Gao Wen's heart was shocked.

But he still maintained his hidden effect in the spiritual network, and did not reveal his shocked emotions.

He just looked at Selena Geer again and confirmed the other party's relevant information through the Internet backend again.

His first reaction was that the address recognition function had a fault. After all, the system had just been completed and there were still many places that needed to be debugged, but he also knew that pushing the problem to system failures was the most undesirable idea.

Selena Gerfen is very likely to be in Cecil, lurking somewhere in the southern border!

Moreover, it is in the state of soul.

His eyes stayed on those words for a long time.

Archbishop (death), soul body...

This part of the content also touched him, but it was not strong. After all, Selena was just an old friend in Gowen Cecil's memory, and she was an old friend seven hundred years ago. It is not surprising that a human being has been in such a long time, and it is not surprising that it has become a state of being in the same state. Moreover, Gowen also witnessed with his own eyes that can perform photosynthesis. His ability to accept this aspect is quite high.

What he paid more attention to was Selena Gerfen, who had "survived" his soul body to this day, was hiding in the southern territory at this moment.

While thinking, the conversation between Daniel and others was coming to an end.

"...This is the case. This new overflow polluted area is still in the 'image area' outside the city. We temporarily call it the 'Phantom Town'," said the Archbishop named Yuri. "The Pope's Coronation believes that the distorted and weird state of this area is very special, so he ordered that the reset will not be carried out for the time being, but a period of investigation will be conducted first."

Selena also nodded: "There has been covered up there and will not be noticed by the residents of Dream City. Archbishop Daniel, this is the first time you have entered the overflow polluted area, mainly to be familiar with the environment and the situation. Please pay attention to this."

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

"Very good, let's go now," Archbishop Yuri turned his head and glanced at the clock face that appeared in the air. At the same time, layers of rune rings appeared under his feet, and his whole figure began to become illusory. "Everyone, enter the teleportation area and starts to transfer in fifteen seconds."

The three archbishops and three high-ranking priests wearing owl masks all stood within the rune ring, and Gawain stood silently among them, each of them was exactly a distance from him, but no one noticed the abnormality.

As the light and shadow flickered, the scenes around everyone were changing rapidly.

Gao Wen felt that he had traveled through a "tunnel" filled with chaotic fog. The magnificent Dream City flashed over the chaotic barrier around the tunnel. When the surrounding scene stabilized, he was already standing in the middle of a small town with a dull atmosphere.

The "tunnel" just now symbolizes the "unmarked port" in the spiritual network?

A little thought flashed through his mind, and Gao Wen had already focused on the dilapidated town in front of him.

The gloomy and chaotic clouds cover the sky, covering everything in the field of view. Below the sky are old houses arranged in a staggered manner. The styles of those houses are different from those of the real world. They have black beveled or pointed roofs, and the exterior walls are mottled and faded. There is always a wall depicting a strange picture: a hand that seems to symbolize some great power covers the sky, covering the earth below.

The town is silent and uninhabited, as if it has been abandoned for a hundred years. Neatly titanic iron-black lampposts are arranged on both sides of the road, and between the gaps between the lampposts and the stone road, weeds and vines are entangled.

Gao Wen looked up at the distance, but could not see the scene outside the town. He only saw a hazy mist gushing at the end of his sight. The mist seemed to form a wall, isolating the entire town inside.

Is this the so-called "overflow polluted area"?

Although desolate and abandoned, just from the truth, this place is like the Dream City, which is a place that is difficult to tell the truth about the false...but why is there no one here?

According to Daniel, such overflow polluted areas should be human activities or in other words, in a cyberspace supported by spiritual power, it is precisely because of mental activities and "people" observation that an area can appear.

What's going on in this empty town?

While Gao Wen was thinking, the archbishop named Yuri spoke: "This place is different from the previous overflow area... Although the atmosphere here is strange and depressing, the scene is logical. There are no distorted and stacked buildings, no ground that loses color or a sky that presents gaps."

"This is also one of the reasons why the Pope's Coronation thinks this place is special and requires us to carefully investigate it," Selena Gerfen nodded. "All the previous overflow areas showed stacking, fading, hollowing, curling and other phenomena that were completely in line with the logic of reality. It was very similar to the scene in the sandbox that caused distortion and loss of information during projection outside. However, this phantom town... except for the absence of people, the physical structure of the town itself is complete and orderly."

Takashi's previous overflow area sounds a bit like a virtual scene where rendering fails and model bugs are encountered... is it a manifestation of insufficient computing power in the mind network?

"It's very quiet here, and there's no one on the street," Daniel said, 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 strange and distorted, at least the 'residents' themselves exist."

"This is also something we need to investigate and confirm," Selena Gerfen nodded, "In short, this place is very strange, and it may have been out of the rules of the spiritual network. There may be some kind of mind that we cannot understand affecting and paying attention to here. Everyone should be careful in their actions."

After making a reminder, the Eternal Sleepers were alert 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 living creatures around them. Then they confirmed the terrain structure near the streets, roughly grasping the surrounding environment and the distribution of several major entrances and exits.

During the whole process, Gao Wen followed them slowly, listening to their conversations, or following them to record maps and check the abandonment of facilities such as wells and street lights.

After completing the preliminary investigation of the surrounding environment and confirming that there were no risk factors, the attention of this team of Eternal Sleepers naturally shifted to the houses on both sides of the road.

In this abandoned town, the doors and windows of all houses are tightly closed, and there is neither light nor sound in the window. The thick curtains or crisscrossing wooden boards block the external view from peeping into the house. However, this obstruction has become a kind of temptation, which makes people curiously want to take a look inside the house even if they feel strange danger.

The Sleepers team has always treated the town with the utmost caution, so they first checked the dangers on the streets, but no matter what, in order to complete the investigation task, they would sooner or later inspect the closed houses.

The three high-ranking priests wearing owl masks came to a closed hut. Before they tried to open the door, Selena Gerfen first illuminated the room outside the house with a lantern in his hand, checked for possible abnormal data or hidden minds with malicious intentions, and then nodded: "Open the door."

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

They began to check the locks on the door to check if something was stuck in the wooden door.

Gao Wen came near them and came to a window facing the street of the hut. The window was nailed with broken wooden boards, and there were quite wide gaps between the wooden boards. Gao Wen's vision fell into the house through the gaps.

It was dark inside, and only a few outlines of furniture and utensils could be seen vaguely. Everything seemed to be covered with a thick layer of black veil, with shadows and shadows that were not real.

A squeaking sound came from the direction of the door. Gao Wen turned his head and saw that the three Eternal Sleeper Priests wearing owl masks had successfully opened the closed wooden door. One of them had a bright ball of light appeared in his hands, and the other two had blessed the spells that protected the mind. The three of them carefully covered each other and stepped into the hut carefully.

This is the world projected by the mind network. Everything here is the result of mental simulation. The conventional spells in the real world have basically no effect here. Only the power of the mind can work. The illumination techniques, mental protection techniques and other spells used by the three eternal sleeper priests 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 filled with many principles of action in his mind, and while taking steps, he followed the three priests and walked into the hut.

The illumination ball emits a pale light, illuminating the furnishings in the house, but this light seems to be disturbed and suppressed by unknown forces, allowing it to spread several meters away and illuminate things nearby. In the depths of the house, everything in every corner is still shrouded in shadows like a thick veil.

Gao Wen looked at the shadows and felt that the shadows were empty deep, as if the unlit place was not just darkness, but the real existence of nothing. He even had some associations for no reason, thinking that if anyone stepped into the darkness in the absence of light, he would fall directly into nothingness and his mind would be annihilated in the hollow of the network.

The three priests responsible for exploring the house were also obviously aware of the weirdness of the shadow areas. They carefully maintained their movements within the scope of the lighting technique, and none of them were approaching the darkness.

"No dust...but there is an atmosphere of being abandoned for many years..." One of the priests brushed his fingers across the square table in the center of the room, and a low voice came from under the owl mask, "It seems to be an 'emotional resonance' phenomenon."

"It's possible," said another priest nodded, "there is a force that can influence people's thoughts, and a 'atmosphere' that is 'abandoned for many years'."

The third priest checked several other places: "The furniture and utensils are placed in daily use, there is clear water in the water bottle, and the flowers inserted on the wooden pillars have not yet withered. It seems that the people living here have just left suddenly not long ago..."

"This should be the data leaked from the sandbox No. 1, which is the projection of a town in the sandbox. Judging from the state where the projection has not been distorted, it is mostly a very restored here to the situation in the sandbox No. 1," said the first priest quietly, "Is this the scene in the sandbox No. 1... now?"

“There is at least one town that is like this.”

Gao Wen followed the three priests and followed them to check the situation in the hut, but found no clues worth paying attention to, so he turned around and exited the house and returned to the street where Selena and others were.

While the three priests inspected the house, the three archbishops who stayed outside were not doing nothing. On the one hand, they maintained the spiritual protection of this area to prevent the malicious mind hidden deep in the town from attacking the priests entering the house. On the other hand, they monitored the movements and situations everywhere in the town, paying attention to whether the town had any changes in the synchronized situation after the three priests entered the house. In the spiritual world involving conscious activities, similar "linkage reactions" must be considered.

Gowen heard Selena Gerfen was talking to Daniel.

"...This town is not in the 'blueprint' of Sandbox No. 1," said the woman with the lantern lightly. "It is not in the subsequent blueprint of the deduction. It is the history that evolved itself after Sandbox No. 1 lost control and created this town."

Daniel asked, “There are other similar 'self-evolution products'?”

"Yes," Selena nodded, "We have observed a mysterious plain, several broken streets, and a mountain that came from unknown. The mountain floated over the Dream City. If the Pope's crown had not sensed the abnormality in advance and blocked it in time, it would have been directly exposed to the eyes of ordinary people."

Daniel was a little curious: "...these overflows seem to surround the city of Dreams, but at most they only affect the edge blocks and do not directly erode the central area of ​​Dreams?"

"Yes, Dream City has strict protection and is not so easy to invade."

Daniel and Gao Wen, who was standing beside Selena, both showed thoughtful expressions.
Chapter completed!