Chapter Twenty-Three: Ghost Space
The ghost space sounds like a mysterious name, and it may be appealing to people who do good things, but in the eyes of the intelligent beings of Pavatiga, behind the name, there is a deep fear.
Because, together with the two mysterious phenomena of the Great Void Rift and the Otherworldly Projection, this name is listed as the three mysterious killers of Pavatiga, and in tens of thousands of years, countless creatures have died in the ghost space, and the number of known ones is even more than the Great Rift and the Otherworldly Projection combined.
Actually, the ghost space itself is a very mild spatial phenomenon, well, at least much milder than the great rift in the void that has no return and the otherworldly projection that is gambling most of the time.
No one knows the reason for the formation of the ghost space, and they can't see its true face, and people only know about it as a phenomenon.
The earliest recorded appearance of ghost space was nearly 7,000 years ago, when the wood elves first stepped out of the dense forest, and the mountain elves tried to explore the world beyond the mountains. Everyone is exploring outward in confusion, curiously observing this magical world.
Among them, of course, the sea elves are indispensable. These children of the sea are exceptionally intelligent, they can live freely in the water, but they build huge sea ships, and by carrying land races to explore the islands in the ocean, in exchange for huge profits.
The accident happened during an ocean trip.
The exploration ship named Frost, carrying 230 explorers of the land race and 96 sea elf crews, set sail from the port of hope, and the destination is the pearl island chain composed of twelve islands in the sea in the center of Pavatiga, where the known end of the terrestrial intelligent race, conquer the pearl island chain, and turn the unknown into the known, which is the only purpose of more than 200 explorers.
However, they never returned.
Two hundred and thirty explorers and ninety-six crew members disappeared, alive and dead. This is a very unusual situation, even if the shipwreck, the land explorers drowned in the sea, but the sea elves who took the sea as their home could not drown together, no matter how dangerous the situation was, more than 300 people, there should always be a few sea elves who escaped and told the world what happened.
But no, not a single one.
The incident was very serious, and the land race and the sea race were once in a highly tense atmosphere, and both sides suspected that the other party was planning some conspiracy, so that the first sea and land war almost broke out between the land and sea races.
It wasn't until half a year later that the Frost reappeared.
The focus of the incident reappeared, shocking the races on both sides, and eventually all the races on land and sea sent enough representatives to board the Frost together to try to figure out what had happened.
The results of the exploration are now known to the world.
Everything was normal on the ship, and there were still cleaning utensils on the deck, which seemed to have been half used, and they were casually poured on the deck, bundles of cables were neatly arranged around the mast, and the lowered sails were neatly folded and pressed at the foot of the mast.
In the cabin, there is no clutter in the placement of clutter, and seafarers must make the most of the limited space, so it is already an instinct in life to arrange things neatly. On the table in the cabin, the bread is stacked in a basket, the half-eaten soup is still soaked in a wooden spoon, a few sea fish cooked in different ways are placed in the middle of the table, and there is even a vegetable porridge cooked after the sun-dried vegetables are re-soaked, it seems that the food of these explorers is still very good.
In the activity room next to it, a table surrounded by more than a dozen chairs was scattered with a large number of cards, messy gold and silver coins flashed between the paper plates, showing their sense of existence, and on the other side, on a magic chess board, the chess game had already gone halfway, and an elemental mage's chess piece fell on the chessboard, and its owner was afraid that he would never have a chance to take the next step.
Yes, there was no more chance, because the ship, although completely normal, as if it had been crowded with people a few seconds ago, was now empty, not a single one.
I searched the whole ship, weapons, equipment, belongings, food, all the necessities were complete, many of them were not even used, but there was no one, as if everyone was spending an ordinary day in a lively and lively manner, and suddenly disappeared en masse.
No one knows what happened to the people on board, no one knows where the ship has been drifting, and it is conceivable that in the six months since it disappeared, the ship, whose entire crew had disappeared inexplicably, was like a ghost with a dead body, tirelessly wandering the sea.
Since then, people have known the ship as the Ghost Ship. Explorers and scholars who are curious about the world have always wanted to find out the truth of the ghost ship, and they have built countless hypotheses, including the nonsense that the crew hallucinates and then jumps into the sea en masse, but all in vain, the truth is always hidden in the depths of the fog, making people unpredictable.
It wasn't until nine hundred years later that a second similar event occurred.
At that time, it was already in the late stage of the embryonic era, and the glorious era of great development was coming. Although it had not yet completely entered the pioneering era, the intelligent beings at that time had begun to be keen to expand the world of civilization outward and snatch living space from the wilderness. A large number of funded expeditions carried the heart of the city into the wilderness, and some succeeded in erecting the heart of the city and making a new city stand in the world, but many more disappeared into the wilderness without a trace, and even the name was not left in history.
Among them, the Robert Exploration team was lucky, they left their names in the history books, but they were also unlucky, because the reason for their name was not the glory of establishing the city, but a disappearance.
That's right, the whole expedition went missing.
One hundred and fifty-four men, forty unicorns, seventy-three horses, and a large number of poultry disappeared completely, and only the large convoy was left in the wilderness, waiting quietly in solitude.
This time it was lucky, and in less than three days, a team found the remains of the exploration team. The discoverer was startled by the dead convoy, and in the face of such a strange phenomenon, the discoverer chose the smartest course of action.
They sent someone to run back to the city and report to the lord.
Soon, the priests of the temple, the magicians in the towers, and the weak but knowledgeable scholars, all of them gathered like the place of the incident, and the keen intuition of the seekers of knowledge made them think of the ghost ship incident nine hundred years ago for the first time.
Sure enough, everything is just as weird, almost exactly the same as the ghost ship incident in the record, with the only difference being that the location of the incident has changed to land.
But this time, the researchers were ecstatic, because everyone found that the strange event that happened a few days ago actually left a witness.
One of the chauffeurs in the exploration team did not disappear with the others, and I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky, he survived the strangeness. It's a pity that when he found him, he was already crazy, completely lost his ability to speak, could eat, drink and sleep, but had no mental reaction to anything, and for the rest of his life, the only thing that would make him react was actually the mirror, as long as he faced the mirror, he would scream and attack wildly, and it continued until the mirror was broken.
It wasn't until a few years later that he suddenly came to his senses before he died, but that was too weak for him to speak, leaving only a famous last sentence that brought countless mysteries: "Why can't you get out?"
Since then, ghostly space has taken the place of ghost ships as the name of this strange phenomenon, and every few decades, there will be an outbreak of ghostly space. During this period, the victims were more or less, the most time, an army of 3,000 people on the way to the top of the mountain, with a thick fog, disappeared out of thin air in the eyes of hundreds of villagers at the bottom of the mountain, and there were often only a dozen or dozens of people at the time.
Slowly, as the number of appearances increased, people also summed up some rules of ghost space.
Its appearance generally does not have any signs, it is difficult for people to detect in advance, maybe the animal will instinctively sense the danger and stay away from the area of the ghost space outbreak in advance, but this is just speculation, whether this is the case or not, no one can be sure.
It has been found that ghost space tends to only appear in sparsely populated wilderness, and when it appears, it will start at a point and quickly spread outward, eventually spreading to an area of varying range, where all creatures, including belongings, will be sucked into the ghost space, and only a large number of relics will be left in place.
Because of that famous last words, people once speculated that the ghost space was a very large labyrinth-like world, and it would be difficult for the victim to get out if he was sucked in, and it was only the exception of the exception that the survivors were lucky enough to return safely.
However, as time went on, nearly three thousand years ago, during the darkest and chaotic age of Parvatiga, the frequency of ghostly space eruptions peaked, appearing in an average of one or two years. The more times there are, the more victims there are, and the number of exceptions will of course increase, and from time to time there will be news of the safe return of the victims.
Excluding the good deeds who made up lies for various purposes, at least nearly 100 people left the ghost space safely, many of these people were fighters, and even the existence of top powerhouses, but even if they had personally experienced the ghost space, it was difficult for these people to tell what they had experienced.
Most people, who don't even know that they have entered the ghost space, enter inexplicably and leave inexplicably, not realizing what is happening at all.
And those who realize that something is wrong are also very confused, although they have different descriptions of the internal environment of the ghost space, but the same thing is that they have entered a seemingly infinite space, and no matter how hard they try, they can never get out. Moreover, the whole world is like only one group of people left, no creatures can be met at all, and the world is full of despair and loneliness.
As for how they came out in the end, unfortunately, no one can say clearly, everyone's statements are surprisingly consistent, and they walked and walked out.
Of course, this kind of answer will not satisfy the scholars, but there is no way to be dissatisfied, and no one can change it.
Therefore, the ghost space is like a great rift in the void, called an unexplained mysterious phenomenon that has been silently devouring life.