Hao Ren and Lily could not get away in time when the black mist surged up.
It was almost unimaginable. For Hao Ren, his body and mind had been tempered and strengthened far beyond the human realm, so he was very confident in his current reaction speed. Lily, on the other hand, had a beast-like intuition, and all the magic idiot's talent was in physical ability. She could be said to be the strongest in terms of agility and reaction speed in Hao Ren's team. However, it was these two superhumans with astonishing reaction speed who were engulfed by the surging black fog before they could even put up any resistance.
When the black mist shrouded him, Hao Ren felt the space and time around him instantly distorted. A strange sense of time stretching gave him the illusion that all his actions were extremely slow. He watched himself being swallowed up by the darkness and could not even move a finger. He felt as if his spirit had been separated from the real world. This situation was unprecedented, and it was inexplicable.
From the corner of his eye, he saw Lily slowly turning her head in his direction. The husky maiden's every movement seemed to be slow and ridiculous. She opened her mouth, and there was a look of complete confusion in her eyes.
The next moment, the dizziness of the world spinning interrupted all his thoughts.
The two of them disappeared into the rolling black fog, and the interior of the ancient and mysterious building was restored to its original state in an instant. The peeled reliefs and murals were restored to their original state, and the cracked walls were restored to their original state. The darkness at the bottom of the building surged for a while before disappearing into thin air, as if there had never been a spatial rift there in the first place.
Starlight from distant space shone through the rift below the temple and cast on the mottled ancient murals. The galaxy was silent as if it was covering all the secrets here.
The people on the Petrachelys immediately saw what happened in the temple through various monitoring devices. At that moment, there was a strong energy interference in the temple, but Nolan filtered out the noise in time and transmitted the images inside. The sudden "disappearance" of Hao Ren and Lily and the evaporation of the spatial rift caused a sudden uproar on the bridge. Vivian was the first to scream. "Ah —"
"Relocating the beacon," the MDT instantly projected a large number of complex data charts. "Beacon location failed … Encountered unknown interference. Confirming the life status of the inspector … normal. "
"It seems that they are not in danger," Y 'zaks breathed a sigh of relief. "But can you contact them?"
"I'm trying," the MDT said as it mobilized the channel resources of the Petrachelys and the nearest outpost. "The two of them seemed to have just passed through a spatial distortion point, but this thing is too strange … There is no record of such a form of spatial barrier in my database … Now only the life detection is normal. This is the highest authority information link, and it is not interfered with."
Nangong Sanba frowned. "Can you find a way to open the spatial rift again?"
Nolan nodded. "I'll try."
The Petrachelys released a shipborne engineering probe. The probe followed the route that Hao Ren and Lily entered to the bottom of the temple. But now there was nothing there. The strange murals had returned to normal, and the black fog had disappeared. There was only a big hole at the bottom of the temple, leading to space.
A probe stopped at the place where Hao Ren and Lily disappeared. The probe recorded the spatial data of the last moment and uploaded the data to the engineering probe. But now the data was useless.
"The spatial anomaly has disappeared," Nolan said with a puzzled voice. "I have never seen such a phenomenon. MDT, still can't contact the captain and Lily? "
"All the effective channels have been interfered with, and the level of interference is quite high," the MDT's voice was unusually serious. "I'm afraid …"
Vivian suddenly panicked. "Afraid of what?"
"They have fallen into some kind of relic left by the goddess of creation. Maybe it's a boundary, or something else," the MDT said slowly. "Only a seal left by a true god can reach this level. In this universe, there are not many things that can interfere with me, and divinity is one of them."
Vivian clutched the console in front of her so tightly that her knuckles turned slightly white. "What should we do?"
"The life monitoring channel is still open, which means that there are still loopholes in the barrier here. And the spiritual connection between me and Hao Ren is special. It will not be so easily blocked. It's just that the channel suddenly encountered external divine interference, and the channel needs some time to adapt," the MDT's voice calmed everyone down. "Everyone calm down and return to your positions. My database has a self-regulation plan to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations."
When everyone was quiet, Vivian gritted her teeth. "In short, the priority now is to restore contact with Hao Ren, and then … he may need help. MDT, can you summon the nearby droid swarms over? Maybe they can help. "
The MDT "looked" at Vivian in surprise. The blue light on its surface flickered slightly. "That's a good suggestion. I'll start planning."
While the Petrachelys began to formulate a series of response plans, Hao Ren had been floating in the darkness for a long time. He felt as if he was passing through a boundless void. Although he could not tell the direction and distance, he could always feel that he was still moving. In the darkness, he could vaguely see strange lights and shadows flashing in the distance. It was as if he saw ancient mountains, and also land, rivers, and islands floating in the void. These things were connected by a mysterious flow of light, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Hao Ren turned his head and looked around, but he could no longer see Lily's golden eyes flashing in the darkness. Not long after falling into the darkness, he was separated from the husky maiden. Perhaps the space turbulence had sent the two to different places.
Hopefully, that idiot was okay.
Just as these thoughts flashed through his mind, the darkness ahead of him suddenly changed.
A hazy glimmer appeared at the end of the chaos. The glimmer expanded rapidly and turned into a hole in the blink of an eye. Before Hao Ren could adjust his posture, he had already fallen hard on a stone floor.
"Bang!"
A dull sound broke the silence of the ancient temple for thousands of years. A cloud of dust rose in the center of the temple hall, and a violent cough came from the dust. Hao Ren got up from the ground with his face covered in dust. Only then did he have time to look around.
He found himself in a wide circular hall. The hall was gloomy, but it was not completely dark. There was a dim light coming from somewhere that allowed him to see his surroundings clearly.
A circle of stone pillars was distributed on the edge of the hall, but it was not used to support the building. It seemed to be some kind of simple decorative function. Between the stone pillars, there was a statue in each gap, but most of the statues seemed to have collapsed.
Hao Ren rubbed his shoulder. He realized that the style of the hall was extraordinarily familiar, so he looked up.
Sure enough, there was no ceiling above the hall. The entire upper floor of the building seemed to have disappeared into thin air. When he looked up, he could directly see a dark, chaotic sky. Some broken stone chairs and metal objects floated above the hole, undulating in the air as if there was no gravity.
Other than that, the fracture above the hall looked neat and smooth, as if it was cut by an ax.
There was no doubt that this was the lower half of the missing 'Space Temple'.
Hao Ren calmed himself down and began to try to contact the Petrachelys, but there was no response. So he opened the mental connection and called the MDT. This time, there was a faint response, but there was no meaningful signal.
Communication with the outside world had been cut off, and if his guess was right, he was now isolated from the outside world. The darkness that he had passed through before might be the result of some kind of space-time distortion.
Hao Ren shook his head. The severity of the situation was a little unexpected, but it did not make him panic. If it were a few years ago, he probably would not have been able to do this. But now he was different, and he naturally knew what to do in this situation.
Keep the communication link open, continue to call the MDT, the Petrachelys, and the drone cluster, and at the same time, check his current status.
There were no external injuries, and his mental world was stable. He was not affected by illusion, curse, shadow corrosion, and other negative states.
He then opened his dimensional pocket. The situation was not bad. The dimensional pocket could still be used as usual. After seeing the mountains of arms, supplies, and autonomous robots in the dimensional pocket, Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
His work stuff was all there, and he did not have to worry too much if something unexpected happened.
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