Chapter 251: The team splits
In the Earth Federation, it is not uncommon for the subspace and the current world to overlap in space, but because of the different degrees of overlap, the harm and damage caused are also different.
For example, the current situation where a certain part of the Black Forest Wonderland coincides with the Dibia Mountains also happens often in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, and there is already a set of coping mechanisms within each cosmic civilization.
Usually, this kind of spatial overlap will not bring great damage to the real world, but only because of the spatial dislocation that some objects temporarily enter the subspace, and people in the spatial overlap area will suffer varying degrees of mental damage due to the perceptual confusion caused by this spatial dislocation.
It's just that this kind of mental damage will not be fatal, at most people will be in a state of mental malaise for a long time after that, but after systematic cultivation, this state of mental malaise can also return to normal in a short period of time, and there are no sequelae.
But if there is an overlap of spaces, then things are troublesome, and the overlapping part is either everything in the real world being sucked into the subspace, or things in the subspace coming to the real world, either of which is absolutely devastating for the people around it.
Because no matter what happens, it will cause space to tear, and even worse, because the space material will be extracted, the space will collapse, and then evolve into a black hole. There was a similar precedent in the Earth Federation, although the accident was remedied in time, it still caused the planet to be swallowed by a miniature black hole formed by a space rift, but fortunately it was only a resource star, not too many people lived, and the casualties were negligible.
If the Dibia Mountains in front of Leo now overlapped with the Black Forest Wonderland, then Leo would definitely not do anything, and he would not ignore his previous promise, and directly turned around and stayed away from here as much as possible.
Although the weaver said that the current situation is only a spatial overlap, not a spatial overlap, Leo does not fully believe the words of the weaver, because the difference in knowledge and cognition will cause some misunderstandings, and it is possible that the spatial overlap mentioned by the weaver is the spatial overlap in Leo's cognition.
So in order to avoid mistakes, Leo left the camp and used the detection method of the Earth Federation to detect the current state of space in this place, and finally deduced the real situation of the current space from some clues found, and this situation is a little different from the space in his cognition, but it is not too bad.
According to Leo's understanding, the spatial overlap is only the projection overlap of the two spaces, and in fact, the matter of the two spaces does not coincide together, just like a mirage, it is just a spatial projection illusion. In this way, all objects in the overlapping area of space will be in some kind of spatial gap due to spatial distortion, resulting in everything seen or touched not necessarily real, and the real and false can no longer be judged by the physical senses, and this strange phenomenon will act on all objects.
But what makes Leo feel strange now is that this strange phenomenon after the spatial overlap does not act on the mountains of the Dibia Mountains, but only on the animals, plants and other life forms on the surface of the mountains, so that Leo can not see any traces of biological existence wherever he can see.
In this situation, Leo doesn't have any information in his mind that can provide reference, and he himself is not a scientific research biochemical person, no matter how powerful his brain computing and memory ability is, he can't analyze a reason.
Now, the only thing Leo can be sure of is that there is no danger in the overlapping environment itself, and the real danger lies in those hidden on the other side of the overlapping space.
Because the current situation of spatial overlap is completely different from the previous situation in the Giant Sequoia Forest, Leo can no longer see the figures of those Black Forest monsters and clans through the vision given by the cat potion, and can only wait for those Black Forest monsters and clans to fully appear in the Velen World before he can grasp their whereabouts.
However, Leo was not worried that those Black Forest monsters and clans would be able to appear directly in the camp, capture the ordinary people in the camp before he could react, and then escape.
Because he deduced that the monsters and clans of the Black Forest would probably no longer be able to travel through the two worlds as easily as they did in the Giant Sequoia Forest, and that they could release their virtual and real states very close to the camp and enter the world of Veron to hunt their prey. In the same way, it should be impossible for them to directly enter another dimension with the prey after catching it.
The reason why Leo would make this guess is entirely because of the changes in the spatial environment here, when the people and things in the world of Veron are affected by this spatial overlap phenomenon, the things in the other space will also be affected by this spatial overlap, and because of the stability of the space, the Black Forest Wonderland in the subspace state may be more strongly affected.
In this fragile and chaotic environment of spatial overlap, any kind of spatial transformation becomes extremely dangerous, and the slightest carelessness can cause fatal consequences.
Perhaps to confirm the correctness of his speculation, Leo was behind a slightly hidden hill not far from the camp, and through the imitation of the power of nightmares, he temporarily transformed his body into a state of unknown clan in the Black Forest that he had hunted, and in this state, he saw the appearance on the other side of the overlapping space, and was forced to immediately release this imitation state with just one glance.
Leo didn't know if what he was seeing was part of the Black Forest Wonderland, but he was sure that the environment on that side was terrible, and a large amount of unexplained energy turbulence formed a storm of energy in it, attacking everything that tried to get close.
Fortunately, Leo only imitated the special state of the unknown clan of the Black Forest through the power of nightmares, and did not really enter another subspace, so no matter how strong the energy storm there was, it could not affect him, allowing him to retreat calmly.
Judging from this situation, it is definitely impossible for the monsters and clans of the Black Forest to appear directly in this spatial overlapping region, they can only get out of that special spatial virtual and real state in the Giant Sequoia Forest, which no longer coincides with the geographical range, and completely enter the Velen World, and then gradually approach the camp like the beasts of the Velen World to hunt prey.
For Leo, the Black Forest monsters and clans that are out of the realm of space are not terrifying, and he is fully capable of killing them before they threaten the ordinary people of the fleeing team, so this kind of spatial overlap environment is now in his favor.
Just as Leo guessed, until the early morning of the next day, no Black Forest monsters and clans appeared around the camp of the fleeing team, and Leo only saw a group of Black Forest clans in the distance in the distance in the middle of the night through his psychic ability.
It's just that after the family found Leo approaching, they immediately fled towards the edge of the mountain where there was no spatial overlap, and only re-entered the subspace of the Black Forest Wonderland until they escaped from the spatial overlapping area, which just confirmed Leo's guess during the day.
However, although there were no Black Forest monsters and clans attacking this night, a large number of people still went missing in the camp.
At daybreak, the hunters guarding the camp went to each tent one by one to wake up the resting people and give them enough time to pack up, but soon the hunters found that a dozen tents were empty, nearly a hundred were missing, and their luggage and all other belongings were well preserved in the tents.
This incident quickly spread throughout the camp, causing a lot of commotion, and the morale that had begun to recover after half a day and a night of rest became depressed because of this incident, and everyone was sincerely afraid, for fear that they would continue to walk, and they would be the next missing person, so there was also a sound of walking back in the crowd.
And it wasn't just the refugees who wanted to go back, even some of the hunters were frightened by the strange situation in front of them, and connected these things with those legends about the Dibia Mountains, and even Barak's past might could not suppress the uneasiness in their hearts, so when someone proposed to go back, these hunters who had been frightened also echoed it.
Just like yesterday, Barak summoned everyone to give a mobilization speech, and at the same time persuaded those who had the idea of turning back to keep going. It's just that, compared to the effect of yesterday's and previous speeches, the effect this time is very average, and it can even be said to be bad, not only did it not persuade those who had the idea of turning back, but it made some people who were still wavering also make the decision to turn back.
However, to Barak's relief, the magnates did not intend to turn back, but still decided to climb over the Dibia Mountains, which saved him a lot of persuasion.
Although these people who decided to turn back disrupted some of Barak's plans, it was not a bad thing in the long run, because after these wavering people left, the rest of the people were all determined to climb the mountains, and there would be no more such things that shook the morale of the entire fleeing party in the rest of the journey.
After thinking about the gains and losses, Barak did not keep nearly 500 people who were ready to turn back, he took out some of the supplies and handed them over to some of the hunters who also decided to turn back, and selected a few people who had enough prestige and ability to lead the team.
On the other hand, although the number of people has been reduced by half, it has also become much easier for the evacuation team, because most of the people who decide to turn back are some older people, and the rest of the people who decide to continue crossing the mountains are mainly young and strong, which can make the rest of the journey much easier.
When the fleeing team was divided into two teams due to the reappearance of a large number of missing people, everyone's attention was focused on the personnel arrangement, route selection, and so on after the team separated, and the disappearance of the people who caused the separation of the team was forgotten, and no one mentioned it again, as if it had never happened.
Leo, who was a bystander, quietly observed all the movements in the camp through the spiritual network from a distance, and he was not at all interested in the separation of the fleeing teams, but what interested him was the attitude of these people towards the nearly 100 missing people.
Except for the commotion in the camp when the missing persons were first discovered, which caused the team to split up, the people in the camp never showed any concern for the missing people after that, and even the relatives and friends of the missing Naxi did not show any unusual emotions when they packed up the empty tents, and their faces were as flat as if the missing people did not exist.
This situation is unusual no matter how you look at it, but the problem is that Leo didn't find any psionic fluctuations in the camp, especially inside and outside the tents of the missing, so these people are so indifferent to the disappearance of their companions that they can basically ignore the influence of witchcraft.
But at the same time, Leo can be sure that there is indeed a power that affects their minds, making them ignore the missing people, because he also can't help but forget the missing ones, but his will is too strong, and this emotion is not enough to shake his mind.
It's a pity that even though Leo clearly felt that he was also affected by an inexplicable force, he couldn't find the source of this influence.
In addition to discovering that the people in the camp were emotionally affected by unknown forces, Leo also discovered that the missing people were all the ones with the strongest psychic reactions.
If it was just one or two missing people, it would be fine, but the problem is that the ninety-seven missing people are all the strongest psionic reactions among the more than 1,000 people, which obviously cannot be explained by mere coincidence.
It's just that among these refugees, there are three people who have an equally strong psychic reaction, but they are not missing in their sleep, these three people are the family of three who were cast by Leo with talisman witchcraft, and what makes Leo even more interesting is that he feels that the talisman witchcraft left on the family of three has actually been consumed, it is obvious that this family of three was also attacked last night, and it was only because of his witchcraft that it did not cause this family of three to become missing persons.
"Maybe we can use this family of three as a breakthrough!" Leo immediately had an idea when he found out. So he infiltrated the camp again, secretly applied some stalking and other sorcery on the family of three, and strengthened the talisman sorcery on the three of them.
What surprised Leo even more was that when he cast witchcraft on the family of three, the webweavers also saw it, not only did they not stop Leo, but they did not show a dissatisfied expression, but after Leo finished the spell, one of the webweavers made a gesture to the family of three, and Leo saw through the spider tattoo that there was an extra silver-gray thread on the body of the family of three.
It is clear that the weaver and Leo have the same idea, and they are also planning to use this family of three as a clue to find out the mysterious disappearance.
After resting, the team that was about to turn back moved to leave first, and when these people disappeared into the giant sequoia forest in the distance, Leo could clearly feel that these people who were going back had absolutely no possibility of going out of the forest again, and the webweaver also divided two people to follow the team that turned back, it seemed that it was supposed to harvest the souls of these people.