After Hao Ren's reminder, everyone focused their attention on this seemingly insignificant detail.
From the first time Vivian came into contact with the Malevolence, she could observe the Malevolence in three ways. In the first case, everyone could see the appearance of the Malevolence except Vivian. In the second case, she could see the appearance of the Malevolence like everyone else. In the third case, no one could see the Malevolence clearly, but Vivian could still see it clearly.
What was the pattern or secret behind these three situations?
"In any case, this is certainly not a natural phenomenon." Lorissa was a newcomer, but she was no stranger to the field. "I have heard your description. The Malevolence seems to be a kind of avatar, driven by negative mental power. It is not controlled by the main body, but there is still a certain connection between the Malevolence and the main body. So when Vivian observes the Malevolence, she will inevitably be affected by this connection. Except for her, everyone here is an unrelated 'third-party observer' of the Malevolence. So our observation of the Malevolence should be the 'standard result,' while Vivian's observation of the Malevolence is the result of the influence. Her observation of the Malevolence is wrong, not just because of her or the target, but because the connection between the two is changing. "
Lorissa spoke of her conjecture in a flat tone as if she was analyzing a scientific report. But the possibility behind her conjecture was chilling. Hao Ren could not help but frown. "The connection between Vivian and the Malevolence is changing? What kind of change will it be? "
"Don't you feel that Vivian's observation of the Malevolence is' gradual '?" Nangong Sanba suddenly chimed in.
"Gradual?" Hao Ren glanced at him.
"From the beginning when she observed the normal Malevolence, she could not see it clearly, and then she could see the normal Malevolence like us. In the end, she could even see the shadow of the Malevolence. Is this a gradual process?" Nangong Sanba explained.
"Ah! Battie's eyesight is getting better!" Bat's eyesight is getting better! "
Nangong Sanba said, "… Uh … I don't think that's what I meant …"
"The connection between me and the Malevolence has been strengthened." Vivian did not mind Lily's interruption. She seemed to have guessed it. "Whether I want to admit it or not, the connection between me and the negative avatars cannot be severed. We are of the same origin. So today's change is expected."
Lily panicked. "Are you going to die, Battie?"
Vivian glared at the husky maiden. "A filthy mouth can't utter ivory!"
Lily touched her mouth and hesitated. "Are you scolding me or stating the truth?"
Vivian did not respond to Lily. Instead, she stood up and stretched. "Forget it. It's getting late. Let's talk tomorrow."
Lily looked at Vivian with a strange expression. "Battie, this is not in line with your biological clock. Shouldn't you be awake for most of the night?"
"I didn't say I would go back to bed immediately!" Vivian said, arms akimbo. "I just feel a little tired after so many things have happened! I want to go back to my room early, calm down, and think about the future. Is that okay? "
Hao Ren saw that the two were about to quarrel again. He quickly stood up and stood between them. "Okay, okay, you two. Vivian is right. It's getting late. We have just fought in Ertos. Let's rest early today. I'm going to see Raven 12345 tomorrow. When it comes to divinity, that crazy woman should be more professional than us. "
Everyone had no objection. After saying good night to each other, they went back to their rooms.
At this moment, it was already late at night, and the lights in the houses were gradually dimming. In the quiet atmosphere, the Hao family's mansion gradually blended with the silence around it, and soon it became quiet.
While everyone else was asleep, Vivian was sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze.
It was not the time for her to sleep. She had gone back to her room early today. She really needed to sort out her thoughts and memories, and calm down to think about the Malevolence and herself.
The lights in the basement were not turned on. Only a few spots of light came from the electrical appliances in the corner of the room and the skylight above the wall. The dim light was not enough to illuminate the room. Instead, it cast a lot of blurry shadows around Vivian. Surrounded by these shadows, Vivian thought quietly. The shadows also rippled between her mind as if there were living things hidden in them.
This kind of contemplation lasted for a long time. Some messy and broken memories emerged and disappeared, and some superficial impressions that he could not tell were real or fake flashed across his mind. The dim moonlight outside the skylight had almost completely disappeared at this moment. He did not know when it had fallen into the sea of clouds, hiding in the thick dark clouds, quietly peeking at the quiet land.
After a long time, Vivian looked up. As she looked up, the deepest shadows beside the bed also shook, and then a vague shadow stood out of the darkness.
At first, the shadow looked transparent and illusory, blurry and distorted. A black veil shrouded her body like a thin mist, but soon, all these blurred areas solidified, and she turned into a woman who looked exactly like Vivian, from her facial features to her body shape. The only difference was that she had long, blood-red hair and a pair of turbid, seemingly irrational eyes.
The two "people" looked at each other quietly. If one was not sitting and the other was standing, it would have looked like a reflection in a mirror.
But Vivian seemed to have turned a blind eye to the phantom of the Malevolence in front of her. She just quietly stared in the dark, looking past the phantom and straight at a spot in the corner of the room.
After a moment of strange silence, she stretched and yawned. "Forget it. Let's go to bed first. Tomorrow, I will go with Hao Ren to ask the goddess why I have been so sleepy for the past few days."
Vivian really did not see the figure in front of her from the beginning to the end.
After Vivian lay down, the phantom of the Malevolence did not say a word. She just turned around silently, and a dark shadow rolled behind her like a cloak. Countless flickering images appeared in the shadow, and the scenes of time appeared in these flickering images: the Mythological Era of constant strife, the collapsed temples, and the cold and desolate land of 10,000 years ago. After the end of the Ice Age, the harsh winter on the land had not faded, and a god-made life stood on the land.
This god-made life looked like Vivian, but there was a strange sense of incongruity. There seemed to be a deep malice hidden in the coldness and indifference. This malice was suppressed under her delicate appearance, but it was about to burst out.
The phantom of the Malevolence was gone, and the shadow she brought also dissipated in the air. But in the dark basement, Vivian spoke as if she was sleep-talking. "I see …"
The night in the Southern Suburbs was still the same. The little movement in the basement did not seem to affect the peace of the world. But in the realm that humans could not detect, an unprecedented change was gradually shrouding the planet.
The vast universe was vast and empty, but in fact, the eyes of the world manager were always filled with everything, including the wide-area radar signals from the autonomous hub and the 'eyes' of Raven 12345 across space and time. Raven 12345's eyes swept across the entire universe day and night, and nothing could escape the gaze of God — as it should be.
But at a certain moment, on the third planet of the solar system, a small ripple burst out. This ripple was insignificant compared to the gaze of the entire universe, but it had the authority of the gods. In a short period of time close to the Planck unit, the ripple obscured the perception of the world manager and temporarily stole the space-time authority of the small planet.
So in the streets, mountains, rivers, plains, and forests of Earth, countless things that did not belong to this era, or even this world, suddenly appeared and replaced the originally stable reality.
The ancient Roman army in chariots appeared out of thin air in the center of the city. Unicorns and golden-armored warriors wearing horned helmets appeared on the highway. Giants covered in lightning walked down from the clouds. Valkyries riding pegasi streaked across the aurora of the Arctic Circle like meteors. The civilized world that humans spent thousands of years to build was shattered in an instant. The phantoms from the primordial era came to the modern world and merged with the modern earth to form a strange and dazzling whole.
The strange thing was that when these things that belonged to different eras and different regions appeared, they did not seem to affect the operation of the real world. Projections of the Mythological Era appeared all over the world, but the humans who witnessed all these seemed to ignore the scenes in front of them and continued with their daily lives. The Viking pirates swaggered in the downtown area, and the office buildings were crowded with the Roman Empire's councilors. Humans in modern clothes moved among these "phantoms" in strange clothes like puppets that had lost their souls.
What happened on a small planet was like a drop in the ocean to the entire universe. But the eyes of the gods finally noticed this small "blind spot" in her vision. She quickly focused her attention.
After a while, Raven 12345's voice spread throughout the universe.
"What the f * ck?!"
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