A mirage suddenly appeared in the clear sky. It looked like pieces of land were falling at an angle. When Shallow shallow pointed it out to me, the shadows were still half-real and their edges were constantly trembling. But in a few seconds, the mirages became clearer and they were approaching the ground at a high speed. At this moment, there was no doubt that the 'mirages' were real.
They were real. And they were falling.
"Oh my god, what's going on?!" I screamed and nearly jumped up. The others also reacted and looked up at the sky. Everyone had different reactions: Little Bubble and Visca clapped their hands and jumped and shouted, looking happy and carefree; Shallow shallow lifted her head and let out a drawn-out 'Oh …', but I had no idea where her thoughts had wandered to. The five Protoss Cops were still in a mess, as calm as if they had seen a swarm of flies. Only Icetis whistled loudly, indicating that she was paying close attention to the situation. Chestnut couldn't help but exclaim. She was still not used to the sudden situation. Ji Shanshan, who was beside her, calmly summoned a bunch of floating shields and placed them in front of her. She boasted shamelessly, "I want to see who can break through the King's Barrier!" Pandora was the most miraculous one. She instantly opened up a small anti-air cannon on the ground, as though she was prepared to shoot down everything in the sky. Fortunately, I managed to stop her in time.
Sandora furrowed her eyebrows and said telepathically, "How many more strange phenomena does this world intend to bring?"
The land in the sky was rapidly approaching. It seemed that if it were to fall, it would collide with the fragment of the planet we were standing on in a minute or two. Hence, everyone was prepared to withstand the impact. We activated our shields to prevent ourselves from dirtying our clothes. However, the situation changed again. When the landmasses were about two kilometers away from the ground, they began to slow down. We didn't take any action but quietly observed what they were up to. After all, before understanding the rules of this world, it was best not to disturb the local natural phenomenon. I have to say, the scene before me was quite shocking. About a dozen enormous floating lands slowly slid down from the sky, and one of their landing points was right beside you. The pressure and heaviness that assaulted your senses might have suffocated anyone who saw such a scene for the first time. I even thought of the myths and legends. After being defeated by the new god, the Old God's kingdom in the sky would burn in flames and sprinkle scorching sulfur as it slowly fell from the clouds to the ground. The new God's kingdom would be slowly lifted up by the Holy Father, Mother, and Holy Daughter amidst the praises of the believers … I'm sorry that I've read too much of the Bible written by Liliana, but the scene before me was quite interesting.
Perhaps the monsters on the Monster Mountain felt the same way when they saw the Atlanteans falling from the sky. But only one of them fell from their heads, while a group of them fell from our heads. Not only that, each of them was about the same size as the Atlanteans …
"Big Brother, is … is this okay?" As the floating lands gradually slowed down and were about to come to a complete stop before they hit the ground, Chestnut chose to hide beside me and asked carefully. No matter how courageous she was when she faced the world crisis, she was a little scared now. Sometimes, fear and oppression were not the same thing.
I patted my sister's shoulder and said, "It's okay. Even if the sky falls down, there will be someone taller to hold it up …"
I was just talking nonsense, but Pandora and Visca immediately looked at us with despair in their eyes, especially Pandora. Her gray eyes, which had never shown any emotion before, looked like they were about to cry. These two sisters were the type of people who would be safer than Wu Dalang even if the sky fell down. I really shouldn't have mentioned the word "taller" in front of them.
Apart from being a little surprised at first, I quickly calmed down. Although the scene before me was spectacular, I was someone who had seen the activation ceremony of the Eternal-class battleships at the spaceport. Trust me, any one of the Empire's battleships would be more spectacular than this when they activated. Having been immersed in the world of the Empire's battleships and cannons every day, I had long since become immune to the words "huge" and "mighty."
"It looks like it's going to stop." Shallow Shallow pointed at the land that was getting closer and closer to the ground. As if in response to her words, the first floating island that was closest to the ground stopped in midair. I even heard the sound of brakes …
It was mainly because the scene before me was too familiar. A bunch of continents that had fallen from the sky actually stopped right in front of my nose!
Finally, a dozen huge floating islands hovered very close to the ground. The closest one was not even a hundred meters tall, and it felt like it could be reached with a stretch of my hand. They hovered in the sky, casting huge shadows on the ground. I reckoned that the center of those shadows must be as dark as dusk. That is, if you were brave enough to stand directly under one of the floating islands that was less than a hundred meters above the ground.
We looked around curiously, but the floating islands that had fallen from the sky might have been spread across the entire continent. At this scale, the naked eye's vision was limited, and the floating islands were blocking each other. When they landed, it was impossible to see all of the floating islands. We could only estimate that there were about fifteen to sixteen floating islands based on the images we had seen in the sky. Their posture was strange. Not all of the floating islands were in the normal position of head up and feet down. On the contrary, every floating island was slanted at an angle to the ground. The nearest floating island to us was at an angle of about thirty degrees, which was exactly the angle of the lower half of its rock layer. Hence, it was almost touching the ground beneath our feet. From afar, the floating island looked like a gentle slope in the distance, except that the bottom of the slope was a fissure that was dozens of meters tall.
Further away, there was a half-blocked floating island that was at an angle of ninety degrees to the grassland below. Its surface was almost perpendicular to the grassland.
"Sandora, let's see what's going on with the gravity here." I glanced at the blonde girl beside me and reminded her.
Sandora was already doing so. Her sensors were online twenty-four hours a day. She shrugged and said, "It's a mess. Every floating island has its own gravity structure, and it doesn't affect the gravity of the planet fragment we are standing on. This is the messiest view of the world I have ever seen. Although there are many floating islands in the Heavenly Realm, at least they are not stacked together."
Icetis immediately harrumphed. It seemed that someone's comment about her hometown had caught the attention of this female rogue.
"Should we go up and take a look?" Qian Qian tugged at my arm excitedly. Even though she said that, she was already running towards the nearest floating island, which was at an angle of thirty degrees from the ground. "Looks like there's something there!"
Everyone knew about Shallow Shallow's habits, so they could only smile helplessly and follow closely behind her.
Sandora was right. All these floating islands had their own gravity direction. However, the strength of the gravity seemed to be the same as the floating island below, slightly higher than Earth's gravity. When we got within a certain range of the nearest floating island, we suddenly felt the direction of gravity change. It went from vertical to inclined thirty degrees. This sudden change reminded me of some poorly designed deep space starships (I had seen such examples on the spaceships of the Galactic Civilization Community back then). Those artificial gravity zones lacked effective planning, and there was no smooth transition layer between the two zones. To the extent that the passengers had to look at the signboard and hold on to the handrail before they dared to carefully step into the range of another gravity generator. Oh, it seemed that I was thinking too far ahead.
"Could this be the 'miracle' that Liliana mentioned?" Lin Xue landed on the floating island with us. She bounced on the spot to find a sense of reality. "Something from another parallel space suddenly materialized and appeared in our current world."
"Seems like it." I extended my head to look at the edge of the floating island. Just eighty meters below us was the grassland that we had come from. Looking into the distance, we could see more floating islands that were almost touching the ground. "What a spectacle. Sandora, do you have any guesses?"
"From a physical perspective, the floating island and the floating island below are in the same space. However, they each have their own gravity. From the looks of it, other than the exchange of materials, everything else is independent as well." Sandora blinked her sky blue eyes twice, her face filled with interest. "Perhaps after the two spaces overlapped, there was an incomplete displacement. Do you still remember the place where we found Anveena?"
"You mean the haunted house in Darrowshire?" I suddenly remembered. Anveena was an important member of the family. Of course, I remembered the place where we found her very clearly. It was a haunted house that appeared on Earth. However, its actual location should be in Azeroth. Some kind of displacement caused the haunted house to be cut off and landed on Earth. However, it still retained the material laws of the World of Azeroth, which was incompatible with the environment of Earth. For example, the undead power that could support the existence of ghosts and ghouls.
"The two are similar, but the scale here is much larger. From the looks of it, the floating island isn't completely isolated from its original space." Sandora took the lead and walked forward. "Look, man-made objects! Behind that big tree, it seems like there is a stone tower! "
The floating island wasn't barren. It had a landscape that was completely different from the grassland below. There was a dense forest and vines that had been growing for who knows how many years. The entrance to the forest was just a few hundred meters away from where we landed. Sandora only walked forward for a short while before her sharp eyes saw something different between the vines and the forest: man-made traces.
They were hidden behind the dense trees and were still about a kilometer away from where we were. With the eyesight of a human, it was impossible to distinguish the traces of bricks and tiles between the gaps of the trees. Only Sandora could see them at a glance.
Everyone excitedly followed Sandora into the forest as though they had discovered a new continent. The ground beneath their feet was unusually soft. It was filled with humus and fresh fallen leaves that had been deposited for who knows how many years. In addition, there were vines everywhere, so it wasn't easy to walk. Pandora took out her two Battleship Slicing Blades and waved them in front to open a path. Visca also took out his Scorching Ray Cannon and prepared to help. However, she was strictly forbidden from doing so. She might burn the entire forest down. Soon, we found the man-made traces that Sandora had discovered. It was a stone totem that was tilted and covered in cracks. It leaned against an ancient tree near the entrance of the forest. The top part of the totem had merged with the tree trunk. It was obvious that it had been there for a long time. The stone totem was huge, at least four to five people hugging it. It was more than ten meters tall and was engraved with straight intersecting lines. I couldn't tell what they meant. The bottom half of the totem was covered in moss, so we couldn't see its base. I guessed it was taller than it looked, but part of it was buried under the soil.
"At least tens of thousands of years …" Shallow Shallow pointed at the totem and deduced how long it had been immersed in time. However, she was still puzzled. "It's not necessarily accurate. There are a few gaps in time. It seems like it has been pulled into a static space more than once."
Lin Xue had run to another direction to check the situation. She called out from afar, "Look, there's something here too!"
She had discovered a group of thick stone slabs hidden under the vines and fallen leaves. The huge stone slabs were almost completely buried. Only a few small corners were exposed. I believed that Missy didn't just rely on her eyesight to discover these things.
Pandora and Visca violently 'swept' away the vines that covered the stone slabs. We realized that these things could be some fallen monuments. Some of them were resting on thick gray stones, and the stones looked like the original base. We couldn't tell what these stone slabs were made of, and the original carvings on them were blurred, so we couldn't tell what they meant.
"This looks like an ancient ruin," Shallow Shallow said. "Ah Jun, do you think this island used to be inhabited by people?"
I started imagining. "Maybe there was a planet that once gave birth to a glorious civilization. One day, the planet shattered, and the continent became a pile of debris. Then, the glorious civilization became the gravel in this forest. I just don't get it. If the planet was so broken, how could the forest and the stones be preserved so well? Unless these floating islands were originally like this, like the floating continents in the Heavenly Realm, or if these continents were broken, an ecosystem or even an intelligent civilization was born on them. I don't think either of these theories are plausible. "
Shallow Shallow replied with an 'oh' and squatted down to continue to touch the stone slabs. I couldn't help but remember that her father was an archaeologist. Shallow Shallow had been influenced by what she saw and heard since she was young. She seemed to be interested in the broken bricks and tiles that were dug out from the ground. Very quickly, she deduced that the civilization here was roughly equivalent to the end of the slave society. The civilization that built these ruins had a very advanced technology to cut stones in batches. This meant that they had large tools. This information was all based on the blurry patterns on the stones and the way a few of the stones were stacked together. This made me feel a deep sense of respect. I was also deeply worried that Shallow Shallow would not awaken her interest in digging up people's ancestral graves for no reason …
"These stones are definitely not produced on this floating island. Large stones would at least need a large-scale quarry to provide them." Lin Xue also analyzed like an expert. "So, these ruins should have been built before the continent broke. Otherwise, we can only assume that the ancient people who built these ruins had the technology to transport stones by air between several floating islands … That's even more unreliable."
We studied the ruins here with great interest. But after all, we were not experts. Moreover, Shallow Shallow was only interested for a short while. Very soon, we felt that this gloomy, damp, and dirty forest ruins were no longer interesting. We prepared to return to the grassland. Sandora had more or less sorted out the vibrations at the edge of the space. Perhaps in an hour or two, we could forcefully break through the space to meet up with her sister and the others. But just as we were about to leave, Sandora suddenly frowned. "Wait, I didn't notice … There seems to be someone on this island."
"Someone?" I was stunned. Subconsciously, I looked around and saw a dense forest. "There are people living in these forest ruins?"
"I don't know … Let's go over and take a look. Pandora, put away your battleship cannon. Not everyone can be your target. " Sandora flicked her finger on the head of a short man who instantly entered a combat-ready state the moment he heard that there were people. She took the lead and walked into the depths of the forest.
Although Sandora had already sensed that there were people in the depths of the forest, the other party was still very far away from us. After walking for about ten minutes, we first discovered the first fresh traces of human activity: a small temporary campsite. It was located at the top of a flat boulder in the forest. There were traces of a bonfire and a pair of tattered leather gloves that could no longer be used. The embers of the bonfire had already cooled down. However, Shallow Shallow deduced that the flames had only been extinguished a few hours ago.
We continued to move forward for a while. Suddenly, we heard a loud explosion from afar. It sounded like a bomb had gone off. Even the nearby leaves fell to the ground. We exchanged glances and immediately hastened our pace.
Very quickly, we found the location of the explosion. There was a large clearing in the depths of the forest with sparse vegetation. The shrubs and smaller plants around the clearing had been torn to shreds by the shockwave of the explosion. In the middle of the clearing, there was a huge crater from the explosion. Soft black soil had been blown up by the explosion and landed in an area with a radius of a few hundred meters. From the soil, we could see broken stone slabs. It seemed that there were quite a number of historical remains here. Of course, they had been destroyed by violence.
Lin Xue scratched her head. "Speaking of which … Could the people we are looking for have been evenly distributed in this crater …"
This girl's mouth is incurable.
Just as her voice trailed off, I suddenly saw the soil in the distance move. Then, two people with dirty faces crawled out.
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