The tall commercial building blocked the sunlight coming from the right side of the alley, casting a shadow over the narrow alley that was no more than two to three meters in width.
We blinked our eyes and stared at the outer wall of the tall commercial building. A feeling of the unknown filled the air. It wasn't fear though. In theory, there wasn't anything in this world that could make us afraid. But when faced with a completely abnormal or even strange unknown situation, we couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Hey, Sandora, do you still remember when we came in …" I said uncertainly.
Sandora immediately continued, "Ah, I remember. The commercial building was on the left side of the alley."
"This situation can't be explained with common sense." The big sister had an enigmatic smile on her face and took a few steps back.
Originally, she was the last one to enter the alley. Now that the big sister had taken a few steps back, she left the alley. She stood at her position and looked inside. Then, she used her spiritual connection to speak to us, "Left. That's right. From where I am, the commercial building is on the left side of the alley."
The big sister's words made me believe that I was involved in some strange situation again. But why did I say 'again'? Have I reached the point where I don't need to rely on Lin Xue, that moving troublesome amalgamation, to connect me with all kinds of troublesome things?
"Small-scale spatial distortion?"
I said a difficult term that I had learned not long ago. My impression was that it should be in line with the current situation. However, Little Bubble immediately gestured at me. Her expression didn't seem to agree with my guess.
"She said that you are wrong. But the little girl's description is too abstract. I reckon that only Schilling can understand it." Sandora shook her head. "I will contact Bubble and ask her to come over."
"Don't be anxious." The big sister paced back and forth a few times at the entrance of the alley. She seemed to have discovered something. "We are a group of Empire leaders. If we are stumped by an inconspicuous supernatural alley, it will be too embarrassing."
Unfortunately, even so, in the face of such a strange and mysterious phenomenon, combat strength was useless. Just look at Pandora, who had already started to take out miniature Spatial Implosion Bombs.
I say, isn't your method of solving the mystery a little too strange, lass?
Well, in any case, discovering a haunted alley in the middle of the day in a modern city was a novel plot development in itself.
"I suspect that there's something like an illusion here, or perhaps … a spatial mirror image?"
Shallow Shallow pondered for a moment. Come to think of it, this girl actually had the time to ponder for a moment. Then, she voiced out her conjecture, to which Little Bubble objected once more, and the suggestion was rejected.
"Ah Jun." My sister, who had been pacing back and forth at the entrance of the alley, suddenly spoke to me through a mental link. "Reach out your left hand!"
I followed her instructions and extended my left hand. My elder sister immediately revealed an expression of 'I knew it'.
"Ah Jun, that's the right."
No way! I haven't reached the point where I can't tell left from right, right?!
I looked at my outstretched hand in astonishment. No matter how I looked at it, it should be my left hand, right?
But I knew that my elder sister wouldn't joke at such a time. With a skeptical attitude, I followed my elder sister's instructions and clenched my left fist before walking out of the alley.
"Look, you're clenching your right hand …"
My elder sister smiled triumphantly as though she had just proven a great theory, but I was even more confused. What's going on?
"This alley can interfere with our senses of left and right?"
Shallow Shallow, Sandora and the others also experimented a few times with a sense of novelty, but without exception, they realized that their impressions of left and right in the alley were all wrong. In response to such a situation, I could only think that there was something in the alley that was interfering with our senses.
"That's impossible." Sandora immediately shook her head. "How strong are our mental powers? If there was something in the alley that could interfere with our senses, I'm afraid that the entire city would have turned into idiots from the mental shock. "
"Then …" Shallow Shallow and I looked at each other, and at the same time, we asked Sandora and the wise elder sister for the truth.
"It is highly possible that the concept of 'left' and 'right' has been reversed in this space. Outside the alley, left and right are normal, but in the space inside the alley, left and right are the exact opposite. If the two are independent, then no one would be able to notice the abnormality when the two are switched. A person living in the alley would always think that his left hand is his right hand." My elder sister had a gentle smile on her face as she explained her conjecture. This time, Little Bubble didn't refute her.
"It's just like the asymmetric effect of the speed of light." Sandora explained, "If there is a space in front of you that moves at the speed of light of one meter per second, and there is a person moving forward at the speed of light, then from your perspective, that person would only be walking slowly, but to the person on the other side of the space, his speed would be so fast that he would be able to see the red shift and blue shift."
Although this conjecture was difficult to understand, I roughly understood it. However, the problem was, in this ordinary world with low magic and low energy, could such an interesting … cough cough, strange phenomenon appear?
"Summon beast — Jingle!!"
Looking around to make sure that there was no one around, I immediately placed one hand on my waist and raised my other hand high up like a lightning rod. Then, I concentrated my energy into my Dantian and … Yep, a low shout. If my voice was too loud, it would attract attention.
"Jingle is here! Respond to Ah Jun's summon! "
As expected, the moment I said that, the god who could listen to any voice that called her name in the entire world at any time, and who could instantly appear at any location in this world, Jingle, unsurprisingly landed on my head. She raised her small hand high up and said arrogantly, "Leave everything to Jingle. Jingle is really amazing!"
Behind me, Sandora and my elder sister covered their faces at the same time. They couldn't bear to watch the interaction between the two idiots.
I grabbed Jingle in my hand and walked into the strange alley with big strides. Then, I raised the little thing and scanned the surroundings like a detector.
"Eh? Ah Jun, what are you doing! Let Jingle down! Jingle is dizzy! "
"Dizzy?" I showed an expression of certainty, "As expected, there is something wrong with the space here!"
The few girls who followed me in lost their footing and almost fell to the ground. My elder sister didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she knocked on my head, "That's because Jingle got dizzy from your shaking, okay?"
Really? And here I thought that this was how creatures like God should be used, just like the Dragon X Radar that was held in the hand of a minor character to detect flammable gas, and would beep whenever some unlucky kid was about to get his lunch … By the way, did I just go to the wrong place?
"Jingle isn't a radar!" The little thing that was put down immediately protested angrily after hearing my theory, "Also, Jingle won't beep! Only when Pandora is bored will it beep in her stomach! "
Pandora: "… Beep!"
Even if you're bored, don't make a beep at this time … Ah! Jingle, don't bite my ear! My defense was broken!
Dingdang was indeed worthy of being the manager of this world. After we told her about our findings, the little thing just sat cross-legged in the air and pondered (Pondering, see pondering again! Speaking of which, since when did the Empire Soy Sauce Group have so many thinking fellows?) In less than two or three seconds, I came to a conclusion: This space might have been covered by a piece of chaotic information that came from outside this world.
At that moment, I thought of the abnormality that appeared in the shadow city.
Originally, I thought that Little Bubble just happened to discover an interesting place when she went out to play and wanted to show it off. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. Should I say, as expected of my own daughter, she even has this kind of troublesome ability?
Although it was just an abnormally twisted alley, a place that would be overlooked by the unwary, to Jingle, it was a very important discovery. As the manager of this world, no matter how unreliable she usually was, this little thing placed great importance on her work. A huge upheaval in the world would often start with an inconspicuous little trouble, and these inconspicuous little troubles would often be difficult to discover. If it wasn't for us coincidentally discovering this inverted alley, I'm afraid that the entire K City would only receive a report from the Shrine of the World Tree. At that time, Jingle would definitely be locked up …
That afternoon, we released a large number of information probes and began to probe in all directions with this alley as the center. Although we weren't clear about the reason behind this strange phenomenon, we could be sure that the Schilling Mainframe's information integration ability could effectively detect abnormalities in the city. Hundreds of thousands of invisible information collectors roamed the city, and behind each of them was a powerful Schilling Mainframe that could analyze the information sent back by the probes at any time. Bubble, who had just solved the abnormality in the shadow city, had no choice but to temporarily put down the game at hand and throw herself into a new round of work.
On the second morning, the preliminary results of the information comparison were sent to us. As expected, similar abnormalities didn't only appear in that alley. The entire city was filled with abnormal information points. Inverted spaces, backward flowing ditches, elevator doors that appeared out of nowhere on the outer walls. Unknowingly, it seemed as though the entire city had undergone a mutation. Although most of these abnormal points were distributed in inaccessible corners, the strangeness of the situation was enough to make people pay attention to it.
Jingle's conclusion was still the same. The chaotic information from outside the world had polluted this world, and the scope of this pollution was highly likely to spread to the entire world.
In other words, it was possible that it wasn't just in K City where we were, but the entire world had similar abnormal points.
"We have at least one piece of good news." While we were having a headache because of this strange phenomenon that even the Shiring Apostles and Jingle had never seen before, Sandora still had the leisure to seek relief from a series of headache-inducing events. "Now, the attack alarm of the shadow city can be lifted."
If that was the case, it was indeed good news.
Originally, we had always thought that the abnormal situation in the shadow city was caused by the "enemy" attack. But now, it seemed that it was most likely affected by the distorted outside world. In order to expand space at a low cost, the information used in the construction of the shadow city was directly copied from K City and its surrounding areas in the real world. This caused some erroneous information to be accidentally mixed in. Now that the Bubble had established a new filtering mechanism, such erroneous information would be directly filtered out.
Actually, it wasn't a big deal not to filter out this kind of negative influence. The perfection of the shadow city's system was so high that it made one's hair stand on end. No matter how much erroneous information was mixed in, it would be compressed to an extremely low level by a series of automatic defense mechanisms. But how should I put it, too many supernatural incidents would affect the childhood of Osaka's sisters …
It didn't take long for our guesses to be confirmed. The next afternoon, Lin Xue, who came over for lunch out of habit, took the initiative to mention some of the information that the organization had recently gathered before we asked for her help.
"I'm not sure about the situation overseas, but there are many similar phenomena in our country, such as supernatural incidents and the like."
Lin Xue picked up the last two meatballs from my plate and said with a bulging mouth.
"There is no pattern to the occurrence of such incidents. Sometimes, a large city may only have such incidents two or three times a day. But there was an unlucky small town that had such incidents happening more than two hundred times in less than half a day. However, no ordinary people had ever reported any sightings. At first, we thought that this was because such incidents only happened in inaccessible areas. But after some statistics, we found that … even if such incidents happened in the downtown area, ordinary people wouldn't notice it."
Lin Xue's ambiguous words made me feel very strange. Even if it happened in the downtown area, it wouldn't attract attention? Could it be that you discovered a legendary city of natural idiots? A magical territory ruled by Silvia?
When I raised this question, Lin Xue gave me a sidelong glance and said, "Don't talk when you're eating. This is the most basic table etiquette."
I: "…"
You still dare to mention table etiquette in front of me? Didn't you step on the stool just now in order to snatch half an eggplant from me?
"These anomalies won't be noticed by ordinary people." Lin Xue didn't let my question continue for too long. This chick's ability to speak normally with her mouth full was top-notch. "In other words, if it's in front of an ordinary person, even if the sky suddenly collapses, they won't have any reaction. They will think that everything is normal. Then, when they return to the normal area, they will turn their head and forget about the anomalies that they witnessed."
I thought of the alleyway with the left-right twist and Shadora's asymmetric lightspeed scene.
In a distorted world, distortion is normal.
"Only we, special people with extremely strong spiritual power, can notice such anomalies. When ordinary people face anomalies, not only will the laws of the world around them change, even their own worldview will be distorted. Even when they see the normal world around them, they won't realize what is happening in front of them. Even in the ability group, there are very few people who have the ability to notice anomalies. Most of the low-level ability users need to rely on a lot of auxiliary methods and teamwork to faintly notice the changes in the environment. Therefore, our investigation progress is very slow."
No wonder there were so many anomalies in the city, but there were still no urban legends. It wouldn't make sense to say that it happened in a remote place. With such a high frequency and such a long period of time, it would be too strange to say that there weren't any ordinary people who witnessed it. The only explanation was that ordinary people couldn't see those things.
"Hey, Blockhead, you should have noticed something too, right?" Lin Xue saw that we were all in deep thought, and naturally guessed that we, the leaders of the Empire who had nothing to do all day, had encountered similar situations when we were out for fun. "Based on your abnormal spiritual power strength, you should be able to notice it on the spot the moment you enter a similar abnormal area."
Tsk, do you think that you are within the normal range?
We told Lin Xue everything we discovered. Anyway, she probably had many ways to find out what we experienced, so there was no need to hide it.
"Yep, as expected, you can easily notice anomalies. However, to analyze the source of those anomalies, you need the power of the Schilling Host … It seems that the situation is worse than I expected. Is it even related to the origin of the world?"
As Lin Xue said that, she suddenly clenched her right fist and lightly smashed it against her left hand.
"Alright, it's confirmed that it is an extremely difficult mission. The mission to save the world will be handed over to you group of saviors!"
I: "… Don't you run!"
"Tsk, black-hearted bosses are the most annoying."
Was Miss Lin also learning how to act cute?
"Right now, we have set up a temporary host network to analyze the source of these anomalies." Sandora interrupted the interaction between the most shameless Esper Group officer in history and the most lazy Empire leader in history. "Jingle is also using the World Tree Shrine to monitor the flow of information in the world. It shouldn't take long for her to find the source of the anomaly. However, the situation this time is obviously a little special. Against this kind of world anomaly that can't be seen or touched, powerful individual combat strength probably won't be of much use. I suggest that we increase the power of the Schilling Host System. At the very least, we need to have the ability to analyze anomalies in real time. Right now, this method of only investigating after the anomaly appears is too passive."
I nodded. Sandora wasn't exaggerating. This time, we indeed encountered a problem that couldn't be solved with combat strength. Just like that inverted alley, I didn't think that Pandora's Spatial Implosion Bomb could really solve the problem of the anomalies there … Of course, I reckon that when the time came, we would have to solve more than just supernatural incidents.
"I understand now. In other words, in the next few days, I will have to risk my life to give birth, right? And it has to be of high quality. "Bubble turned her head and said something astonishing while sharing dessert with her daughter.
I: "…"
Lin Xue: "… You bastard …"
Can't I have one or two normal girls by my side?
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