Chapter 762： Phantom town

The shock in Gao Wen's mind could not be added.

But he still maintained his concealed effect in the spiritual network, and did not show his consternation.

He just took another look at Selina Geer, and confirmed the relevant information of the other party through the network background again.

His first reaction was the failure of the address recognition function. After all, the system was just completed shortly, and there was still much to be debugged, but he also knew that pushing the problem to the system failure was the most undesirable idea.

It is very likely that Selena Gelfen is really in Cecil, lurking somewhere in the south!

Moreover, it is in a state of soul.

His sight stayed on those words for a long time.

Archbishop (death), soul body ...

This part of the content also touched him a little, but it was not strong. After all, Selena was only an old man in the memory of Gavin Cecil, and he is still an old man 700 years ago. What has been the existence of a human for so long? No wonder, let alone Gao Wen also saw a person who can carry out photosynthesis with his own eyes, his acceptance ability in this regard is quite high.

He is more concerned about Selena Gelfen, who has "survived" with the soul body, and is in a state of hiding in the South.

While thinking, the conversation between Daniel and others was nearing completion.

"... This is the case. The newly emerged spilled pollution area is still in the" imaginary number area "outside the city. We will temporarily call it" phantom town "," said the archbishop named Yuri. "The pope thinks The twisted and weird state presented in this area is very special, so it is ordered not to reset temporarily, but to conduct a period of investigation first. "

Selena also nodded: "It has been sheltered there and will not be noticed by the residents of the dream city. Archbishop Daniel, this is the first time you have entered the overflow pollution zone, mainly to become familiar with the environment and the situation. caution."

"I understand, Archbishop Selena," Daniel responded seriously, "I'm ready."

"Very well, let's go now," Archbishop Yuri glanced over at the clock dial that appeared in the air, and at the same time, layers of rune rings appeared under his feet, and the whole figure began to become unreal. Get up, "Everyone, enter the teleportation area and start the transfer after fifteen seconds."

The three archbishops and three senior priests wearing owl masks all stood within the range of the rune ring, and Gao Wen stood silently among them. Each of them was exactly an elbow away from him, but no one was there. Perception was abnormal.

Light and shadow flickered, the scene around everyone was changing rapidly.

Gao Wen felt himself crossing a "tunnel" full of chaos and fog. The golden city of dreams flashed over the chaotic barriers around the tunnel. When the surrounding scene stabilized, he was already standing in a twilight atmosphere. Central town.

The "tunnel" just now symbolizes the "unlabeled port" in the mental network?

A few thoughts flashed through his mind, and Gao Wen had focused on the run-down town in front of him.

Gloomy and chaotic clouds cover the sky, enveloping everything in the field of vision. Below the sky are scattered old houses. The styles of those houses are different from those in the real world. They have black bevels or spire roofs, and the walls are mottled It faded, and there was always a weird picture on a wall: a hand that seemed to symbolize some kind of power covered the sky and the ground below.

There is no one in the town. It seems to have been abandoned for hundreds of years. Neat black iron lampposts are arranged on both sides of the road. There are overgrown weeds and vines between the lampposts and the gap between the flagstone roads.

Gao Wen looked up into the distance, but couldn't see the scene outside the town. He only saw the hazy mist at the end of his sight. The mist seemed to form a wall to isolate the whole town inside.

Is this the so-called "overflow pollution zone"?

Although desolate and abandoned, but in terms of reality, this place is just like the dream city. It is a place where people can't tell the truth from it ... but why is it empty?

According to Daniel, such spill-contaminated areas should all have human activities or, in cyberspace supported by spiritual power, it is precisely because of mental activity and "human" observation that a region may appear .

What's going on in this empty town?

In Gao Wensi, the archbishop named Yuri also said: "This is not the same as the previous overflow area ... Although the atmosphere here is weird and depressing, the scene is logical, there are no twisted and stacked buildings , Neither the ground without color nor the sky with gaps. "

"This is also one of the reasons why the Pope thinks this place is special, and we need to explore it carefully," Selena Gol nodded. "All the previous overflow areas showed stacking and fading completely unrealistic. Phenomenon, hollowing, curling, etc., are very similar to the distortion and loss of information produced by the scene inside the sandbox when projected to the outside. However, this phantom town ... except for nothing, the physical structure of the town itself It's complete and orderly. "

Gao Wen's analysis of the overflow area before listening sounds a bit like a virtual scene where rendering fails and encounters a model bug ... Is it a manifestation of the lack of computing power of the mental network?

"It's quiet here, and there are no people on the street," Daniel said aside, just asking Gao Wen's question just now, "I remember you told me before that you can see the 'residents' in the overflow area. , Whether they appear weird or distorted, but at least the 'residents' themselves exist. "

"This also needs our investigation and confirmation," Selina Gol nodded. "In short, it's very weird here, and it may be out of the constraints of the rules of the spiritual network. There may be some kind of mind that we can't understand. Pay attention here, and everyone must act with caution. "

After reminding them, the sleepers raised their vigilance and began to gradually explore this weird "phantom town".

They first checked the empty streets and confirmed that at least there were no signs of activity around them. Then they confirmed the topographic structure near the streets and roughly grasped the surrounding environment and the distribution of several major entrances.

Throughout this process, Gao Wen has been following them unhurriedly, listening to their conversations, or following them to record maps and check the abandonment of facilities such as wells and street lights.

After completing a preliminary survey of the surrounding environment and confirming that there were no risk factors, the attention of the team of permanent sleepers naturally turned to the houses on both sides of the road.

In this abandoned town, the doors and windows of all the houses are tightly closed. There is no light or sound in the windows. The heavy curtains or criss-crossed wooden boards block the outside sight from peeping into the house. Instead, there is some kind of temptation, even if people feel strange and dangerous, they can't help but want to take a look inside the house.

The Everlasting Team has always treated this town with the utmost caution, so they first checked the street for danger, but no matter what, in order to complete the investigation task, they will sooner or later check the closed houses.

The three senior clergymen wearing owl masks came to a closed door. Before they tried to open the door, Selina Gulfen first took pictures with a lantern in her hand and checked for possible abnormal data. Or a malicious hidden mind, then nodded: "Open the door."

One of the masked priests pushed down the door, but the seemingly weak wooden door remained motionless.

They started to check the locks on the door to see if something was stuck on the wooden door.

Gao Wen came near them, and came to the side of the cottage facing the street. The window was nailed with crisscross wooden boards. There were wide gaps between the boards, and Gao Wen's sight passed through those gaps. Landed inside the house.

It was dark inside, and only the outlines of some furniture utensils could be seen dimly. Everything seemed to be shrouded in a thick layer of black gauze.

A crunching noise came from the direction of the doorway, and Gao Wen turned his head to see that the three sleepless priests wearing owl masks had successfully opened the closed wooden door, and a bright light appeared in one of them. The ball and the other two blessed mental spells. The three guarded each other carefully and stepped into the hut carefully.

This is the world projected by the mental network. Everything here is the result of mental simulation. Conventional spells in the real world basically have no effect here. Only the power of the mind can work, and the three eternal sleepmasters use it. Spells such as lighting and mental protection should be a simulated "special effect" to generate stronger spiritual guidance and hints to prevent the caster from losing himself in the network.

Gao Wen's heart was spinning with many rules for acting in the spiritual world, and while walking, he followed the three priests and entered the cabin.

The light ball of illumination emits a pale light, which illuminates the furnishings in the house, but the light seems to be disturbed and suppressed by unknown forces, allowing it to spread only a few meters away and only illuminate the nearby ones. Things, and everything in the depths of the room, in every corner, is still shrouded in shadow like a thick veil.

Gao Wen stared at the shadows, only to feel that those shadows were empty, as if the unlit areas were not only dark, but the real nothing existed. He even made some associations for no reason. When the earth steps into those darkness in the absence of light, it will fall directly into nothingness, and the mind will be annihilated in the hollow of the network.

The three priests responsible for exploring the house apparently realized the weirdness of the shadowed areas. They carefully maintained their actions within the range of illumination, and none of them approached the darkness.

"There is no dust ... but there is an atmosphere that has been abandoned for many years ..." One of the clergymen brushed his finger across the square table in the center of the room, and a low voice came from under the owl mask. "It seems to be a phenomenon of 'emotional resonance'."

"It's possible," said another clergyman, and nodded. "Here is a force that affects people's thoughts, creating an 'atmosphere' that has been abandoned for many years."

The third priest inspected several other places: "Furniture is placed in the place of daily use, there is still water in the water bottle, and the flowers inserted on the wooden pillars have not withered. It seems that the people living here only suddenly go away……"

"This should be the data leaked from the sandbox number one, which is a projection of a town in the sandbox. Judging from the state that the projection has not been distorted, most of it is the situation inside the sandbox number one," The clergyman said lowly, "In the sandbox number one ... is this the scene now?"

"At least one town is this sight."

Gao Wen followed the three priests and followed them to check the situation in the cabin, but found no clues worthy of attention, then turned away from the room and returned to the street where Selena and others were.

While the three priests inspected the house, the three archbishops staying outside were not doing nothing. On the one hand, they maintained the spiritual protection of the area to prevent malicious minds hidden in the town from attacking the priests who entered the house. On the one hand, it monitors the movements of the town and pays attention to whether the town has synchronized what changes have taken place after the three priests entered the house. A similar "joint reaction" must be considered.

Gao Wen heard Selena Gulfen talking to Daniel.

"... This town is not in the 'blueprint' of the sandbox number one," said the woman who raised the lantern lightly. "Also in the follow-up blueprint of the performance, the history that evolved after the sandbox number one went out of control created this small town."

Daniel asked: "Are there any other similar 'self-evolution products'?"

"Yes," Selena nodded. "We have observed a mysterious plain, several broken streets, and a mountain from nowhere. The mountain floats above the city of dreams, if not the pope's crown. Anomaly was detected in advance, and the blockade was conducted in time. I am afraid it will be directly exposed to the ordinary church members. "

Daniel was a little curious: "... these overflows all seem to be around the dream city, but at the most, it only affects the fringe neighborhoods and does not directly erode the central area of ​​the dream city?"

"Yes, the city of dreams is tightly guarded and not so easy to invade."

Daniel and Govin standing next to Selena showed thoughtful expressions at the same time.

Just then, a melodious and mysterious bell rang suddenly in the town!