But there was good news: after a series of setbacks, something we had expected finally happened.
The divine circle that Liliana had set up at the edge of the world fragment sent an alarm signal in the afternoon as we had expected …
I have to admit, this was complete nonsense — it would be strange if that thing did not send an alarm when it was placed at the edge of the world's evaporation!
When the alarm suddenly sounded, Artemis was in the activity room chatting with us about the various strange phenomena after the destruction of the world. To Artemis, those things were not only not interesting, but terrible. But to the wildly curious Shallow Shallow and the gossipy Miss Lin (as a prophet, do you really need to have this level of curiosity?), those magical things had a very strong appeal. To them, those magical things had quite a strong attraction, and so, with the high-sounding reason of "gathering information necessary to save the world" (of course, this reason was not entirely false), poor Artemis was almost treated as a story machine by Qian Qian and Lin Xue, until a series of air-raid sirens suddenly erupted from a maple-leaf-shaped hairpin on Lina's head, and only then did she finally catch her breath.
And then a group of horrified divers began to inhumanely crowd around Liliana, who was wearing an air-raid horn.
"Hmm, a very creative ringtone."
Lin Xue patted Liliana's head, whose expression was a little stiff, and then like a female boss, she stepped on the chair with one foot, pointed straight ahead, gave a thumbs up, and loudly concluded.
"And it looks like it's still vibrating."
Qian Qian moved closer to Lina's side, taking advantage of the awkward situation she was in to snatch the delicate maple leaf alarm device from Lina's hands. She cried out in surprise.
"Give it back!" Liliana's little face flushed red, and she jumped to snatch her hairpin from Shallow Shallow. "That was made by the goddess, give it back!"
Ah, it was Jingle's doing, then it was understandable why it was such a pain in the ass alarm — that little thing probably saw something on the computer and used it without understanding it. Last time, she had also researched pea pods that could shoot peas at more than 600 miles per hour and corn cobs that would explode after being thrown, but unfortunately, all the experimental results were confiscated by her elder sister in the name of maintaining world peace.
After an almost daily fuss, Liliana finally got back her hairpin as she wished, but this time she did not have the nerve to continue wearing the weird thing on her head, but threw it into the dimensional pocket, and then directly began to draw with her fingers.
Artemis also curiously came over, although in her "dream", all kinds of magical things happened, and she even played the role of an Esper, but that still did not eliminate her curiosity about magical magic.
A green halo slowly floated down from Liliana's hair, making the little girl who was lying on the ground to draw runes look like a naughty jungle elf, cute with a hint of holiness. When the energy crystal powder with divine power floated to the ground, it would immediately automatically form a rather complex diagram, gradually sketching out a three-dimensional map of the city. Although it was not as accurate as the map drawn by the high-tech probe, it was still amazing, and as the small city model gradually rose from the ground, Liliana, who was lying on the model and drawing divine characters with her fingers, was like Godzilla …
Well, let's just pretend that we did not see this strange metaphor.
In short, when Liliana stood up, a green fluorescent model that looked like a miniature sand table appeared in front of us, and a series of lines composed of runes ran through the entire sand table model, constantly forming a twisted chain.
"A very genius way of using divine characters," Monina looked at Liliana with some surprise, "You researched this yourself?"
"It's just a little improvement on the tracking spell," Liliana said with a rare look of embarrassment, "I separated the description part and the operation part, and made the former work at a very far place, it's not a high-level change."
"That's still pretty good," Monina looked even more surprised, "even if you can directly read and write divine characters because of your identity as a spokesperson, your level is still impressive enough. Back then, it took Captain six years to learn to write his own address, and he was regarded as a legend in the realm of the gods!"
Was Jingle an idiot in her pre-school years?
After Liliana's simple explanation, we could also understand the meaning of the model. Needless to say, there was no need to explain the green fluorescent city, that was the model of the world fragment, and the flowing rune chain was a diagram of the flow of information that had been transmitted back through the evaporated divine spell formation. That inconceivable divine spell formation had the attribute of "indestructibility," so even if it was evaporated into a quantum state, or even an information state, or even a data state, as long as the spellcaster did not interrupt its operation, it would continue to operate forever. This allowed us to directly observe the evaporated state of the river of information, which was absolutely impossible to observe using conventional scientific methods.
"These are the main nodes," Liliana seemed to be worried that we wouldn't understand, and in fact, we really didn't. She lightly touched a few points on the river of information with her finger, and immediately, those points lit up. "These are the positions where the information changes from a stable state to an evaporated state. Connect these points, and you can find the position where the world fragment first lost its balance."
As Liliana said that, she used her finger to draw a few thin lines in the air, and connected the small points one by one. But halfway through, she suddenly stopped, and then looked up awkwardly, "Boss, how do I draw the compound scatter diagram?"
I said, "… You didn't even learn junior high geometry, and you still dare to be Pope!?"
"Do you need to take junior high geometry tests to be Pope!?"
"I really don't know what to do with you two," the big sister sighed with a headache, and then casually pointed at the city model, "Still need to use scatter diagram? This is it! "
"No, no, it should be here!" Lin Xue immediately interrupted the big sister, and pointed at another place on the model.
"According to my intuition, it should be here!" Shallow Shallow also used her intuition that changed once every three seconds to join in the fun.
After a round of argument.
We looked at each other tacitly, and then sighed in unison, and connected to the command center.
"Tawil, the leader of the Empire needs your help now."
I could feel the indescribable desolation in my voice.
"To dedicate everything to you, Your Majesty, what happened!?" Tawil's voice had a hint of nervousness, and it was obvious that my serious words had made the dedicated female scientist feel uneasy.
"… How do I draw the compound scatter diagram?"
When we finally found the first abnormal point of the world, I felt that all of us were shrouded in a thick black fog …
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but the first abnormal point that was marked was not far from where we were now, in the eastern part of the campus, and according to Artemis, that was the location of the old gymnasium.
As it turned out, the first place that the world was destroyed was in the interior, and Monina's guess was confirmed, but how could an anomaly that occurred from the interior cause a huge flash in the sky?
"The structure of the world is more complicated than you think," Monina explained. "At higher dimensions, space appears to be discontinuous, and if a burst of energy is strong enough to destroy all dimensions in an instant, then no matter where it first occurred, it will cause a phenomenon that can be observed by the entire world at the same time, such as a huge flash."
Because the distance was not very far, and we had Iersen, the Protoss warrior who was said to specialize in defense, as a bodyguard, we agreed to Artemis' request to go with us, but we had to be careful not to let Hu Wen and the others find out, and it would be very troublesome to explain. In the end, it was Monina who used her ability to turn Artemis's departure into a false fact that could be ignored by everyone, and then we swaggered out under everyone's eyes. During this time, Artemis also curiously greeted her companions, but they didn't even notice anything unusual while chatting with Artemis …
The strongest assassin in the world is not a sharp blade that can stab you in the shadows, but a person who can kill their target in front of millions of eyes and then float away. I really can't imagine how the people who were secretly executed by Monina would fight against this power that could distort the world — although according to Iersen's introduction, the reason why Monina's "Astral Dissipation" skill was so perfect was because she had practiced it while skipping classes in school …
In fact, the current members of Jingle's team, except for a certain Light God uncle who was in charge of running errands, had all met and colluded when they skipped classes.
"Ah Jun! Look up in the sky! "
Just as the dome of the stadium appeared in front of us, Shallow shallow, who had been looking around all along the way, suddenly noticed something and immediately pointed up and cried out in surprise.
Looking in the direction of her finger, I couldn't help but exclaim, "What the hell is that!?"
Another city? A city that is upside down in the sky!?
Behind the thin layer of clouds in the sky, the inverted buildings were clearly visible. It looked like a mirage, but the grandeur and realism made people wonder if there was really another inverted city in the distant sky that was gradually falling down.
After carefully observing for a while, we suddenly discovered many familiar things in the 'Sky City'. The food street that Shadora had once dominated single-handedly, the pirate street that had once caused an uproar in the city due to the Town Security 300 relay event, and the amusement park A, the amusement park that Qian Qian often visited, the amusement park B, the amusement park C that Qian Qian often visited …
I can't remember anymore, if I do, I will cry …
"It's our real world!" Big sister's voice sounded very serious. "The corruption has already reached the range of our vision!"
Monina shook her head. "It's not that bad. Due to the fragility of the world, we will be able to see the scenery of the other world many days in advance. However, there isn't much time left for the other side."
"That's your world?" Artemis muttered to herself. "It's just like in the dream … Let's hurry, or else both worlds will be finished."
"Creak —"
The heavy metal door let out an ear-piercing screech as it was slowly pushed open by Eersson's monstrous strength. It was said that the old gymnasium had been abandoned for several years before the apocalypse, and there was a lot of dust accumulated in it. The moment the door opened, the dust that rushed at us was almost suffocating. Fortunately, we all had energy shields. Otherwise, we would all have been choked by the dust.
Poke, poke, poke …
Just looking at Artemis, who was curiously poking at the shield, made one feel speechless.
"How long has it been since anyone came to this place?"
Even though the dust was all blocked by the energy shield, Big Sister still subconsciously fanned the air in front of her. The vast and empty stadium was filled with floating dust, and the sunlight that leaked through the gaps in the top of the sealed windows formed a beam of bright light in the flying dust, cutting the space in front of us into a bizarre pile of geometrical objects.
And what we were most concerned about was the dozen or so circular shadows on the floor in front of us. It looked like there was something blocking the light, but in fact, there was nothing there except dust.
"Not counting the time after that day when time stopped, this stadium has been closed for nearly a decade. It is said that supernatural events often happen here — but who cares about that now?"
"You guys never came to take a look?"
Lin Xue seemed to casually mention it.
"No …" Artemis answered subconsciously, and then immediately repeated in confusion. "Never came … How could we forget that there is a stadium here?"
Only then did I realize what Lin Xue meant.
After the destruction of the world, Artemis and her fellow Awakeners had spent several years looking for survivors in the city. It may be an exaggeration to say that the entire city had been turned upside down, but at least every corner of this school must have been turned over by them. But such a large stadium … How could they have overlooked it?
"I bet that if Artemis calls Hu Wen and the others to ask about the stadium now, the other party will definitely be confused," Lin Xue said with her arms crossed.
I spread out my hands. "That would also require a signal in this world."
"There is a signal!" Artemis replied hurriedly, and then took out her phone. "Although I don't know why, the phones in this world have always worked."
A few minutes later, Artemis, who had completed the assimilation, had an obvious uneasiness on her face. She held up her phone and forced a smile at us. "Lingyin doesn't even know there is such an old stadium in the school."
"Then why does Artemis know?" I asked curiously, and then said thoughtfully, "Is it because we are the ones asking?"
"That's right. If the person who called just now was one of us, even if we didn't mention the word 'stadium', just a rough description of where we are now would immediately 'remember' everything about the old stadium," Lin Xue said as she walked forward. "I've already seen something about the secrets of this stadium …"
Then, we saw with our own eyes, when Lin Xue walked into a circular shadow in the center of the stadium, she disappeared in front of everyone.
"Lin Xue!!"
"Blockhead, don't shout so loudly. I'm fine." What made me heave a sigh of relief was that Lin Xue's voice immediately rang in my head. However, what she said next almost made me choke to death, "Could it be that you have feelings for me?"
This damn girl definitely did it on purpose! Can such words be said on a public channel?
"There are many similar holes in the stadium," In the blink of an eye, Lin Xue walked out of the circular shadow again. "These holes seem to have been caused by some kind of 'explosion'. After walking in, you can see another world. Guess what it is?"
"Regardless, it seems like we have a lot of work to do." Before we moved, Ethan had already taken action decisively. A dazzling golden light flashed, and the delinquent muscleman turned into a Greek god of war, wearing a full set of golden armor, holding a magnificent heavy shield decorated with a golden wing emblem in his left hand, and holding a two-meter-long golden greatsword in his right hand. The handle was carved in the shape of a wing, and the entire body looked like it was forged from sunlight (I have every reason to believe that the 700 billion golden flash was released by this greatsword of holy light). Right now, Idiot Ethan was as magnificent as the male protagonist. "I'll lead the way! Everyone, follow me! "
Facing our surprised expression, Monina said lightly, "It's okay, Idiot Brother has a tough life, let him lead the way."
Is that really your brother?
To be honest, Monina, who was as cold as winter to her brother, gave me all kinds of subtle gratification. Should I say that I'm lucky to have a group of gentle sisters?
Following Lin Xue's method, we picked the largest circular shadow and stood on it together.
Then, the scene before us changed.
The old and messy stadium disappeared, and what appeared before us was a grand platform paved with simple and unadorned stone slabs. Beyond the platform, there were gigantic planets that seemed to be within reach, as well as the mysterious and boundless starry sky.
"This is …" The shock in my heart made me look around in a daze. Then, the scene before my eyes flashed, and I returned to the stadium from before.
It turned out that when I subconsciously took a step back, I had already left the shadowy area. Liliana also came out with me. It was obvious that this girl had made the same mistake as me.
After exchanging awkward glances, Liliana and I returned to the shadows. Immediately, the mysterious floating platform and Shallow Shallow and the others appeared before us.
"Just now, the two of you suddenly disappeared," Shallow Shallow said curiously as she hopped over.
"I know … where … is this place?"
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