The departure of the vengeful spirit did not restore the dimension deep underground to its original state. As the MDT said, the structure of the dimension here had been mutated for too long. Now it existed steadily in the crevice of the real world. Even without any external reinforcement, it could still last for hundreds of years.
It was still an endless snowfield, and it was still endless darkness. However, the departure of the vengeful spirit had caused the continuous wind to finally disappear, and the blizzard would no longer wreak havoc here. Hao Ren walked forward according to the direction in his memory as he muttered to Vivian beside him, "This place is so big, it feels like a waste to just leave it like this..."
Before Vivian said anything, Nangong Wuyue could not help but say, "Mr. Landlord, your occupational disease is a little too serious. You don't even want to let go of the land in another dimension? Who are you going to rent this place to? "
Hao Ren started to talk nonsense again. "What if God throws me an army of frost dragons to calm me down one day? With the mental state of that big sister, nothing is impossible. I have to be mentally prepared to receive tenants according to the standards of the animal world."
Becky and Lily whispered in each other's ears at the back of the group, "I don't remember there being any Frost Dragons in Animal World..." "Mr. Landlord's brain is like a sandbox game, you never know what he will come up with in the next second."
"Your snowy town and snowfield city don't make much sense, but we really should set up something here, such as power generators and lighting equipment." A bright lightning ball floated above Vivian's head. She looked around and planned for the future. "Maybe we should let Igor organize some people to set up a series of small stations and monitoring equipment here... or we can do it ourselves. This dimension must be under long-term surveillance, especially the crack. "
"I'll let the Petrachelys build a batch of equipment, that thing is more reliable than man-made cameras," said Hao Ren as he looked up at the light purple film in front of him. "Yes, especially this crack."
The departure of the vengeful spirit did not affect the state of the crack, as if it was really just a simple door, and there was no power connection between it and the vengeful spirit. It was still quietly floating above the stone platform, flickering and floating at a gentle frequency while emitting waves of strange buzzing sounds.
"Let's see if these two stones are the keys," Hao Ren muttered. He took out two cursed stones from his dimensional pocket and put them in front of the light film. "Well … What should we do now? Open sesame? "
The light film did not change. It was still flowing slowly. Hao Ren felt that he was acting like Lily.
"Maybe I should activate the ridges on the triangular device in sequence," Becky began to guess the use of the two devices with the attitude of a seasoned mercenary. "Just like how I opened its storage space."
"But how long will it take?" Hao Ren laughed dryly. "Actually, I've always been curious. If this is really a key, why does it have the ability to store things? These two functions are completely unrelated. Are we guessing wrong? "
"Humans are now working hard to develop a watch that can play videos, write diaries, text messages, make phone calls, and take pictures of themselves. A watchmaker from 1885 would never understand why a watch can have everything but not the time. Never use the existing framework to guess a device you don't understand," Vivian said philosophically. "Maybe the vengeful spirit designed the door key with a large capacity?"
Hao Ren suddenly felt that what Vivian said made sense. But it did not change the fact that he did not know how to use the two little devices.
"Let me guess what it needs. Touch the ridges, a password, a little bit of mental power... Maybe it also needs to check fingerprints and irises, but I don't think the vengeful spirit has these parts." Hao Ren shrugged. "MDT, what can you scan?"
"They do have some kind of connection with the rift. There is an exchange of information, but this exchange is just the two sets of devices confirming that each other is working properly." The MDT emitted a blue light and shone on the two little devices. "Maybe I should increase the intensity of the scan to determine how the core of this thing works. But to be honest, it's a little dangerous. Not everything is as strong and durable as the Empire's, especially when it's just a set of door keys made by aliens. Maybe the core of these two little devices is almost finished, and it's only a matter of time before they are completely scrapped. "
"We still have to try." Hao Ren smacked his lips and finally nodded. "Just try not to erase the useful information. If it doesn't work, I'll go to Raven 12345 and ask if there's any more high-tech gadgets. "
Under the high-power scan of the MDT, Hao Ren once again began to test how the two little devices worked.
Rubbing the ridges of the triangular device worked, and those ridges were its control keys. The concentric lines on the surface of the other circular device also had a similar function, but they needed to fix the finger on a ring. And according to the MDT's monitoring, these two operations had to be carried out at the same time. It was a delicate combination, like playing a complex combination of musical instruments that required coordination and rhythm. Hao Ren had never seen such a strange control method. He guessed that the creator of this thing must be a philosopher-like race, which meant that they were a pain in the ass.
"Ingenious control method, layers of encryption, can't be deciphered by conventional information reading methods," the MDT said in awe, its tone full of praise. "It's not advanced, but very clever."
Just as Hao Ren was excitedly studying whether these two things could activate the rift, a girl's voice suddenly came from behind them. "You'll break it if you test it like this."
In fact, Hao Ren had already noticed someone approaching. He turned his head and looked. "Anna? What are you doing here? "
It was none other than Igor's daughter, Anna. The girl, who had just recovered from her madness, had somehow mustered up the courage to come here. She was wearing a heavy fur coat, and the cold of the dark snowfield made her look even paler.
Even though the snowstorm had stopped, it was not easy for an ordinary person to walk from the entrance to the underground world to the rift.
"How did you get here?" Vivian was even more surprised. "You know the way?"
"I … remembered something," Anna shrunk her neck and looked at the rift in front of her with some fear. "The memory left in my mind by the evil spirit … I know you're here."
Hao Ren and the rest suddenly looked at each other. They knew that the vengeful spirit had poured a lot of information into Anna's mind, but they did not expect that the information included things about the rift!
"You remember it all?" Nangong Sanba suddenly looked excited.
Anna nodded slightly, and then held out her hand to Hao Ren. "Let me see the two keys … I should know how to activate them."
Hao Ren handed over the two 'stones', and Anna began to touch the mysterious lines on the surface of the stones. The latter actually began to emit a soft buzzing sound as if it was responding to Anna's touch. Hao Ren saw this scene and could not help but be puzzled. "Actually, I've always been wondering … Why would the vengeful spirit whisper all these nonsense to ordinary people? Is it a pedophile? "
"This is not the vengeful spirit's conscious teaching of anything, but a passive and random 'mental broadcast'," Vivian crossed her arms in front of her chest and explained what she already knew or speculated. "We now know that the vengeful spirit is an energy field, and also a field of consciousness. Within the range of the vengeful spirit's influence, you're equivalent to walking into the brain of a pure conscious creature. You'll involuntarily hear the creature's thoughts, and even weaker humans will directly have their memories tampered by the illusory brain. The members of the Andrea family frequently came into contact with the 'key', and were subconsciously regarded as enemies by the vengeful spirit. Coupled with the fact that they lived in the castle for generations, they were the most affected by the vengeful spirit, and this is the source of their madness. The vengeful spirit has no logic, and it will not consciously tell you anything. The Andrea family just happened to be 'immersed' in the monster's dream, and accidentally heard the vengeful spirit's thoughts. Those weird knowledge and inexplicable memories are all derived from this. "
"In other words, the information was copied directly from the 'brain' of the vengeful spirit," Nangong Sanba added. "So this kind of copying is random. Every member of the Andrea family hears different thoughts, and there are different degrees of insanity. And because the scenes seen from the vengeful spirit's memory usually have no cause and effect, so the victims sometimes misunderstand what they see... "
As Nangong Sanba said, he pouted at Anna and whispered, "Probably because she saw the scene of Andrea's ancestor taking out a large amount of gold from the key, and then associated it with the legend of her family's witch, she unilaterally believed that her family's wealth was stolen, and identified this as the source of the curse. This worsened her original illness. "
Just as Hao Ren and the rest were discussing the mental effects of the vengeful spirit on ordinary people, Anna's operation finally produced results.
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