When the illusionary lights lit up and the phantom-like spiders surged, Gwen simply watched in silence.
He knew that the spiders were coming with a vengeance, and it was very likely that they had some strange power from the Narrators. However, Yuri and Magnum were archbishops of the Eternal Sleeper. As long as they were serious, they could hold on for a long time.
Besides, Selena Geerfen, the 'Mind Protector' who had already broken through legendary, was here. The situation would not get out of control.
As for Gwen himself … Of course, he was not doing nothing.
From the moment he entered Sandbox One, he had spread out his spirit and sensed everything in this world. Although this sandbox world was so realistic, it was still essentially a dream world. And in such a dream world, 'spiritual power' was more active and effective than any other situation.
At first, he did not notice anything. What came from the edge of his Spiritual Detection were all normal simulated senses. Even when Duarte and Narelatil appeared, he did not sense anything out of place from them. But when the spiders appeared, the lights were turned on, and the "abnormal" things appeared in this "normal" city, he finally sensed the deep disconnection and dissonance of this world.
Magnum heard Gwen's mumbling and could not help but exclaim, "What did you find?!"
"We have always thought that the biggest anomaly in this sandbox world was the disappearance of all the residents, but in fact … the real situation is more complicated than that, and it is right under our noses." Gwen said unhurriedly. He slowly opened his hands, and some bizarre fragments began to appear abruptly beside him. The shadows of spiders that were growing in the gaps between light and shadow seemed to be stimulated and surged crazily in an instant, as if trying to stop Gwen's next move.
But Gwen had already done what he wanted to do.
The chaotic and meaningless fragments of history surged out with him at the center, turning into turbulence that ordinary human minds could not handle and washing everything around him. The speed of the turbulence was even faster than Magnum's psionic storm and the lights that covered the entire city and even the entire world.
These were historical fragments that had never appeared in Sandbox No. 1. They were unfamiliar data that had never been processed by the entire mental network. Some of them were even "knowledge" and "concepts" that the Eternal Sleepers who created the mental network had never heard of.
They were malignant bugs to this entire world.
The entire city shook, the entire desert shook, and in the end, the entire space shook.
In the depths of the desert far away from Nim Sanjo, on top of a mountain peak that stood in the yellow sand like an inverted limb, Duwalter tried his best to maintain his balance in the constantly shaking space. He watched the desert and the city in the distance quickly fall apart, exposing the real world under the cover of the illusion — the ruins of a withered world. His old face was full of shock. "How did he find out … How did he do it … These incomprehensible things are …"
As Duwalter muttered to himself, Naretil, who had been sitting on the ground looking at the stars, seemed to have woken up from a dream. She suddenly stood up and stared blankly at the night sky above the city of Nim Sanjo in the distance. A silver-white light was reflected in her clear green eyes.
"What a beautiful … big star."
Duwalter followed Naretil's gaze and saw the unfamiliar celestial body hanging high in the sky.
It was clear and bright, brighter than any star, but colder and smaller than the sun. It sprinkled a flawless light, and under its light, the layer of 'false curtain' covering the surface of the world collapsed at an even faster speed.
"What's that?"
…
"What's that?!"
Magnum looked at the strange celestial body that suddenly appeared in the sky in shock. He looked at the silver plate that was many times smaller than the sun but still able to light up the night sky. He saw the sky around the silver plate quickly filled with cracks as if the whole world was cracking with it as the center. He was at a loss for words.
"It's called the 'Moon,'" Gwen said with a smile. "It doesn't exist in this world."
Gwen did not use the word 'moon' that existed in this world. Instead, he used the language he knew in his past life to pronounce the word 'moon', which sounded very strange to Magnum.
There was no celestial body called the 'moon' in this world. If one had to find a similar concept, there was only the 'moon position' that was conceived by mages during rituals to symbolize the position of the Goddess of Magic, and the word 'moon' that was used to distinguish the six phases of the year in the calendar.
These two words actually had nothing to do with the 'moon.' It was Gwen who translated them into 'moon' in his mind.
In the real world, he looked up at the night sky countless times, but all he saw was a moonless, unfamiliar starry sky.
Thanks to this sandbox world, he bathed in the moonlight for the first time in countless years. Although the moonlight was fake and even a fatal BUG in this sandbox world.
Yuri looked at Gwen's happy smile in horror under the light of the strange celestial body. There was only one thought in his mind.
The terrifying extraterrestrial wanderer had used some loophole in the rules to summon a celestial body from his hometown, and this celestial body obviously had a very terrible power. Its existence alone was enough to tear the world apart. The extraterrestrial wanderer and his hometown were indeed very terrifying.
Then he was very glad. Fortunately, this was only a sandbox world, and the extraterrestrial wanderer could only summon a projection …
At this moment, the shaking and disintegration of the whole world finally stopped.
The sandbox system barely recovered its balance under the impact of this terrible BUG. As Gwen expected, the flood of false data he created alone was not enough to destroy the whole 'world', but he had achieved the effect he wanted.
Destroy the 'curtain' that covered the real world.
Selena looked around and found that everything had changed.
The deserted city of Nim Sanjo in the middle of the desert was gone. Even the entire desert had turned into a dry and cracked wasteland. The lights and spiders from before had disappeared like a dream. In their place were countless crumbling city walls, mismatched fortresses, imbalanced mountains and rivers, and layers upon layers of city ruins. These things were like abandoned models that were randomly piled up on the endless plains, all the way to the end of the line of sight, all the way to the edge of the world.
The world was abandoned, and the things that were once used to make up everything had become a disordered garbage dump, placed on the ruins of the world and slowly rotting.
"This is …" Magnum muttered softly.
"After the end of the world." Yuri frowned. "This is … the real sandbox?"
"On this real world, there is a false curtain. The previous exploration team failed to see through this curtain, and gradually eroded in the endless battle with the phantoms. The so-called 'fighting with themselves' in their memory is probably a false memory instilled in them by the curtain," Gwen said slowly as his eyes gradually moved up and fell on the huge shadow in the distance. "And now the most critical question is, the narrator from above …"
The earth in the distance bulged, forming a structure that looked like a spiral tower or a conical hill, and an incomparably huge body was quietly crawling on its waist.
It was a black spider, or some kind of 'creature' similar to a spider. It … or it should be said that its scale was beyond human understanding, almost as big as a hill. Countless shadowy patterns covered its carapace and limbs, and those patterns seemed to be alive and were still moving.
Cold moonlight shone down from the sky, sprinkling on the surface of the huge spider, making this huge 'monster' not look scary, but had a sense of holiness and majesty.
And the spider lay quietly in the moonlight, as if it had been dead for a century.
A faint but pervasive stench of decay filled the world, lingering on the plains after the end of the world.
God was dead, and had rotted.
Magnum looked into the distance and his gaze landed on the gigantic spider. In the next second, he felt as if his soul was about to be pulled out of his body. Every cell in his body felt as if they were about to mutate, and the feeling of being wrapped in layers of invisible threads quickly drowned out his senses. It was as if they were trying to control his thoughts and prevent him from opening his mouth to scream.
The red-haired archbishop instantly realized what had happened — he was contaminated by the narrator from above!
"Damn it!" Magnum struggled to resist the spiritual erosion and used all his strength to divert his eyes from the huge spider. Then, he quickly dispelled the 'foreign spirit' that had begun to modify his consciousness, and said with difficulty, "Be careful of contamination!"
A bright and warm light lit up next to them, quickly reducing the pressure on Magnum and Yuri. Selena Geer, holding a lantern, stepped forward and blocked the influence of the narrator from above. At the same time, she subconsciously looked at Gwen. "Extraterritorial wanderer, that is …"
"It is indeed the narrator from above." Gwen's eyes fell on the huge divine spider in the distance, and his tone was indescribably complicated. "It looks like it has been dead for a long time …"
"He's dead, he's really dead …" Magnum had cast enough mental defenses on himself, but he still did not dare to look directly at the massive corpse of the god. He muttered in disbelief, "He's really dead?!"
"At least that's what it looks like." Gwen frowned. "And it looks like … it's really a god."
The spider lying on the hillside had indeed possessed some of the characteristics of a god — powerful spiritual erosion. It could not be looked at directly, and it could not be touched. Even though it had turned into a corpse, it was still very dangerous to approach it without any protection. Even a high-ranking powerhouse like Magnum was almost deeply contaminated when he first came into contact with it.
Even though there might be a difference between the narrator from above and a real god in terms of the specific 'intensity of contamination,' Gwen had reason to believe that the huge spider had indeed embarked on the path of a god.
It was not until this moment that he finally confirmed some of his previous speculations about the god …
As for Gwen himself, as expected, the contamination of the narrator from above was also ineffective on him.
This allowed him to calmly observe the huge spider in the distance for a long time before he slowly withdrew his gaze.
"Can you still hold on?"
"I've recovered." Magnum let out a long sigh. "I've suppressed a part of my spiritual power to prevent it from unconsciously attracting external contamination, and I still remember this —"
As he spoke, he reached out his hand and outlined a complex rune pattern in the air. The pattern was curved and had the breath of the deep sea. It was the 'siren rune' that Gwen had given to the eternal sleepers as a gift.
"The contamination came too fast, I didn't have time to construct the rune," Magnum said with a wry smile. He then turned the rune into a fixed light and imprinted it on his clothes, forming a special 'mental protection layer'. "… Phew, I feel much better now. When should we dig … No, nothing. "
Yuri and Selena also constructed the siren rune and formed a mental protection layer around themselves. After doing all this, Yuri shook his head with a helpless and bitter smile on his face. "So this is looking directly into the eyes of a god … Mortals are so fragile, almost dying just like that."
"Gods can also die." Gwen pointed at the huge spider in the distance under the moonlight. "And they are already dead."
Magnum carefully glanced at the conical hill in the distance. After confirming that the siren rune could indeed help him resist the spiritual contamination of the narrator, he dared to look up. "Are we going to … that thing over there?"
Gwen nodded matter-of-factly and turned towards the hill. "Of course, didn't we come for that?"
Magnum smacked his lips and shook his head. As he stepped forward to catch up with Gwen, he muttered to Yuri, "Damn it … Maybe I should have borrowed a pen and paper from you before we go …"
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