to the sky, stood desolate on the ground, as if they had been standing for centuries.

A thick layer of ash covered the ground.

"Looks like that's what the town was meant to be." Vivien bit her lip, "I'm afraid it burned to the ground hundreds of years ago. ”

Lily was a little confused: "What about what we saw in the town before...... Could it be all hallucinations? Such a powerful illusion? ”

"It's not a hallucination, it's Domir before it was burned by the fire, it's real," Vivien had figured out the joints, "The space-time structure of this secret realm is chaotic, and many things have been preserved for an abnormal amount of time - remember the lights that suddenly lit and the flames that burned out of thin air?" That's a sign of timeline confusion, so Domir before it was destroyed by the fire and Domir in ruins are superimposed. It must have been Baptiste who was interfering with this superimposed state before, and now he went to purgatory. Things here are starting to behave according to the normal timeline. ”

Vivien didn't elaborate on the magic behind the phenomenon, but everyone at the scene could understand what was going on. Hao Ren has now finally sorted out all the paranormal phenomena he has experienced since entering Domir, including the movie-like images of spirits that Lily has seen, the abnormal loss of color in the town, and the lights that have been lit at the same time after a certain amount of time, all of which have been explained:

Domir in different time states is preserved in this chaotic space-time secret realm like a large number of snapshots, and they are randomly superimposed to produce the strange ghost town landscape.

Baptiste is undoubtedly the culprit in everything, but why would he do it? And how did he do it?

"That wizard has squeezed the soul energy of everyone here. He'd admit it himself," Hethanna said, "and I'm afraid the chaotic structure of the plane here is also trying to extract power better - presumably to create some kind of cycle of magic, he sealed off the plane here. I can only think of this explanation. ”

"How can a wizard do such a thing?" Hao Ren frowned. "It almost sounds like a challenge to the rules."

Hethanna opened her mouth, but finally could only shake her head: "To be honest, I don't believe a wizard can do such a thing. Interfering with the structure of space-time is a very difficult thing, and no one even has the knowledge of this aspect today. I've only read in some ancient books that some of the 'old gods' of the Mythological Age are said to be able to manipulate planes. But the wizard ...... It's not that I look down on this group. Most wizards are converted from ordinary humans, and their talent and quality in magic are simply not enough to bring them to this height. ”

Vivien also nodded: "Baptiste shouldn't have this strength." The situation in this town is not as simple as ordinary space closure, if his ability in space-time control is really high to this extent, he will definitely not be broken by Lily digging a hole. I'm leaning toward him using some kind of ancient artifact or the help of some ancient person. He can summon the 'Blood King'...... I can't tell if he can summon something else. ”

Lily looked at Vivien and then at Hao Ren, she was a little disagreeable: "You guys are all speculating, the premise is that the space-time structure of this town is indeed misplaced and superimposed as you said-what if it isn't?" ”

"Look at the town, you can think of a more plausible explanation for yourself," Vivien said, gesturing to the ruins of Domir down the hillside, "and I've seen the realm of time and space, Kronos once demonstrated his triumphant skills in front of me, and the scene is very similar to the situation here." ”

As soon as Vivien opened her mouth, she pulled out the amazing ancient figures, and suddenly the guys who were not as old as her were silent. After a while, Hao Ren broke the silence with a voice: "Anyway, Baptiste himself must know everything, let's just arrest him back." ”

Vivien snorted, "Well, but did your probe track down the wizard?" ”

"No, the portal was in a chaotic state at that time, and the probe was thrown very far away," Hao Ren said regretfully, "but as long as Baptiste is really in purgatory, we will definitely be able to catch him." ”

"Then hurry up - Purgatory is not a safe place, and I hope that wizard doesn't die in there before we catch him."

They didn't have to wait long, and it didn't take long for the Automatics to install the portal generators: installing them was actually quite simple, and the main effort was spent analyzing the coordinate relationship between Purgatory and Earth. After the equipment was ready, Hao Ren immediately connected the data terminal and was about to open the door, when the terminal reported something unusual:

In just a few minutes, the purgatory coordinates sent back by the probe changed several times.

"This is probably the so-called 'Purgatory Instability' phenomenon," Hao Ren heard some reminders from the data terminal in his mind, and he immediately thought of something, staring at the coordinate change record of Purgatory in the past period of time, and its last 'position' was very different from just now, "It has been 'drifting'...... Drift at the edge of the universe! ”

"Aren't all alien spaces drifting like this," Hethanna's tone was disapproving, "Alien spaces are not pockets hanging on the wall, they are more like bubbles floating in water, and instability is of course." ”

"No, Purgatory is very different from other different spaces," Hao Ren looked at the analysis results of the data terminal with an excited face, "The coordinate drift of other different spaces is only relative to the three-dimensional address of the earth, you can imagine them as a planet in the depths of our universe, these planets rely on wormholes to connect with the earth, no matter how it moves in its own galaxy, its relative position to the entire universe has not changed: because it is in the universe." But purgatory...... It's unbelievable, it seems to be moving relative to this universe, and it's not its own coordinates that are drifting, it's the entire frame of reference! ”

Heatherana glanced at Hao Ren with a strange expression: "Who understands what you say?" ”

"Oh, you don't have to understand," Hao Ren waved his hand casually, with inexplicable excitement in his tone, "This is something we are focusing on. ”

He glanced at Vivien as he spoke, and the implication was clear:

There is only one explanation for the fact that "Purgatory" drifts in an integer coordinate system relative to the current universe - not only is it a cosmic fragment from the dream plane, but this fragment is not completely integrated with the current universe, and it still wanders between the dream plane and the surface world.

There is another name for the "gap" between the dream plane and the surface world, and that is...... Wall of Reality!

Hao Ren has finally found the biggest "gangrene" on the Wall of Reality!

(Happy holiday everyone~~ On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, can you give two monthly passes?) (To be continued......)