Chapter 711: Abyss Spirit
As they descended, the light became dimmer and dimmer. Dick was even more frightened and didn't dare to move, and Benjamin could only rely on the water elemental sense to identify his surroundings.
And in the field of vision he sensed, the lower the position, the denser the dark elements around him, and the entire abyss became narrower and narrower.
"You take it easy, the suction is getting stronger and stronger. The system suddenly reminded, "Although I can't analyze the source of this force, I feel that the nearby spatial structure has become more and more unstable." ”
...... Spatial structure?
Benjamin touched his chin. To be honest, he didn't know where the suction power came from, but if the spatial structure of the place had changed, it would be unheard of.
He could only slow down, fighting against the forces from below, and getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, he saw a light in the darkness below.
Benjamin's eyes lit up.
The light looks very vague and distant, but in such an environment where you can't see your fingers, any bit of light is particularly dazzling. Dick shuddered as well, and the expression on his face looked like he had just been fished out of hell.
"There is light, there is light......
Benjamin nodded, controlling the puck in the direction of the light.
The light that appears in the abyss must represent some unusual significance.
The closer you fly, the brighter your vision becomes. It's just that when the eerie environment of the abyss resurfaced in front of their eyes, Benjamin couldn't help but be shocked.
Is that...... Cracks?
In mid-air, tiny black cracks began to emerge. Like the cracks in the glass, these cracks are not attached to anything, they are suspended in the void, they open and close at a very slow speed, like the gills of a fish.
"Is it a spatial rift? interesting, can such a theoretical thing actually exist?" the system muttered to itself.
Benjamin controls the hockey vehicle and stops. His instincts told him that this thing might be dangerous, so he thought about it, summoned a balloon of water, and threw it at the rift.
The water balloon passed through the crack, still maintaining its original form.
However, a crack in the shape of a rift that was identical to the shape of the rift split the ball in half. The water in the middle had vanished without a trace, probably sucked somewhere by the crack.
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This thing...... No matter how strong something passes through it, I'm afraid it will be "split" in half by the crack, right?
Fortunately, the cracks were not too dense, and Benjamin was still able to control the pucks, bypassing them, and continuing in the direction of the beam. It's just that, as they go deeper, the cracks around them become denser and denser.
The size of the crack was also gradually growing, and Benjamin even found a crack that could accommodate an adult to walk through at will. In the dark crack, he could see a faint light coming from within.
Benjamin couldn't help but wonder where these cracks lead.
"If nothing else, the light source and suction should come from the other side of the crack. "I just don't know what's on the other side of the rift, another world, or another part of this world? ”
“...... I'm not going in. ”
"Why?" the system's tone was as if it was surprised, "the shape of these cracks is very stable, and you have the leaves of the Space-Time Tree in your hand, so there's still a good chance of safe passage." ”
Benjamin frowned and asked rhetorically, "How do you know they're stable." ”
"Intuition. ”
“......”
Benjamin thinks that for such a bottomless matter, he should not entrust his life to the intuition of the system.
Trying to get around all the cracks, their progress became easier and easier. It seems that the source of the suction is precisely these cracks, and the more cracks, the greater the suction, and Benjamin can now maintain control of the puck, but continue to build up...... He didn't have a bottom in his heart.
Leaving
Just as Benjamin hesitated, suddenly, he saw a red-black ground.
He was stunned.
"We ...... What the hell?"
Flying the last stretch, Benjamin discovers that they have really come to the bottom of the abyss. The narrow surface of the ground was barren, stretching endlessly at both ends, leaving only a path in between. There weren't many spatial cracks on the ground, but Benjamin saw the bones of humans and beasts scattered around.
And...... An unidentified object floating in mid-air.
"O my God, O my God...... So, is that a ghost?" Dick almost didn't pee his pants on the spot.
That's right, ghosts, it's quite apt to use that word to describe what they're seeing.
In the faint light, phantom figures floated around in mid-air. They have no face, no stable form, like clumps of jellyfish without tentacles, swimming between those crevices in an eerie way.
Moreover, from them, the system detected fluctuations in mental power.
"Although I can't define them, I want to say that the existence of these things is quite similar to the phantom left behind by the death of the overseas sacrifice. "You can call him a ghost, or a spirit is fine." ”
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
It's true...... Is it a ghost?
To be honest, it's not surprising that the abyss, which is full of dark elements, breeds some undead creatures. It's just that the undead in this world are really too rare, and what he sees now is likely to be a settlement of some kind of undead creatures.
The number of ghosts here is very large, and Benjamin alone sees about dozens of them now. And the entire abyss should stretch directly from the west of the Horry Kingdom to the east of Freedon, how many such ghosts will breed at such an unbelievable length?
Benjamin could hardly have imagined.
The only thing he was thankful for was that the ghosts didn't seem to be aware of Benjamin and Dick's presence, and just floated around on their own, occasionally burrowing into the cracks. And in some of the rather wide cracks, sometimes other ghosts emerge as well.
Seeing this, the system immediately said triumphantly: "Look, I said that these spatial cracks are very stable, and it doesn't matter if you pass through them. ”
“......”
Benjamin still didn't want to try.
A bunch of ghosts were burrowing in and out of it, what could be on the other side of the crack? hell, the underworld, the space that belonged to the undead? He really didn't want to poke his head into the habits of the undead creatures.
Benjamin was thinking this, but his eyes suddenly widened.
...... Wait a minute.
I saw a figure—a real figure—suddenly fly out of a huge crack.