The cave entrance to the alternate dimension was located in the quarry, on a rock wall that was almost perpendicular to the mountain. There was a ten-meter-high "V" -shaped crack in the hard granite rock wall. The widest part of the crack was wide enough for three people to walk side by side. Around the rock wall, there was a lot of rubble and soil, and some damaged machinery was scattered in the open space. This should be the result of the "small-scale collapse."
"The management of this place is getting more and more problematic." Hessiana looked at the scene of the accident and could not help but shake her head. "Although the Hessianite Family is powerful, it is inevitable that they can't manage these people who are far away. The supervisor of this area used to be a down-to-earth guy. I gave him some of the power of the Blood Clan and extended his life by nearly a century. Now, even that guy is slacking off."
Two young vampires followed behind Hessiana. The female one asked, "Matriarch, do you want to replace the supervisor here?"
"No, not for the time being. Pero is still loyal. From the perspective of the accident, this incident is mainly the fault of the quarry foreman. Pero's subsequent handling of the matter did not make too many mistakes. His main problem is that he is not good at using people and supervising. You guys can give him a few reminders. I believe that kid will know what to do," Hessiana said and shook her head. "But if this continues, we will have to replace him."
There was no light in the cave, and the sunlight that shone in from the entrance was quickly left behind. There was only darkness in front of them. Since the accident, no one had entered the cave, and the people responsible for the follow-up investigation were the vampires of the Hessianite Family. They did not need any light in the dark, so the cave was still in its original state, not even a miner's lamp was installed.
Although darkness was not a problem for Hao Ren and his team, it was easy to miss some details in the overly dark environment. So, Lily summoned her Flamejoy and used the bright flames on its claws to illuminate the path ahead.
"So far, it should be a normal crack," Vivian said as she carefully observed the nearby rock wall. "It's dry. There are no signs of animals or plants. The lines of the rock body match each other. It's a whole piece of rock that has cracked open."
"This should require a lot of energy. It is not the result of a small-scale collapse," Lorissa said. "I just used magic to detect the strength of the mountain rocks. Coupled with the observation of the crack just now, I can confirm that the scale of the external collapse is indeed small. So the source of the mountain crack should be deep inside, and the energy is concentrated and instantaneous."
Vivian nodded. "It seems like the connection point between the alternate dimension and the real world is directly inside the mountain. The impact caused by the dimensional tremor is enough to produce such an effect."
Hao Ren took out the MDT and let it do a high-precision survey of the environment. The MDT floated in the air in front of the team, constantly projecting a blue beam to scan the surrounding rock walls and gravel. So far, it had not found any spatial distortion.
But it had detected an abnormal change in the gravitational readings in front.
"This is a typical 'continuous spatial distortion,'" the MDT said. "There are no obvious spatial cracks in the cave, but as we go deeper, the boundary between the alternate dimension and the main material world gradually becomes blurred. Everyone, stay alert. If you have any protective spells, use them first. We should have already entered this strange space. "
The cave in the rock wall was not very deep, and it was almost a straight path. Soon, they reached the end. Here, Hao Ren realized that the surrounding space had actually been separated from the main material world to a considerable extent.
At the end of the cave was an open cavern. It was about ten meters high and about a hundred meters wide. The floor of the cavern was quite flat and covered with a layer of fine yellow sand. Stepping on it, one could feel the dryness and warmth of the desert. The surrounding air carried a coarse smell of dust, which was completely different from the cool feeling from before.
This cavern was obviously not formed naturally by the crack in the mountain. There was only one explanation for its appearance here: it was already part of the alternate dimension.
Hao Ren quickly found the entrance to the 'lost city.' It was deep in the cavern. An arched crack appeared there, and the light of chaos diffused from it as if it had a strange texture.
He checked his Steel Membrane Shield, then came to the crack and poked his head in to look inside.
The next second, he stopped breathing for half a second.
There was a vast alternate dimension on the other side of the rock wall — a lost ancient city!
The endless chaos enveloped the space behind the rock wall, and the border of the alternate dimension seemed to be shrouded in tumbling yellow sand, constantly rotating, forming countless terrifying vortexes. Inside the chaotic border, there was a magnificent ancient city with an earthy yellow hue sleeping quietly. The ancient city seemed to be built of granite, and the temples, halls, and buildings were the color of yellow sand.
Most of the buildings in the ancient city were in the shape of a square prism. Some of the more luxurious buildings had sculptures and pillars that looked like religious totems. The most important building in the city should be the temple or palace in the center. It looked like a combination of several pyramids, somewhat Egyptian style, but very different from the Egyptian pyramids in the real world.
Hao Ren's eyes moved slowly on the lost city, trying to take in every detail of it. As Hessiana said, the city was built on the skull of a huge creature.
The skull was located below the city, supporting all the granite buildings above. It should have been roughly ellipsoidal when it was complete, but now it was almost impossible to tell the shape of a skull. Most of it should have collapsed, and the remaining part was just a huge curved piece of bone. The front of the bone piece was connected to three deep eye sockets, and the back of the skull could vaguely make out a few bone joints that were probably connected to the spine. With his limited knowledge, Hao Ren could not tell what kind of creature it was. He could only marvel at the incredible creature.
This was definitely not a species that could be born on Earth, and it was unlikely to be a carbon-based life because the biological tissue of a carbon-based life could not support such a huge body at all, unless it had some other supernatural force.
And Hao Ren quickly confirmed another situation that Hessiana had mentioned before.
The alien dimension was constantly disintegrating, and the disintegration of the 'lost city' was only a matter of time.
The chaotic boundary on the periphery of the alien dimension was shrinking inward, crushing everything inside into elementary particles. The vortex, which looked like a sandstorm, was really tearing the edge of the city. Huge walls and house fragments were peeled off the city and swallowed and decomposed by the 'sandstorm vortex' of the chaotic boundary. Even the huge skull below the city was suffering the same disintegration. Its strong physical structure could not resist the collapse of the dimension. Large pieces of bone fragments peeled off the city base and disappeared into the vortex at the base of the alien dimension in the blink of an eye.
"Wow …"
Lily's exclamation brought Hao Ren back to reality. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Lily's head was swinging around him, and her pair of furry pointed ears were shaking. It turned out that the husky maiden saw Mr. Landlord standing in front of the crack for a long time and finally could not hold back her curiosity. She came over and saw the situation in the alien dimension. She was immediately shocked.
Although it was not as spectacular as when she shuttled through the body of the First Born, the lost city that was gradually swallowed by the vortex was also breathtaking.
"It seems that even if we don't blow this place up, it will disappear in a few days." Hao Ren patted Lily's head. "The main material world is rejecting this alien dimension, and the alien dimension itself does not have a long-term self-sustaining environment. It is like a ripple in the normal universe and will soon calm down."
Lily wagged her tail. "Mr. Landlord, why do you always want to blow this place up?"
"Yes, why do I always want to blow this place up?" Hao Ren said.
Lily was speechless.
"What's the situation in front?" Vivian asked immediately after Hao Ren and Lily came back.
"It is indeed an alien dimension, and it is gradually shrinking. If I'm not mistaken, it should be a defective spatial structure that is about to collapse because the original closure has been broken." Hao Ren nodded. "There is an ancient city in the alien dimension. It looks like an ancient city in the desert area, but it doesn't look like Egyptian or ancient Mesopotamian style. Besides, as Hessiana said, the city is built on the skull of a huge creature. "
"But we don't see any light curtain," Lily said. "It's all the color of sand."
"We have to enter the city to see the light curtain," Hessiana said. "This is also the confusing part."
Hao Ren waved his hand. "Optical discontinuity is not rare."
Hessiana rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay, okay. You're knowledgeable, okay?"
After saying this, she turned to her two subordinates. "You two stay outside. I will go in with them to check the situation. No one is allowed to go near this cave no matter what happens. You two are not allowed to come in. "
The female vampire asked with concern, "Matriarch, when will you come out?"
Hessiana glanced at Vivian. The latter pondered for a moment and said, "Three days at most. After three days, we will come out regardless of whether there is any result or not. The alien dimension is mysterious and unpredictable. I'm afraid there will be accidents if we stay too long."
After all the arrangements were made, they no longer hesitated. They went through the cave and entered the lost world that seemed to be wrapped in a yellow sandstorm.
A hot and coarse wind hit them in the face.
The alien dimension continued to collapse inward, and the lost city in the center of the dimension was also crumbling bit by bit. The 'cave' that Hao Ren and his team passed through seemed to be affected by this collapse. It was located at the edge of the city, hundreds of meters above the ground, and it was still thousands of meters away from the chaotic border of the dimension. But after passing through the cave, Hao Ren looked back and saw that the edge of the spatial rift had shown very obvious signs of distortion, and the distorted lines were all pointing to a large vortex nearest to the city. This was not a good sign.
Y 'zaks frowned. "We have to stabilize this passage first. Otherwise, before the collapse of the city, the only entrance and exit will be crushed by the dimensional collapse."
"It's not a big deal if the passage collapses. We can teleport out," Hao Ren shrugged. "It's just a little troublesome on the way back."
That being said, the collapse of the dimensional passage was still a problem. So Hao Ren took out a simple space stabilizer from the dimensional pocket and set it near the exit. This thing could not stop the collapse of the entire alien dimension, but it could slow down the collapse of the dimension near the exit.
After doing this, the group walked towards the Lost Ancient City in the yellow sands.
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