There's an anomaly that's hard to spot even when it's right in front of you. Its unnaturalness is obvious, but it's easily overlooked due to limitations in human thinking and classic issues like visual errors. This is especially true when the observer and the observed target are separated by a heavily disturbed camera and a clumsy "cameraman" constantly rolling and flying around.

For example, the classic academic problem of "why are the pigeons so big"...

Hao Ren also noticed the anomaly in the picture because he suddenly felt a sense of disharmony and couldn't help but observe it carefully.

The broken objects floating in the Great Pit space were distributed in a chaotic manner. Coupled with the poor picture quality, Hao Ren didn't notice their scale problems at first glance. He assumed that the too-small images were because they were floating too far away, and the shadows that were too large were too close to the camera. But when a church spire the size of a peanut directly hit the little weakling's head (since the probe was tied to the little guy's back, the latter's head was blocking the lower part of the screen), he realized something was wrong.

Then he found that fragments with this kind of scale error were everywhere in the Great Pit—in fact, probably none of the fragments floating in the entire Great Pit space were of normal size.

Buildings the size of a palm, miniature kingdoms like sand table models, these things seemed to be just very far away at first glance, but in fact they were floating around the probe, and their size was really only that big. And there were candlesticks as huge as mansions, broken wooden doors that almost covered the sky, which seemed huge because they were close to the probe, but in reality they were thousands of miles away, yet had a terrifying volume...

In the ten minutes of video, Hao Ren saw all these floating fragments in an abnormal space with extremely strange scales. They floated in a dim and chaotic place that seemed vast and boundless. No matter how the camera moved, no obvious boundaries or "walls" were observed. Of course, the entrance to the Great Pit could be observed: when the little weakling was attracted by the piece of meat and turned his head to fly upwards, Hao Ren saw the entrance to the alien space that the probe entered. It was a winding black crack floating in space, with no cliff-like objects on either side of the crack.

That was the "underground canyon" that Hao Ren and Vivian had seen outside.

"The inside of the Great Pit seems to be a different space..." Looking at these images, Vivian subconsciously touched her chin, "This is completely different from what we expected... We thought it was a porous zone or tunnel system inside the planet..."

"According to the Rakhreian scholars, the entrance to the Great Pit is all over the world," Hao Ren thought even further, "If this statement is true, doesn't that mean that except for the thin layer of the crust, the entire inside of this planet is a twisted space... No, that's not right, the mapping of alien space and real space is not such a simple model. It should be said that the crust of this planet is covered with entrances to alien space..."

"We might as well try to dig a well anywhere on the continent. If we dig into the Great Pit no matter where we dig, it means that the inside of this planet is a spherical subspace entrance, and the crust is a thin layer of rock and soil covering this spherical entrance. If we can successfully dig into the normal core, it means that the entrance to the Great Pit is only irregularly distributed underground, and the main structure of this planet is still normal."

Vivian clearly gave a test plan, and according to the two possible test results, she proposed two completely different planet models. It has to be said that these years of following Hao Ren around the stars have greatly improved her knowledge in related fields. If it were a few years ago, she probably wouldn't have thought of these things at all—at that time, she was most concerned about where the pickles were the cheapest and where there were free dilapidated houses to be demolished.

However, after hearing this test plan, Hao Ren just shook his head slightly: "This plan is very good, but it can't be implemented immediately, and... in fact, I have some bolder guesses about this Rakhreian world."

As he said this, he looked at the holographic projection that had been frozen. What was displayed on it was those floating fragments with severely misplaced sizes. These things, like absurd impressionist paintings, coupled with the various anomalies in this world that he had recently noticed, gave him some crazy ideas.

But just as he was about to discuss his bold ideas with Vivian, a dull loud noise suddenly resounded throughout the underground palace!

The sound was like a volcano erupting in a closed cave, rumbling continuously and carrying a terrifying roar of rock layers breaking apart. It even made people wonder if this underground space could finally not support the heavy stratum above and the whole thing collapsed. Along with the loud noise came a violent shaking.

"Something happened!" "Go to the main hall!"

Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other and shouted almost at the same time.

The two burst out at their fastest speed and rushed back to the main hall area of ​​the underground palace. In just a few breaths, they had returned to the place where their teammates were resting. At this time, the team members resting in the room next to the main hall had already been awakened by the sudden loud noise and vibration, and were waiting in full force at one foot of the main hall.

Lilia opened a magic barrier to protect everyone inside, and outside the magic barrier was a layer of evil energy shield emitting a shimmering green light: since Izhaks' current role is a warrior, this layer of shield was obviously Elizabeth's masterpiece.

"Where have you two been?!" The first to discover Hao Ren and Vivian was Lily, who had the keenest ears: before the two entered the main hall, her ears were facing the direction of the footsteps. When she saw them at this time, she immediately shouted, "Did you go out to mate again in the middle of the night?"

"You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!" It wasn't the first time Vivian had been stimulated by Lily's dusty statement, but no matter how many times she heard it, she couldn't help but get furious, "Hao Ren and I went to observe the Great Pit!"

Lilia, who was maintaining the magic barrier, was shocked when she heard this. She wanted to ask if these two mercenaries had taken the wrong medicine and ran to study the Great Pit in the middle of the night, but considering the current situation, what she said turned into: "Could the loud noise and vibration just now be from the Great Pit?"

"No, the Great Pit is not moving at all," Hao Ren said quickly, "The sound seems to be coming from above, and it's some distance away from here. I suspect something happened near the surface..."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard Nolan's voice in his mind: "Boss! How's the situation on your side?! Is everything okay?"

Nolan! Could she, floating in the sky, have also observed something?

Hao Ren raised his hand to signal everyone to wait, and at the same time responded in his mind: "We have very loud noises and vibrations here, but the underground palace doesn't seem to be at risk of collapsing—what did you see up there?"

"Serious ground fissures, a huge rift valley suddenly appeared on the plain, hundreds of kilometers long, and a branch fissure extended into the Black Forest where you are. Flames and smoke are spewing out of the fissure," Nolan reported what she saw. "And the situation on Longwind Ridge is not good either. The mountain seems to have been hit, and there are large-scale landslides and collapses, but the worst is yet to come..."

Nolan paused, as if giving Hao Ren time to prepare mentally: "The probes I released also synchronously observed this geological disaster in other parts of the Rakhreian continent. At least sixteen fissures of the same scale appeared in different places on the continent, and the scenes in the fissures are exactly the same as here. And the smaller-scale cracks are countless. Wait a minute... something seems to be coming out of the fissures..."

Two seconds later, Nolan's tone became serious: "They are humanoid creatures burning with flames. There are tens of thousands of these monsters surging out of the fissures along with the rising flames. The results of their scans cannot be matched with any known life forms. Boss, the situation in this world is not good."

Hao Ren said quickly: "We're going up now! You track the movements of those monsters."

Lilia noticed that Hao Ren's expression was constantly changing, and becoming more and more gloomy. She instinctively felt that this mercenary probably knew something, although she didn't know how Hao Ren did it, she still asked: "What happened?"

"We'll leave this place first," Hao Ren waved his hand and led everyone towards the well exit, "Lilia, just focus on protecting yourself. Roll, don't run around."

The cat girl always had an excessive curiosity, and the situation on the surface was unknown, so it was better to remind this guy.

"I'm not stupid, meow." The cat girl protested dissatisfiedly, and then followed closely behind Hao Ren, using practical actions to prove one thing: she was always an unshakable member of the cat-dog-fish coward trio...

After returning to the surface, the power of this disaster was already slightly revealed to everyone.

Although the main fissure zone was not here, a branch fissure of the large fissure had already extended to the vicinity of the Black Forest, and the flames spewing out of the fissure ignited some of the plants on the edge of the forest. Hao Ren saw a fire rising from the edge of the forest that almost illuminated one-third of the night sky, and the smell of burning trees had drifted from afar.

A forest fire was only a matter of time.

During this process, the earthquake never stopped, and the strange rumbling sound continued to come from afar. Although they were much weaker than the initial earth-shattering roar, it was obvious that this disaster was still expanding.

"What... is going on?" Looking at this sudden change of events, Lilia, the carefree female mage, couldn't help but widen her eyes. She saw beams of light rising into the sky from the Longwind Ridge Mountains. Those were the alarm signals sent by the sentinel mages of the magic network surveillance towers, and this level of alarm signal would only be released when facing a national disaster-level event. Even with Lilia's personality, she felt her scalp tingle when she saw them.

"Large-scale natural disasters, or maybe supernatural disasters, anyway, Rakhreian is in big trouble," Hao Ren said quickly, "We better get back to White Maple Leaf immediately..."

Before he could finish speaking, Nolan, who was monitoring the situation in the air, sent a new message: "Boss! New bad news—the monsters that are coming out of the fissures are swarming towards the cities on the plains!"