The sudden change in their surroundings had everyone on high alert. Hao Ren immediately took out his plasma spear and held it in front of him. "Is it a teleportation or an illusion?"
"There is no trace of mental interference. Detected a distortion of space and time. Confirmed to be some form of spatial change." The MDT quickly analyzed the data changes it had just recorded. "... But there is no trace of teleportation. We are still at the previous coordinates."
"The previous coordinates?" Hao Ren frowned. "Is this still the same place?"
The MDT speculated. "We have probably fallen into a space that overlaps with the real world. Our position has not changed."
Lily's ears suddenly pricked up. "Could it be that the 'boundary' that the ghost mentioned just now meant?"
Hao Ren shook his head. His eyes fell on the end of the corridor. "I'm not sure. Let's go there first. There seems to be someone there."
The long corridor was brightly lit. Framed portraits of people hung on the snow-white walls. In the ruins, Hao Ren had seen what these portraits looked like after they were burned. But now, it was as if time had turned back. He still could not see these portraits. Each portrait seemed to be shrouded in a hazy mist. A layer of constantly rotating white mist covered the photo frames. It looked extremely strange.
His eyes fell on the corner in front of him. He still remembered that there was a line of last words written in blood there. But now there was only a bare wall and a large decorative vase beside it.
There was a wooden door at the end of the corridor. The wooden door was ajar, and some light shone through. Voices came from behind the door.
A low male voice said, "... The human world seems to be in chaos again. The civilians of this country are hanging the nobles. Another collapse of order."
Then there was a young female voice. "They are always in chaos. It's normal. After all, they are a race with a very short lifespan. Whether it is social form or themselves, it is difficult to maintain stability for a long time."
Another young male voice said, "We don't have to care about this. The forces of the secular world can do nothing to us. I just came back from Paris. The branch of the church is busy hunting the werewolves. They should not have time to pay attention to such a distant place. "
The young female voice sounded relieved. "That's good. Facing them head-on is always..."
The conversation suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared. At this time, Hao Ren had just walked to the door.
Lily stepped forward and carefully peeked at the other side of the door. Then, she pushed the wooden door open.
Opposite him was a spacious room, furnished with comfortable velvet cushions and bright lamps. There was also an oak wine cabinet filled with drinks. It looked like a resting place, but there was no one inside.
"No one …" Hesperides muttered to herself. "I'm afraid that the voice just now was just an echo of the past recorded by time and space."
Vivian recalled the conversation that she had overheard. "Based on their tone, could it be that the family that lives here is not human?"
Hao Ren opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he suddenly heard a conversation from the other end of the corridor, and the voice sounded like it was getting closer.
The young male voice that Hao Ren had heard before appeared again. "I went to check on Hercules. He is in good spirits now, but he is troubled by nightmares. Some bad things are spreading in the village where he lives in seclusion, about nightmares and bloody murders."
The low male voice also appeared again. "Stories of the villagers. Most of them have confused the sound of the wind at night with their own dreams. We have checked the condition of the divine artifact before. It is still intact. Don't be as paranoid as those shallow humans. "
"Yes, Master Mohabben. But Hercules's situation is not optimistic. "
"I know. That time, he had drawn too much power from the divine artifact and brought that thing out. Although we have gotten rid of the long-term restraint, he has been contaminated. In the end, we are responsible for it. You go and get Sivir... "
The sound of the conversation came closer and even drifted slowly past Hao Ren's ears. But the corridor was still empty, and there was only sound. This situation could make an ordinary person's hair stand on end.
Fortunately, Hao Ren and his people were experienced and knowledgeable. They just felt that the situation here was a little strange. Except for Lily, who was angry and trying to suppress her tail, everything else was fine.
Vivian pinched her chin and said while thinking, "It seems that this family is a group of otherworldlings. I wonder if we can see the situation outside from here?"
Hao Ren immediately turned and walked to the gate of the mansion.
The heavy oak door was pushed open, and the situation outside the old house appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Everyone was dumbfounded.
Outside the mansion was a vast open space filled with gravel and gravel. The view in front of the mansion was wide and unobstructed. The forest vegetation had all disappeared. Although they could still tell from the terrain that this was the small hill in the forest from before, they could only see a wasteland now.
"Where are the trees?" Lily looked around in surprise. "Why does it look like the Gobi Desert?"
"Heterogenization..." Vivian bent down and grabbed a handful of gray gravel from the ground. The gravel fell from her fingertips and made a rustling sound. "Don't forget that this is a different dimension. Everything has mutated. This sand... I have never seen it anywhere on Earth."
"If I'm not mistaken, this mansion should be built on a spatial rift or a magic focus. It is located in two dimensions at the same time. Now the mansion in the real world has become a ruin, but this one in the other dimension is still intact. Because of the space-time stagnation, many things in it have been preserved, including the echoes of the past." As the caretaker of the Athens Sanctuary, Hesperides knew all kinds of phenomena in the different dimensions like the back of her hand. She felt the magic around her and said, "What we see should be the projection of the forest in the other dimension."
"But it's strange," Vivian interrupted.
"What's strange about it?" Hao Ren asked casually.
"Earth is a place where magic is very weak. The space is stable and the magic is thin. Except for those independent realms in the ancient Mythological Era, such as Coldpath, this kind of environment rarely appears naturally," Vivian explained. "Unless there is something that causes the space here to break and overlap, such as... that divine artifact."
As soon as Vivian's voice trailed off, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the sky.
Hao Ren looked up but did not see anything like lightning. Then he realized that it was the 'echoes' of the past.
Then, he heard heavy footsteps approaching from afar, as if a very tall person was walking towards the house. Even though he couldn't see anyone, he still heard the sound and came to the door, banging heavily on the oak door.
A few wet handprints appeared out of nowhere on the oak door.
"Hercules! Oh my God, what happened to you? "
A slightly familiar female voice rang out. Hao Ren took a closer look and suddenly realized that it was the mumbling ghost!
"It... it is breaking through the boundary..." An unusually hoarse and low voice came. "I... I dreamed that everything was burning, and the dark side of the universe was about to unfold... The boundary is becoming... very fragile..."
"Hercules, your body..."
"That fragment scratched me, or it controlled my mind and made me scratch myself." The hoarse voice sounded very weak. "Hurry up and prepare the ritual for me. I can still suppress it."
At this time, a calm male voice interrupted, seemingly coming from the corridor. "What's going on in the village?"
"... The house of the Green family has collapsed, crushed into powder by a powerful force."
"That thing has entered our real world?"
"Part of it, but soon it will be more than a part," Hercules said weakly.
"Hathaway, take Hercules to the tower first. I'm going to the village to check on the situation."
"Master Mohabben, but your body..."
"Don't worry, I'm just going to check on the situation," Master Mohabben said confidently. "Don't forget, I used to be the most powerful master demon hunter in this area!"
The echoes of the past gradually faded away, and the surroundings returned to silence.
Hao Ren and his friends looked at each other.
"Did I hear it wrong just now?" Lily's ears shook. "I'm a quadruplex! Am I hallucinating? "
Vivian turned her head to look at the mansion behind her with a strange expression on her face. "Yes, a group of demon hunters lives here!"
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