Although there were many questions about the changes in the outside world, Hao Ren suppressed his urge to continue exploring and returned home before the gathering time arrived. Strangely enough, although the entire Southern Suburbs and even the whole world were undergoing earth-shattering changes, only his old house and a small area around it remained the same, not replaced by the phantoms of the space-time disorder. Like a safe house in a disaster, Hao Ren's mansion was now the only "stable" refuge in this large-scale change.
He and Lily were the first group to return home. When they got home, the house was quiet. After looking around the living room, they found Rollie sleeping on a blanket in front of the mouse hole in the corner. Lil Pea's basin was placed less than a meter in front of her head. The cat had memorized the task that Hao Ren had given her, but she could still sleep so soundly in this chaotic situation. Was this cat a little too carefree?
But seeing that the dumb cat was sleeping soundly, Lil Pea was also curled up in the water and dozing off, and Noobie did not seem to be coming out to disturb them, Hao Ren decided not to disturb them. Instead, he sat on the sofa and waited for the others to come back. He and Lily discussed the phenomena outside and guessed where Vivian had gone.
Half an hour later, everyone who had gone out to investigate the situation had returned safe and sound. Hao Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
"There's no danger out there, at least we didn't run into any danger," Nangong Sanba said as he entered the door. "Those 'ancients' seem to be living in their own space and time. Although they are connected to the real world, they will not respond to stimuli from other dimensions."
Nangong Wuyue followed behind her brother. As she changed her shoes, she said, "We went to the city center. It's covered by a primeval forest. The White Stone Building only has two floors of shops left. Above it is a forest town that looks like an elven village. The people living there are skinny and small, strange races."
"Let's come in and summarize the information we have collected," Hao Ren said to them.
Everyone sat down around the coffee table. Hao Ren first looked at Lorissa. When they were divided into groups of two, Lorissa was the only one who went out to investigate the situation alone. She was confident in her strength, and she was not familiar with exploring with others, so she readily accepted the arrangement. She had a rich knowledge of magic, and as a sensitive elf, she should be able to use all kinds of incredible spells to see the minutest details. No one was better than her in this regard. So Hao Ren wanted to know what the elven queen thought first.
"First of all, everyone should have used their own methods to verify that all the 'phantoms' are actually real," Lorissa nodded. "Although they look very out of place, and their response to external stimuli is not real enough, from a material point of view, they are all real. Secondly, I found that all the mutations are randomly distributed. I am not very clear about the historical structure of your planet, but I can see that those 'things' should be from different eras and different cultural circles. Their distribution is irregular, and the 'nesting' between them is very stiff. Basically, they are all forced together. Finally, I guess that all these things should not be the effect of magic. "
"Not the effect of magic?" Y 'zaks asked suspiciously.
"I did not sense any magical fluctuations." Lorissa turned her head. "I have released my mental power all the way to the altitude near the top of the atmosphere and then scanned down. So I can confirm that the things that suddenly appeared are not made of magic. They should be a higher form of existence."
"A higher form of existence …" Hao Ren scratched his chin. "Directly replacing the real world …"
Lily did not hear it clearly. "What?"
Hao Ren waved his hand and said, "Nothing. Let's continue."
After Lorissa finished speaking, everyone began to talk about what they had seen and heard outside. Soon, the results of various investigations were summarized and analyzed by the MDT. One person would always overlook things, but after so many people put their thoughts together, some of the regular things gradually became clear. The MDT summarized a few points.
"First of all, as Lorissa mentioned, the distribution of all the mutations is irregular, quite random, and not the effect of magic."
The MDT floated in the air, projecting various images as it spoke, including the images it recorded with Hao Ren outside, and the images just sent back from the remote probes. The latter had now begun to move in the Americas.
"Secondly, according to the information sent back by the remote probes, we can basically confirm that this mutation has affected the entire world. Now, the entire Earth is shrouded in this' real phantom. 'Even the South Pole has a Tower of Babel covered in ice shards. Just now, a probe even captured a Poseidon soaking in the Atlantic Ocean. We're already deep in this dream-like bizarre scene.
"Secondly, the house that we live in and the small area around the house seem to have become a 'safe island'. Although the changes outside are fierce, it doesn't affect the area that extends 15 meters away from our house …"
"I think this is because of the power of God. After all, Hao Ren is the pope, and the papal palace is blessed." Lorissa interjected.
Hao Ren cleared his throat and said, "I think you have a point."
The MDT shook its body vigorously in the air to get everyone's attention again. "Listen to me first. According to the information we have gathered outside, after the mutation, the 'normal people' living in this world have also become abnormal. Perhaps the phantoms of the overlapping space and time have caused them to mutate. They are now living in an isolated space and time and seem to be unaware of the changes around them. I don't know how long this' protective response 'will last, but I am afraid that everything on the planet has been' isolated 'in this way, except for us. "
Lily could not help but fold her arms. "Why does it sound so creepy?"
The Nangong couple stood up. "We have a problem. The two of us moved out a while ago. When the mutation happened, we weren't staying in this' safe house '. But now, it doesn't look like we are affected."
Nangong Wuyue also came to a sudden realization. "Yes, why are our parents fine? They were outside at the time. "
"Is it because they are close to me?" Hao Ren scratched his face. "Am I an auspicious sign?"
"Don't be so narcissistic. It is because they have also come into contact with the power of Raven and were blessed." The MDT mercilessly interrupted Hao Ren's wild imagination. "I speculate that divinity or divinity-related power can resist this mutation. On the other hand, this mutation may also be related to divinity. But the information in this regard is still slightly insufficient. Let's not jump to conclusions."
"People who have come into contact with Raven can resist the mutation?" Hao Ren suddenly thought of many other people. "If that is the case, I am afraid there are a lot of people who are still normal. Hasse, White Flame, Hessiana, Yagyuu, Zhao Xi, the Three Great Ascetics. Maybe these people are fine and are now in a daze. "
"… It is also possible." The MDT had obviously ignored this question. "But we can't contact these people now. Because of the global mutation, the structure of space and time has been 'stratified'. People who are normal are actually isolated from the main space and time. So the original means of communication on Earth must be paralyzed. At least, normal people, including us, can't use it."
"Mr. Landlord, there is no signal," Lily said, shaking the phone in her hand.
"We can put these people aside for now," Y 'zaks said gruffly. "The key now is that we still haven't figured out how this mutation happened, and we haven't found any clues related to Vivian."
Hao Ren frowned. "I think this mutation itself is a clue related to Vivian."
Y 'zaks looked at him. "What do you mean?"
"Have you noticed that the distorted 'space-time phantoms' outside are all from the Mythological Era to the present? There is nothing beyond this time period, such as dinosaurs."
With his reminder, the others immediately reacted. Nangong Sanba nodded his head repeatedly. "That's right. The earliest things we see are only from 10,000 years ago. We can't see plants and animals that are even older than that."
Nangong Wuyue scratched her head. "But I saw a saber-toothed tiger. Isn't that something from the same era as the dinosaurs?"
"The saber-toothed tiger went extinct about 10,000 years ago. That is to say, when Vivian first came here, there were indeed saber-toothed tigers on Earth." This time it was Nangong Wudi who spoke. He glanced at Wuyue as he said, "Read more books. Your brother is better than you in this regard."
Wuyue was speechless.
"That is to say, the mutations outside are all in Battie's memory?" Lily's eyes widened. "Things that she has not experienced will not appear in the phantoms?"
"Very likely … No, the scope should be broader," Hao Ren said thoughtfully. "A person's memory will be limited to their perspective, so the scope of the scene reproduced through memory is limited. The scope of the space-time phantoms outside is obviously too large. But one thing is for sure. In terms of the timeline, this mutation is consistent with Vivian's memory. "
Lily's imagination as a writer suddenly expanded. "So, Vivian has lost her memory for many years, and this is a blowout recovery?"
Hao Ren had to admit that although Lily's imagination was too wild, every time she said it, people could not help but feel that there was some truth in it.
Just as he was about to follow Lily's train of thought, he suddenly felt a fluctuation in his mind, and then Raven 12345's voice rang.
"Hao Ren? Hao Ren, you heard me! "
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