The "gem" that Ertos spoke of was placed deep underground under the Grand Temple. The priests of the ancient city obviously attached great importance to this object. They drilled a shaft hundreds of meters deep into the bone foundation under the city, built a secret chamber, and completely sealed the chamber with molten metal. It was because of this insane storage method that the gem escaped the battle between Hao Ren and the Malevolence and the rebellion in the Grand Temple thousands of years ago.
But a mere few hundred meters of shaft and a layer of molten metal were not a problem for Hao Ren's autonomous robots. The robots quickly dug a slanted passage next to the high ground and then extracted the "gem."
As Hao Ren and Vivian expected, it was a bloodstone.
The crystal-clear blood-colored gem was flowing with a mysterious glow. Every surface of the gem reflected the turbulent vortex at the border of the different dimension. It looked magnificent and mysterious. Vivian held the gem in her hand and gently rubbed its surface. "A Malevolence … not only has it been rational for nearly a hundred years, but it also made such a bloodstone before it went completely crazy. Hao Ren, what do you think is in it?"
"Maybe it's a 'message' from the Malevolence." Hao Ren frowned. "But to be honest, I don't recommend you to absorb this thing. The Malevolence is too special. She even has divinity. The bloodstone she left behind must be very different from the ones you have obtained before."
"I will think about it carefully," Vivian said, shaking the "gem" in her hand with a smile on her face. "But you should know me. If I check the power in the bloodstone and confirm that it is not harmful, I will definitely absorb it. After all, every Blood Crystal contains my lost memories or precious information. I can't turn a blind eye to them. "
Hao Ren, of course, knew Vivian's character. He opened his mouth but did not try to dissuade her. He just nodded gently. "Then you must be careful. If you want to absorb this thing, you must tell me in advance."
"Of course, I know that." Vivian nodded with a smile, but just as she was about to say something, a deep rumble suddenly sounded from afar. At the same time, it was mixed with the loud sound of something shattering, and the ground beneath everyone's feet began to tremble slightly.
"What's going on?" Y 'zaks immediately looked up into the distance, and a rising cloud of dust appeared in his sight.
Large amounts of dust were rising from the edge of the city. Countless shadowy buildings were shaking behind the dust cloud, and then they collapsed one by one. When the dust rose into the air, it seemed to be disturbed by some invisible force. As it rose, it twisted and gradually formed a terrible vortex structure like a horizontal tornado. It almost became one with the quicksand vortex at the chaotic boundary of the alternate dimension!
Hao Ren only took a glance to understand what had happened. "The collapse of the different dimension has accelerated!"
Hessiana was shocked. "How could this be? Didn't you say it would take at least a few days for the collapse to happen?"
"Nonsense, I threw at least two dozen nuclear warheads when I fought the Malevolence. More than half of the destructive power was transmitted to the boundary of the dimension," Hao Ren said, his eyes wide open. "And that is not including Lily's Doggoblast, Vivian's storm, and the Malevolence's Blood Sea. Do you think this place will not collapse with so many things exploding at once? "
Hessiana looked at Hao Ren, stunned. After a long while, she said, "Since you know you are the culprit, why are you still so confident?"
"I had no choice at that time." Hao Ren rolled his eyes at Little Bat and then turned to look at the transparent jellyfish floating slowly in the sky. "Ertos, this place is doomed! You have to find a way to get out of here! "
"I know, I know, sooner or later, this place will face such a day," Ertos said calmly in the deafening roar of the collapse of the different dimension. "Don't worry about me. The Chaos Wanderers will not be killed by this level of collapse. You should leave as soon as possible. The city will not last long."
More and more violent earthquakes were coming from afar, and the collapse of the different dimension was accelerating. It was like an activated chain reaction. Before the reaction began, the balanced structure of space and time was stable. But once a critical point was broken, the collapse of the whole dimension was as rapid and unstoppable as a sandcastle in the waves. In just a few words, Hao Ren had seen smoke and dust rising from all directions of the city. Even in the most severely collapsed areas, the entire ground had curled up and bulged. Countless buildings and broken boulders floated up like light bubbles, twisting into a spiral in the air and falling into the quicksand vortex at the boundary of the Chaos.
The entire lost city was falling into the vortex at the boundary of the dimension.
"What are you going to do?" Vivian asked aloud. "Are you sure you can get out in this situation?"
Ertos did not answer directly. Instead, it sighed with emotion. "I have been in this place for too long. Now that the ruler is gone, the city has come to an end. It is time to say goodbye to this place. Let's go, while we can."
"Let's go," Hao Ren felt Ertos' indifference and determination through the spiritual connection, so he pulled Vivian beside him. "Don't worry, it knows what it is doing."
The collapse of the different dimension was approaching its peak. Finally, even the gravitational environment began to dissipate. The gravitational system, which was originally maintained by the structure of space and time, quickly weakened and distorted after the loss of balance at the boundary of the dimension. The entire ancient city of Ertos slowly tilted in the quicksand barrier. The structures on the edge of the city drifted away like flying snowflakes, swirling into the quicksand vortex. Hao Ren and his party quickly crossed the sky over the city. They saw a huge black rift on the central axis of the city. Bone fragments of Ertos spewed out of the rift like the fire of hell.
The spirit of Ertos began to break away from the city.
The tentacles of the "giant jellyfish" retracted from the earth, and its nearly transparent body slowly changed shape, as if preparing for the final sprint. On the ground, the runes of the colossi, which had lost control, extinguished one by one. Their scorching core finally cooled down. Without the support of the core, these sophisticated golems could no longer function. They were like the most ordinary stones, gradually lifted off the ground with the imbalance of gravity, and drifted toward the boundary of the lower and lower dimension.
It was a wise move to leave a set of stabilizers at the entrance of the different dimension.
The collapse of space had caused the connection between the Lost Lands and the Prime Material Plane to plunge into a state of extreme instability. If not for the stabilizers forcibly keeping it alive, the passageway would have long since turned into a bright energy spark as the boundary collapsed. Even with the stabilizers, it appeared to be on the verge of collapse. When Hao Ren and his party came to the exit, the originally wide rift had become a bright ring-shaped hole. The edge of the portal, which was forcibly supported by the stabilizers, was constantly bursting with dazzling electric light. It was obviously reaching its limit.
"Hurry up, this place won't last long!" Hessiana shouted as she pushed Y 'lisabet and Rollie toward the exit. "Keep up, everyone! Don't fall behind! "
They passed through the gate one by one. Hao Ren and Vivian stayed at the back of the team. They stepped through the portal with one foot and looked back at the Lost World for the last time before the passage completely collapsed.
The whole city had almost completely shattered, turning into large pieces of floating land floating in the dimension. The ruins of the grand temple and several fragmented pyramids collided in the air, and these ancient and magnificent buildings collapsed into pieces with a series of loud noises.
A translucent, ever-changing giant "creature" floated over the fragmented wreckage. It seemed to pay a final tribute to its former body, then turned its head and drifted toward the largest vortex at the boundary of the dimension.
The huge tearing force of the collapse of the dimension did not seem to exist to Ertos. The figure swayed gently in the vortex and disappeared through the barrier.
All that remained in Hao Ren and Vivian's minds was Ertos's goodbye.
"Looks like a fish, meow," Rollie's head suddenly emerged from the dimensional passage and muttered to Hao Ren.
"Let's go!" Hao Ren slapped the dumb cat on the head. "If we don't go now, this place will really collapse!"
The unstable dimensional passage made people dizzy, but the dizziness came and went quickly. Hao Ren soon felt his feet on the ground again. He shook his head and quickly adapted to the surrounding dim environment.
It was still the cave covered with yellow sand.
The two subordinates of Hessiana were still guarding the place. When they saw that everyone had returned safely from the crack, they immediately came up to them. "Great, you are all safe and sound. Matriarch, this place has been shaking since just now!"
Hessiana looked around the cave. She clearly saw that the walls of the cave were also wriggling and shrinking, and the yellow sand on the ground was like a phantom drifting away with the wind. She nodded and said, "Let's get out of here first. This cave should disappear soon."
The young male vampire saw Hessiana's serious and nervous expression and could not help but ask, "Patriarch, what happened in there?"
Hessiana glanced at Vivian and then at Hao Ren. She sighed softly and said, "Our family is too messy. It's hard for me to explain it to you with your normal worldview."
The young vampire: "?"
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