White Flame showed great interest in Lil Pea, but Hao Ren did not have time to explain to her how the Sacred Relic of Origins turned a fish into a pure-blooded demon-hunting fish. White Flame had led him to the largest fissure.
On top of the large palace closest to the Netherrealm Clock Tower, there was an open half-moon platform. This platform was the place where the demon army and the Council of Elders had repeatedly fought over. Powerful demonic and magic forces had left many indelible marks on the platform. Some distorted energy aberrations, which looked like spiritual creatures, wandered around the platform. The demon hunters who were responsible for cleaning the battlefield had set up a huge capture device on the edge of the platform to eliminate these aberrations. Hao Ren saw a huge, lavender crack across the platform. It was the "weird phenomenon" that White Flame mentioned.
"This thing doesn't look like an ordinary spatial fissure."
Hao Ren landed on the platform. After making sure the environment was safe, he approached the fissure to observe. The fissure was about 30 meters long and five meters wide. The main part of the fissure looked like it had been cut by a sharp knife, and there were many irregular cracks extending from the edges of the fissure. A kind of lavender light was surging in the fissure, sometimes real, sometimes illusory, making it hard to tell whether it was real or just an illusion. The light also prevented anyone from peeking into the fissure. Hao Ren took out an elven rapier from his dimensional pocket and tried to stab it into the lavender light curtain. The blade went straight through, but it did not enter some so-called alien dimension. He bent down and found that the tip of the rapier came out from the back of the fissure.
Was this' spatial fissure 'actually just a layer of light and shadow?
"Just a layer of shadow?" Lily squatted down and looked at the rapier that came out from the other side of the fissure. "It doesn't lead anywhere."
"No, look carefully," White Flame said, pointing at the tip of the rapier that Hao Ren was observing. "The length of the rapier is a little shorter, and it's a little tilted to the side. This means that there is actually something inside the purple crack. There should be a layer of folded space inside, and it should be at a certain angle with the real space. "
Hao Ren took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. He was using an Aerymian short sword with a blade of about 50 centimeters long. But when he inserted the rapier into the purple fissure, the blade that emerged from the other end was only 40 centimeters long. Part of the blade was obviously in another dimension.
Lily rolled her eyes and thought for a moment. "That's easy. Just throw a small detector in. If you're afraid of losing it, just tie it with a rope. As long as the size of the camera is smaller than the folded space, you'll be able to see what's going on inside."
Although the husky looked dumb and silly most of the time, she actually had a lot of ideas, and most of the time, her ideas were good.
"I've tried," White Flame said, shaking her head. "The conclusion is that any observation of the inside of the crack will cause it to shift, and this shift is instantaneous. Originally, the crack was located in the temple square below, but after the investigators threw a few cameras into it, it came to this place. We're worried that if we do this a few more times, it will cause the crack to move to a more unpredictable location, so we temporarily stopped the experiment. "
"It can move?" Hao Ren was surprised. "Heh … this sounds even more unusual than an ordinary space crack."
"What other properties does this thing have?" Vivian asked curiously.
White Flame nodded. "There are many strange properties. For example, it has been continuously releasing a trace amount of radiation. It is not affected by any external energy. Its size will change over time. It will expand by 10% every two hours, and then it will shrink again in the next two hours. But these properties are not very important to me, and there is no way to explain its nature. "
Hao Ren nodded and took out the MDT to let it examine the strange crack. At the same time, he asked casually, "How did these things appear? Were there any witnesses at the time? Were there any noteworthy phenomena before and after it appeared? "
"It appeared suddenly, without warning," White Flame replied. "Two demon hunters witnessed the moment when the crack appeared, but they only saw it suddenly appear. There was no useful information. So far, dozens of such cracks have appeared around the Netherrealm Clock Tower. They are of different shapes and sizes, and apart from their sudden appearance, they did not cause any problems. These things are like shadows, simply floating in the air. "
Hao Ren smacked his lips. "To tell you the truth, you should have informed me earlier. You know that I'm investigating this."
White Flame spread out her hands. "This kind of thing may be strange 'outside', but in Coldpath … all kinds of anomalies in this ancient ruin are commonplace, especially the weird things in space and time. We are numb to it."
As she said that, she smiled awkwardly. "Also, with so many energy nodes stopped working during the war, and the wandering Mana on the battlefield, these are factors that can easily cause spatial tears, so even my mentor did not pay attention to the situation of these rifts at first."
Hao Ren was startled. At last, he could only sigh. "You guys are so open-minded."
These people had been on the battlefield for a long time and were not afraid of death. They had lived in Coldpath for generations, and now they were not afraid of a space-time rift that suddenly appeared in front of their house. How could they not be afraid of it?
At this time, the MDT had circled around the 'space-time crack' several times. Suddenly, it flew up to White Flame. "Tell me the location of all the other cracks. I want to examine them one by one."
"What did you find?" Hao Ren and White Flame asked in unison.
"This is indeed a space-time crack, but it is not natural at all," the MDT said quickly. "There are very complex encryption traces. I think we need to sort out the pattern of other space-time cracks before we can crack their encryption algorithm."
Hao Ren was stunned. "Encryption? Are you saying that this thing is man-made? "
Without waiting for the MDT to answer, Hao Ren suddenly realized what it meant: these 'cracks' were probably left behind by the goddess of creation in Coldpath.
At first, he thought the same as White Flame, that the previous fierce battle had destroyed the balance of Coldpath's energy nodes, and coupled with the demonic energy's catalysis, led to so many distorted cracks in this unstable space. But now the MDT's discovery pointed to a new conjecture: perhaps these 'cracks' had existed for a long time, and they were specially created by the goddess of creation, but they had been hidden by some mechanism. Perhaps the previous battle had triggered some preset program by accident, causing these cracks to surface.
These thoughts flashed across Hao Ren's mind. He quickly calmed down and turned to White Flame. "You said there are dozens of such cracks?"
"This is just a conservative estimate," White Flame replied immediately. "We have found dozens of cracks, but there are still some badly damaged palaces that have not been cleaned up. Some places with high concentration of magic energy are still inaccessible. I'm afraid there are cracks in those places too."
Hao Ren nodded. With a wave of his hand, he opened his Dimensional Pocket. A swarm of shiny, tentacle-waving autonomous robots flew out. These autonomous robots pushed and shoved each other around, waiting for Hao Ren's command.
"It's too slow to check them one by one. MDT, I will transfer control of these autonomous robots to you. You can command them to check the cracks in other places. White Flame, please gather some people and take these robots to look for the cracks you have already found. "
No one had any objection to Hao Ren's arrangement. White Flame raised her hand and fired a signal flare into the air above the temple. After a bright silver-white flame flashed, dozens of elite demon hunters in black appeared silently on the platform.
"Each of you, take one of these … err … robotic tentacles and go to the distorted cracks," White Flame commanded her senior investigators. "Rockman and Tonna, you two go and gather the special service members of the Temple of the Twin Towers. Ask them to check the area that was cleared yesterday. If I'm not mistaken, the magic energy concentration there should have dropped. Send someone in to see if there are cracks there. If there are, report back immediately. Also … "
White Flame quickly issued the orders. It was obvious that she was not as experienced as her mentor, but she still showed good leadership ability and momentum. In time, she would grow into an excellent demon hunter as good as Hasse.
However, Hao Ren still had some objections. "These are not robot tentacles. They are called autonomous robots."
White Flame was speechless.
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