Angor felt his spirit walking in his consciousness space for several minutes. But when they left the space, only two seconds had passed in the real world.
The sense of time in reality and the sense of time in the Void of Consciousness were two completely different things.
The strange feeling of not matching the time made him feel a little absent-minded.
However, he already experienced the same thing when he went to see Laplace's real body. This time, he was only dazed for a split second, and he quickly returned to normal.
When Angor opened his eyes again, he found himself outside of his consciousness space.
They were floating in the air.
They were surrounded by crisscrossing streets in which supernatural beings of all shapes and sizes were walking back and forth.
About two meters below them, a stone golem was setting up a stall using a flying carpet.
About five meters above them, a group of people was watching a teacup head talking about the local products of Teluga City.
Angor and Laplace just happened to be in the center of such a three-dimensional street.
Busy tourists shuttled back and forth around them, but miraculously, no one paid any attention to them.
It was as if they didn't exist.
Also, no one was looking at the shiny silver mirror behind them.
The two of them were like ghosts that did not belong to this time and space, ignored by everyone.
"They can't see us. It looks like we've left the space, but we're still one level away from the real world, "Laplace explained when he saw the confusion in Angor's eyes.
For example, if the people outside were in dimension "1", they were in dimension "1.1".
They were close enough to see everything in the real world. But in reality, they were still 0.1 away.
As higher-level numbers, they could see everything from lower-level numbers. But the lower-level numbers couldn't go beyond 0.1 to see the higher-level ones.
This 0.1 was like an insurmountable chasm for other people.
Of course, this wasn't absolute. If someone could move their consciousness and look at them from the perspective of their own consciousness, they would still be discovered.
But such people either had special talents or were above legendary.
This was just one of the many stalls in Crystal City. Most of the people who set up stalls here were people who didn't belong to any race. No one could see them.
Because of this, the two of them and the glowing mirror behind them were ignored by the people around them.
"How are we supposed to contact Parrot if no one can see us?" Angor asked.
"Don't worry. I'll let the parrot see us." Laplace didn't say anything else.
Angor did not ask further.
Angor knew Laplace well enough to know that there were only two reasons why she did not explain. Either it involved some kind of secret, and it was not a good thing to know about it, or the knowledge was beyond Angor's comprehension, and explaining it would be pointless. It was just like how you couldn't tell a summer insect about the ice in winter. A summer insect couldn't understand what winter was, nor could it understand what ice was. Without such a concept, it couldn't imagine things beyond its knowledge.
Either way, it did not matter to him.
Since it was meaningless, there was no need to explain.
Under Laplace's guidance, they began to head towards the location of the parrot.
Angor did not notice the difference before they moved. But as soon as they moved, something changed.
It was as if the world around them was frozen. No, it was not frozen. The people around them were still moving, but their movements were slowed down countless times.
In Angor's vision, only his and Laplace's movements were normal. Everything else was slowed down.
It was as if he and Laplace were the real people, while everything around them was frozen in a black-and-white old movie.
However, this situation would only occur when they were moving. Once they stopped, the time flow around them would return to normal.
Was this the reason behind the time difference between his consciousness and the real world?
Angor didn't know the exact reason. He just made a mental note of this feeling so that he could study something similar in the future.
A while later, they arrived at the small mirror where Parrot was.
Inside the mirror was Peluxiu's shop, which included the parrot's shop.
However, when they entered the mirror, they saw that Peluxiu was inside, but the parrot was nowhere to be seen.
If they were in the real world, they might be able to use some spells to locate the parrot. But since they were inside "1.1", they couldn't cast spells through the mirror.
Laplace considered for a moment. "Let me ask Peluxiu."
Ask? Angor's eyes lit up. He wanted to see how Laplace interacted with the outside world as well.
However, Laplace's actions were completely baffling to Angor's eyes.
Laplace walked directly to the drowsy Store Manager Peluxiu. Her eyes flickered with a strange energy.
Store Manager Pelucci had been mumbling listlessly a second ago, but in the next second, he blinked and saw Laplace, who had suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Ah … Huh?! When did you come in? "Manager Peluxiu widened his eyes in shock. He looked at Laplace and Angor who were standing behind her.
"Just when you were dozing off," Laplace said in a flat tone.
Manager Peluxiu was surprised. Now that he thought about it carefully, he was indeed dozing off. There were no customers in the shop, and the invention rat he used to "train" and "wake up" was sold away, so he was even more bored.
Did he take a short nap?
In that case, these two people should have come in when he was dozing off … No wonder, no wonder.
Peluxiu did not doubt this explanation. He did not pay much attention to Laplace and Angor since they already came here before.
"You …" Peluxiu narrowed his eyes. "You're not here for Parrot too, are you?"
"Yes, we're here for something." Angor paused and asked, "You said 'too' just now. Did someone come looking for him too?"
Peluxiu rested his face on one hand and answered lazily, "Yeah. Someone came and asked him to leave."
Someone asked Parrot to leave? Angor frowned. "Do you know where the parrot went?"
Peluxiu gave Angor an annoyed look. "Why are you asking me that? Ask yourselves. "
"???" You're asking us? What do you mean?
Peluxiu: "Isn't the person who called him out the person who came with you earlier?"
Angor was surprised. "You mean …"
Peluxiu waved a hand. "The one who asked me if I had any music sheets to sell."
Both Angor and Laplace looked at each other in disbelief.
Without a doubt, Peluxiu was talking about Luigi.
But Angor knew that Luigi never asked Peluxiu to leave.
"Did you hear anything about where they went?" Angor tried to calm himself down.
Peluxiu shook his head. "I don't know. They talked about it in the cubicle. How should I know?"
"When did they leave?"
Peluxiu considered. "About an hour. Or maybe an hour and a half. They left for a long time."
As he spoke, Peluxiu muttered, "I don't know what the parrot is thinking. It actually packed all the goods. It seems like it's going to follow your companion on a long trip."
Laplace gave Angor a look, which meant they should talk outside.
Angor quickly understood and followed Laplace out of the shop.
When Peluxiu looked up again, he saw Laplace and Angor gone. He didn't mind. "Boring. I hate freeloaders. Next time, I won't complain if you don't buy something."
…
On the other side of the street, Angor and Laplace arrived at the stall area.
"Someone pretended to be Luigi and took Parrot away," Laplace said in a low voice.
This wasn't a question or a negotiation. It was a statement.
As for why Parrot trusted Luigi, it was probably because Luigi used the excuse of "taking Parrot away" to convince Parrot. After all, they had signed a contract with Parrot, which stated that they would take Parrot away as soon as possible.
Parrot didn't doubt "Luigi" who came to fulfill the contract. This also explained why Parrot packed up his belongings as if he was going somewhere far away.
This was because he was indeed going on a long journey. Furthermore, in the parrot's opinion, there was a high probability that this was a one-way ticket that would never return.
"What should we do now?"
"Find Parrot," Laplace said after a moment of silence.
Laplace agreed with Angor's suggestion to stay out of this matter. However, someone pretended to be Luigi and tricked Parrot, which meant they had something to do with it.
No matter who it was, Laplace couldn't accept someone who pretended to be "Luigi" to trick Parrot.
Angor also saw the dissatisfaction in Laplace's eyes, and he agreed. If someone could pretend to be Luigi this time, they could do it again next time.
But now, there was a real problem. "How are we going to find Parrot? And the imposter? "
"That won't be hard."
As he spoke, Laplace pointed his finger in the air, and a blue sand table with the Crystal City as the main body appeared in front of them.
On this sand table, there were six coordinates that were emitting bright light.
He quickly understood what Laplace was trying to say.
These six coordinates were the places where the aura of the Blood of Gods was the thickest, which Little Red had detected earlier.
Three of them were in the Free Trade Market, which was the stall area where they were now. The other three were in other places outside the stall area.
Earlier, he thought that the only bright spots outside the stall area were the traces of Parrot's aura lingering in those areas.
But now, it seemed that Parrot was taken away by the fake "Luigi", and the spots were tainted with the aura of the fake "Luigi".
If that was the case, Parrot should be in one of these spots, or somewhere nearby.
"I see," Angor said. "Let's check the spots one by one."
Laplace nodded.
Since Angor needed Laplace's help to move around in his mind, they couldn't split up and had to check the spots together.
They spent less than two minutes in the Void of Consciousness — in the outside world, it might not even take half a second — to complete the search for the coordinates of three of the stalls.
Nothing.
Parrot wasn't in the market right now, so it must be in one of the other three spots.
Angor and Laplace entered the real space of consciousness again. Even if they didn't move, the outside world would still move slowly.
This was the best place to communicate. They didn't need to worry about wasting time.
Angor and Laplace considered the remaining three spots and found that they could connect them together to form a path. One of the coordinates closest to the stall area was an unknown area. As for the other two coordinates, one was in the corridor that connected to the Crystal City, and the other was in an unknown circular castle.
If they started from the market and drew a line to connect the remaining three spots, the final destination would be … the unknown circular castle.
If Parrot was tricked, he would end up at one of the levels of the castle.
"Are we going straight to the castle?" Angor asked.
Laplace considered. "Let's check the spots one by one. They're all on the same line anyway. It won't take us too much time."
Angor agreed with Laplace's decision. The so-called "drawing a line" was just an illusion. Who knows if this is really the case?
If it wasn't, they would miss it.
It was troublesome to check the spots one by one, but they wouldn't miss anything.
Laplace led Angor on their way again. Inside the space of consciousness, countless light spots surrounded Angor like stars and pushed him further and further away.
After an unknown amount of time, Angor returned to the "1.1" interface.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw that he was still in the "market area", but not the one they were in before.
If he wasn't mistaken, this should be the "unknown area".
"Unknown" meant that they didn't know much about the layout of Crystal City, nor did they know the name of the place. That was why they named it "Unknown Area". It didn't mean that the place was mysterious.
From the looks of it, the "unknown area" where the first set of coordinates was located was the new stall area.
Maybe Parrot came here for a stroll? Of course, it was also possible that Parrot was tricked by the fake Luigi and wanted to "leave the Mirror Domain" with him.
(End of Chapter)
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