Chapter 23 Ghost Space
Ghost Space sounds like a mysterious name, perhaps full of attraction to people who are good at it, but in the eyes of Pavatiga's intelligent creatures, behind this name is deep fear.
Because, together with the two mysterious phenomena of Void Rift and the projection of another world, this name has been ranked as the three mysterious killers of Pavadiga. For tens of thousands of years, countless creatures have died in the ghost space. It can be seen that the number is even more than the projection of the big Rift and the projection of another world.
In fact, ghost space itself is a very gentle spatial phenomenon. Well, at least it is much gentler than the large rift of the void that has gone but no return and the projection of the other world that is gambling most of the time.
No one knows the reason for the formation of ghost space, nor can they see its true appearance. People only know about it, but only the phenomena it shows.
The earliest ghost space in the record was in the budding era nearly 7,000 years ago. At that time, the wood elves walked out of the dense forest for the first time, and the mountain elves tried to explore the world outside the mountains. At that time, the dwarfs were still waving hammers underground and in the belly of the mountain to entertain themselves. Humans had just left the life of picking and fishing and hunting, and entered the era of slash-and-burn farming. Everyone was exploring out in confusion, observing this magical world curiously.
Of course, sea elves are indispensable. These children from the sea are particularly intelligent. They can clearly live in the water freely, but they create huge sea boats to explore islands in the ocean by carrying land races in exchange for huge benefits.
The accident happened during an ocean-going period.
The exploration ship called Frost, carrying 230 land race explorers and 96 sea elves crews, set sail from the Port of Hope. The destination is the Pearl Island Chain composed of twelve islands on the sea center of Pavatiga. It is the end of the known terrestrial wisdom race. Conquering the Pearl Island Chain and turning the unknown into the known is the only purpose of more than 200 explorers.
However, they never came back.
Two hundred and thirty explorers and ninety-six crew members disappeared, no one was seen alive or no corpse died. This is an unusual situation. Even if the land explorers drowned in the sea when encountering a shipwreck, the sea elves who regard the sea as their home cannot drown with them. In any case, in more than 300 people, a few sea elves should have escaped and told the world what was going on.
But no, none.
The incident was very serious. The land race and the sea race were once in a highly tense atmosphere. Both sides suspected that it was the other party planning a conspiracy, so that the first sea and land war almost broke out between the land and sea races.
It was not until half a year later that the Hanshuang number appeared again.
The focus of the incident reappeared, shocking the races on both sides. In the end, all races of the sea and land sent enough representatives to board the Han Frost together, trying to figure out what happened.
The results of exploration are now known to everyone.
Everything was normal on the ship. There were also sanitary ware for cleaning on the deck. The sanitary ware seemed to be half used and was poured on the deck casually. The bundles of cables were neatly placed around the mast. The sails descended were also neatly stacked and pressed under the foot of the mast.
There is no mess in the cabin. The seafarers must maximize the use of limited space, so it is already a life instinct to arrange things neatly. On the dining table in the cabin, bread was piled in baskets, and half-eat soup was still soaked with wooden spoons. Several sea fish cooked by different techniques were placed in the middle of the dining table. There were even vegetable porridge cooked after the dried vegetables were soaked again. It seemed that the food of these explorers was still very good.
In the activity room next to it, a large number of cards were scattered on a table surrounded by more than ten chairs. The messy gold and silver coins shone between the paper plates, showing their presence. On the other side, on a magic chess board, the chess game was already halfway through, and an elemental mage's chess piece fell on the board. Its owner probably wouldn't have the chance to take the next step again.
Yes, there is no chance again, because although the ship is completely normal, just like it was crowded with people a few seconds ago, there is no one now, not one.
I searched all over the ship, weapons, equipment, property, food, and all the necessities were complete, and there were many traces of not even used, but there was not a single person. It seemed that everyone was spending an ordinary day in a lively manner and suddenly disappeared collectively.
No one knows what happened to the people on the ship, no one knows where the ship has been drifting. It can be imagined that in the six months since its disappearance, this ship, whose crew members have disappeared inexplicably, was like a ghost with a dead body, wandering tirelessly on the sea.
Since then, people have called this ship the ghost ship. Explorers and scholars who are curious about the world have always wanted to figure out the true image of the ghost ship. They have established countless hypotheses, including the nonsense of the crew members having hallucinations and then collectively jumping into the sea. However, everything is futile, and the true image is always hidden in the depths of the fog, making people unpredictable.
Until nine hundred years later, a second similar incident occurred.
It was already late in the budding era, and the glorious era of great pioneering was about to come. Although it had not yet entered the pioneering era, the smart creatures at that time had begun to keen on expanding the world of civilization and snatching living space from the wilderness. A large number of funded exploration teams carried the heart of the city deep into the wilderness, and some successfully erected the heart of the city, allowing a brand new city to stand tall in the world, but more exploration teams disappeared silently in the wilderness, and even their names were not left in history.
Among them, the Robert Exploration Team was lucky. They left their names in history books, but they were also unfortunate because the reason for their name was not the glory of building the city, but a missing incident.
That's right, the entire expedition team disappeared together.
One hundred and fifty-four people, forty unicorns, seventy-three horses, and a large number of poultry, completely disappeared, and only the large convoy was left in the wilderness and quietly waiting in loneliness.
This time, I was lucky. In less than three days, a team with a way discovered the remains of the exploration team. The discoverer was startled by the dead convoy. Faced with such a strange phenomenon, the discoverer chose the smartest approach.
They sent people back to the city to report to the lord.
Soon, the priests of the temple, the magicians on the tower, and the weak but knowledgeable scholars gathered like the scene of the incident. The keen intuition of the knowledge explorers made them think of the ghost ship incident nine hundred years ago at the first time.
Sure enough, everything is equally weird, almost exactly the same as the recorded ghost ship incident. The only difference is that the site of the incident has changed to land.
But this time, the researchers were ecstatic because everyone discovered that a strange event that happened a few days ago actually left behind a witness.
A coachman in the exploration team did not disappear with the others. Whether it was luck or misfortune, he survived from the weirdness. Unfortunately, when he found him, he was already crazy, completely lost his language ability, could eat, drink, and sleep, but he had no mental reaction to anything. In the rest of his life, the only thing that would make him react was a mirror. As long as he faced the mirror, he would scream and attack frantically, and continue until he broke the mirror.
Until a few years later, he suddenly regained his rationality before his death, but that was so weak that he could hardly speak, leaving only a famous last word that brought countless mysteries: "Why can't you get out?"
Since then, the ghost space has become the name of this strange phenomenon instead of the ghost ship. Then, every few decades, there will be a ghost space erupting. During this period, the victims are more or less, at most, an army of 3,000 people climbing through the top of the mountain. With a thick fog, it disappeared out of thin air in the eyes of hundreds of villagers at the foot of the mountain. When it is too small, it is often only a dozen or so people.
Gradually, as the number of occurrences increased, people also summarized some rules of ghost space.
It usually has no signs of its appearance, and it is difficult for people to discover it in advance. Perhaps animals will detect danger by instinct and stay away from the area where ghost space erupts in advance. But this is just a guess. No one can be sure whether this is the case.
People found that ghost spaces often only appear in sparsely populated wilderness. When they appear, they will start at a little and spread out quickly, and eventually spread to an area with an uncertain range. All creatures in the area, including personal belongings, will be sucked into the ghost space, and only a large number of relics are left in place.
Due to that famous last words, people once speculated that the ghost space was a very large maze-like world. If the victim was sucked in, it would be difficult for the victim to escape. The one who was as lucky as the survivor could return safely is just an exception among the exceptions.
However, as time went by, nearly three thousand years ago, in the darkest chaotic era of Pavatiga, the frequency of explosions in the ghost space reached its peak, and it would appear one or two years. As the number of times increased, the number of victims would increase, and of course, the number of exceptions would increase accordingly. From time to time, there would be news that victims would return safely.
Excluding those who make up lies for various purposes, at least nearly a hundred people have safely left the ghost space. Among these people, there are many warriors, and even top-level strong people. However, even if they have experienced ghost space personally, it is difficult for these people to explain clearly what they have experienced.
Most people didn't even know that they had entered the ghost space. They entered inexplicably and left inexplicably, without realizing what was going on.
Those who realize that something is wrong are also confused. Although they have different descriptions of the internal environment of the ghost space, the same point is that they have entered a space that seems to be infinite. No matter how hard they try, they can never go out. Moreover, the whole world is like only one group of people left, and they can't meet any creatures at all. The world is full of despair and loneliness.
As for how they finally got out, it’s a pity that no one can explain clearly. Everyone’s statements are surprisingly consistent. As they walked, they came out for no reason.
Of course, this kind of answer cannot satisfy scholars, but there is nothing we can do if we are not satisfied. In fact, no one can change it.
Chapter completed!