Chapter 40: Conjecture
The forest is still the same forest.
But in the direction of the ocean, you can only see a white mountain range that spreads into the sky.
Chen Ye was very puzzled.
Why do the two see the world differently?
He turned his head to look at Li Ranran, and said with a serious expression: "I remember that you sent a distress message to Lu Ze yesterday, mentioning that you entered the temple, and you also climbed a round tower and hid in the corner at the top of the tower, is that so?" ”
"That's right, isn't there a round pagoda with wind chimes hanging outside, and a big Buddha in the middle of the town?"
Li Ranran responded with a strange expression.
The two girls standing next to them nodded in agreement.
At this time, Lin Zimo and Lu Ze, who were not far away, invariably showed puzzled expressions.
Lu Ze even stepped forward and touched Li Ranran's forehead, and said with concern: "Did you get drenched in the rain the day before yesterday, get sick and have a fever, and burned your brain?" ”
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Li Ranran was a little inexplicable, so there was a little anger in her tone: "I'm not sick, and I don't have a fever!" ”
Chen Ye looked at the more than ten spires standing outside the window, and his expression became more and more solemn.
"You may not believe it when you say it, but the two of us don't see the same scene!"
Li Ranran didn't understand what he was talking about, just stared at her puzzled eyes, as if she couldn't accept this fact.
To better illustrate this situation, Chen Ye looked around and finally focused on the arched window.
"What shape is this window in?"
Li Ranran said firmly: "Square! ”
As he spoke, he reached for the frame of the window.
But when it came to the arch of the top of the window, her hand was on the air.
He even patted it vigorously, as if there was something real over there.
Chen Ye's eyes were slightly cold, and he also stretched out his hand and put it on the vault of the window.
In the perspective of Li Ranran and the other two girls, his hand passed directly through the wall!
"Is this a hallucination?"
Tang Qiuya, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but exclaim.
Then, everyone in the attic fell silent.
Is this new town a fantasy or a dream?
Or is it a parallel space that overlaps and entangles?
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Ye didn't dare to give a definite answer.
He took out the Kunyu map and the resource detector, hoping to get some clues.
However, the dynamic landform shown by the Kunyu map and the radar images transmitted by the resource detector are still the same as those seen before, without any difference.
He walked to the fire with his arms folded, and looked at the flames that were jumping in the fire, and fell into deep suspicion.
According to previous conjectures, no illusion can randomly simulate something that has physical rules and is logical.
But what if this was a fantasy that could 100% simulate reality?
It is even said that all of them were captured in the dreams of some high-level life form, and then their spirit and reason were constantly eroded, and finally they became a shell without soul and consciousness!
If it were multiple overlapping and entangled parallel spaces, the situation would be even more terrifying.
Hopefully, all of them will be lost in different time and space, and they will never be able to return to their original planet Terra.
When the time comes, don't say anything about doomsday survival, you can just start interstellar travel directly!
The more Chen Ye thought about it, the more frightened he felt, and immediately gathered everyone to sit around and began to exchange what he saw and heard in the town, hoping to find a way to break the situation.
Li Ranran and the other two girls talked about their experiences first.
From the flash flood destroying the safe house and the separation of his companions, it is told all the way to entering the ruins of the town to escape the heat disaster.
They wanted to wait until the third day to leave, but a group of "aliens" with fire on their bodies poured into the town, completely blocking the way out.
Chen Ye also talked about the strange encounter of the team: "After we stepped into the ruins of the town, the whole town seemed to come to life, the streets were bustling, and the collapsed buildings became new and complete. ”
"We fought a bunch of mutants not too long ago, and it seemed like fire was the only way to burn them to death."
"By the way, after the mutation, we can't get in touch with the outside world."
When Li Ranran heard this, she also mentioned all kinds of strange things that happened here:
"When we first arrived, the place was very shabby, and it was a completely deserted old town."
"However, after we hid in the temple in the town, everything changed, the ancient town returned to prosperity, and the streets were full of people, especially the big Buddha in the middle of the town, as if it was alive!"
"And last night, there was a burst of chanting from the Buddha statue, and it was at that time that we completely cut off contact with the outside world."
"Last night?" Chen Ye groaned.
He recalled the scene of the cloud beasts besieging the ruins of the town last night, and asked:
"Have you ever seen a cloud beast, just one that looks like an owl but has a transparent body?"
The three girls shook their heads in unison, obviously unaware of the monster that Chen Ye was talking about.
"However, all the monks in the town left for the city last night, but most of them never returned."
"What is a monk?" Hearing the new situation, Chen Ye became even more confused.
"It's the aliens who are on fire." Li Ranran explained.
Chen Ye was puzzled: "Why do you call them monks, is it because of the temple?" ”
"It's not just a temple!"
Li Ranran hurriedly shook her head and added, "Those aliens entered the temple and stupa and stayed overnight, and when they came out again, they were wearing a yellow robe, so we called them 'monks'. ”
"Yes, that's right, dress like the monks in the Lingtan Temple next to our school!" Tang Qiuya echoed from the side, "It's just that the appearance is very terrifying, some have four hands, and some are covered with tentacles......"
Hearing these words, Chen Ye immediately got up, pointed to the wildebeest fur and giant shark scale armor on his body, and asked:
"What do you think of all this equipment we wear?"
As he spoke, he also took out some resources such as dragon wood, red birch, and alligator shark jerky.
Li Ranran and the other two girls described the items in front of them in detail in turn.
"You are covered in white animal fur and a set of gray-brown armor underneath."
"On the ground, there's a pile of red wood, then purple wood, and a pile of dried tofu ...... on the left."
Hearing their words, Chen Ye made a surprising discovery.
Anything that has been processed or strengthened, these three girls can see the original appearance.
The original and unprocessed materials have become a different appearance in their eyes.
Chen Ye looked at the fire dragon wood in his hand, and a strange thought appeared in his heart.
The scale armor and dragon wood are products that do not belong to this forest, so they still maintain their original appearance.
Perhaps it is also because of this characteristic that Li Ranran can recognize Lu Ze, instead of seeing him as a "monk" with a strange shape.
"Not a ...... of this forest"
Reflecting the firelight, Chen Ye's eyes flickered slightly.
While he was thinking, Xu Luyao, who had been silent, interjected: "When we hid in this pagoda before, we looked down through the cover, and many injured monsters got into the room, and when they came out after a while, the wounds on their bodies had healed. ”
"And that kind of thing?" Chen Ye glanced at the ordinary attic and was puzzled.
Li Ranran, who was sitting on the side, lifted her trousers without saying a word, revealing the wound on her calf.
"While walking through the forest, we were chased by the snake-tailed Rafflesia, and although we escaped from the pursuit, I was accidentally injured by the snake-like vines."
"The wound was very deep, I thought it would be life-threatening due to excessive blood loss, but after entering the pagoda, the wound recovered quickly, no, it was very fast! It was healed in almost a night! “
Chen Ye looked down at her white calf, and found that there was a pale red scar at the location of her calf.
He was a little surprised.
Because two days ago, he had a cut on his arm with a stone axe.
It took two days to absorb the essence of life before he gradually recovered.
Could it be that these minarets can provide a constant supply of life to the creatures that live inside?
Chen Ye sat cross-legged on the slightly damp floor, lost in thought.
A fire ignites at the edge of the forest, and a large number of fiery aliens flood into the town's ruins.
Mutants who have come back from the dead, aliens in robes.
In addition, there are songs ringing in the ears and the sound of chanting coming from the Buddha statue.
It all seems to be connected somehow.
Chen Ye, who was thinking about the problem, subconsciously rubbed the floor, feeling the wooden texture composed of a large number of mycelium.
The next second, he suddenly looked startled.
He seems to have been misled.
Because when Chen Ye was exploring at the edge of the forest before, he saw moving vines.
Therefore, it is preconceived that the mysterious creatures hidden in the depths of the forest are also vine-like life forms.
But combined with the winding traces seen in the scorched earth area, the inexplicable resurrection of the dead, and the peculiarly constructed buildings in the town.
Chen Ye had a bold conjecture.
Could the mysterious boss hidden in the shadows be some kind of super fungal community?
Take the fungus on the blue star as an example, they can not only cause hallucinations, but also parasitize the animal's body, controlling and even taking over the animal's central nervous system.
And when it comes to an abundant and endless source of life, what kind of organism can be more alive than fungi?
Wherever the mycelium goes, everything grows!
Lin Zimo, who was sitting on the side, saw Chen Ye's strange appearance and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”
Chen Ye looked up at everyone, his expression was very ugly.
"We might be in big trouble!"